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2022

Soludo announces arrest of Gunmen who attacked, killed Ifeanyi Ubah’s aides

Lifestyle, Metro, News, PoliticsAnambra State, Charles Soludo, Crime, Gunmen, Kidnappers, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Security, UGM

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has revealed that some of the gunmen who participated in an assassination attempt on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah have been arrested. Soludo revealed this on Friday when he visited Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state, the same community where the attack happened about a month ago. Ubah had lost four security aides and two personal assistants during the attack, but he was able to escape in his bullet proof car. But during the burial of Pa Boniface Nwankwo, father of Hon. Dozie Nwankwo who represents Dunukofia, Njikoka, Anaocha federal constituency in the…

Oct

21

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

Afenifere defends endorsement of Peter Obi, insists Presidency not Yoruba property

News, Opinion, Politics2023, Afenifere, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peter Obi, Politics

The apex Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said the Presidency is not the personal property of the Yorubas. Afenifere was responding to allegations of picking the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sola Ebiseni, the Afenifere’s Secretary-General, said the body’s support for Obi was based on principle and the interest of the Nigerian State. Ebiseni made the clarification during an interview on Arise TV. The South-East has been agitating for a run at the presidency and the popularity of Peter Obi, especially amongst the youth demography might upset the…

Oct

21

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

FG files 7 grounds of appeal against Kanu, approaches Court

Metro, News, PoliticsBiafra, Court, Federal government, Next Level, Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, Politics

The Federal Government has filed seven grounds of appeal against the October 13 Court of Appeal judgment which discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. It asked the Supreme Court to set aside the judgment and restore the charge against the respondent to be tried at the trial court. The government, in a motion on notice in support of the appeal, is also seeking a stay of execution of the judgment of the court presided over by Justice Jummai Sankey, pending the hearing and final determination of its appeal, noting that the IPOB leader posed a…

Oct

21

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

2023: PDP chieftain supporting Peter Obi as better candidate than Atiku

Opinion, Politics2023, Atiku Abubakar, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, Politics

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who was also the governorship aspirant of the party in Abia State, Sampson Orji, has declared his support for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP. Orji revealed this in a statement he made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Thursday. He said that his preference for Obi against PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was premised on Obi’s competence. He further stated that he would mobilize support for Obi’s candidature because of his antecedent and not because he is his a fellow Igbo man. “I’m a…

Oct

20

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

UK prime minister, Liz Truss resigns

News, PoliticsLiz Truss, Politics, United Nations, World News

The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Liz Truss, on Thursday, stepped down from her role. Her resignation was coming barely two months after coming into office. Truss, who spend 45 days in office, said she would step down after a week-long emergency contest to find her successor She announced her decision to step down on Thursday outside Downing Street. “I entered office with a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit,” Truss said. She added, “I recognise that, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the…