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A socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has cautioned the Igbo across the country against participating in any protest on the current economic hardship.

“As your leader, I am directing that no Igbo group or community in Nigeria or in Diaspora should join in this action. I am still studying the situation. I have asked Nigerians who approached me the following questions, what did they do when the past government disfranchised Igbo land?

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has advised Igbos across the country not to support any protest in whatever form against the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Ohanaeze also rejected any move for military rule again in Nigeria, according to a release on Monday, by the President General of Ohanaeze, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.

According to the communique, the meeting also had in attendance “several elder statesmen including former governors, former members of the National Assembly,

SMBLF has warned that the rising poverty in the country puts the very existence of the federation at great risk.

Apart from the removal of subsidy, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) also announced the unification of all segments of the forex exchange (FX) market as part of efforts to engender transparency in the markets and boost investors’ confidence.

The interesting thing about this particular example of alleged fraud was the fact that the Ministry reported to the Presidency that it actually fed the kids despite COVID-19 lockdown; Buhari believed it and was proud to claim credit for that feat by his administration. Obviously, there are two options on this: either Buhari failed to read the report, implying mental laziness; or, he read and believed the lies. One thing, however, is clear. There was nothing transparent or accountable about how m...

The leader of the Ijaw nation and elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has declared that the Niger Delta and the Ijaw nation can no longer tolerate the exploitation by multinational oil companies, especially the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited

Elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark has told President Bola Tinubu that Nyesom Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal

  Edwin Clark, the convener of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has said that the ‘big people’ from other parts of the country who feel Nigeria belongs to them want to colonise ‘Ijaw Nation’ in Niger Delta and feed fat on its vast oil reserves.   The elder statesman and former Federal Commissioner for Information, made this known on Thursday when some Ijaw youths visited him, in Abuja to register their grievances against the proposed move by Shell to sell its onshore subsidiary in Niger...