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❚ You already voted!   The Federal Capital Territory Police Command (FCT) have arrested a notorious fraudster, Mohammed Abdulrahman, who has been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public by impersonating as a Superintendent of Police and operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Igbere TV reports. Spokesperson of the Command, AP Mariam Yusuf, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the suspect was arrested by operatives attached to th...

PDP said the tears of APC has just started “pouring” in the State. APC had described the claim of 3,000 of its members defecting to PDP as a “tales by moonlight.” PDP’s State Chairman, Asiforo Okere during a stakeholders’ meeting in Umuahia, the state capital, said the decampees were also from the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. But, APC rubbished the defection claim by Okere. However, the party’s state Publicity Secretary, Fabian Nwankwo pointed out to Abia APC that their ...

❚ You already voted!   Founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc Atedo Peterside has knocked the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) over a dinner held in Lokoja, Kogi State capital on Saturday in violation of Covid-19 protocols, Igbere TV reports. Mr Peterside said in a tweet on Sunday that the women’s actions changed his mind about Nigerian women being more responsible than men.   “Re #COVID19, I honestly thought Nigerian women were far more responsible than us men until I saw ...

❚ You already voted! …Sen Kalu Donates Towards Building ‘Adoration Chapel’ Over the weekend, billionaire business mogul, Chief Raphmoore Ekekwe (Holy Child), families, friends and well wishers from all walks of life converged for the one year memorial service of late Lolo Eziada Vivian Ekekwe at Ibughubu village, Umuchu, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. Igbere TV reports that the historic colourful event began with a Pontifical Holy Mass at Chief Ekekwe’s compou...

❚ You already voted!   A former governorship candidate in Kogi State Natasha Akpoti has opposed the conferment of the most gender-sensitive governor in Nigeria award by the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) on Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, Igbere TV reports. According to Ms Akpoti, the award does not take into cognizance the governor’s alleged violent actions against her and others.   “National Council for Women Societies @ncws_abuja should bury their heads in sham...

❚ You already voted!   The Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has described the death of Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (Rtd) as “a huge loss to Abia State in particular and Nigeria in general”, Igbere TV reports. The Abia Speaker lamented that Admiral Kanu departed at a time his wealth of experience and counsel as an accomplished soldier and a seasoned administrator were needed most in both Abia State and Nigeria.     He prayed God to grant h...

❚ 1 You already voted!   The National Unity Platform’s Flag Bearer, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka, Bobi Wine, has rejected early results from the January 14 Uganda Presidential Elections. According to reports, with 29.4% of votes from Thursday’s ballot counted, Museveni had won 1,852,263 votes, or 63.9%, while opposition candidate Bobi Wine had 821,874 (28.4%).     The 76-year-old President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni of the National Resistance Movement says he is st...

❚ 1 You already voted!   The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has advised the Nigerian government to embrace having a referendum as the lasting solution to end the nation’s multi-faceted woes. According to Nnamdi Kanu, the same government asking its people not to toe the path of a civil war, is perpetrating actions similar to what led to the war the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970.     His message was contained in a press statement, ‘Referendum: Per...

  A renowned Northern elder statesman and founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said that one of the outstanding issues after the Civil War was the need to restructure Nigeria and to review the 1999 constitution, Igbere TV reports. Yakasai further said that Nigeria must learn its lessons from the needless and destructive civil war by addressing the “mistrust among major sub-regional groups which remain a threat to democratic processes in the country.” �...

❚ You already voted!   A Nigerian medical doctor Edward Gbemudu based in the United States of America has died of COVID-19 complications during a visit to Nigeria for Christmas. Gbemudu was a physician at Olive Branch Hospital in Mississippi, US. He was also on the payroll at Baptist Methodist Hospital-DeSoto, Mississippi.   He died on January 1, 2021. Dr. Emmanuel Obi, who practices Internal Medicine in Brownsville, told Wreg that his friend began experiencing symptoms once he ret...