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ADVERTISEMENT Students in Ogun State have demanded the sack of the Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Students Affairs, Azeez Adeyemi, over the alleged abduction of a factional chairman of the state chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Adeyemi Samson. The students, in their hundreds, made the demand during a protest to the office of the governor in Abeokuta on Friday. A petition stating the students’ position was submitted to the state government, the state Dir...

D[b]etained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to be transferred from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, to the Nigerian Correctional Service Centre in Kuje.[/b] Kanu, in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led by Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, decried that he has been denied access to his medical doctors. He said he might die in the custody of the DSS if noth...

Kayode Komolafe About 22 years ago, the deeply human story of a five-year old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, caught the attention of the whole world. He was the subject of an intense diplomatic row between the governments of Cuba and the United States. Gonzalez lost his mother, Elizabeth Rodriquez, in late 1999. While attempting to leave Cuba in a boat, the woman drowned. Elian’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, remained in Cuba while the accident happened. The poor boy survived the accident and he ...

By Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu The National Assembly yesterday raised the N895.842 billion supplementary budget proposal for the 2021 fiscal year submitted to its two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari by N87.9 billion and approved N982.729 billion. The Senate also approved the federal government’s request for $6.183 billion (N2.343 trillion) as external borrowing in 2021 Appropriation Act. Nonetheless, the federal government has intensified ...

5 min read For 13 years (1999-2012), Farouk Lawan was the poster boy of the House of Representatives. At the height of his influence, Mr Lawan served as the chairman of an ad hoc committee that investigated fuel subsidy scam. It turned out to be his waterloo. “We were told that we were not going to live long [enough] to even finish the exercise. They were death threats, very clearly death threats. Fortunately, we are still around,” Mr Lawan said to the BBC during the probe. ...

  The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has written to the British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Catriona Laing, asking that the British authorities file a Diplomatic Note with Nigeria’s Federal High Court indicating Britain’s sovereign interest in his trial as a British citizen.   Kanu, in the letter exclusively obtained SaharaReporters and written by his legal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Thursday, said the British authorities must declare that he is not a criminal b...

Nnamdi Kanu Writes British Commission In Nigeria, Demands Full Protection, Unconditional Release As British Citizen Kanu, in the letter exclusively obtained SaharaReporters and written by his legal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Thursday, said the British authorities must declare that he is not a criminal but “a person who possesses a political opinion which the Nigerian authorities are seeking to suppress using punishment of some sort.” The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kan...

EDIFYING ELUCIDATIONS BY OKEY IKECHUKWU As I write, the Federal Republic of Nigeria stands in the season of locusts. The “season,” which has lasted for all of 20 years, took up a new burst of speed six years ago. Now it is at a deadly gallop, even ramping up more speed at incredibly sharp bends. Can a nation survive on the long term when distribution and consumption are the pillars of every government action? I think not. Thus, the Nigerian state of today lives like a locust. Locusts, by th...

16:32 -   The State Security Services (SSS) otherwise called Department of Security Services (DSS), as expected, has taken a cue from their British MI6 masters goading them on manipulative and disruptive or – if you like, divide and conquer journalism. There is a divisive article ostensibly floated about how Aguiyi Ironsi and Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu betrayed Adaka Boros quest for Niger Delta Republic. The intended outcome of the propaganda-filled arti...

SaharaReporters reported on Sunday that the operatives shot dead Ejiofor’s Personal Assistant, identified as Samuel Uzo Okoro, also known as Biggy.