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WHO GAVE THE MONKEY THE DRINKING CUP? Who gave the monkey the drinking cup? This is a question I will make every concerted effort to answer without any form of bias.  I will clinically chronicle the answer to this poser with the central aim of correcting some misleading narratives that are been hawked by some desperate charlatans whose trade is to distort the truth. Since 21st of October, many political pundits and other wannabes masquerading as intelligentsias have taken it upon themselves to lampoon IPOB and its charismatic leader, Nnamdi Kanu for making it bold to those who care to know that Biafrans will massively boycott the 2019 general elections.  Some of these Weaver birds that are crying more than the bereaved anchored their argument on the premise that boycotting the 2019 general elections will only ensure the return of the monster called Buhari.  While others are of the opinion that now Atiku Abubakar has chosen someone from the East, there is need for every Ig...

" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 360px; overflow-x: hidden;"> Published   October 23, 2018 Azuka Onwuka Azuka Onwuka The sudden appearance of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, was the major event of the weekend. He was sighted in Israel on Friday. Knowing that there would be doubts over the veracity of the video that showed that he was in Israel, he promised to give an address via Radio Biafra on Sunday evening. And he did. The highlight of his message was that IPOB would not participate in the 2019 elections unless there is a referendum on whether the South-East part of the country will remain in Nigeria or not. There was nothing out of character in Kanu’s address. If he had changed his mind on election boycott, it would have not been in line with his stance. If he had asked his supporters to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party or any other candi...

These are the reasons why I shall no longer vote in Nigeria. Written by MR PARADISE   1.if after 58years ordinary malaria can still kill a citizen of Nigeria I will refuse to be a part of such country.  2. if after 58 years there is no chance for the youth in their government pure gerontocracy I will distance myself and allow them run ghost economy  3 if after 58years I can't still process my travel documents in the whole of old eastern region of Nigeria (Biafra) unless I travel to North or to west then why should I feel inclusive in the system.  4 if after 58years there is yet no viable seaport in the whole Eastern Nigerians except Lagos I will refuse to be a part of such country.  6 if after 58years there is no job for the youth in can't take part in system  7 if after 58years the president of Nigeria still fly abroad for medical check up there is a problem . 8 if after 58 years igbos have not produced a president.? there is no sign of inclusiveness ...

NNAMDI KANU’S WORLD BROADCAST IN JERUSALEM. FULL TEXT.  "I promised that I will be coming to Biafra and I came, I do not recognise the court of the Zoo, I want the people of the Middle Belt to rise and join IPOB. "IPOB Military intelligent evacuated me from my compound when the Army of the Zoo attacked me, I am in Israel and the efficiency of MOSAD will be replicated in Biafra, we shall hunt everyone down to avenge the death of IPOB members. "The Governor of Abia State directed the assault on my Father who is a Monarch, I thank @realDonaldTrump and the government of Israel who stood by IPOB in our time of need, I thank Prof Ben Nwabueze who stood by me. "I want to send my solidarity to @GovAyoFayose and assure him that Biafra will stand by him in this our of need, we will have a special place for him in Biafra, I thank all my sureties that stood by me, my unavailability was forced on me. "The Army of the Zoo killed my dog Jack and few other people in my compoun...

The announcement has generated mixed reactions, with South East governors, in the forefront of opposition to Obi’s nomination. Fred Itua, Abuja and David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi Chairman of the South East Senate Caucus, Enyinnaya Abaribe and senator representing Edo Central, Clifford Ordia, as well as the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his choice of running mate, Peter Obi, ahead of the 2019 general election. Atiku announced a former governor of Anambra State, Obi, as his running mate, last week. The announcement has generated mixed reactions, with South East governors, in the forefront of opposition to Obi’s nomination. The governors argued that they were not consulted before Atiku made Obi’s nomination public. However, Abaribe, has described Obi’s selection as a right step in the right direction and has described Obi as an embodiment of discipline and positi...

I am particularly excited that a few days after he emerged as the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku picked Peter Obi as his running mate. Casmir Igbokwe There is excitement in the air. There is also anxiety. It is partly because of the 2019 general election; and partly because of the prospect of having another change at the seat of power in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress came to power in 2015 on the pedestal of change. They promised Nigerians heaven on earth. Unfortunately, that has turned out to be a mirages. Currently, there is untold hardship in the land. Many people have lost their jobs. Some work without salaries. Some have committed suicide. Some others have sold their children and have had to do all manner of odd things to survive. Do we talk of herdsmen and sundry criminals who kill people like cows? Do we talk of the insincere fight against corruption? Do we talk of a large chunk of the population who feel alienated from the scheme of thing...

Like him or hate him, Peter Obi is an enigma. He is quite enlightened and has attended many programmes both in Nigeria and abroad.  He has been to the Lagos Business School, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Columbia Business School, Oxford and Cambridge universities, among others. Like Atiku, he is a successful businessman and wealth creator. He has been chairman and board member of many companies.  He is former chairman of Fidelity Bank, former chairman of the board of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), former chairman of Guardian Express Mortgage Bank Limited and many others.  He was a member of Presidential Economic Management Team during Goodluck Jonathan’s regime . In the political arena, Mr. Obi is no pushover. Before he emerged as governor of Anambra, the state had suffered monumental bad governance and became the butt of jokes in many quarters.  Recall that a sitting governor, Chris Ngige, was kidnapped at a point, to the chagrin of...

Aloysius Attah, Onitsha A coalition of 20 human rights, public governance accountability and pro-democracy advocacy groups, based in South East of the country, on Monday, indentified Politics of dichotomy, pecuniary and selfish interests as the real reasons behind the rejection of Mr. Peter Obi as Atiku’s running mate by some South East Governors and political leaders. The group which included the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), among others in a joint statement released yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State described the actions of the naysayers as not only despicable and condemnable. The group said those kicking against the choice of Obi has taken a very unpopular stance which has attracted widest bashing and condemnation from concerned Igbo citizens far and near and thousands of miles away noting that the threat to “openly endorse Buhari for reported second term” unless Mr. Atiku Abubakar reverses himself and...

Aloysius Attah, Onitsha A coalition of 20 human rights, public governance accountability and pro-democracy advocacy groups, based in South East of the country, on Monday, indentified Politics of dichotomy, pecuniary and selfish interests as the real reasons behind the rejection of Mr. Peter Obi as Atiku’s running mate by some South East Governors and political leaders. The group which included the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), among others in a joint statement released yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State described the actions of the naysayers as not only despicable and condemnable. The group said those kicking against the choice of Obi has taken a very unpopular stance which has attracted widest bashing and condemnation from concerned Igbo citizens far and near and thousands of miles away noting that the threat to “openly endorse Buhari for reported second term” unless Mr. Atiku Abubakar reverses himself and...

The Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Aden, André Reykjia, praised the humanitarian and development projects of the UAE Red Crescent in the liberated areas of Al Hudaydah Governorate, which extends on the west coast of Yemen. During the meeting, they discussed the humanitarian and relief assistance plan aimed at the people of Al Hudaydah governorate as well as future development and service projects in the liberated areas to enjoy an adequate standard of living, as well as discussing the mechanism to contribute to the demining of mines and explosive devices. Reykjia praised the UAE’s humanitarian and relief efforts in helping the Yemeni people and alleviating the suffering of the Yemeni people. The meeting focused on children, women and the elderly by providing them with the basic requirements that enable them to overcome the difficult conditions they face.  In addition, the Humanitarian Aid Manager of the United Arab Emira...

If these Generals were still very young and could be seen with gusto working the campaigns, I would dare say the road is clear for the former Vice President. Emma Okocha Field Marshal Emma Iwuanyanwu, Daniels, Senator Common Sense deliver Candidate  “Obasanjo at the last minute nodded to his fellow Generals that he is behind Atiku who he had said he won’t support….  But the Generals through Aliyu Gusau delivered to the delegates in P.H. who their candidate is….” – See Press Reports and Inside Sources in Port Harcourt At the Jos NPN presidential convention, Dr. Alex Ekwueme was set for a resounding victory parade and some of his aides were seen in the anterooms of their hotels drawing diligently the crossing of the Ts, and Ys of his much- anticipated presidential acceptance speech.  Ubiquitous Igbo entrepreneurs and business moguls travelling from as far as the Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, the Congo, Rwanda, America and Jamaica had descended on ...

Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said that it was not interested in who clinches which party ticket or becomes president or vice in 2019 general election but wants referendum for Biafran restoration. The group described as ‘disgraceful horse trading’ going on for the position of vice presidential candidate among South East politicians is indicative of their hopelessness and self aggrandisement at the expense of the collective advancement of the people. Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, in a statement, said that all the people of Biafra want is a referendum, saying Biafrans must decide whether they wish to continue staying in Nigeria or not before any election can be conducted in Biafraland. Powerful’s statement read, “Those irrationally jubilating in the South East and South South over the PDP nominee must remember it was Atiku, Saraki, Obasanjo, Tambowal, Kwankwonso and others that conspired against Jonathan in 2015 to put a Fulani...

Between excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book ,  Fear: Trump in the White House , and the New  York Times op-ed from an anonymous administration official, people are starting to get a chilling glimpse of what it’s really like inside the White House and just how little respect President Donald Trump commands from his staff.  And with the release of Fear today, the coming days will likely only see even more revelations coming to the surface. Case in point, one excerpt reveals the newly appointed National Economic Council director Gary Cohn’s “I’ve had a huge mistake” moment in his first meeting with then president-elect Trump.  The former Goldman Sachs president was attempting to explain why the Federal Reserve rates would probably increase during his first term in office, but he was left “astounded” by Trump’s stupidity, according to the book. Showing a “lack of basic understanding” about how federal debt works, Trump suggested that they should  “just go borrow a...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 27, 2018. Credit: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP Why Is Netanyahu Silent? Instead of seeing the moderate messages of Gaza's Hamas leader as an opportunity for a cease-fire and rapprochement, Netanyahu and his government are acting like they don’t hear Haaretz Editorial 07.10.2018 | 02:55 The thunderous silence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior members of his government in the face of comments by Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader in Gaza, are further proof that Israel understands only force. “I don’t want more wars,” Sinwar said in a rare interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica , which ran simultaneously in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, in which he called for a cease-fire. It does not seem to have moved anyone in Jerusalem. Israelis who are waiting for the day when a Hamas leader gives a surrender speech will not find what they are looking for in Sinwar’s remarks...

NAN The National Executive Committee of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths (Worldwide), led by Mr. Kingsley Dozie, has said they would only vote for candidates who would restructure and introduce policies that would improve lives of Nigerians. Its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Osmond Nkeoma, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Dr Okey Nwachukwu and Deputy National Legal Adviser, Emeka Odom, said this in a statement, in Owerri, on Saturday. The group, however, said that it was not a political party, but would not endorse any political party or candidate whose mandate would not be restructuring the country. It said that the apex Igbo cultural group would only seek for and vote government that had policies and programmes that would better not only the lives of Nigerians, but the Ndigbo in particular. The group called on the public to disregard “the vituperations from fictitious Ohanaeze youths backing the PDP and demanding for the position of vice president from the South East in the 2019 general...