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Rights activists and popular lawyer Festus Keyamo is excited over the reports that runaway Nnamdi Kanu has been dismissed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a pro-secession group leader who is currently in hiding. Radio Biafra, the official information organ of IPOB is reported to have announced that Kanu had also been sacked as the Director of the radio. Immediately in his tweet, Keymo, an erudite lawyer, asked rhetorically asked: “Would that not be the style of animals in a zoo? Is Biafra now a zoo?” “So, after IPOB earlier claimed d Army killed Kanu, did they wake him…

Pay-television service provider, GOtv, has announced a new offer that will make its subscribers who stay connected non-stop from 25 November to 31 January 2018, enjoy its services in February 2018 free of charge. The offer, tagged “February on Us”, is open to GOtv MAX, GOtv Plus and GOtv Value customers and comes under WAWU, the reward and incentive-driven platform for all GOtv customers, which launched in October 2017. “We understand that times are hard and the start of a new year is usually greeted with financial challenges. “With this offer we are taking off the burden of a month’s…

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged his determination to urgently address the infrastructure deficit and related challenges confronting the south-east. He noted that that the Ibo remain an integral part of the country. The president made the pledge on Tuesday in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, during a reception held in his honour by the state government at the Government House. According to the president, his administration would fulfil all promises made to the south-east zone during the visit of its leaders to him, in October. “The leaders raised several concerns on the condition of roads and other infrastructure in the region and…

Bharti Airtel has merged with Millicom’s Tigo in Ghana to become the country’s second largest mobile operator, the new company AirtelTigo said on Tuesday. The merger, the first of its kind in Ghana, is a bid to increase share in the West African country where mobile phone use is one of the highest in Africa and competition for 37.4 million mobile phone users is fierce. READ: Senate approves Buhari’s $5.5bn loan request South Africa´s MTN dominates with 47.5 percent of subscribers. Others include Britain’s Vodafone, Globacom of Nigeria and Sudan’s Sudatel Expresso. The National Communications Authority regulator granted conditional approval…

President Muhamadu Buhari has arrived Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, and forthwith, commenced commissioning of projects. The president, who was conveyed by a chopper from Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, landed at Army Barracks Nkwagu in Abakaliki at about 11.15am accompanied by the state Governor, Dave Umahi, who was among other South-east governors who had received him at the airport. The president upon arriving Abakaliki has already commissioned six projects including: a 700-metre twin tran-Sahara bridge linking Enugu and Ebonyi States with Cameroon, Senator Offia Nwali flyover, 14.5 kilometre Abakaliki-Afikpo road, foundation laying stone of Ebonyi City Mall, foundation laying…

Nigeria will move ahead with plans to borrow $5.5 billion from foreign investors after the Senate on Tuesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari request for the move. The money is designed to plug a large gap in Nigeria’s finances that stems in part from the global fall in oil prices. Nigeria’s economy grew in the second quarter, climbing out of its first recession in 25 years, but the pace of growth was slow suggesting that the recovery remains fragile. The 7.44 trillion naira ($24.33 billion) 2017 budget projects a shortfall of $7.5 billion, prompting Buhari’s call for foreign loans. The borrowing…

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Abakaliki in Ebonyi state to the warm embrace of a mammoth crowed as he started his two-day official visit to South East. He inaugurated the N2 billion flyover bridge built by the Ebonyi government. The bridge is on the African Trans-Saharan Highway from Enugu-Cross River-Cameroon. He also unveiled the statue of Dr. Akanu Ibiam and was also conferred with the traditional title of Enyioma 1 of Ebonyi (Good friend) by the state Traditional Rulers Council. Shortly before his departure to Ebonyi, a mammoth crowd of not less than 10,000 people welcomed President Buhari at…

In a move to keep to his promise to the chieftains and loyalists of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to appoint more ministers to his cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari is considering a tentative proposal to restructure some of the ministries, appoint eight new ministers to his cabinet and reshuffle the cabinet. Presidency sources privy to the proposal informed the plan is to appoint eight new ministers who will all be politicians, to accommodate the yearnings of his party members including its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and at the same time position APC for the 2019 general elections. In order…

Governor of Ebonyi State Dave Umahi, has barred party logos and symbols during the official visit of President Muhammadu Buhari, to the State beginning from Tuesday. Speaking to journalists on the eve of the State Visit, Governor Umahi said the decision was to give respect to the president. He said: “Nobody should come to the stadium with any party logo. We don’t want to embarrass the president. If we invite the president for a state visit and PDP rolls out their logo, it is an embarrassment to Mr President. “It is a Presidential visit; no party is coming to the…

Iranians living outdoors in bitterly cold temperatures after an earthquake are making desperate pleas for help. About 540 people were killed and close to 8,000 injured when the quake hit near the Iran-Iraq border on Sunday. The government is scrambling to get aid to the worst-hit Kermanshah province, where hundreds of homes were destroyed. President Hassan Rouhani, visiting the region, said state-built houses suffered more damage, and those responsible would be held accountable. Temperatures in Kermanshah province fell close to freezing for the second night in succession. Read Also South African pastor feeds congregation with cockroaches Ali Gulani, 42, lives…