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Lagos - As the National Political Reforms Conference successfully kicked off last week, all initial apprehensions, sceptisms, prevarications, indecisions and negative permutations by some Nigerians seen to be disappearing. JUDE IGBANOI examines the issues which may likely occupy the front-burners in the conference
Onitsha and Owerri - MOVEMENT for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
yesterday dismissed the forthcoming head count and the National Political
Reform Conference, inaugurated on Monday by President Olusegun Obasanjo, as
a fraud.
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Last week, the lists of delegates to the political confab were released,
one notable name contrary to all expectations was missing, and that is the
name of Chief Emeka Ojukwu, the APGA leader.
Owerri - HEARING will resume at Federal High Court, Owerri, next Tuesday on the
suit filed by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the
Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), against the State
Security Services (SSS) and the Nigerian police.
Onitsha - MOVEMENT for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
declared on Sunday night that its leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, will not
succumb to intimidation and blackmail from Nigeria's security agencies even
as the organisation said it had reached a point of no return in the struggle
for Biafra.
Owerri - A SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ikenna Ahamba says that his commitment to the discharge of his professional duties does not amount to supporting the current activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)". Chief Ahamba told Vanguard in Owerri that he was only defending the fundamental human rights of the arrow head of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike." Make no mistake about it, I am not in support of MASSOB and its activities.
Media Rights Agenda (Lagos)
press release
On 10 February 2005, agents of the State Security Service (SSS),
Nigeria's intelligence agency, raided newsstands on Old Market Road, the
main distribution centre for the city of Onitsha, in Anambra State. The SSS
agents confiscated large quantities of "The News", "The Source" and "The
Week" magazines, as well as copies of "Hallmark" newspaper. They also
arrested a newspaper distributor, Ikechukwu Obisi, and took him to an
unknown location. The SSS officials, who were from Awka, the state capital,
took the action on the grounds that the news vendors were distributing
publications carrying stories about the Movement for the Actualization of
the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Enugu - THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has alleged joint plot by Nigerian and Gambian security forces to secretly eliminate some of its top leaders in both countries under different pretexts.
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Lagos - Maduekwe, Presidential Adviser (Legal and Consti-tutional Matters)
delivered this lecture at the 44th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria.
Two scores and four years by exactly midnight tonight, Africa's most
populous nation attained statehood as the baton of power and authority
passed on from the successors of Lord Frederick Lugard, whose wife had
earlier named the place Nigeria, to a colourful band of pragmatic
nationalists, whose labour had neither been marred by violence, nor ambushed
by ethnic hegemony.
Onitsha - NEWSPAPER distribution was paralysed yesterday in Anambra State following a demonstration embarked upon by newspaper distributors protesting the arrest of some of their members by men of the State Security Service (SSS), over allegations that they were distributing publications, including magazines, carrying news about the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
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