Owerri - A ray of hope emerged yesterday in Owerri, Imo State capital as Governor Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa State allayed fears being expressed in some quarters that Nigeria may eventually disintegrate.
Gov. Adamu, who was guest lecturer at the 7th Champion Newspapers Better Society Lecture held in Owerri, made the submission in the lecture entitled: Democracy as a catalyst for National Integration - The Nigerian Example.
Asaba - OHANAEZE Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has said
that it would not support the release of the detained leader of the Movement
for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph
Uwazuruike, urging him and his members to recant their agitation for the
realisation of the Republic of Biafra.
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NOT once have I believed President Olusegun Obasanjo's series of denials
of a third term agenda. By the way, you will notice that in the past six
months, he has chosen to stop making comments about it. We are now in the
third of four phases of this highly sophisticated act of political
deception. Sophisticated, but not innovative. We have seen it all before in
this country, enough to spot the move once it is made.
Lagos - Igbo Question Movement, a pan Igbo socio-political group has called on the Federal Government to release without delay, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Ralph Uwazuruike if it must not be seen as contravening democratic tenets.
The Kano State governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekerau has assured non-Indigenes in the state of maximum security of their lives and property.
Speaking yesterday shortly after a security council meeting which he summoned, Shekarau debunked rumours that the state was in chaos following the dispute between northerners and MASSOB members that erupted in Aba, Abia State.
Lagos - WIFE of leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief (Mrs.) Omekadiya Uwazuruike has raised fresh alarm over her detained husband's continued safety, alleging that there is a plot by his captors to kill him.
Awka - ONITSHA Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (OICCIMA) has called on Federal Government to urgently investigate and fish out the real perpetrators of the November 7, 2005 burning of the Inosi Onira residence of Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chamber expressed surprised about what it described as the non-challant attitude of the ! Federal Government to make any statement concerning the arson on Zik's house saying, "the issue is an important national issue that should be handled with all seriousness it deserves" .
Three Northerners were confirmed dead and eight others, including a
woman, seriously injured after attacks by hoodlums believed to be
loyalists of the Uwazuruike-led Movement for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) who blocked the Aba section of the
Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway in the early hours of yesterday.
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Lagos - The violent clash between the members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the police in Onitsha leading to the burning down of the country home of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik) is now the subject of a raging controversy. Almost a fortnight after the violation of the home of Nigeria's first president, the police and MASSOB members are still trading blames over who caused the arson. By itself, the act, especially at a period when his countless admirers were getting ready to mark his 101th posthumous birthday anniversary, and to pay tributes to his great achievements is, to say the least, a desecration of what ought to be a national pantheon.
Lagos - The Nasml Lllahi-Il-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) yesterday advised political and socio-political groups in the country to desist from using its name in their propaganda stunts.
Reacting to a statement by the Director of Information of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Uchenna Medu in which he alleged that NASFAT and some Islamic scholars of Northern extraction were planning to kill the leader of the ethnic self determination group, Chief Ralph uwazurike, the religious group stated that it knew of no such plan and can never be a party to such a heinous plot.
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