Owerri - Leadership of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has demanded immediate trial of about 55 Igbo youth, detained by the Anambra State Police Command in Awka, since June.
The group also has assured its teeming followers that having received passmark for non-violence from United Nations (UN) in 2005; that her independence had been assured in the life span of this present administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
Enugu - From Francis Ugwoke No fewer than 15 different Nigerian-Biafran war time bombs have been exhibited by the Enugu State Police Command.
The bombs, some of which are still live and deadly, according to the Police were dug up from various locations in the state.
Enugu - THIRTEEN unexploded bombs believed to have been abandoned during the civil war in various parts of Enugu State have been recovered by the anti-bomb unit of the Nigeria Police in Enugu, which described the discovery of the explosives as shocking.
A prominent Onitsha based landlord, Chief Godwin Ifeatu Ezeanochie and others now at large have been arraigned before an Onitsha Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Dr. R. N. Okoye for murder. The others on the run are said to be members of the banned Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Awka - IMMEDIATE past governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, denied, weekend, that he ever sponsored the activities of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
In a statement signed by his Media Consultant, Fred Chukwulobe, Dr. Ngige said: "The attention of His Excellency, Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige (OON, KSJI), immediate past Governor of Anambra State has been drawn to certain statements credited to His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR), President, Federal Republic of Nigeria during his recent official visit to Anambra and widely reported in the various print and electronic media, alleging that the Anambra Sate Government under Dr Ngige sponsored activities of the Movement For The Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and that he used the Anambra State Vigilante Service (AVS) for selfish purposes.
Lagos - The impeachment process against Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State may be heading for the rocks due to a major crack in the state's House of Assembly where more than 15 of the 28-member Assembly, spearheading the move, may have backed out.
Lagos - BARELY 24 hours after President Olusegun Obasanjo ended his official visit to Anambra State, the State House of Assembly yesterday erupted in a rowdy session, following a motion to serve Governor Peter Obi and his deputy, Dame Virginia Etiaba with an impeachment notice for alleged gross misconduct.
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Lagos - President Olusegun Obasanjo was in Anambra State last weekend for his first official visit since he began his second term in office May 29, 2003. Although the Presidential visit was at the behest of the State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, it however turned out a PDP show. Charles Onyekamuo, who has been folowing the trends in Anambra State, reports on the politics of the President's visit and its implications for the 2007 general elections
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FEW months after the titanic batt1es that restored his diverted mandate, Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, is faced with another political test tasking his leadership skills. This is not about MASSOB's separatist adventures or NARTO's rent escapades at motor parks. For these cowboy maneuvers and that odd brand of political activism with which Anambra State has been associated for some time now, are in the final analysis, largely incidental to a fundamental issue: The question the amiable governor now has to contend with is what model of governance to bring to bear on Anambra state.
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Lagos - Honestly, when the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi was declared March 15, by the court of Appeal that sat in Enugu as the truly elected governor of the state, many people received the verdict with mixed feelings. The reason is not because Peter Obi didn't win the elections as declared by the courts based on the evidence before the revered justices of both the Governorship/Legislative Houses of assembly Tribunal that sat in Awka or the affirmation of he court of appeal in Enugu, but because people felt that the former Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige in spite of the circumstances of his ascendancy to the office of
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