Onitsha - The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has washed its hands-off from the incessant abductions of persons taking place in Anambra State in the past few weeks.
Regional administrator, Onitsha Region of MASSOB, Comrade Edeson Samuel told Daily Champion in a telephone interview that MASSOB has no hand in the abduction of people, burning of Police stations and increased robbery incidents in some towns in the state, especially Nnewi.
Awka - Businessman, Chief Pius Ogbuawa, kidnapped on Sunday on his way to Church in the Nnewi Local Government area of Anambra State, has been released by his abductors unhurt.
Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr John Hurana said Ogbuawa was released in the early hours of yesterday by his abductors.
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Lagos - SEVERAL factors have informed the necessity to take the discourse of the conflict in the Niger-Delta to the public domain. Of course, there have been several attempts to sensitise the government and people of Nigeria to the policies and industrial activities which portend to disconnect the territory and peoples of the Niger- Delta from the human family. We shall find together in the following weeks that this is no exaggeration; members of our movement are gratified by the resolve of the Editorial Board of the Vanguard to provide space for the publication of the articulated grievances and aspirations behind the Niger-Delta Struggle.
Onitsha - South East Democratic Alternative (SEDA) has lashed out at the Anambra State Police Command for concealing the abductors of the Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs Dr. (Mrs.) Uzoezie and her son at Nsugbe, Oyi local government of the state.
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Lagos - I ONCE got into one of my usual heated debates with the Distinguished Senator Jibril Aminu. In the course of it, he came out with one expression, which has stuck with me ever since. He described the Igbo people as the "Chapter IV Nigerians." Explaining that, he said Igbos are the only one of the three major ethnic groups whose origins and roots are exclusively found in Nigeria.
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Lagos - CHIEF Mao Ohuabunwa, is the member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal constituency in the House of Representatives. After eight years in the lower chamber, the Arochukwu born lawmaker has picked the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to represent Abia North in the senate in the forthcoming election. In this interview, Ohuabunwa explains why he decided to make a career in lawmaking and why he felt disappointed that the controversial constitutional amendment that would have extended the tenure of the present administration did not sail through.
Nairobi - There is an African war the world at large pays little attention. Plausibly that's because it remains an internal affair. Well, so was, once, Darfur, Somalia ad infinitum.
This war is in the Niger Delta. The British once called it Oil Rivers and gave it a grand title: British Oil Rivers Protectorate. There was plenty of palm oil, a precious commodity then.
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Lagos - In a mature gesture of magnanimity and political wisdom the Federal Government late last year ordered the release from incarceration of Chief Gani Adams, the National Coordinator of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) who until then was standing trial for alleged treason and other offences against the Nigerian state.
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THE Census figures are out and we are 140 million-plus, which makes us the ninth most populated country on earth, after China, India, the United States of America, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Russia. The 140 million registered does not seem to shoot out of the projection we had. But from the details emerging, especially on spread, it would seem that we are in for an unrewarding debate instead of looking at what we did or failed to do during the counting. Such reactions do not impress me. I always ask that we take a peep into the records of the past, these records being constituted by our utterances, our behaviour, and the effect such attitude would have had on the people who believed in us and did our biddings.
Enugu - The Enugu State Police Command yesterday announced the arrest of nine suspected members of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on allegation of plans to blow up the Nsukka Urban Police Station.
But the suspects in their mid sixties and thirties maintained that they were innocent of the allegations, swearing that they were being framed up by the Police.
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