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Nigeria: It’s Wrong to Call Fulanis Killers — Okorocha
Fulani Herdsmen, Justice, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Nigeria: It’s Wrong to Call Fulanis Killers — Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha, said, yesterday that it would be wrong for anybody to link the Fulanis to the killings by herdsmen in the country. Okorocha defended the Fulanis, when members of Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim led by its Supreme Head, the Prelate His Eminence Solomon Alao, visited him at the Government House, Owerri, as stated in a release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo. On whether the Imo State Government has created a cattle colony, proposed by the Federal Government, Okorocha, said there was a cattle market in the state and not a cattle colony, stating that the state government encouraged indigenes to go into cattle business because it was lucrative and that government would continue to support them with provision of ranches. The governor also ...
Nigeria: JAMB Suspends Worker Over N36m Swallowed by Snake
Corruption, Crime, Education, Justice, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: JAMB Suspends Worker Over N36m Swallowed by Snake

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said on Sunday that it had suspended its employee, Philomina Chieshe, on account of N36m which was reported to have been swallowed by a snake in the board’s office in Makurdi, Benue State. The JAMB Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin, told our correspondent on Sunday that the board was taking her through other disciplinary measures while security agencies were investigating the matter. Benjamin said, “She has been suspended and she is going through all other disciplinary procedures while investigation is ongoing on the matter. Her claim was that a snake came into the office and swallowed the N36m proceeds.” It was learnt that Chieshe explained in her statement that a “mystery snake” sneaked into JAMB accounts office and made away with ...
World: ICC concludes preliminary investigation into Shiites massacre, continues probe of IPOB killings
Biafra, Justice, News, Nigeria, Religion

World: ICC concludes preliminary investigation into Shiites massacre, continues probe of IPOB killings

THE International Criminal Court is moving gradually towards prosecution of Nigerian officials involved in the December 2015 massacre of members of Islamic Movements of Nigeria. The office of the prosecutor at the war crimes tribunal, which reached its preliminary conclusion into the killings in December 2017, submitted its findings to the Federal Government and demanded explanations about the incident. The ICC said the attack on IMN members, which was carried out by the Nigerian Army and condemned by human rights voices across the world, violated international statutes on human rights. Also advancing at the ICC is its investigation into the gruesome rights abuses and killings of members of separatist Independent People of Biafra, IPOB. The group has come under repeated assault...
Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s Defence of Immunity
Biafra, Justice, Nigeria

Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s Defence of Immunity

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has asked a United States federal court to commence the trial of 16 Nigerian officials it sued over their alleged direct or indirect complicity in the extrajudicial killings of its members, who launched peaceful protests following the arrest and detention of its Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. This was contained in a statement issued by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful and made available to Vanguard in Enugu, yesterday. The defendants include the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Alhaji Lawal Musa Daura, the former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, and his successor, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris as well as the Governors of Abia State, Dr O...