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IPOB Not Funded Through Sports Betting – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer, Ejimakor Replies FG

IPOB leader, Mazi Nnnamdi Kanu and his lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor
Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Saturday, reacted to reports that the group is funded through sports betting and crowd-funding. He described such claims as false and laughable. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, had revealed that global crowdfunding, online transactions, and sports betting fund terrorist organizations in Nigeria like Boko Haram, ISWAP, IPOB, bandits, and other such groups. In its newsletter, NFIU revealed how IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, received funds through affiliates in 22 countries that have registered at least 27 entities under the group’sRead More

Tension Persists In Edo As Pro-Oshiomhole Lawmakers Fail To Access Assembly

Edo State House of Assembly
Obaseki: Attempt to invade Assembly, a coup d’etat Tinubu: Obaseki’s actions, assault on constitutional democracy US worries about ‘deteriorating political climate in Edo State’ Buhari receives Ize-Iyamu, urges APC toRead More

INEC Inaugurates Portal For Live Transmission Of Results

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
Warns parties on Edo, Ondo gov elections The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday launched a portal where election results from polling units can be viewed in real-time, as partRead More

IPOB, Ohanaeze Fighting Same Cause With Different Approaches – Nwodo

Chief Nnia Nwodo
The President-General of Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has called on the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to change his unfriendly attitude andRead More

APC, PDP Trade Words Over $2.4bn Chinese Loans, Others

APC vs PDP
The All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, engaged in a war of words over the alleged failure of the PDP to account for loans amountingRead More

PDP Asks Oshiomhole To Present Primary Six Certificate

Adams Oshiomhole
The Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, asked a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to present his First School Leaving Certificate, to prove he actually wentRead More

Obaseki Kicks Off Campaign In Edo North, Receives Royal Blessings

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, addressing supporters in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Monday kicked off his reelection campaign in Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo North Senatorial District, promising to build on the goodRead More

Loan: Buhari, APC Owe Nigerians Apology – Atiku

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar
Former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 said that the PresidentRead More

Presidency Distances Buhari From Mamman Daura’s Opinion On Zoning

Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu
Yakassai insists rotational presidency will ensure stability, national unity and inclusive politics The presidency, last night, said the recent comments by President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, on zoning wereRead More

Obaseki Restates Commitment To Economic Diversification, Food Security, Others

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has reaffirmed that his government remains committed to economic diversification, assuring that the state would continue to initiate and implement policies targeted atRead More

Edo 2020: APC Kicks As Wike Rebukes Ize-Iyamu

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, as a bad product that won’t sell during theRead More