Concerned Ijaw Citizens
22 Apr 2024
The Concerned Ijaw Citizens (CIC) has expressed worry over a string of sponsored and unwarranted attacks and a well orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Nigerian military leadership on the Okoloba/Okuama crisis.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Okitipupa Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo State has officially unveiled its candidates for the council elections in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the LGA elections is scheduled for Jan. 18 across the 18 LGA’s in the state. Mr Bode Ikulala, APC Chairman in…
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US President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block his sentencing this week for covering up hush money payments to a porn star while he appeals his conviction. Trump made the eleventh-hour plea for a suspension of the criminal proceedings to the nation's highest court after a New York State appeals court dismissed…
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in partnership with the Red Cross Society, Federal Ministries of Foreign Affairs, and Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction has donated relief materials worth $200,000 to 1,000 households who suffered flooding last year. President, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Prince Oluyemisi Adeaga while speaking on Wednesday during the flag-off…
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Poland announced Wednesday it had shut its consulate in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, after Russia ordered the closure in a tit-for-tat move. Russia ordered the closure in December after Poland said in October it was closing Russia's consulate in the Polish city of Poznan, accusing Moscow of "sabotage" attempts in the country and…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has made an order of interim freezing and forfeiture of the sum of over N228.4 million linked to former Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia to Federal Government on allegations of money laundering. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on an ex-parte motion moved by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
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Kenya's high court on Wednesday ordered the country's top policeman to appear for questioning over a fresh wave of abductions that have caused widespread outrage. Dozens of people have been kidnapped and held in communicado since major anti-government protests last year, which sparked a bruising political crisis for President William Ruto. A fresh spate of…
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Former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has dismissed circulating reports of his alleged arrest as "entirely false." Obi dismissed the rumors in a statement posted on his verified X account on Wednesday. Social media platforms, particularly X, were awash with claims that Obi had been taken from his home in Abuja by DSS operatives…
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France has called for the "immediate return" of a French inmate on death row in Indonesia, citing his "deteriorating health", the Indonesian law and human rights ministry said Wednesday. French diplomats have acknowledged since late last year that talks were underway for the transfer of Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old Frenchman arrested in 2005 at a…
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Tuesday appointed former Malian coach, Éric Sékou Chelle, as Head Coach of the Super Eagles. Chelle, who hails from Mali, makes history as the first non-Nigerian African to coach the Super Eagles of Nigeria. The 47-year-old French-Malian coach was born on Nov. 11, 1977, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, but…
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Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has stated that the model of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) remains the future of education globally. This is just as the university matriculated 23,344 new students who enrolled for various undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes. Prof. Peters was speaking at the 27th…