In a 19-second video obtained by The Eagle Online, a yet-to-be identified ESN leader is seen addressing apparently aggrieved members of the militia, promising that the money will no longer be sent through their condinator, so that the camp will not be divided.
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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, in a statement on Monday said contrary to reports, no soldier was killed in Ohafia Local Government Area of the state.
If anyone was undecided whether Buhari was at the roots of Nigeria’s worsening ethnic crises in the last six years or so, that Arise TV interview removed all doubts. It revealed a president whose mind is a fertile breeding ground for viral ethnic divisiveness, an infection that is without any possible hope of redemption.
The President said this in an interview with Arise TV broadcast on Thursday.
Speaking with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC), Mohammed said Twitter had reached out to the government seeking high-level discussion to resolve the issue.
Mohammed made this known on Monday evening during an interview with BBC News Africa.
In a statement by the spokesman of the command, SP Bala Elkana, the command said the hoodlums had planned to make the day a black Sunday for residents of the city, but that its operatives successfully repelled the attack.
Chief Fidelis Umeh, the President-General of the chapter, stated this at a news conference on Saturday in Yola.
The suspects have been identified as Linus Owalo, Godswill Steven and Chinasa Orji.
Speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday, Mohammed said Twitter had conveniently ignored inciting tweets by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and others.
The News Agency of Nigeria observed on Tuesday that vehicular movements have resumed while some major markets, malls, schools, banks, filling stations and motor parks are bubbling with activities.
Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Loveth Odah, said this in a statement on Tuesday.
People relax on roads as IPOB sit-at-home receives total compliance
Akintoye, who also heads the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, said this in a disclaimer by the group’s Media Communications Secretary, Maxwell Adeleye, titled, ‘Ilana Omo Oodua is not in any working relationship with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB’ on Monday.
These were some of the sights in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State on Monday following the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The group said it declared a Sit-at-home order in remembrance of more than five million Igbo people who died during the three years of civil war between the defunct Biafra and Nigeria.
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The Nigerian Army, which disclosed this in a statement, said five other members of the group were also arrested.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, had called on the five Eastern states to stock food items ahead of the order.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who monitored the situation reports that Owerri malls suddenly halted activities on Saturday at about 12.30 pm am as against the normal 8.00 pm closure.