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  Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has hinted that Nnamdi Kanu, chief of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was once rearrested in Kenya. Omokri stated a pinnacle official of the Nigerian government disclosed this to him. He disclosed the the United Kingdom, UK, was not aware of Kanu’s rearrest and extradition to Nigeria. In a tweet, Omokri stated the government official disclosed that Kanu’s detention was illegal. Omokri wrote: “I just spoke with a pinnacle UK government source. Nnamdi Kanu was NOT arrested or extradited by the British. “According to this official, Kanu was “almost definitely arrested in KENYA” and “it was an unlawful detention”. I won’t reveal my source, but I have him on record.” Kanu was rearrested on Sunday by a combined team of Nigerian and foreign security operatives. This was disclosed via the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. Malami had disclosed this during a press conference in A...

  In line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda to lift a hundred million Nigerians from poverty within a decade and the globally acclaimed Sustainable Development Goals, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is leading the Federal Government’s collaboration with the United Nations to enhance Nigeria’s meals systems. The effort is to attack the threat of hunger, fight malnutrition, minimize terrible diet-related illnesses amongst others. The Federal Government and the United Nations had led series of public dialogues at countrywide and sub-national tiers that culminated today in the presentation of the Nigeria Food Systems mapping record to State governments throughout the six geo-political zones. Professwor Osinbajo made the presentation at a Consolidatory Dialogue for the UN Food Systems Summit held in Abuja, attended by some State Governors, the Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, Ms Amina Mohammed, members of the Federal Executive Council, Nigeria’s improvement partners and other dig...

The Minister of State, Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated that Nigeria has the highest range of Out-of-School Children in sub-Sahara Africa. Mr Nwajiuba stated this during the inauguration of “Better Education Service Delivery For All (BESDA)”, in Katsina on Monday. He announced that Nigeria had an estimated 10,193,918 kids out school. According to him, “the present day challenges affecting the Nigerian education system has left much to be desired, the system is characterised by high illiteracy level, infrastructural decay and deficits.” “We have inadequate wide variety of qualified teachers, insufficient infrastructural facilities/resources and poor funding,” he added. Mr Nwajiuba congratulated the Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, on his giant strides to reposition education in the state. He stated “this is a clear demonstration of leadership quality and personal dedication to education as well as the ardour to revitalise the sector to develop the abundant human capital of t...

  The chief of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu was arrested on Sunday and added to Nigeria, the country’s legal professional general Abubakar Malami stated on Tuesday. Government-owned news agency stated that the IPOB chief appeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Kanu, who was brought to the court amidst tight security, arrived at the court at about 1:40 pm. Kanu is facing a sleuth of charges, most of which are linked to his call for the independence of the southeastern region of Nigeria. He was once first arrested in October 2015 by the Nigerian government and was granted bail in April 2017. Justice Binta Nyako ordered him not to attend any rally, grant interviews or be in a gathering of more than 10 persons. The judge, in addition, ordered that the defendant should produce three sureties with N100 million each, who should include a highly respected Jewish leader since, according to her, the defendant claimed Judaism as his religion, a sen...

 A year and a half ago, the proprietor of the Washington Football Team stood on a dais and started one of his rare public statements with a viral gaffe that appeared to dovetail with a billionaire frequently viewed as aloof and out of touch. “First off, happy Thanksgiving everybody,” he said. Unfortunately, he was speaking in January. “I didn’t read the part where it said, ‘We began this journey on Thanksgiving,’” he says now. It was a small slip up on what is a perilous journey for Snyder: trying to reform a culture and workplace surroundings that has produced losses on the field and far darker issues off of it. Snyder, amid an ongoing investigation overseen by the NFL into allegations of misconduct inside the team, is trying a tough maneuver. He says he wants to set up a “gold standard” work lifestyle at a team whose operations had been marred by inappropriate behavior, in-fighting and a team name viewed by many as racist.