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Breaking: Police arrest Sowore at Abuja High Court during Nnamdi Kanu trial

Admin 1 3 years ago

By Nwafor Sunday A former presidential candidate, and founder of an online news agency ‘Sahara Reporters’, Omoyele Sowore has been arrested. The convener of #RevolutionNow came to witness the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi […]

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BREAKING: Police charge 48 Yoruba agitators to court

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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, has charged the 48 Yoruba Nation Protesters arrested on Saturday 3rd July, 2021 in Ojota, Lagos before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba. In a statement by the Communications Manager for Ilana […]

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Trial adjourned till Oct 21 as Kanu absent from court

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Lesi Nwisagbo The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, resumed at the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday without Kanu’s presence in court. When the matter was called up, the prosecution counsel, M. […]

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Nnamdi Kanu: A metaphor for political exclusion, marginalization —Catholic Bishops

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By Chidi Nkwopara, Dennis Agbo & Ugochukwu Alaribe Bishops of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri, Imo State, have described leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as a metaphor for political exclusion and marginalisation Meanwhile, […]

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DSS bars PUNCH, others as Kanu’s trial continues today

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Lesi Nwisagbo and Maritha Ebolosue The Department of State Services has barred The PUNCH and some media organisations from covering the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, as his trial continues today. Also barred along with The […]

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Sunday Igboho to know fate Monday

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By Alao Abiodun Days after arrest of embattled Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou Benin Republic, the legal battle which would determine his release, will be decided on Monday. The 48-year-old […]

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Blasphemy: Abduljabbar’s lawyers accuse Ganduje of interfering in court cases

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By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano The lawyers representing the embattled Kano cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, have called on the Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje to desist from disturbing utterances against their client that are prejudicial and a threat to the […]

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Benin Republic monarchs to write president over Sunday Igboho

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Sodiq Oyeleke Yoruba monarchs in Benin Republic have resolved to write the president of the country, Patrice Talon, over the arrest and detention of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, in the country. The traditional rulers made […]

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Ex-lawmaker Kayode Oladele urges FG to give Nnamdi Kanu closed trial

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As the trial of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, resumes on Monday, a former federal legislator who authored and co-sponsored the Terrorism Act Amendment Bill of 2013, Kayode Oladele, has called for a procedure which […]

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Alleged Killer Of Akwa Ibom Job Seeker To Appear In Court Monday

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By Bernard Tolani Dada A statement from the media unit of the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Justice signed by the information officer in the ministry, Effiong Edet, which was made available to LEADERSHIP in Uyo on Sunday, said that the […]