The growing security challenge confronting the country was again the focus of the Senate on Tuesday. Senators in plenary yesterday took turns to criticise what they described as poor handling of security situations in parts of the country leading to unacceptable loss of lives and property. While some of the lawmakers canvassed for the immediate sack of Service Chiefs to enable the government to infuse fresh blood and ideas into the system others said that government should be bold enough to seek foreign assistance to deal with the situation. This is coming less than one week after Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over his comment in London that those killing Nigerians were militia men from Libya. The debate of the worrisome security situation followed a motion by Senator Sulaiman Adokwe, representing Nasarawa South Senatorial District on the unabating killings in his constituency by herdsmen. The near break down of law and order...

Britain promises to help in release of abducted girls By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari in London on Monday told the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that though the country will be having elections in 2019, his primary concern was to tackle insecurity and also put the nation’s economy in a better position. President Buhari meets with UK Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street London President Buhari stated this when he held a bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister, at 10, Downing Street, London. Recall that the President had declared his intention to seek for re-election last week Monday at the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja, before he left for London. But Buhari told the British Prime Minister that his administration from the onset was focused on three cardinal areas which were security, economy and fight against corruption, adding that as his opponents were interested in the f...

Rochas who disclosed this while hosting some political stakeholders at the state government house in Owerri, opined that, “Buhari will win again and again and after Buhari, the turn will come to south-east and it will be the turn of Okorocha”. Okorocha Speaking further he said “Nwosu is the least of the political children I have trained but I don’t know any of them as much as I have known Nwosu,” Okorocha said. “I took him up when he was just nobody and he grew to the height he is now, his only sin is that he is my son-in-law. “Nwosu will win in 2019, don’t be afraid, I am there”.

Wife of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Uchechi, has spoken out on the whereabouts of her husband. Ucheche, who is based in London has maintained that her husband is in the custody of the Nigerian Army. Insisting that she is not aware of Kanu’s whereabouts, Uchechi told BBC Igbo that she is not also aware if her husband was dead or alive. She stated that the last time she spoke with Kanu was when soldiers invaded his residence in Umuahia, Abia State last year. Uchechi said, “The IPOB people are not sleeping. The army is going to tell them where their leader is. Keeping Nnamdi Kanu does not mean that IPOB is asleep,” Uchechi said. “I don’t know where my husband is. If he is dead or alive, I don’t know. People that are supposed to answer these questions are the army. “The last time I saw him was when the army came to shoot in our house. He called me and asked if I was hearing the gunshots. I heard the gunshots and started shouting...

British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriages in Nigeria and all other Commonwealth Nations. The Prime Minister said this on Tuesday while speaking at the first joint forum at Commonwealth Head of Government Meetings in Westminster. According to her, there should be no laws criminalising same-sex relationships across the Commonwealth. May said that she understands that most of the laws against same-sex marriages in the Commonwealth were made by the United Kingdom, adding that those laws were wrong then, and are wrong now. She said, “Across the world, discriminatory laws made many years ago, continue to affect the lives of many people tens of millions of young people. “Criminalising same-sex relations and failing to protect women and girls.” “I am all too aware that these laws were put in place by my own country; they were wrong then and they are wrong now. “As the UK’s prime minister, I deeply regret that those laws were introduce…a...

Family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to release the corpse of their son for burial. The family said it believed that Kanu was killed by the Nigerian military, in an attempt to quell the agitation for Biafra. The family spokesman, Emma Kanu, told Wapsim247 that the federal government should release Nnamdi’s corpse to them so as to give him a befitting burial. Emma said ever since the IPOB leader disappeared last year, when his home was raided by the military, the family had always feared for his life. “Now that it has been reported that he is dead, the federal government should, without hesitation release his corpse to his family, so that we and the entire Igbo nation can give him the befitting burial he deserves because he is a true Igbo son,” he said. The younger Kanu said even if the IPOB leader was out of Biafra struggle, it would not vitiate the resolve of IPOB and indeed the whole of...