Racketeering: Secrete, Public Cameras To Monitor Passport Offices In Nigeria

Following widespread illegalities that are happening at different passport offices across the country where serious fraud and racketeering has become the norm, the federal government has deployed hidden and public cameras to all passport offices across the country to check passport racketeering and high-profile corruption. Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola while addressing journalists yesterday after a meeting with all passport control officers in 42 passport offices nationwide and immigration attaches in foreign missions who joined the meeting virtually, said efforts are on to embed security operatives both seen and…

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MASSOB To UK: We Demands Referendum On Biafra Not Asylum

By Andrew Onyejuruuwa The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in a statement outrightly rejected the United Kingdom (UK’s) offer of asylum for its members, saying it’s a ploy to frustrate   the agitators from further agitation by Eastern Nigeria that have grown frustrated by the Nigerian state. The group, however, said the offer is an arrangement between Nigeria’s President Muhamadu Buhari, and his All Progressive Congress (APC) government to divert the attention of the agitators. Mr Uchenna Madu, the leader of MASSOB, in a statement…

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United Nigeria Airlines Begins Scheduled Flight Operations To Port Harcourt, Others

United Nigeria Airlines said it has commenced regular scheduled flight operations to the Domestic Wing of Port Harcourt International Airport. The inaugural flight to Port Harcourt, according to Head, Corporate Communications for the airline, Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu, was expected to depart the Murtala Mohammed Airport terminal two (MM2) in Ikeja, Lagos at 1.30pm. Regular flights from Port Harcourt to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja was also expected to depart at 3:00pm daily while flights from Abuja to Port Harcourt would depart at 4:30pm every day. United Nigeria would also operate…

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George Floyd: How A 17-Year-Old Citizen Changed History – Lessons For Nigerians

By Nick Agule After the police killed George Floyd about 11 months ago, the following was the cause of his death as issued in a statement by the Minneapolis Police Department: “Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was…

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Idriss Deby: Half Of African Countries Still Under Dictatorship And Autocracy With Attendant Political Instability

The assassination in office two days ago of Gen Idriss Deby, the immediate past dictatorial and autocratic President of Chad since December 1990 should be a big lesson to the remaining and emerging African dictators and autocrats. His shameful and ungodly death in office is also a reminder that more than half of the Africa’s 54 countries are still ravaged by dictatorship and autocracy, forcing their countries into chronic under-development and political and economic instability. In other words, over 27 independent African countries are presently under ‘personality dictatorship’ or ‘structural…

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Insecurity In Chad Over Idriss Déby’s Burial, Rebels Threaten Advance

The late Chadian leader, Idriss Deby There is anxiousness in Chad, as about a dozen African heads of state and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to attend the funeral of the late Chadian President, Idriss Déby Itno, in the face of threats from rebels to resume an offensive on the country’s capital. Several of the Chadian army officers, led by General Idriss Abdéramane Dicko, also refused to recognise the authority of the Transitional Military Council, led by Mahamat Idriss Déby the son of the late leader of Chad. While…

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