George Weah vows to change Liberia's law which restricts citizenship to black people only

Liberian President George Weah said Monday he would seek to remove a "racist" clause in the country's constitution that restricts citizenship to black people, and pledged to take a pay cut in a dire economy. Liberia was founded by freed slaves from the United States in 1847, who inserted the requirement into the constitution to create "a refuge and a haven for...

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Former Governors Donald Duke, Oyinlola launch Obasanjo's Coalition for Nigeria Movement

About a week after former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote an explosive letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, his touted Coalition Movement has been launched in Abuja. The movement was launched at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre and attended by young Nigerians. Obasanjo was not present at the launch. Two former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, Olagunsoye...

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Instagram, Google+ Join EU Group Fighting Hate Speech

Facebook’s Instagram and the Google+ social network have agreed to join an EU-sponsored group of US internet giants to combat online extremism, EU officials said Friday. EU officials added that the existing members — YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook – have made progress toward meeting the code of conduct they signed up to in May 2016, promising to look at suspicious content within 24 hours and remove illegal material. “Instagram has...

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Two Niger Soldiers Killed In Gun Duel With Boko Haram

At least two soldiers were killed overnight while fighting off an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in southeast Niger, a source in the security forces said Tuesday. “It was an audacious attack repelled by our valiant defence and security forces who lost two men all the same,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The insurgents from...

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FIRST STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH BY LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT GEORGE WEAH HONORABLE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

I would now like to address you on what I consider to be my most urgent and imperative agenda. Since the founding of this country in 1847, more than 170 years ago, there have been certain restrictions on citizenship and property ownership that – in my view – have become serious impediments to the development and progress of this country. These restrictions include the limitation of citizenship only to black people, the limitation of property...

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Fulani herdsmen getting away with murder, they have killed 168 people in 2018 alone - Amnesty International

Amnesty International says clashes between farmers and herdsmen have resulted in at least 168 deaths in 2018 alone. In a statement on Monday, Osai Ojigho, director of Amnesty International Nigeria said “the Nigerian authorities’ response to communal violence is totally inadequate, too slow and ineffective, and in some cases unlawful.” “Clashes ...

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US lifts ban on refugees from 11 countries

The United States announced Monday it was lifting its ban on refugees from 11 "high-risk" countries, but said those seeking to enter the US would come under much tougher scrutiny than in the past. Applicants from 11 countries, unnamed but understood to include 10 Muslim-majority nations plus North Korea, will face tougher "risk-based" assessments to be accepted. "It's...

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Bello Seeks Creation Of Rehabilitation Centre For Looters

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State wants President Muhammadu Buhari to establish a rehabilitation centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The move, he stated, was to reform politicians who have siphoned the state resources over the years. Bello made this known in Lokoja, the state capital while addressing some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in...

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Kwankwaso Banned From Visiting Kano By the Nigerian Police.

Former Kano state governor, Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso who have deep misunderstanding with President Buhari because of presidential ambition has been advised to stay away from his state by the Police for now. The Senator also have severe problem with the current governor of Kano.  The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Yusuf, who gave the order/advise, added that Kwankwaso’s proposed visit to the state on January 30 may spark...

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Katsina Governor & Senator Escaped Death As Youth Attacked Them For Non Performance.

Senator Abu escapes death in katsina as youths stones him and governor Abu Ibrahim, the senator representing Katsina South, and Amiru Tukur, the member representing Bakori/Danja Federal constituency in the House of Representatives narrowly escaped mob action at a political event organized by the Katsina State chapter of All Progressives Congress ( APC ) on Saturday...

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THE ENEMIES OF SOUTH EAST AT A GLANCE

Behold the bunch of selfish and wicked, sycophant Southerners shamelessly begging a globally renowned failed President to seek for Second Term in office even in the clear face of killings, gross marginalization of the Region in the federal Government largesse and the clandestine Islamization policy been gradually and subtly perpetrated by the dreaded Fulani herdsmen....

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Herdsmen killings: We are now ready to fight Fulani, spill our blood – Benue youths

Youth groups in the Middle Belt have declared war on the rampaging Fulani herdsmen, saying they have signed their death warrant. The National Council of Tiv Youths, NCTY, and the Middle Belt Youths Council, MBYC, have stepped out to defend their region. In s separate interview with the Punch, the youths said they will no longer fold their arms and watch their people being slaughtered by the cattle herders. The President of the National...

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Kill And Roast Any Cow Parading Our Street - Ghana 🇬🇭 President.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana has give an executive order to their citizens to slaughter and eat any cow they found on the loitering streets of Ghana or private/public places. He said that “Execute and barbecue any cattle seen on the streets of Ghana. And I command the immediate arrest of any herdsman seen parading cattle on the streets of Ghana. This is a reverse of the case in Nigeria where cow had invaded homes,...

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10,000 Anglophone Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria - UN

With the number of people fleeing English-speaking areas of Cameroon for Nigeria growing, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly concerned at the plight of women and children among them. Women and children represent about 80 per cent of the approximately 10,000 refugees registered so far in eastern Nigeria’s Cross River state. Thousands more are among...

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FIRE GUTS IMO DEPUTY GOVERNOR’S LODGE

This afternoon, some parts of the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere’s official residence was gutted by fire. The fire incident which is suspected to have been triggered off by nearby inferno in the bush, which eventually spread to the visitors waiting hall razing down the entire building, one of the Press Crew buses stationed within the premises...

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Rochas and Imo Economy By Uche Atuma

His name is Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha. He is the Governor of Imo State, one of Nigeria’s most enlightened states. Just like Atiku Abubakar, he is one of Nigeria’s public office holders more popular by their first names. So, we shall limit this discourse to calling him Rochas (no disrespect please). And it happened that as governor of Imo State, Rochas (now in his second term) has brought more animation, drama and clownishness into...

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Fulani Herdsmen Kills Another 6 Persons in Benue, As Their Leaders Vows To Kill More.

The terrorist group, the Herdsmen have killedl six people in fresh unprovoked attacks in Logo and Guma local government areas of Benue state. The state governor, Samuel Ortom, disclosed this on Wednesday when he received Dominic Oneya, former military administrator of the state, in Markurdi. Ortom said while two women were killed in Logo, another two were killed in Guma. Ortom said there were other accounts of violence claiming lives...

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