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Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, the wife of the embattled Radio Biafra director, in the interview granted to the IBTimes UK speaks about the detention of her husband.  The woman expressed concern over the continued custody of the Biafra leader. She said: “Nnamdi is just a prisoner of conscience. He has been held nearly for two months already. He’s been held extra-judicially. And that is not right.” Mrs. Okwu-Kanu added that he is afraid of her husband’s well-being and supposed he was being tortured by the Nigerian state security service. “He was obviously dying. And there was no medical attention or anything like this,” Kanu’s wife added. The woman said that she had been able to speak with her husband only once since he was arraigned by the DSS as he travelled to Nigeria from London in the beginning of October. She cautioned that Kanu’s health is worsening as he is no longer able to take medicine for “his life-threatening ulcer”. Okwu-Kanu defended her husband’s struggle for ...

Ahead of December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plans to arrest some of its members with strong and influential electoral support base. The allegation which was contained in a statement by the director of publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, said the APC was planning to destabilize the party and its electoral chances. “We have it on good authority that the APC plans to frame up these individuals by planting weapons and ammunitions around their houses and then invite the police and JTF operatives to search their houses with the clear intention of implicating them in trump up charges of arm running,” he stated. “We have it on good authority that the APC plans to frame up these individuals by planting weapons and ammunitions around their houses and then invite the police and JTF operatives to search their houses with the clear inte...

Ghana has been ranked as the second most corrupt African nation behind South Africa which is the most corrupt of the entire continent. Nigeria follows closely behind Ghana making up the top three worst performing nations in the corruption index. For the first time, people reported business executives as highly corrupt. Business ranked as having the second highest levels of corruption in the region, just below the police. According to a report by Transparency International, about 71 percent of people living in Ghana say corruption has increased over the last twelve months. A new opinion poll showed that most governments across Africa are failing in their duty to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals. According to a report put together by Transparency International and Afrobarometer, majority of the African governments are doing really badly in the fight against corruption. In the Africa Survey 2015 which forms part of the global corruption barometer, 43,...

After having seven beautiful children both male and female, ace musician 2Face has revealed he does not know if he still wants to make more babies. He spoke with Encomium magazine in a recent interview. The Africa Queen singer said: “More babies? Well, I don’t know. In Africa, you never stop counting babies until you stop, but I’m good, just kidding.” He also spoke about parenting as a father: “My job takes me away most of the time and sometimes I spend only two days in a month in the house, but I try as much as possible to create time for my family, despite my busy schedule.” 2face has seven children from three mothers. Sumbo Ajaba has two boys; Pero Adeniyi has one girl and two boys while Annie Idibia has two daughters for the ace musician who recently celebrated his 40th birthday in September. Next time you want to address 2face Idibia you have to address him as a chief as he now holds a chieftaincy title. On November 24, 2face was given a chieftaincy title in Kaduna...

The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been asked to tender their resignation by an accredited observer over the inconclusive gubernatorial poll in Kogi state. This call was made by the Coalition of Civil Society Group . The coalition said the (AGF and INEC boss) stance on the election was capable of discrediting the election. According to the coordinator, Abubakar Suleman, at a press conference on Tuesday, December 1 in Abuja, stated that the group has lost confidence in the leadership of the duo, This Day reports. He stressed that the action in a sharp contrast with 1999 constitution as amended and the Electoral Act stating that the group would not turn a blind eye and allow the nation’s democracy to suffer nor neither will it be left in the hands of electoral umpire that cannot exert its independence and sanctity of the electoral...

Goodluck Jonathan, the immediate past president of Nigeria narrowly escaped death in Bayelsa state today, November 30. Some suspected men accused of working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state drove into Jonathan’s convey. The militants, who stopped and drove into a short motorcade transporting the former president from the Julius Berger bridge area of the state capital Yenagoa, trailed and chased the motorcade to the entrance of the house of Jonathan in the Kpansia area of the town, before they were trailed and detained by a combined team of security operatives attached to the ex-president. Members of the arrested band have been taken to the Bayelsa state police command for further investigation and interrogation. Last year Jonathan and some top government officials escaped an air crash at the Minna Airport, when a presidential jet developed a technical fault, while they were aboard. Another incident with former president happened at the Armed Force...

In an interview with The Sun, the Eze Ikputu of Afara Ukwu Ibeku in Umuahia, said he was ready to quit his throne over the course for which his son is being detained. He said there was relief having heard that his son, the Radio Biafra boss, was arraigned in court in good health. The monarch also expressed his joy over the continued support of the “Biafran” people who rallied round the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In an appeal to President Muhammdu Buhari, Eze Kanu urged the federal government to release his son, because he has not done anything wrong in fighting his course with just words. He said there was no way to tell his son to back down, stressing that Biafra is not just Kanu’s fight but the desire of the Igbo people. Eze Ikputu noted that the Igbo people are like slaves in the country, hence the call for their liberation. He added that nothing but freedom will do for the agitators of Biafra, and that the separation in no way calls for war...