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Monday, 30 January 2017
Monday, 1 February 2016
We won’t bury Tor Tiv with human’s head – Burial committee
The Central Planning Committee for the burial of
the paramount ruler of the Tiv nation, late Tor Tiv,
Chief Alfred Torkula, has stated that the Tiv
monarch would not be buried with human head.
Chairman of the Committee, Brig.-General Atom
Kpera, who stated this while briefing journalists
as part of activities for the burial of the late Tor
Tiv said the Tiv tradition did not believe in
sacrificing human beings for the burial of its
monarchs.
“The Tiv tradition does not involve burying mon
arch with anybody. Nobody should entertain any
fear at all as the Tor Tiv will not be buried with
the head of anybody. All the Tor Tivs are buried in
one place and that is why we have told you that
the burial would be conducted by a Catholic
priest”, he stated
Kpera disclosed that the weeklong programme for
the burial started with the traditional wake keep
by each of the Tiv intermediate areas of
Jemgbagh, Jechira, Kwande, Sankera and Minda
as well as Tiv in diaspora and friends of the Tiv
nation taking their turns each day.
He stated further that by next Wednesday, the Ijir
Tamen would sit at the traditional council
chamber where the traditional inquest /valedictory
session would be held.
It could be recalled that the late Tor Tiv died on
November 23, 2015 in Abuja and activities for his
burial are billed to start from January 28 through
February 4th when he would finally be interred.
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Refusal to grant Kanu bail is denial of South-east people their right – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has faulted
the decision of Justice John Tsoho of the Abuja
Federal High Court to deny bail to their leader,
Nnamdi Kanu, describing it as a systematic denial
of the entire South Eastern Nigeria of their right.
The IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma
Powerful stated that every day, the present
administration of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, and their leader, President Muhammadu
Buhari, keep exposing itself to the world that it
has no respect for the rule of law and orders of
competent court of law.
He asked why people will not be allowed to
engage in peaceful demonstrations and protests in
a country like Nigeria, wondering whether it will
be better for them to engage in violent
demonstrations and protests and carrying guns
and throwing bombs like the Boko Haram
insurgents.
“We are being pushed to the walls, our members
who were engaged in peaceful protest in Aba,
Abia state and Port Harcourt Rivers State were
shot by the Army and taken to Military barracks
in Afikpo Ebonyi state and Bori camp in rivers
State with bullet wounds.
“The victims are undergoing torture and other
inhuman treatments, as they bring them out
every morning, torture and engage them in all
manners of hard labours and ask them about
their missing guns as if IPOB members carry
guns.
“We do not carry guns and do not intent to carry
in the nearest future, we are therefore calling on
Amnesty International, all human rights
organizations and the international community to
prevail on the Nigerian government respect the
rule of law and the orders of the courts, as at the
last count our members arrested in Aba are 25
while those in Port Harcourt are 18 in number,
totaling 43 people detained in the two Army
barracks in Ebonyi and rivers States respectively,”
he said.
Friday, 29 January 2016
America’s primary elections Outsiders’ chance The primary contest is about to get serious. It has rarely been so ugly, uncertain or strange
WHEN Jeb Bush announced he was running for
president seven months ago the tutting
newspaper commentaries almost wrote
themselves. With his famous name and war
chest of over $100m, whistled up from Bush
family benefactors in a matter of months, the
former Florida governor was almost as strong a
favourite for the Republican ticket as Hillary
Clinton, who had made her inaugural campaign
speech two days earlier, was for the Democratic
one. Bush against Clinton? The prospect made
American democracy seem stale and dynastic,
rigged on behalf of a tiny political elite, whose
members alone had the name recognition and
deep pockets required to win its overpriced
elections.
But now the primary process is about to get
serious. In Iowa on February 1st perhaps
250,000 voters will brave icy roads to pick their
champion in small groups, or caucuses. And the
tutting has given way to real fear. On the
Republican side, Mr Bush—or “Jeb!” as his
campaign has cruelly styled him—is all but
irrelevant. The son and brother of past
presidents is clever and has a solid record of
cutting taxes and privatising services. But
Republican voters have dismissed him as dull
and out-of-touch, an emblem of the political
class they despise. The Republican front-runner,
Donald Trump, is a celebrity builder with no
previous political experience. He has raised little
money, was once a registered Democrat and still
refers derisively to his party as “the
Republicans”, as if it is some unpromising
acquisition he has been arm-twisted into
buying.
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The digs he makes at his rivals, often in the
form of tweets offering “advice”, can be
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theories about Barack Obama’s place of birth,
Mr Trump is now dishing out the same
treatment to his closest challenger, Ted Cruz. A
first-term senator from Texas, Mr Cruz was born
in Canada, but to an American mother, which
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Mr Trump tweeted to his nearly 6m followers.
Yet his front-runner status is based less on Mr
Trump’s wit than on his gift for understanding
and pandering to people’s fears.
The billionaire says that America has been
beggared and wrecked by immigrant rapists,
venal bankers and idiot politicians, is imperilled
by Muslim maniacs, and mocked by the rest of
the world. He rages against the Chinese, whom
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