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Ogoni Clean-up: CSOs Fault Protest Against HYPREP Leadership
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Ogoni Clean-up: CSOs Fault Protest Against HYPREP Leadership

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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• Say attack on HYPREP is attack on Ogoni people Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Rivers State […]

Lagos targets 10,000 residents for skills training
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Lagos targets 10,000 residents for skills training

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 3, 2026
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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has stated that his administration, through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), is set to train 10,000 […]

Swiss voters appear poised to vote down 10 million population limit, poll finds
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Swiss voters appear poised to vote down 10 million population limit, poll finds

  • Alex Obi
  • June 3, 2026
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Swiss voters look set to reject a referendum proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million people, according to an opinion poll published on […]

Woman Accused of Stealing Beaten and Stripped by Local Vigilante
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Woman Accused of Stealing Beaten and Stripped by Local Vigilante

  • Diane Chernoske
  • June 3, 2026
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RIVERS: A disturbing incident involving mob justice has sparked outrage after a woman accused of theft was allegedly beaten and stripped by members of a […]

After 28 years of marriage, I discovered my husband owned another house – I was left speechless
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After 28 years of marriage, I discovered my husband owned another house – I was left speechless

  • Diane Chernoske
  • June 3, 2026
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At my age, I believed my life was solid. I had a happy marriage and a decent life. Then one ordinary discovery sent me across […]

House Raises the Alarm Over NCDC Funding Crisis, as Ebola Threat Looms
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House Raises the Alarm Over NCDC Funding Crisis, as Ebola Threat Looms

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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•  FG strengthens national surveillance, border control measures  •WHO ED Chikwe Ihekweazu: Nigeria at low risk of Ebola outbreak Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Juliet Akoje in […]

NDC Primary: I Won But Delta Electoral Committee Wants To Manipulate My Victory – Reps Aspirant
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NDC Primary: I Won But Delta Electoral Committee Wants To Manipulate My Victory – Reps Aspirant

  • Osas Payne
  • June 3, 2026
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A House of Representatives aspirant for Ughelli/Udu Federal Constituency of Delta state, Julius Efeni Akpovoka, on Tuesday raised the alarm over alleged plots to manipulate […]

Rubio says Mojtaba Khamenei is ‘more active’ in talks, dismisses China’s impact in Iran war
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Rubio says Mojtaba Khamenei is ‘more active’ in talks, dismisses China’s impact in Iran war

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 3, 2026
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2 min readJun 3, 2026 11:08 AM IST US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified earlier in the House Appropriations Committee that while Iran possesses […]

Senate Gives FG One Week to Explain Unpaid Contractors’ Debts
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Senate Gives FG One Week to Explain Unpaid Contractors’ Debts

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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• Sets up six-member committee to engage Finance Ministry •Seeks details of govt’s plan to clear outstanding obligations nationwide Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The Senate […]

Alimosho LG Chairman Warns Against Fake News; Seeks Stronger Community Collaboration on Security
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Alimosho LG Chairman Warns Against Fake News; Seeks Stronger Community Collaboration on Security

  • Osas Payne
  • June 3, 2026
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The Chairman of Alimosho Local Government, Hon. Akinpelu Ibrahim Johnson, has expressed gratitude to God, security agencies, and other security stakeholders for ensuring a peaceful […]

Nigeria’s Jimoh Ibrahim Elected Chairman of UN’s 5th Committee Budget and General Administration 
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Nigeria’s Jimoh Ibrahim Elected Chairman of UN’s 5th Committee Budget and General Administration 

  • Osas Payne
  • June 3, 2026
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By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola  Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has been elected Chairman of the Budget and General Administration of […]

Lenana School addresses bizarre reasons students went on rampage, destroyed property
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Lenana School addresses bizarre reasons students went on rampage, destroyed property

  • Diane Chernoske
  • June 3, 2026
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Nairobi, Kenya: The Lenana School has disclosed that their students went on a rampage and rioted after a function dabbed as the Maroon Festival did […]

Shock as a Drunk Woman Was Tied to a Tree and Raped by Some Group of Boys
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Shock as a Drunk Woman Was Tied to a Tree and Raped by Some Group of Boys

  • Diane Chernoske
  • June 3, 2026
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LAGOS: A community has been left in shock following reports of a disturbing incident in which a woman was allegedly tied to a tree and […]

US Trade Team In Delhi, Trump Plans New Tariffs On India Over "Forced Labour"
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US Trade Team In Delhi, Trump Plans New Tariffs On India Over "Forced Labour"

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 3, 2026
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Washington: The United States is planning to impose new tariffs on at least 60 trading partners for alleged failures to act against forced labour, as […]

Drew Uyi Hails Super Eagles’ Unity Cup Triumph
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Drew Uyi Hails Super Eagles’ Unity Cup Triumph

  • Osas Payne
  • June 3, 2026
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By Akeem Busari  The euphoria of Super Eagles 3-0 victory over Jamaica in the final of the 2026 Unity Cup tournament held in London, has […]

Posers as Chinda, APC Guber Candidate in Rivers, Resigns as Reps Minority Leader
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Posers as Chinda, APC Guber Candidate in Rivers, Resigns as Reps Minority Leader

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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• Letter read nearly two months after purported submission   •Confusion over how PDP chief emerged in APC without quitting opposition post Emmanuel Addeh and Adedayo […]

FG Moves to Bridge Gaps in Medical Rehabilitation Services
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FG Moves to Bridge Gaps in Medical Rehabilitation Services

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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• Says Nigeria has less than 8,000 physiotherapists Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Millions of Nigerians recovering from stroke, injury, surgery, or mental health conditions will […]

US Man Destroys Home With Excavator After Wife Threatens Divorce
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US Man Destroys Home With Excavator After Wife Threatens Divorce

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 3, 2026
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A US man has been arrested after he allegedly tried to demolish his own house with an excavator while his family was still inside. Erik […]

How Telegram’s regulatory failures, misinformation fuel exploitative prostitution in Nigeria
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How Telegram’s regulatory failures, misinformation fuel exploitative prostitution in Nigeria

  • AFP News
  • June 3, 2026
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While the group offers no protection for its members, it utilises Telegram’s privacy features extensively to protect itself. On the day I met 26-year-old Shola […]

Tinubu Pays Tribute to Age-long Ally, Alhaji Yusuf Ali, at 90
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Tinubu Pays Tribute to Age-long Ally, Alhaji Yusuf Ali, at 90

  • David VDM
  • June 3, 2026
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• Describes him as an honest, sincere person, iconic nationalist and committed democrat • Rejoices with award-winning journalist, Idowu Ajanaku on 60th birthday Deji Elumoye […]

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SURVIVING BIAFRA: COINCIDENCE OR CHOREOGRAPHY?   

  • David VDM
  • June 10, 2026
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It is both: coincidence in production, choreography in historical effect, argues PAT ONUKWULI Nearly 60 years after the first shots of the Nigerian Civil War tore through the fragile fabric of a young republic, Biafra has returned to public conversation, not as an apology, a restitution, or a national reckoning, but as a memoir and a documentary. General Yakubu Gowon released My Life of Duty and Allegiance, his account of a war he led from the summit of state power in Abuja on May 19, 2026. Almost simultaneously, the BBC released Surviving Biafra, directed by Meji Alabi, on BBC iPlayer and YouTube on June 1, 2026. Coincidence may explain the timing. It cannot erase the symbolism. The question is stark: is Biafra being remembered, or managed? This question is not paranoia. It is prudence. Meji Alabi is an accomplished filmmaker, having worked on major visual projects such as Beyoncé’s Black Is King. His competence is not in doubt. But competence is not neutrality. A gifted director may still be shaped by vantage, inheritance, and proximity. His familial connection to the Nigerian military, his grandfather, a former Nigerian Army commando, gives the film intimacy; it also burdens it with suspicion. Intimacy may illumine, but it may also prejudice. Even the title is uneasy. Surviving Biafra belongs, first, to those who endured starvation, bombardment, displacement, bereavement, and post-war humiliation. For them, survival was not metaphor. It was bone, hunger, terror, and memory. When such a phrase is handled from a vantage associated with the side that prosecuted the war, it risks sounding less like empathy than appropriation. The film therefore carries contrasting meanings: witness and revision; remembrance and erasure; balance and flattening; survival and evasion. The BBC’s role compounds the unease. It is respected, but respectability is not innocence. It is professional, but professionalism is not neutrality. Britain was no bystander in the war. It backed the federal government, defended Nigeria’s unity, and had strategic interests in the outcome. The BBC cannot now approach Biafra as if it floated above that imperial architecture. Frederick Forsyth remains the uncomfortable witness; this does not make him a saint of neutrality. He came as a BBC correspondent, broke with the corporation, and later accused it of failing to tell the full truth about Biafran suffering and Britain’s role. His own position was pro-Biafran, but his rupture matters because it came from inside the British media establishment. Therefore, before the BBC frames the wound, it must confront its proximity to the blade. Again, this is where the language of “balance” becomes morally thin. Yes, both sides suffered casualties. Federal soldiers died. Biafran soldiers died. Families everywhere mourned. But “both sides suffered” is not analysis when it avoids responsibility. There is a difference between casualties and catastrophe; between battlefield losses and mass civilian starvation; between soldiers dying in combat and children dying under blockade; between grief and policy; between pain and power. False balance counts bodies but ignores causes. It weighs tears but forgets weapons. It says everyone suffered while avoiding the essential questions: who controlled the ports, who enforced the blockade, who commanded the state, who received foreign support, and who shaped the global narrative? To some, the film feels less like remembrance than reductionism: not dangerous because it exists, but because it may turn Igbo suffering into archival spectacle while sidestepping the forces that produced it: pogroms, failed federalism, broken negotiations, oil politics, propaganda, and state power. The Biafran War was not simply “a tragic conflict”; it was born from Nigeria’s fractured politics, with the collapsed Aburi Accord standing as one of its great missed bridges. In today’s season of military memoirs, from Babangida’s challenge to the “Igbo coup” label to Gowon’s wartime account, the BBC documentary enters not neutral ground. However, a national wound is still struggling to heal. If the BBC seeks moral seriousness, it must go beyond documentary sympathy. It should investigate Britain’s role: arms, diplomacy, oil interests, humanitarian obstruction, media framing, and the blockade. It should open its archives. It should allow Igbo historians, survivors, jurists, and victims’ families to shape the story’s moral grammar. Gowon, too, should go beyond memoir. He should offer a clear apology to civilian victims, support a Truth, Memory, and Restitution Commission, and call for the declassification of Nigerian and British records. History cannot rest on the recollections of generals alone. The issue is not whether Biafra should be remembered. It must be remembered. The issue is whether it will be remembered truthfully or conveniently; as confession or choreography; as justice or content. If Surviving Biafra preserves testimony, it has value. But if it turns atrocity into atmosphere, dispossession into texture, and starvation into “complexity,” it becomes part of the machinery of minimisation. Biafra is not merely a war to be narrated. It is a debt to be acknowledged. A people who survived Biafra do not need Britain to package their pain, Gowon to footnote their dead, or Nigeria to balance their graves against federal discomfort. They need truth, apology, restitution, and a country courageous enough to admit that what it called victory may have been its deepest moral defeat. So, is Surviving Biafra coincidence or choreography? Perhaps it is both: coincidence in production, choreography in historical effect. It arrives at the precise moment when old generals are polishing their medals and arranging their memories before the court of posterity. It arrives when Britain still has unanswered questions. It arrives when Nigeria is suffocating under the same overcentralised structure that the war helped entrench. Dr. Onukwuli is a legal scholar and public affairs analyst [email protected]

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AOC has final word on Trump costing Knicks and fans a win in NBA finals

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  • June 10, 2026
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted President Donald Trump for falling asleep during the third game of the NBA Finals and blamed him for costing her hometown New York Knicks a crucial…

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RESHAPING GOVERNANCE IN DELTA

  • David VDM
  • June 10, 2026
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Delta State government is making giant strides in critical road infrastructure, writes  JACKSON EKWUGUM Just a little over three years ago, travelling from Asaba, the capital of Delta State, to…

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INEC removes 2,103 double voter registrations in Ekiti

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 10, 2026
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has invalidated 2,103 double registrations from the Ekiti voter register ahead of the June 20 governorship election in the state.INEC Chairman, Prof.…

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Nigeria’s $1tn Economy Target Hinges on Investment, Reforms – Shettima

  • Alex Obi
  • June 9, 2026
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Vice President Kashim Shettima has said Nigeria’s quest to build a one-trillion-dollar economy will be driven by enterprise, investment and coordinated reforms at both the federal and subnational levels. Speaking…

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Bezos Mocks Mamdani Economics in NY Post Cover Blast

  • Alex Obi
  • May 23, 2026
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NY POST COVER: Billionaire Jeff Bezos just torched Zohran Mamdani’s economic vision — comparing it to NYC’s failing public school system. Bezos: “If we ran Amazon the way NYC runs…

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Former Correctional Service Boss, Ex-Lawmaker Emerge As APC Reps Candidates in Kebbi

  • Alex Obi
  • May 16, 2026
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kebbi State has concluded its House of Representatives primary elections ahead of the 2027 general elections, with several candidates emerging through consensus arrangements across…

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INEC Suspends Voter Registration In Ekiti, Osun

  • Osas Payne
  • May 21, 2026
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended its ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in Ekiti and Osun ahead of the forthcoming governorship elections in both states.According to…

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US government aware of several kinds of alien life, whistleblower claims

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  • June 10, 2026
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UK, Canada, France, Norway Sanction Israeli Settlers Over West Bank Violence

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 10, 2026
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US launches 'self-defence' strikes against Iran after Apache helicopter downing

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  • June 10, 2026
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Cultural Reclaimation in Pelumi Folajimi’s Mother Africa

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  • June 10, 2026
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Burglary suspect makes escape in self-driving Waymo

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  • June 10, 2026
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Insecurity not just a headline, it’s a broken trust, by Great Evi Ameh 

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  • June 10, 2026
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Trump family ‘made $500 million from crypto coin deal’ — before the bottom fell out on individual investors

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Total Child Educational Foundation Hosted 14th Annual Quiz & Debate Competition For Students In Lagos

  • Osas Payne
  • June 10, 2026
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My mother-in-law secretly DNA-tested my son — Then a buried secret resurfaced

  • Diane Chernoske
  • June 10, 2026
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AOC has final word on Trump costing Knicks and fans a win in NBA finals

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RESHAPING GOVERNANCE IN DELTA

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INEC removes 2,103 double voter registrations in Ekiti

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Cultural Reclaimation in Pelumi Folajimi’s Mother Africa

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