Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has condemned the suspension of the the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, describing the action by President Bola Tinubu as a sign of ethnic cleansing. Leadership newspaper reports that the group shared this opinion in a statement released by its Director of National Interest Matters, Mazi Chima Uzor. According to the group, Emefiele’s suspension did not follow due process, alleging that the decision was part of the …
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Award-winning music producer, ID Cabasa has called on influential people, especially religious leaders, to desist from building up theories and making claims that COVID-19 does not exist. He said the fact that they are influential makes people believe whatever they say and this means their theories can impact lives negatively. He went on to narrate how a lady he knows refused to believe there’s Coronavirus in Nigeria because her pastor said so. She only believed after her brother was …
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil has been known to criticize the Kardashian/Jenner sisters for their products which according to her ”promote things that influence women to aspire to unhealthy standards of beauty.” Kim Kardashian recently shared a controversial video where she cinched her waist unnaturally through the use of a very-tight corset. People began tagging Jameela to the video and sent her messages to address it and she did. Sharing a screenshot from Kim’s video Jamil spoke out against unrealistic beauty …
A Facebook user has condemned men who carry out DNA tests to ascertain their child’s paternity. Hugo Abuudo said DNA/paternity tests are destroying marriages and asked men to stop “contesting” the paternity of the children born by their wives. He wrote: In Igbo custom and culture, every child born by a wife in a marriage automatically belongs to her husband. There is no contesting it. DNA/ paternity test is out to destroy the marriage institution as we …
The United States Government has condemned the killings of civilians in northern Nigeria. In a statement published on the Department of States website on Tuesday, June 16, the U.S. urged the Buhari-led administration to intensify efforts in protecting Nigerians as well as bringing those responsible for the killings to book. The statement signed by Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, reads: “We condemn the recent senseless and brazen killings of civilians in northern Nigeria. “In recent …
A former police officer has said that police could have handled the Rayshard Brooks case better without killing him and she narrated how she handled a similar incident when she was a police officer. Brooks, 27, died after he was shot twice in the back on Friday, June 12, outside an Atlanta’s Wendy’s, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. Police had been summoned there on a report of a man sleeping in his car in the …