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Four leading opposition and rights figures are being held in Niger prisons following a banned weekend demonstration that turned violent in the capital Niamey, media reports said Tuesday. They were among 23 people arrested after the protest Sunday against new taxes causes violence between police and demonstrators.  Officials of the Collectif d’ONG, an association of local level groups that organised the protest, said those in custody had been charged with organising and taking part in a banned march and “abetting damage to public and private property”. Local television said opposition figure Nouhou Arzika, rights activists Moussa Tchangari and Ali Idrissa and rights lawyer Lirwana Abdourahamane, were all in custody in different prisons around the former French colony.  Rights watchdog Amnesty International called Monday for the 23 arrested to be released.  READ GHANA NEWS:    Police searching Koku Abyidiho to no if he has some hidden weapons in his home   ...

  The decision to extend the party’s national working committee led by Oyegun, be reconsidered and reversed, th e president demanded.  According to the president, who spoke at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, said the extension decided upon at the party’s NEC meeting on February 28 is against the constitution of the APC.It was learnt that the party officials and members who attended the meeting did not expect Buhari’s pronouncement calling for the kicking of the tenure extension for Oyegun. Buhari spoke before the commencement of NEC meeting in favour of the cancelling of the tenure extension decision.epublic of Nigeria. "While the APC constitution, in article 17(1) and 13.2(B), limits the tenure of elected officers to four years, renewable once by another election, the 1999 constitution of Nigeria (as amended), in section 223, also prescribes periodic elections for party executives at regular intervals, which must not exceed four years.  “Furthermore, article 31 of our...

Igbo  elders  Nnabuife said that "it would be good if Igbo people will support Buhari in the next election" while speaking in an interview in Lagos. He argues that it makes sense for Igbo people to support Buhari, to brighten their chances of clinching the presidency in the near future. Nnabuife, who is aspiring to represent Ihiala Federal Constituency in the 2019 general elections, said that Igbos should embrace win-win strategies to be at the mainstream of Nigerian politics. According to him, the easiest way to the much desired Igbo presidency is for Igbos to support Buhari because he has only four years to stay, if he is re-elected. “Buhari is the only person that has the ability to remove Osinbajo. If he brings in another person that person will stay for another eight years.     “If we don’t support Buhari, we may be losers at the end said by Nnabuife.’’ Nnabuife, however, told the APC administration to reciprocate the gesture by treating the South East as p...

IBOB  said this in reaction to the secret trial of its disappeared leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s co-defenders, Bright Chimezie, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi. In a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB questioned the jurisdiction of the Federal High court sitting in Abuja to proceed with the trial of its members over unpardonable offence. IPOB said it has instructed its lawyers to challenge the court’s jurisdiction and to strike out the charge of ‘Treasonable Felony’ against it’s members on the grounds of what a prosecution witness said, “agitating for self-determination or secession is not a crime known to any Nigerian law.” He said, “We the worldwide family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IBOB) wishes to draw the attention of the civilized world to what transpired at Justice Binta Nyako’s court in Abuja on March 22, 2018 at the commencement of the trial of four innocent Biafrans. “The world must know that they are standing trial for offences ...

The  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday, March 25, reacted to the call by former minister of defence, Lt. Gen.Theophilus Danjuma(retd.), for Taraba state indigenes and Nigerians as a whole to take up arms and defend themselves against herdsmen attacks. The opposition party blamed the presidency and the ruling party, APC for inseurity in Nigeria. Danjuma had earlier said the Nigerian Army is biased in defending the masses and urged Nigerians to take up self defence while speaking at the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University. The Punch reports that the PDP, in a statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said "Danjuma’s statement had justified its stand that the Buhari presidency and the APC must be held responsible for the agonising state of the nation". - The opposition party blamed the presidency and the ruling party, APC for inseurity in Nigeria. The Punch reports that the PDP, in a statement signed by its national publicity s...

 'Boko Haram militants'   At least five civilians were killed and several others wounded in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in southeast Niger, Near the border with Nigeria, "according to local sources".   “The (Boko Haram) came to the market place early Friday evening, they shot the crowd and took food and other eatable items” said a resident of Toummour, in the southwest Diffa region, which was targeted by the attack.  A local official on Sunday confirmed the toll of “five dead, all civilians”, adding that several were also wounded in the attack. Diffa governor Mahamadou Laoualy Dan went to Toummour on Saturday to “offer his condolences” to relatives of the dead and “encourage” the army who “routed” the attackers, "Niger television reported". “We ask the people to hold on… 2018 will be a decisive year in the war against Boko Haram,” he said in front of Toummour residents. In January, seven Niger soldiers were killed and 17 wounded in an attack ...