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Wole Soyinka condemns video asking Igbo indigenes to leave Yorubaland

 

Wole Soyinka condemns video asking Igbo indigenes to leave Yorubaland

Noble laureate, Wole Soyinka has condemned a video of UK-based secessionist, Adeyinka Grandson asking the Igbos to leave Yorubaland amid the #EndSARS crisis in the country. 

 

Soyinka in a statement he titled ‘Identity Thieves on the Rampage' and released on Saturday October 24, enjoined Igbo indigenes to ignore such threats which seeks to create disharmony in the country. He averred that the threat “is the work of sick, cowardly minds”.

 

The statement read; 

 

“Undoubtedly in order to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, this same lunatic fringe has exhumed, and embarked on circulating an ancient fabrication – several years mouldering in the grave – once attributed to me and vigorously denounced. 

“That statement impudently expounds, as my utterance, what the Hausa want, what the Yoruba want, and what the Igbo want.

“Such an attribution – let me once again reiterate – is the work of sick, cowardly minds that are ashamed, or lack the courage, as the saying goes, “to answer their fathers’ names.” At least the current ethnic rabble-rouser has the courage of his convictions, not so the sick brigade of identity thieves.

“Normally, one should totally ignore the social dregs. However, in the present atmosphere where FAKE NEWS is so easily swallowed and acted upon without reflection, I feel once again obliged to denounce this recurrent obscenity.

“As for our brother and sister Igbo, I hope they have learnt to ignore the toxic bilge under which some Nigerian imbeciles seek to drown the nation.

“It is time also, I believe, to also enter the following admonition: one cannot continue to monitor and respond to the concoctions of these addicts of falsehood, and their assiduous promoters who have yet to learn to wipe the filth off their tablets.

“The patrons of social platforms should develop the art of discrimination. Some attributions are simply so gross that, to grant them even a moment’s latitude of probability diminishes the civic intelligence of the recipient.”

I know we have wronged you, please forgive us-Senator Florence Ita-Giwa goes on her knees to beg protesting residents in Cross Rivers state (video)

 



I know we have wronged you, please forgive us-Senator Florence Ita-Giwa goes on her knees to beg protesting residents in Cross Rivers state (video)

Senator Florence Ita-Giwa has appealed to Nigerians, particularly residents of Cross Rivers state, to stop with the wanton destruction of properties and looting of items across the country.

 

On Saturday, October 24, angry youths in Cross Rivers state destroyed the homes of former senate leader, Ndoma Egba as well as the home of Senator Bassey Gershom.

 

In a video shared online, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa who represented Cross River South Senatorial District in the Senate, went on her knees to appeal to residents of the state to stop the destruction and looting of properties.

 

She spoke in her native language. Twitter user, @__gershom, who shared the video, translated what she said as

“I know we have wronged you. The generation of today has suffered. The big people have wronged you. Nigerian politics has failed you. But please forgive us. Forgive the big people. Forgive the politicians”

 

Watch the video below

 

Looted items are not COVID-19 palliatives, they are poisonous - Ekiti government warns residents

 


Looted items are not COVID-19 palliatives, they are poisonous - Ekiti government warns residents

Residents of Ekiti state who invaded the Federal Government’s silos and the Agric Development Programme warehouse in Ado-Ekiti on Friday October 23, have been warned against eating the items they looted. 

 

The Ekiti state Government in a statement released by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Yinka Oyebode, affirmed that the COVID-19 palliatives in the state had since been distributed during the lockdown period.

 

The statement further revealed that some of the raw food items carted away have already been preserved with chemicals which make them unfit for consumption. Residents are therefore advised not to consume them as they can kill.

 

The statement read; 

 

“Ekiti State has NO CACOVID palliative warehouse as all the palliatives have been distributed. 

“The items being carted away are Single Super Phosphate fertilizer and NPK which they have erroneously identified as Gaari.

“The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) store has emergency supplies for disaster response e.g. flood, fire or any other emergencies. 

“Some are even making away with corns preserved for planting, with chemical prefermentation. All these items are poisonous and not fit for consumption!

“We appeal to our people not to consume these items because they can kill."

Offset detained in the middle of his Instagram live after run-in with Trump supporters (video)

 


Offset detained in the middle of his Instagram live after run-in with Trump supporters (video)

Migos' Offset was detained on Saturday October 24, in Beverly Hills following an incident which reportedly involved Trump supporters who were marching in the area.

 

Although video shows rapper Offset, née Kiari Kendrell Cephus being pulled out from his vehicle by policemen, authorities say he was not arrested, reversing course after earlier confirming the arrest.

 

In a clip shared online, an officer can be heard asking him to step out of the vehicle. "I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that. Because you've got guns out," Offset says, with the officer replying, "That's my choice."

 

"I'm not going to move my hands from my steering wheel," Offset then says, as a female officer tells him that they were told that he was "waving guns."

 

"You know who I am? Offset from the Migos. They got fans, that's why they're following me," the rapper replies.

 

However, the female officer states, "That has nothing to do with why we're here. We were told that you guys were waving guns at people." Offset then claims that they "watched somebody beat my car up with a flag."

 

 

An eyewitness who was at the scene also posted video of Offset outside of his car with the officers holding him. A crowd can be seen with some holding Trump flags.

 

You are not qualified to comment on Lekki shooting- Odi community leaders tell Obasanjo

 

You are not qualified to comment on Lekki shooting- Odi community leaders tell Obasanjo

Leaders of Odi community in Bayelsa State have slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent comments on the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki toll gate in Lagos on October 20.

 

In the wake of the attack on the protesters, Obasanjo wrote a letter to President Buhari in which he condemned the deployment of military men to the protest.

 

In a statement released on Saturday, October 24, the community leaders recalled the Odi massacre carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian military on the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State over the indigenous rights to oil resources and environmental protection. They said the killing took place under the watch of Obasanjo who was President at the time. According to them, the former president's comment was like adding salt to their injury.

 

Part of the statement read

 

“The trauma that Odi went through under President Obasanjo is still fresh in living memory. The Nigerian Army moved in tanks, the Nigerian Navy moved in warships and the Nigerian Air Force was overhead. All the forces of the Nigerian federation were unleashed on the sleepy and unarmed rural community of Odi because some young people dared to ask for their rights. It was a time no one in Odi wishes to recall. Definitely, there are some lectures that ‘Professor’ Obasanjo may not be qualified to deliver, especially a lecture on how to disperse a peaceful protest without violence.’’

 

They added that the former president owes the people of Odi an unreserved apology.

 

The leaders who jointly signed the statement include deputy King of Odi, Chief Prenus Ogboin, the Youth President, Ikposuoyeski Inemike and CDC Chairman, Odi, Goddey Niweigha, the community’s women leader; Ebimoweni Kemepade.


Young lady narrowly escapes death in Port Harcourt as stray bullet pierces through ceiling and hit her bed seconds after she got up

 


Young lady narrowly escapes death in Port Harcourt as stray bullet pierces hrough ceiling and hit her bed seconds after she got up

A young lady, Asele Daniel, narrowly escaped death in Port Harcourt after a stray bullet from nowhere pierced through the ceiling of her apartment and hit her bed moments after she got up.

 

Young lady narrowly escapes death in Port Harcourt as stray bullet pierces hrough ceiling and hit her bed seconds after she got up

 

Asele took to Facebook on Saturday, October 24, to share her testimony, thanking God for protecting her her life. 

 

According to the entrepreneur, she was lying on the bed on Friday evening but got up moments before the incident happened.

 

"Immediately I moved out from the bed, this stray bullet from nowhere just bust the ceiling and fell directly on the bed. I give God all the praise for protecting my life," she said.

 

Young lady narrowly escapes death in Port Harcourt as stray bullet pierces hrough ceiling and hit her bed seconds after she got up

 

Business owners watch helplessly as hoodlums broke into their warehouses and carted away items in Edo state (video)

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It was a sad day for some business owners in Edo state as hoodlums, both young and old, stormed their warehouses and carted away their items in Eribo estate in Egor local government of Edo state on Saturday, October 24.

 

The state government had a warehouse in the estate where they kept COVID19 palliatives. The estate also housed a number of other warehouses where private business owners kept their goods.

 

Business owners watch helplessly as hoodlums broke into their warehouses and carted away items in Edo state (video)

 

The hoodlums stormed the warehouses and took the palliatives they found there. Not done, they also stormed the warehouses of the other businessmen and carted away items ranging from foodstuffs, baby diapers, and cartons of drinks.

 

The businessmen wailed uncontrollably as they watched the hoodlums loot their warehouses. The estate management reportedly tried to get security agents to help stop the looting but they were reportedly unsuccessful.

 

Business owners watch helplessly as hoodlums broke into their warehouses and carted away items in Edo state (video)

 

One of the business owner, Vincent Ekejugba, said

They looted my store. Everything inside the warehouse. I don't know what to do. ''

 

Another businessman, Damian Ejekwe, recounts how they alerted security agents about the situation.

''We went to mobile barracks. We met the commandant there and we begged him to give us some policemen to come and discharge the boys because they were breaking our warehouse and packing our goods. The mobile man said he cannot do that unless he calls the Commissioner of Police. ''Ejekwe said

 

Ejekwe said he got numbers of some policemen who also refused to come to their rescue because they fear they may kill someone while attempting to disperse the hoodlums. 

 

It took the efforts of some military officers to disperse the youths.

 

Watch a video from the scene below



 

 

 



 

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