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There is pandemonium as gunmen invaded schools in Onitsha and some parts of the Idemili area of Anambra State, chasing students out of the classrooms. The gunmen were said to also invade markets and public places to chase people away. It was gathered that the gunmen claimed that people should go home saying today is “Biafra Day”. Every May 30 is set aside yearly to celebrate Biafra Day but this year’s edition coincided with the Monday sit-at-home which was observed yesterday. Already, there were fears among the people earlier in the day about whether to go out or not and some of the people who stepped out have started returning to their various houses, AIA News gathered. It was also gathered that there are heavy shootings between security agencies and the gunmen in the Idemili area. The police spokesman in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, did not take his calls for confirmation as students and some traders have returned home.

A 38-year-old man, Ebuka Enuma, was on Tuesday docked in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos for alleged possession of a human skull. Enuma, who resides in the Bariga area of Lagos, is charged with unlawful possession of human part. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Rita Momah, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on May 13, at Amukoko cemetery, Lagos. Momah alleged that the defendant broke into the cemetery and excavated an old grave and stole the skull. She said that the defendant was arrested while trying to leave the cemetery. The offence, she said, contravenes the provisions of Section 238 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 238 stipulates a 14 year jail term for unlawful possession of human part. Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N300,000 with two responsible sureties in like sum. She held that the sureties mus...

Senator Rochas Okorocha, former Governor of Imo State, has been granted bail at N500million by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Tuesday, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did not show enough proof why Okorocha should be permanently detained. The judge, then, ordered Okorocha to provide a surety, who will sign and of the same amount. With this development, Okorocha now has less than 24 hours to perfect the bail in order to be able to attend the presidential screening of the All Progressives Congress. Okorocha, who is facing a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy to steal N2.9 billion in public funds during his tenure as Imo State Governor, is number 17 on the list of presidential aspirants expected by the APC screening committee. The screening began yesterday and will end today. If attended, Okorocha will also have to clear his membership status, financial status, academic credentials, and other requirements for a presidentia...

Sagir Mai Iyali, chairman of a coalition supporting the presidential bid of Yemi Osinbajo, says the vice-president will deliver good governance if elected into office. Speaking with AIA News in Kano on Monday, Iyali said Osinbajo has the capacity to govern because “he has been in the leadership struggle for the past eight years serving in a very challenging capacity”. The chairman said every Nigerian could attest to the fact that the vice-president is “articulate and agile”. “We are confident of his ability and capacity to deliver. He is a personality of no mean repute and a high flying academic excellence. He has been in the leadership struggle for the past eight years serving in a very challenging capacity,” he said. "Every discerning Nigerian can attest to the fact that he is articulate, agile, up and doing. “It is high time for every right thinking Nigerian to sift the grain from the chaff in voting credible politicians to power. “We are in a very challenging situation in whic...

Twelve presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were on Monday screened by the party’s Screening Committee led by former National Chairman, John Oyegun. The screening exercise is scheduled for two days, Monday and Tuesday, at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu, had earlier inaugurated the committee. Following the inauguration, the panel screened the aspirants one after the other. Those screened so far are; former Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajuiba; Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Felix Nicholas; a U.S.-based pastor, former Governor of Ogun state, Ibikunle Amosun; Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, a serving senator, Ajayi Borroffice, former Senate President Ken Nnamani. Others are; Uju Ken-Ohaneye, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; former governor of Zamfara State, Sani Yerima; former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu and Tunde Bakare, a cleric. Mr Tinubu, who is facing a peti...

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The Chairman of the Electoral Committee and Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo announced this at the State PDP Secretariat, venue of the primaries in Minna. Delegates were said to have been killed on Wednesday while returning to Mariga after the party postponed the primaries due to a protest by some of the aspirants who expressed distrust with the delegates list. Delegates were thereafter asked to bring their means of identification to authenticate their names and primaries shifted to Thursday. Those who lost their lives in the incident were substituted to complete the number of delegates from the local government. Consequently, one of the delegates, Shehu Haruna told our Correspondent that the incident happened between Mariga and Tegina and four people lost their lives. According to him “we left Minna in the late hours when PDP postponed the Governorship Primaries to Thursday, and that we should go and bring our voter’s card or any means of identification. “We were...

Kaba, a mother of a ten-day-old baby, reacts as she walks out of the hospital, where newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in Tivaouane, Senegal, May 26, 2022. (AIA NEWS)  Eleven newborn babies have died after a fire that broke out in the neonatal department at the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, said the country's president Macky Sall on Thursday.  "I just learned, with pain and consternation, the death of 11 newborn babies," Sall said in a tweet. "I express my profound compassion to their mothers and their families," he added. "In a statement later Thursday, the country's health ministry said an emergency response plan had been put in place and "arrangements are being made for the assistance of the families of the victims." The ministry's statement added that Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, who is attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva had...