The bill stipulates a 21-year jail term for anyone found guilty of engaging in the act and 15 years jail term for anyone convicted of abetting cultists or who allows his premises to be used by cultists as a meeting point.
After 13 years in exile, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari granted an official pardon to Ojukwu and opened the road for a triumphant return in 1982. Ojukwu could speak Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, English, French, and Latin fluently. Interestingly, during the civil war, he always slept with his boots on.
“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I got out of prison many people hugged me, including my enemies, and that’s what I usually say to other people who say that whoever fights for liberation in their country is a terrorist. I tell you that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but today I…
Inside Nigeria, Villa is one micro state where the 8th wonder of the world has happened.The gunshot, exit orders within the first family, theft, power tussle are astonishments Hollywood is yet to thrill us with. No residential space in Nigeria explains how dramatic Nigeria is better than the State House, the magnificent structure that harbours…
At the Battle of Oṣogbo in 1840, the Ibadan Army defeated the Fulani, slaughtered them all the way to Offa, near Ilorin, present-day Kwara State, and captured their horses which they eventually used as food.
Inside Nigeria, Villa is one micro state where the 8th wonder of the world has happened.The gunshot, exit orders within the first family, theft, power tussle are astonishments Hollywood is yet to thrill us with. No residential space in Nigeria explains how dramatic Nigeria is better than the State House, the magnificent structure that harbours…
In 1999, the Sixth Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhaji Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was convicted for forgery and perjury by an Abuja magistrate court after confessing to lying under oath. He had lied about his age (he was 29 but claimed 36) and presented fake certificates, allegedly obtained from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria…