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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has opted out of its initial peace talks with the leadership of the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo. The group said it has discovered that Ohaneze planned to use the peace meeting to lure it into endorsing a vice presidential candidate of Igbo extraction for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A statement issued by IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, stated that it suspected sinister moves when Ohaneze Ndigbo approached them asking for settlement, and that its recent discovery of the plan has therefore put paid to all peace moves as the group would no longer enter into any talks with Ohaneze leadership. Professor Ben Nwabueze had last weekend hosted the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and IPOB in his country home in Atani, Anambra State, where he said that the meeting was convened to consolidate on an earlier peace agreement he had brokered between both groups in Enugu. IPOB and Ohaneze Ndigbo had been at daggers drawn foll...

Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday said he would probe what transpired in the last four years in the state under the outgoing governor, Ayodele Fayose. He said it was in the interest of good governance for him to investigate how much accrued to the state and why salaries were not paid. Fayemi said this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after he met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The former Minister of Mines and Steel Development seized the opportunity of the meeting to present his certificate of return issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission to the President. Although he said he would look into the state’s books, Fayemi said it was not all about probing Fayose or his deputy. He said the idea was to ensure that mistakes of the past were not repeated. He said, “l think we need to remove this election from personalities. This was an election that we fought on issues and it will be irrespon...

IPOB Disgraces Buhari At The Hague During His Speech, this happening in front of the building.  More details of this report coming soon…