Igbo's unfairly imprisoned in foreign countries – Okorocha

Senator Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, yesterday, requested the particulars of Igbo indigenes in foreign prisons facilities saying "some of them being unjustly imprisoned couldn't be ruled out." 

Okorocha was cited to have put forth this expression when he got the Defense Advisers and Attaches from different nations serving in Nigeria, in government House, Owerri driven by Director Foreign Liaison at Defense Intelligence Agency, Brigadier-General Augustine Agundu. 

As per the discharge by the representative's Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo. 

"The greater part of the Igbo children and little girls are moping in the different penitentiaries of the world with some for clear reasons and some unlawfully detained. 

"I ask as a legislative head of the State that in the event that you go home particularly those from China, Korea, Turkey and USA and you encourage their discharge, I will be prepared as to come over and pick them and reintegrate them in our general public. 

"Imo is the place you have the cerebrum box of the country, proficiency rate is high here, we are extremely innovative individuals, we control the trade of this country, you have gone to the ideal place for the social cooperation and trade and you will meet the correct individuals. 

"Regularly than not, Nigeria gets a misguided judgment and we endure a terrible picture over the world, yet, this is the place that everybody needs to come. 

Trust me, a large portion of the nonnatives that have come to Nigeria 90% of them would prefer typically not to backpedal and the inquiry is, if Nigeria is awful, why are those coming in, thinking that its hard to backpedal, so I think it is fairly what I may call the press error and the media war we experience the ill effects of, in this nation. 

"Nigeria stays one of only a handful couple of countries on the planet that can give you solace of the home, where there is no separation or isolation. 

"I charge you as individuals who have seen the integrity of this country to be our represetatives and recount our great stories to the world when you backpedal to your nations. We require individuals to recount our stories, of how awesome this country is. 

"We have a populace of more than 200 million individuals with broadened societies and dialects yet joined together. 

"The news you hear outside Nigeria does not mirror the genuine character of Nigeria, once in a while people trust that Boko Haram is wherever in the nation not realizing that it is just in Maiduguri. 

"Furthermore, as you know, this psychological warfare act is wherever on the planet now, no nation is sheltered from fear based oppression nor safe from revolt. It is going on so quick that if your nation has not been assaulted today one day it will be assaulted. 

"It has turned out to be today officeholder on every one of the pioneers in the entire world to rise utilizing all the military powers to battle this revolting threat of fear based oppression in our reality; having as a primary concern that damage to one country is damage to another country. 

"The solidarity of this world begins from the military, if the military powers come today, the greatly wanted peace we have been searching for will happen as intended. 

The discharge likewise cited the pioneer, Director Foreign Liaison at Defense Intelligence Agency, Brigadier-General Augustine Agundu. 

He stated: "We came in organization of the outside safeguard attachees connected to Nigeria, on 3days social visit to the State with their families to see the excellence and social differing qualities of the State. 

"Psychological oppression and rebellion have no outskirt which assembled for world pioneers to come to battle the scourge to guarantee peace and security all inclusive."

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There Is No Dead Line In Actualizing Biafra :Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

… IPOB cautions against comparing him and God 

… We never said Anambra election won't hold — IPOB 

… S'East govs, Ohanaeze can't choose for us — MASSOB

The pioneer of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that IPOB did not give any due date for the completion of the sovereign territory of Biafra and neither did he say there would be no race without a submission on Biafra, yet government is utilizing media to spread false data about him and the unsettling for Biafra. 

The IPOB pioneer said it was the general population of Biafra who said they didn't need the November 18, 2017 race in Anambra State and not himself. 

This is even as the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, demanded that the South-East governors and the initiative of Ohanaeze Ndigbo can't choose for the more than 50 million Igbo in the nation on issues influencing the aggregate enthusiasm of the general population. 

Kanu disclosed to Sahara Reporters in a meeting that the general population in control were utilizing all way to make him lose the help of his kin. 

He stated: "The media has an enthusiasm for keeping up one Nigeria with those that plunder, take and cheat in the political scene. The more Nigeria proceeds with, the more these lawbreakers and mavericks get fatter. 

Nnamdi Kanu 

"Every one of those spreading jabber about Nnamdi Kanu realize that Nnamdi Kanu is the main individual fit for articulating an approach that can get individuals out of the chaos that we are in. The administration needs us to stay poor, they comprehend what they are stating is false however they keep on saying so." 

He additionally prompted Biafrans and Nigerians to neglect any type of false data being shared by the administration. He, in any case, expressed that he is in no position to decide how individuals expend data. 

The IPOB pioneer tested the general population to scrutinize the legislature on primary issues influencing the nation. 

He stated: "Individuals ought to be more worried about the gross manhandle of human rights being executed by DSS, Police, and Army. They ought to make inquiries on acquittal report, the mass grave in armed force sleeping quarters in Onitsha, terrible streets the nation over regardless of the assets allotted to their upkeep and unemployed graduates." 

Kanu repeated that nothing can settle on them turn around on their choice from splitting far from Nigeria. 

He stated: "There is literally nothing anyone can do. We have crossed the final turning point and there is no other viable option for anybody. On the off chance that I am alive or dead, wherever I might be, Biafra will come. On the off chance that I kick the bucket, it will be better since it will even make it come snappier." 

Kanu never said Anambra decision won't hold — IPOB 

"The blacklist of decision in Anambra State, come November this year, was not the making of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu but instead the desire of the general population of the Eastern Nigeria and IPOB individuals, who went by him in the place where he grew up, Umuahia, where the general population revealed to him that they didn't require races again in Biafra arrive and were prepared to blacklist such races on the grounds that since the formation of Nigeria, they had profited nothing from Nigeria's races with the exception of killings, mobs and embarrassment from government officials." 

Quit contrasting me and God—Kanu 

Representative of IPOB, Emma Powerful, who put forth this known in an announcement, yesterday, charged that security offices have culminated plans to trash its pioneer by blaming him for professedly playing God, in an offered to cause misconception and disarray between the IPOB pioneer and Christians in Biafra arrive. As per Emma Powerful, "the foes of Biafra were professedly depicting the individuals from IPOB, under the administration of Kanu, of additionally difficult the specialist of God. 

"Mazi Kanu in his life time, had never tested the expert of God Almighty who made paradise and earth or Jesus Christ, the child of God or the Holy Spirit. 

"It is exceptionally disgraceful that the adversaries of Biafra, IPOB and Kanu will utilize his name on Facebook handles and also other online networking stages to cause disunity among the general population of God and the Christian dedicated. 

"Nnamdi Kanu is a Christian and can't swear God and his child, Jesus Christ. Those utilizing his name as guardian angel, savior and Jesus are misled and uneducated in light of the fact that he never requesting that they do as such. 

"Since the declaration for the decision blacklist in Anambra State, the Federal Government and their operators, including the DSS, have mapped out techniques and enormous measure of cash to devastate and discolor Kanu's picture and IPOB as a rule. Those with this dumb story via web-based networking media stages ought to backtrack their means since they will come up short. 

"Nnamdi Kanu had cautioned everyone to quit utilizing his name or contrasting him and God Almighty. No one can demonstrate that he had ever needed individuals to contrast himself and Jesus Christ either through the video or voice call. Anyone who has such video or film should demonstrate it. 

"It is perilous to contrast him and God Almighty or Jesus Christ. It is the work of adversaries planted inside us by security specialists and a few government officials. 

"Those required in this ludicrous outrage and slander of character will fall flat immediately and God Almighty, or Chukwu Okike Abiama must manage them. 

"Thusly, we approach Biafrans, ministers and ladies, church pioneers and Christians to ignore the affirmations as they add up to the works of wickedness individuals who would prefer not to see great things going to our kin." 

S'East govs, Ohanaeze can't choose for us — MASSOB 

In an announcement in Abakaliki, Director of Information of MASSOB, Comrade Edeson Samuel, who said the gathering would not acknowledge any move equipped towards the rebuilding of the nation, focused on that it is either Biafra or nothing else. 

The announcement perused to some extent: "MASSOB rejects absolutely the choice taken by South-East governors and the administration of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in their meeting a week ago, in which they said they will stay in Nigeria. 

'It is a dishonorable, despicable, evil entity and demonstration of treachery for the governors and Ohanaeze Ndigbo to take such risky choice for more than 50 million Ndigbo and Biafrans without their assent. 

"These supposed pioneers need to contract the fates and eventual fate of these youthful eras on account of their advantage and avarice. These South-East governors and the Ohanaeze initiative need to play great kid in the hands of their political bosses who utilize them as apparatuses against the desire and craving of Ndigbo and Biafrans. 

"Our supposed pioneers have never assembled a conference of different gatherings where each gathering will contribute thoughts in regard of the quit see served Ndigbo by Arewa adolescents. 

"Our siblings from South-West, the Afenifere and different gatherings like OPC in South West are caught up with sorting out themselves, the ACF and their childhood wing have been holding mystery gatherings, however our supposed pioneers are occupied with making much commotion in the media. 

"Massob will never again oblige these Abuja legislators that have no political esteems in Igbo arrive. Massob won't acknowledge rebuilding or 2014 National meeting. It's Biafra or nothing."

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quit notice To Igbo: Why I backed Arewa youths – Prof Ango Abdullahi

From left: Former pastor of Petroleum, Alh. Umaru Dembo (second left); Bishop Udo Azogu; Prof. Ango Abdullahi; Elder Peter Otueh, Assistant National Sec. OMPALAN; Sir. Chidi Ogbnna, South East Youth pioneer in a matter of seconds and others not long after the meeting held at Prof. Ango Abdullahi's habitation in Zaria 

ABUJA – Renowned statesman and Chairman, Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi says his association will work with the Oil and Solid Mineral Producing Communities Landlord Association of |Nigeria, OMPALAN to fabricate connects the nation over and fortify corporate administration. 

Prof. Abdullahi made the position known Tuesday amid a meeting with OMPALAN initiative driven by, Bishop Udo Azogu and other official individuals from the gathering in Zaria. 

The meeting which was gathered by OMPALAN was gone for splashing the rising strain in the nation and to encourage a cheerful relationship among all ethnic nationalities and to seek after great corporate administration in the nation. 

Prof. Abdullahi, a previous Vice Chancellor of Amadu Bello University, Zaria, while respecting the OMPALAN proposition on peace building, said his choice to back the Arewa Youths on the speedy notice issued to Igbos was a result of gathered sentiment selling out of the South Easterners and especially their political pioneers, who neglected to alert Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafra fomenters yet rather gave them full help in their battle. 

The Elder statesman, said he was especially stressed that eminent political pioneers in the South East like Dr. Elex Ekwueme, Emeka Anyaoku, Jim Nwobodo and Mbazulike Amechi among others neglected to stand up when the applause was high yet kept quiet while the new Biafra disturbance spread like wide fire and seethed on. 

He said he was perplexed when individuals began censuring him for making his own help to Arewa Youths open not at all like other Northern pioneers who imagined about it. 

As indicated by him, the North and Eastern Nigeria had made some amazing progress as far as building political extensions beginning from the primary republic when Dr. Nnamdi Zik surrendered the position of Prime Minister to Tafawa Balewa and in second republic when Dr. Alex Ekwueme was upheld by the North to end up Vice President to Shehu Shagari, a relationship, he said the North had for a long while been itching to revive regardless of the mishaps it experienced the three years common war. 

He additionally uncovered that piece of their grouse against the Igbo was their inability to welcome the adoration appeared to them by the North after the common war by restoring all their deserted properties back to them notwithstanding rents gathered for their sake by different guardians doled out to administer the influenced properties, some help they (Igbo) couldn't get from their South neighbors who reallocated their properties in Port Harcourt and other South urban communities. 

As indicated by him, the Igbo ought to respond the signal of the North by supporting them politically as opposed to turning their back against them. 

He refered to two examples where Igbo indicated add up to dismissal of the North when President Mohammadu Buhari picked late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo and Edwin Umezeoke in 2007 and 2011 as a running mates yet were dismisses by the Igbos, which drove them to change over to South West in 2015. 

Prior in his opening location, Bishop Azogu said the mission of OMPALAN was to unwind main drivers of the rising instances of tumults and abhor talks which had brought strain up in the nation and to look for conceivable methods for tending to them. 

He said OMPALAN saw the different tumults the nation over as a sign of disappointment of administration by the political class and had chosen to work with all ethnic nationalities in the nation, including the Northern Elders Forum to spare the nation from going into precipies. 

He educated his host that the advocates of the preset Biafra disturbance despise the help of most Igbo and henceforth the need to refocus their outrage on the political class as opposed to the guiltless and poor Igbos. 

Azogu, who ridiculed the South Eastern political class for not taking a typical position to denounce the new Biafra battle stomach muscle initio, reprimanded Prof. Abdullahi for supporting the activity of the Arewa Youths Coalition. 

As indicated by him, such help add up to making a sweeping judgment of the whole Igbo race and encouraged him to withdraw his prior proclamation. 

Toward the finish of the meeting, both sides concurred that: the different emergency crosswise over Nigeria were because of initiative disappointment; that the obligation of solidarity in Nigeria is more grounded than divisive strengths; that the North adores the Igbos which was exemplified by compensation of all properties having a place with Igbos in the North after the common war; that OMPALAN and Northern Elders Forum would set up a joint peace board of trustees to soak strain created by loathe discourses and secessionist talking points; that there is insufficient confirmation on ground to legitimize trillions of naira dispensed through strong palliative projects to Oil Producing conditions of Nigeria. 

The meeting likewise concurred that: Oil is a national issue and that due acknowledgment ought to be given to affected ranges; that Nigeria has been stagnated for more than 60 years by debasement and awful administration; that the abounding powerless Igbo individuals can't be made to pay for the clumsiness of the area's political initiative and segregated secessionist talking points; that Nigeria to stays as one joined together and indissoluble nation where all well behaved residents can live and work together in any piece of the nation without dread of attack or terrorizing; that the quit notice to Igbo's living in the north to fill in as clarion call to the country's pioneers; that there ought to be resilience, settlement and pardoning among Nigerians. 

The meeting additionally recorded Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, MNDA; Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC; Oil Derivation Fund Commission and Federal Government Amnesty Program as a portion of the palliative projects built up by government to pad the unforgiving natural effect on oil delivering states: 

Talking further to Vanguard Newspaper toward the finish of the meeting, Bishop Azogu said Nigerians are qualified for know the wellbeing status of their President. 

He said Buhari is not the President of APC or any exceptional gathering at the same time, the chose President of Nigeria with command to direct the ship of State in consonance with the arrangements of the country's constitution. 

As indicated by him, keeping Buhari's wellbeing status mystery for quite a while is offending the sensibilities of Nigerians. 

''It resembles saying it's no body's business. Be that as it may, Nigerians won't be noiseless for quite a while. 

The Governors and other political pioneers of the South East have fizzled the area. They're unfit to speak to the district. This is the reason a few people capitalized on the vacuum made by the rudderless administration of the locale to interest for withdrawal. No one ought to be tricked any longer. 

He said the South East requires another harvest of initiative that can read political gauges precisely and work proactively to secure the enthusiasm of the district. 

He portrayed Prof Ango Abdullahi as a legit and earnest pioneer who essentially raised caution to spare the nation from slaughter and breaking down. 

''Other wronged pioneers in the North observed the nation on a risky crash course with political agitation and kept quiet. Ango Abdullahi's opportune articulation was not proposed to prompt disorder but rather, a clarion call to all Nigerians of all climes to work cooperatively and protect the solidarity of the Country,'' he said.

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Nigeria Call Biafra For Negotiation Of Unity

"As Nigeria breaks: agonies, distress and tears of saying farewell" has been translated diversely by various individuals, same gatherings, naturally so as well. Some trust that l bounced to the wrong conclusion that Nigeria has broken into pieces as of now. Others said that the subtitle is an aggregate impression of the truth of the present Nigerian ethnicity unsettling. However, there are the individuals who concur with the inscription in its totality. 

It is against this setting l am extending the extent of the talk today. In this manner nonetheless, the reality must not be lost about the substances as of now appropriate in the Nigerian venture to mind: that things have broken apart, in the expressions of the late writing symbol; Chinua Achebe that the inside can never again hold. Truth be told, there is no Center in Nigeria any more to hold anything – this is the dismal reality we should acknowledge as a people. 

The heightening of the level headed discussion can along these lines be reasonable on the off chance that it presents elective alternatives in discovering answer for the political pickle nearby. It [the escalation] will likewise uncover my actual heart seek on this point, but my supplications that Nigeria stays one inseparable nation. It is in one unbreakable nation that the possibilities of significance that can take Nigeria into world administration can be actualised. It is the endeavor to bring into fulfillment one joined Nigeria that I exhibit three choices for our aggregate assessment. 

Every single one of these alternatives is a material for transaction. It implies Nigerians must be set up to arrange shrewdly a one joined nation where parallel regard for all the ethnic nationalities remains a cardinal place of respect. The store here is common regard for all the ethnic nationalities. It implies that the pomposity of the three noteworthy ethnic nationalities that is Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, should be destroyed forthwith and with quick energetic willingness. 

The Creator who brought the minor ethnic nationalities into this geological space "around the Niger" and made them [the minority tribes] the monetary spine for the survival of the three majors [Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo] is more shrewd than any human predator. In the event that the honestly, it is the egotism of the three noteworthy tribes [Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo], who see themselves [each] as proprietor of the nation; a demonstration which is ruthless by nature and understanding, that is in charge of the moving toward catastrophe of crumbling. 

The minority tribes are the everlasting paste God made to hold the nation together. This maybe represents why they are not concentrated [the minority tribes] in any one pivot. He rather spread them over the land space. Less the minority ethnic nationalities, the three greater part tribes are damned. Considering this, let us go to work to make Nigeria one workable substance through the instrumentality of arrangement. 

Alternative 1 – Negotiating the solidarity of Nigeria in a rebuilt arrange. 

God, in Genesis 1:26 said "let us make man in our own particular picture and our similarity". This quote is undeniable confirmation that the Creator of humankind began his great work from exchange/arrangement, yet bringing man into reality. This affirms man's shrewdness of arranging things into and out of presence is a signal acquired from the Creator of paradise and earth. The stage being raised for this choice is to the degree that we can arrange the rebuilding of the Nigerian organization to suit the exigency and reality of our circumstances. 

On the off chance that conceivable, let us upbraid the expression that Nigeria's solidarity is not debatable to tolerating that everything in this world is debatable. So regularly, inside the previous 50 years or something like that, we have gotten notification from our political pioneers that Nigeria's solidarity is not debatable. It remains an over-utilized figure of speech and exhausted expression, all the more so when it crashes and burns on the substance of verifiable reality. 

Nigeria as a nation did not appear until after the amalgamation of 1914, which brought both the North and South Protectorates together. That itself was after exchanges and transactions between the general population of the north and south "zone of the Niger" on one hand and with the Colonialist from over the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Both the idea and the name Nigeria [name given by Flora Shaw – later Lady Lugard] were consulted into reality by individuals of that era. 

What the establishing fathers of Nigeria provided for us through arrangements may not be impeccable but rather it is clearly a long ways from what we work now. They introduced to us a really financial combined arrangement of government which perceived the unified units [regions as they were then] as power-coalitions, with convergence of stress on asset control. The legislature at the focal was deviod of energy and impact, with just three noteworthy things [currency, safeguard and outside policy] under its control. It lived on eminences paid to it by the unified units even as these units created at their own paces with add up to control over every one of their assets. 

This was Nigeria's lifestyle until the point when the military came in January 1966, through the incitement of filthy government officials from the three noteworthy ethnic tribes, with appearing order of wiping out financial federalism from our nation. The Military promptly presented a unitary arrangement of government; a framework that "abducts and takes" each winning from the unifying units [from districts to states and now 36 states and elected capital domain of Abuja], shows all to the government in Abuja as crown jewels of war, while the government acting father Christmas, offers tokens to the states [original maker of the wealth]. 

Choice one consequently is a clarion call to every single important Nigerian to emerge in abrogating this mutilated and disconnected arrangement of government by returning to existing conditions risk, yet monetary federalism, as we got it from our establishing fathers. This is rebuilding without breaking.

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No More Going Back On Restructuring :Rivers Monarch And Others

ASABA—a few civil society organizations  CSOs, within the Niger Delta, weekend, insisted that there has been no going again on the demand for restructuring of the us of a, lambasting the country wide chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, leader John Odigie-Oyegun.

The companies, Niger Delta safety Watch company of Nigeria, NDSWN, Ijaw people improvement Initiative, IPDI, and basis for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption campaign, FHRACC, led through Bekederemo Dickson, Austin Ozobo and Alawoei Cleric, respectively, in a announcement, said: “The most effective alternative to restructuring is separation.”

chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the country wide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

further, a royal father within the Niger Delta vicinity, Dr. Chukwumela Nnam-Obi, II, the Oba of Ogbaland, has said that restructuring became the recipe that would make sure harmony and the improvement of every part of the us of a.

Nnam-Obi, who's the pioneer President of conventional Rulers of Oil Mineral producing groups, TROMPCON, inside the region, noted that the decision for restructuring of Nigeria is for justice, equity and truthful play.

talking in Port Harcourt, Rivers kingdom, weekend, Nnam-Obi said that restructuring was imperative to engender countrywide growth and development, adding that it will douse the emotions of disenchantment among all ethnic nationalities on marginalization.

The royal father regretted that his nearby authorities vicinity, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, being the very best producer of crude oil in Rivers nation, merits a better remedy in Nigeria, stressing that it changed into vital for the Federal government to bear in mind indigenes of the place for offices of have an impact on.

additionally, Ndokwa national children movement, NNYM, the day prior to this, stated that a restructured Nigeria was the most effective foundation upon which the future of Nigeria can be constructed, describing those against it as depraved and selfish

NNYM, in a declaration by its country wide Secretary, Presley Idi, said it changed into against the secessionist agitations by means of a few ethnic agencies within the usa but stressed the want for restructuring to be made a top priority so as for the people to stay collectively as one.

in the meantime, reacting, the rights agencies stated: “We read with shock, the outburst with the aid of the APC country wide Chairman, Odigie-Oyegun, saying that APC isn't in aid of restructuring of Nigeria. it's miles vital to note that Nigeria is bigger than APC, Odigie-Oyegun and that their function will now not clearly determine the divisibility of Nigeria.”

“whether APC manifesto helps restructuring or no longer, it does not count. What matters is the wishes of generalities of Nigerians. We need to nation right here that the hunt for restructuring this structurally defective u . s . lower back to the very political structure at independent is beyond Odigie-Oyegun and his birthday party.

“it's miles a political tsunami that no man can stop with rhetoric or appeal to sentiment. The opportunity to restructuring of this united states of america to the very structure at unbiased upon, which our team spirit and indivisibility changed into constructed is separation with the aid of any method important.

“within the very words of lBB, it's miles a great that has come to stay. folks who are opposed to restructuring will live to regret their sick knowledgeable selections. The declare that APC is ready supplying meals for Nigerians and no longer restructuring falls beneath expectation. we're confined to inform Odigie-Oyegun and his APC that what Nigerians choice urgently are justice, fairness and equality. these can most effective be actualized through restructuring.

“We want Nigeria to be a real federal country with six self reliant regions. every of the regions contributing equally to a commonplace pulse as it become in our impartial charter of 1960. once more, we similarly disagree with Junaid Mohammed of his uninformed role of no restructuring of this lopsided Nigeria kingdom. We are not amazed to pay attention this from the likes of Junaid Mohammed, who is from a place that is making the most of the defective federal shape at the detriment of different regions.”

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We Pray Nigerians Will Not Raised Hand Against Them Self!! For War Or Something Else :yakubu Gowon

Ex-Head of State and National Convener, Nigeria Prays, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has supplicated that Nigerians will never bring their hands up in savagery against each other again, asking that everybody ought to shun all demonstrations that debilitate the solidarity of the nation. 

General Gowon gave the approach Sunday in Sokoto at a one-day National Prayer Rally sorted out by Nigeria Prays. 

He likewise asked Nigerians to appeal to God for the snappy recuperation of President Muhammadu Buhari and for divine illumination for the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo and other national pioneers to lead the nation in the correct way. 

"We should esteem the lives of our kindred people that God has made for a reason. May we never bring lives with exemption. 

"We are putting forth intense supplications that Nigerians will never raise their hands against each other. 

General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) 

"They should love each other regardless of religious, ideological, political and ethnic affinities," he said. 

"Petition can tackle issues preferable and speedier over fighters, and also physical weapons of war. 

"I have most likely in my heart that God will respect our aggregate supplication and mediation for our dear country, and additionally recuperate our country of weakness. 

"May we encounter plenitude of God's benevolence and showers of gifts over our lives and our country as we bring our voices up in ardent supplications today in Sokoto,'' he said.

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Igbo leaders tactically helping Nigerian government in postponing explosion – MASSOB

Enugu – Igbo Leaders of Thought including governors, individuals from the National Assembly, NASS, the authority of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, conventional rulers and church pioneers met at Enugu Sunday night and swore their help for a rebuilt however joined Nigeria where there would be equity, value and decency. 

. President Yemi Osinbajo trading merriments with Former Finance Minister, Kalu Idika Kalu (l) amid the meeting between the Presidency at South east Leaders of Thought at the State House, Abuja. Photograph by Abayomi Adeshida 

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has in any case, dismisses the resistance of the Igbo pioneers to the part of the nation, saying that the pioneers were helping the Nigerian government to postpone the fast approaching deterioration of the nation. 

The pioneer of MASSOB, Comrade Uchenna Madu, put forth this known in an announcement in Enugu, Sunday, focusing on that the pioneers had dependably evaded the issues that that had fuelled the Biafra tumult, at whatever point they had the chance to sit with the administration authorities. 

Madu said "we are not intrigued by rebuilding of Nigeria in light of the fact that the establishment and aim of setting up Nigeria as a state does not support rebuilding." 

Notwithstanding, the individuals who went to the Igbo pioneers' meeting incorporated the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, all the five governors of South East geopolitical zone driven by Chief Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Hon Ifeanyi Ugwanyi (Enugu), Chief Willie Obiano (Anambra); Owelle Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Dr Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), individuals from the National Assembly and also the previous Chief of General Staff, CGS, amid the General Ibrahim Babangida's organization, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, retd. 

They likewise incorporated the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, previous Senate President, Ken Nnamani, Chairman of South East Caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, previous Governor of the Central Bank, CBN, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator Sam Egwu, the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka, Prof Godfrey Onah, the Archbishop of Enugu Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, the National Chairman of the United People's Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, Prof Barth Nnaji, Mrs. Josephine Aneni, and Senator Gill Nnaji among others. 

In a report perused by the Chairman of the South East Governors' Forum, Chief Dave Umahi, after the meeting which kept going till the early hours of Sunday, the Igbo pioneers proclaimed their full help for a unified Nigeria, where peace, equity, love and reasonableness ruled. 

The seven-point report read, "This a dispatch emerging from a meeting of South East governors, individuals from National Assembly, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, our conventional fathers, profound fathers and some chose Igbo pioneers of Thought on the condition of the Nation. It was held today, the first day of July, 2017 at Nike Lake Resort Hotel, Enugu. 

"We pondered on various issues and we landed at the followings: That Ndigbo are in full help of a unified Nigeria, where peace, adore, reasonableness, equity, value and equity of chances are principal, paying little respect to statement of faith, ethnicity, sex or political alliance. 

"We censure all abhor talks and wrongdoings from any sections of the nation. That Igbo pioneers loan their full help to the rebuilding of the government republic of Nigeria on the stage of reasonableness and value. We thusly approach the national government and every single Nigerian pioneer to begin a procedure of discourse among Nigerians on the modalities of accomplishing this squeezing question inside a sensible time span. 

"That Ndigbo bolster the report of the National Conference of 2014 and we ask the central government to set up structures that will empower the usage of the same inside a sensible time. 

"That the South East Governors, individuals from the National Assembly, administration from the south east and the initiative of Ohanaeze Ndigbo should hereafter constitute the official organs that might talk in the interest of Ndigbo. 

"That south east pioneers in discussion with different parts of the nation, will set up a board of trustees to draw in the Federal Government on all issues that worry Ndigbo. 

"The south east pioneers are finding a way to guarantee the security of lives and property of our kin in all parts of Nigeria, similarly as we ensure the wellbeing of lives and property of every single other Nigerian living inside our area, that is south east. Much thanks and God Bless you." 

The announcement by MASSOB marked by its Leader, Comrade Madu, and entitled "MASSOB impacts Igbo Religious, Traditional, Political and Opinion pioneers for their apathetic and unfeeling state of mind towards the present awareness and substances of Biafra," read, "Can any anyone explain why at whatever point these self-acclaimed Igbo pioneers meet among themselves or with the Nigeria administration, they generally side-lined the essential and important reasons and reason for Biafra unsettling? 

"Yesterday's meeting of Igbo pioneers in Enugu is strategically helping Nigeria government in putting off the blast of the inescapable and relentless ticking time bomb which Nigeria serenely sat on. 

"Their choices are not the genuine personalities and places of the general population of Biafra. We need Biafra and only Biafra. Nigeria must break down, her flawed establishment has broken hopeless. 

"The peacefulness battle for Biafra actualisation and reclamation is a reactionary transformation against the proceeded with disregard, political shameful acts/unevenness of elected structures against Ndigbo by progressive legislatures of Nigeria since 1970. We are in this self-assurance battle in view of political, financial, scholastic, religious servitude which the administration of Nigeria had subjected Ndigbo into in Nigeria. 

"MASSOB and other certifiable professional Biafra bunches are in the Biafra battle due to the great intend to Islamize the general population of Biafra with unobtrusive and brutal financial arrangements against Biafrans. 

"We are in the battle to counter and right the abhorrent plot to oppress our youngsters and their future,. We are in the battle re - set up and resuscitate the steadiness, financial autonomy and modern nature of Ndigbo which flabbergasted the world in 1950–70's. 

"Really, we are in the battle to reestablish the respect, culture and trustworthiness of Ndigbo. In this battle, various penances have been made. Preeminent costs are being paid; we have been tormented, entranced, executed, detained for Biafra and eminence of Ndigbo yet we are dismissed, mishandled and surrendered by individuals who advantage from our adventures. 

"MASSOB and different instigators are the political disguises and wonderfulness of Ndigbo as Book Haram is to Hausa Fulani; OPC to Oduduwa and Niger Delta activists to South - South. MASSOB still has high regard to few Igbo pioneers who unflinchingly and strongly shield the interests and course of Biafra instigators. 

"Larger part of Igbo pioneers have audaciously double-crossed the Igbo cause and enthusiasm for Nigeria. We wish to advise Ndigbo that the stiring of the soul and cognizance of Biafra among the general population of Biafra can never be crippled again; the Biafra progressive battle can never again be double-crossed by individual or gathering intere

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Finally Germany wins FIFA 2017 Confederations Cup

Germany has won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup by vanquishing Chile 1-0 . The objective was scored by Lars Stindl in the twentieth moment. 

Germany's midfielder Lars Stindl (C) celebrates with colleagues subsequent to scoring the primary objective amid the 2017 Confederations Cup last football coordinate amongst Chile and Germany at the Saint Petersburg Stadium in Saint Petersburg on July 2, 2017. /AFP PHOTO 

Diaz's flitting slip in fixation let Timo Werner deny him of ownership, draw the goalkeeper and go to Stindl, who scored into a void net on 20 minutes in Saint Petersburg. 

This is the first run through Germany, the safeguarding title holders, have won the Confederations Cup in the eighth version of the pre-World Cup competition. 

The video right hand official (VAR) again came into the spotlight as Chile's Gonzalo Jara was fortunate not to be sent off in the second half. 

In spite of his elbow even with Werner halfway during that time half being investigated by the VAR, the safeguard was just reserved. 

Werner, Stindl and Leon Goretzka all completed with three objectives yet RB Leipzig striker Werner took the top scorer's prize by righteousness of additionally providing two helps. 

In spite of ruling for long spells, Chile neglected to turn 61 percent ownership and 20 shots — contrasted with the Germans' eight — into objectives. 

The South Americans kept a similar group which crushed past Portugal 3-0 on a punishment shoot out after a goalless attract the semi-finals. 

In the interim, Germany's just change from the group which beat Mexico 4-1 in the last four saw protector Shkodran Mustafi supplant Benjamin Henrichs. 

Chilean fans transformed the Saint Petersburg Stadium into an ocean of red and unfeeling squeezing by La Roja at an early stage saw Charles Aranguiz and Arturo Vidal cause devastation in the Germany barrier. 

Eduardo Vargas had the primary clear shot on 11 minutes which flew into the thankful arms of Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen. 

The South Americans at that point squandered a brilliant possibility when Vidal's shot was obstructed by Ter Stegen and Alexis Sanchez couldn't associate with the free ball. 

It demonstrated exorbitant as Diaz's cataclysmic misstep and Werner's fast speculation prompted Stindl's match-champ. 

Diaz dithered on the ball on the edge of his own crate, enabling Werner to jump. He at that point drew lurching Chile goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and squared to Stindl, who tapped home. 

Having fallen behind, Chile increased the weight to constrain an equalizer which left space at the back for Germany to counter-assault. 

Julian Draxler let go wide of the post, at that point Goretzka, who scored twice in the 4-1 semi-last prevail upon Mexico, squandered an extraordinary shot by discharging directly at Bravo just before the break. 

Chilean tempers begun to shred, and moving toward the hour check Joshua Kimmich squared up to Vidal, who pushed the German away. The Bayern Munich colleagues were both booked. 

At that point Werner was left gripping his jaw after an elbow in the face from Jara close to the touchline, the Serbian arbitrator choosing to grant a yellow card to the safeguard in the wake of checking on the episode. 

The South Americans battered the German objective in the last 20 minutes however Sanchez's shot was blocked and Ter Stegen at that point spared from Eduardo Vargas. 

With time running out, both Vidal and substitute Angelo Sagal terminated over the bar, however the German protection held firm.

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