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FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned that Nigeria is now facing the real threat of genocide similar to what happened in Rwanda in 1994 given the tense atmosphere created by the ultimatum given for Igbos to leave the north of the country.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's supporters have inaugurated the southwest office of his campaign organisation involving the appointment of six coordinators for each of the six states in the geo-political zone.

RESULTS from a recent DNA search into the ancestry of Igbos has debunked the myth that Ndigbo are Jewish in origin or are one of the 12 lost tribes of Israel as has been claimed by several nationalist groups.

POLITICAL leaders from across southern Nigeria have invited their northern counterparts to sit down and agree to negotiate a return to the 1963 republican constitution or risk seeing the country descend into irreversible chaos.

FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has forfeited a $37.5m Banana Island estate she bought in 2013 to the federal government after a Lagos high court ordered that the surrender it.

In a case brought against Ms Alison-Madueke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the federal high court ruled that the estate was purchased with public funds. Vacation judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor, made the order today, ruling in favour of the EFCC motion.

HUNDREDS of Nigerians gathered to celebrate the first-ever D-Blaze Entertainment Awards (Dbema) in London over the weekend that saw the handing out of honours to 24 artists who have excelled in the UK diaspora community.

POLICE in Katsina State have arrested 39-year old Sani Usman  and charged him to court for allegedly spying for a gang of armed robbers who recently invaded a village in the state and made away with about N500,000 in cash among other things.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has phoned Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State from his sick bed in London to express his shock at the recent massacre at a Ozubulu church that left at least 11 people dead.

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by cattle herdsmen from across the West African sub-region to invade Benue State to prevent the implementation of it planned anti-open grazing law.

FORMER Ohaneze Ndigbo general secretary Chief Nduka Eya has revealed that his driver masterminded his recent abduction by a group of kidnappers last week as part of a plan to extort an exorbitant ransom from him.