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Panic has taken over a Delta State community over the free medical outreach organized by the Nigeria Army in the Niger Delta today. Pupils on today Friday abandoned classrooms following a rumour that soldiers would come to schools to inject them to death. A free medical outreach that the Nigerian Army extended to some communities in the South South, as part of the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile II” in Niger Delta, was described on Friday as a tool to depopulate the south-East region. What seen to be a mere joke or out of reality is gradually becoming a serious issues and threat to life in Ughelli community, in Ughelli North area of Delta State as Parents have came out to withdraw children from schools earlier to avoid the free medical outreach for kids in primary schools. Many schools have since close their gate locked the windows to avoid the military free medicare. Meanwhile The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) group

Delta State Independent Electoral Commission have released the time table and schedule of activities for local government council general election, 2018 in a report signed by the Chairman DSIEC Asaba Chief Mike Ogbodu. 1. Issuance of notice of Local Government General election, Release of 2018 Local Government General Election guidelines and Time Table (Tuesday 3rd October 2017) 2. Conduct of Party Primaries by political parties (Saturday 14th- Saturday 28th October 2017) 3. Collection of DSIEC 001 and 002 by political parties (Wednesday 1st November 2017) 4. Commencement of electioneering campaigns by political parties (Wednesday 1st November 2017) 5. Last day of return of particulars of candidates on Form 001 and 002 by political parties with sworn affidavit by each candidate at the state High Court or magistrate court (Monday 6th November 2017) 6. Last day of collection of personal particulars of each candidate/constituency where the candidate intended to contest (Fri 10

Chief Okoi Obono-Obla who is the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution has insisted that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remains a terrorist organisation, that US or EU’s meddling in Nigeria’s affair could erode the country’s sovereignty and with the proscription of the group by a court, its activities remained illegal. The Punch reports that the presidential aide was reacting to the United States and the European Union’s position that the group was not a terrorist organisation. Obono-Obla in a statement released on Sunday, September 24, said IPOB remained as a terrorist group as defined by the provisions of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2013. He said that IPOB harassed or intimidated“those who do not subscribe it to its separatists ideology and ethnic bigotry before its proscription”. “So it is a terrorist organisation! This is also an organisation that was hounding and killing Nigerians in Rivers and Abia States before the military intervention!

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday, September 18, announced a conditional suspension of its strike action, The vanguard reports. ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this in Abuja late on Monday night, after concluding the final meeting with the federal government delegation. The delegation was led by the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige. According to Vanguard, ASUU said it was suspending the strike till October for the federal government to fulfill its pledges, ASUU also ordered lecturers to resume duty from Tuesday, September 19. A memorandum of understanding was signed with the federal government delegation at the meeting.

His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu who is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has said that God has not approved the Biafra agitation and that it will not succeed. According to report, he says “His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star has for the umpteenth time spoken against the ongoing agitation for the sovereignty of Biafra, insisting that it will not succeed since God has not approved of it,” the spiritual leader said. He said “should disappear because it is not in the agenda of God.” Eyo Charles in a statement said Olumba Olumba was going to use his programme to challenge youths against laziness and social vices. He said: "The 10,000 strong BAYA will stage a mammoth public solemn procession across several major streets in Owerri, singing and praying for peace in Ibo land and Nigeria as a whole. “Few weeks ago, a pan Igbo organisation, Igbo World Congress, headed by former Biafran war lord, Col Joe Achuzia (rtd) wh

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Thursday briefed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the outbreak of violence in some parts of Abia. After the briefing, Idris told State House Correspondents that the police was adopting a three-pronged approach to resolve the crisis. “The strategy we are using is to ensure that we deploy policemen throughout the country. “Secondly, we are in touch with the government. “We are trying to mobilise the political leadership to be able to intervene where necessary in how to reduce the tension that is already taking place in the South East.” While reacting to the Oct. 1 quit notice given to some Nigerians to leave some parts of the country, the I-G said there was no cause for alarm. “I don’t think there is tension in the country; there is no tension here,” he said. Meanwhile Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said the soldiers forcefully gained entrance into his client's house after shooting for about 40 minutes then breakdo

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met with members of the National Council of traditional rulers and decried the way the Paris Club Refund was spent by some state governors. The Federal government had on May 4 released details of the second tranche of Paris Club refund to States totaling N243.795 billion. The president frowned at the inability of the affected state governments to pay the retirement benefits and outstanding salaries of workers with the payment of the refund. He said: “We have to digress this much because I would like to convince you that I’m living with the problems of this country day-by-day, and mostly those of the ordinary people. “There are Nigerians that haven’t been paid for six months; there are Nigerians that have not been paid their retirement benefits for years. “I’m appealing to the governors, (that was why we voted money, we borrowed money), please make sure anybody under you, pay them because most of them depend on that salary to pay rent, scho