THE REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER

By Ayo Esan The national President of the National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators,  NCNDE-A, Eshanekpe Israel, a.k.a Akpodoro, has described as unwarranted, cheap blackmail, wicked, grossly misleading, statement issued by a Coalition of Civil Society group asking the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to resign his position in the senate owing to an alleged conviction in the United States of America, USA.  Akpodoro, an ex-militant leader stated this in Abuja Thursday, at a well attended meeting  of the critical stakeholders in Niger Delta Project noting that the Solomon Adodo-led group was fake, chasing shadows in its "blackmail" as funded by its rabid sponsors describing the sponsors as petty politicians in Delta State who he noted are envious of the rising profile of Chief Omo-Agege the Obarisi of Urhobo land saying such envious characters should be ready to face the consequences of their actions against an illustrious son of urhoboland declari...

She is beauty personified, 19-year-old Miss Kethia Urie, defines beauty by every measure. She posses a weird placid mien with a nack for sartorial elegance.  Urie holds the Ordinary National Diploma, OND, of the Polytechnic Ibadan. An upcoming model, she is brilliant, cerebral, humble, gentle, easy going with high moral probity. The Ibadan based Delta State-born model says, the screen goddess, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, is her role model as she aspires to beat the world best model to be the best.  Urie is a brand of Pearl Model, who is glued to her glowing beauty and bringing the best out of the upcoming model. 

By Edewor Egedegbe May 29, 1999, Nigeria as the nation began her fourth republic in a democratically elected government with President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999 to 2007), President Alh. Umaru Musa Yar’adua (2007 to 2010) President Dr. Ebelle Goodluck Jonathan (2010 to 2015) and President Muhammadu Buhari (2015 till date) in these 20 years of unbroken democratic journey as a nation, leadership failure has bedeviled the Nigeria state unabated.  The leadership failure in Nigeria is born out of wanton corruption in the system, the much talked about federal character principle which sacrifices merit on the altar of mediocrity, and zoning in the political circle has brought high level of sycophancy, compromised civil service, press, judiciary, the legislature lack the will power to handle daring issues that affects the nation, and when they try to do they are blackmailed by forces and no time they chicken out.  These institutional failure across board has contributed well over 80 perc...

ATLANTA – Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes.  The international airline’s Chief of Administration and Finance, Ejiroghene Eghagha, has also been charged with bank fraud and committing aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme. “Onyema allegedly leveraged his status as a prominent business leader and airline executive while using falsified documents to commit fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak.  “We will diligently protect the integrity our banking system from being corrupted by criminals, even when they disguise themselves in a cloak of international business.” Robert J. Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented on the indictment, “Allen O...

Two bank executives of the United Bank for Africa, UBA have been apprehended by the Police over the armed robbery that took place Thursday in Oye, Ekiti State, South West Nigeria.   The Ekiti State Police Command stated this at a briefing during his visit to the scene of crime saying, the two management staff of UBA were fingered and subsequently arrested by detectives following investigations into the bloody bank heist that claimed the lives of two residents of the University community.  According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Asuqo Amba, the sum of N25 million and specified amount of foreign currency , were discovered to have been carted away by the robbers, while a police sergeant and a 7-year-old girl were killed. The Police boss stated that the robbers attacked the Divisional Police station in Oye Ekiti and burnt a police van used to block Ilupeju-Oye highway after they robbed for over 30 minutes. Asuqo averred that there was internal connivance between...

In the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s order directing a Forensic Audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the direct supervision of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio, CON, several misguided statements drawing mischievous innuendoes alleging that the Audit is targeted at the immediate past Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)  and Governorship Candidate of the APC in the March 9, 2019 Governorship Elections in Akwa Ibom State, His Excellency Mr. Nsima Ekere, have flooded the media space. Having elevated such puerile narratives to unimaginable proportions, our attention has also been drawn to an ambitious but poorly cobbled and error-ridden report claiming amongst others, that Mr. Nsima Ekere sees the audit exercise as “witch-hunting” and has therefore vowed not to “go down alone”. The said verbose and reckless report is clearly a poor mimicry of Mr. Ekere. This is so because there is a unanimous unive...