Tag: Abaribe
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Eyinnaya Abaribe: No Nigerian should kneel for anybody – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa In a land sycophancy struts. A clime truth is forced to walk on its head. A terrestrial men and women say yes to power. In a climate of distrust where fake and false news are in unholy matrimony. A place the Rubber Stamp Assembly (RSA) proclaims itself the patron saint of accountable…
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Insecurity: Group tackles Senate over inclusion of Abaribe in probe panel
The Coalition for Nigeria has rejected the inclusion of the lawmaker representing Abia-South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, in the Senate’s adhoc committee on security challenges, describing it as an “abomination”. The group alleges that there are overwhelming evidence indicting Mr Abaribe as sponsor of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and a known ally of its fugitive…
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IPOB warns FG against arresting Senator Abaribe
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal government against arresting the Minority leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe or risk its wrath. The group was reacting to a statement by a presidential spokesman that Abaribe should be in jail for standing as surety for its Leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s bail in 2017. Abaribe…
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Abia South: Tribunal upholds Abaribe’s election, APGA candidate, Nkwonta kicks
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital has upheld the declaration of the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Delivering the judgement, a member of the three member panel, Justice Wasiu Animahun faulted the decision of the petitioners to…
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Ministerial screening: Abaribe commends Mamora for rejecting Buhari’s offer
Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe has commended Adeleke Mamora for rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari’s offer. Buhari had in 2018 appointed Mamora as the chairman of the Abuja Investment and Infrastructure Centre, but he turned it down. Abaribe said: Mamora “was offered a position and he looked at this senate and he said if he…
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Abaribe emerges new Senate Minority leader
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, representing Abia South Senatorial District, has been named the Minority Leader of the Ninth Senate. Emmanuel Bwacha from Taraba South also retained his position as Deputy Minority Leader, while the Senator, representing the Federal Capital Territory, Phillip Aduda, retained his position as the Minority Whip. Abaribe…
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Biafra: I can’t continue to stand as surety for Nnamdi Kanu, Abaribe tells court
Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe has told the Court of Appeal in Abuja that his standing surety for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is illegal. He therefore urged the court to relieve him of standing as as surety for the embattled IPOB leader. Abaribe also asked the court to set aside the…
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Nnamdi Kanu: Court can’t compel us to prosecute Fani-Kayode, Abaribe, other sureties – DSS
The Department of State Service and its Director-General, Mr. Yusuf Bichi, have said they cannot be compelled by the Federal High Court in Abuja to prosecute those accused of aiding the escape of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from Nigeria. They stated that not even the President of Nigeria…
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Biafra: Judge orders Abaribe, others to pay N100m over Kanu’s absence in court
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the three persons, including Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, who stood sureties for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to within two months, pay the sum of N100m each into the court’s account for their inability to produce the missing Biafran activist in court. Justice…
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Court varies Nnamdi Kanu’s bail condition, threatens to arrest Abaribe, other sureties
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has threatened to order the arrest of a senator, Eyinnaya Abaribe and another surety who undertook to produce Nnamdi Kanu ahead of his bail in April, 2017. Apart from Abaribe, two others who stood surety for Kanu are a Jewish priest, Immanuel Shalom; and an accountant and…