Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha, says Igbos play the worst politics among the ethnic and geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Okorocha said this at an interactive session with some top media practitioners in Owerri, the state capital yesterday September 19th.

“Igbo have to change their strategy, in order to reclaim their relevance in Nigeria’s power equation. Quote me anywhere, Igbo play the worst politics in Nigeria. Today, Hausa have realised they can win an election without Igbo.

Hitherto, Hausa used to think they could not win elections without Igbo.Now, they believe with the combined massive populations of Lagos and Kano, they no longer need Igbo to win, hence, the latest alliance between Hausa and Yoruba. So, where is Igbo today in Nigerian politics?” he asked rhetorically.

Governor Rochas also spoke on the agitation for the creation of Biafra by IPOB members. According to him, the approach used by the group is childish. He said if Nigeria were to break up today, it is the Igbos that would be at a loss.

“I’ve always said Igbo have this feeling of abandonment. IPOB would have made better impact if they had operated under any other name other than Biafra, to push their demand for equity in sharing of the nation’s political and economic resources.

The call for secession was childish. IPOB should have fought their struggle like the Niger Delta youths, Arewa youths and Yoruba group. Who is Nnamdi Kanu to ask Rochas to follow him to war?

Check it out, no Hausa man living in the South East owns a duplex neither can you see a Yoruba man who lives in a room and parlour apartment of his own or an investment worth N20 million. But, should Nigeria break up today, Igbo will lose trillions in properties and other investments in Lagos, the North and other parts of the country. This is why we all must condemn IPOB’s call for break up.”

Speaking further, he said

“The South South has produced a president, the South West has produced a president and vice president while the North has produced many presidents.

By political calculation, it was expected that very soon, Igbo would have a chance to produce the president, but, the same Igbo want to break away from Nigeria. Where is our wisdom.

Regrettably, IPOB activities has created fears in the minds of Hausa and other ethnic nationalities in the country, that, once Igbo becomes president, they would secede.

So, where are we? This is why I said IPOB were childish in their struggle. We should all condemn the call for secession because if Nigeria breaks up, Igbo will lose. Igbo need to change their strategy and political calculation, to remain relevant in Nigerian politics,”.

Mswati III, the current King of Swaziland and head of the Swazi Royal Family has married a 19-year-old girl as his 14th wife.

According to Buzz SA, King Mswati’s new bride, 19-years-old Siphelele Mashwama is the daughter of Jabulile Mashwama, a Swaziland Cabinet Minister.

Siphelele Mashwama who graduated from Swaziland’s Waterford Kamhlaba World University College is currently in the United States with King Mswati, who is attending the United Nations general assembly.

However, it’s a common tradition in Swaziland for the king to choose a wife every year. Last year, the King picked a new bride during the well-known Reed Dance ceremony, also known as Umhlanga.

The Reed Dance ceremony is an annual Swazi and Zulu tradition held in August or September. In Swaziland, tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi girls and women travel to Ludzidzini to participate in the eight-day event and would-be brides are publicly checked to ascertain that their virginity was still intact.

Lawyer representing leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said he hasn’t communicated with his client since September 14, when Mr. Kanu’s Abia State home was allegedly invaded by soldiers.

The lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, reacting to reports that Mr. Kanu had gone into hiding said “my client has probably been killed” – Kanu was last seen in public on September 10, after his supporters clashed with soldiers.

Mr. Ejiofor said Mr. Kanu was abducted, and claimed that reports that his client had gone into hiding were merely aimed at “diverting the attention of the public”.

He’s quoted as saying:

“I have no doubt whatsoever that stories making round that my Client has fled outside Nigeria, were planted to divert attention from their murderous raid on my client’s house. I made last contact with my client few minutes into the bloody onslaught in his home on the 14th day of September 2017. Till date, I have not established further communication with him.
“The soldiers must have made possible contact with him on this 14th day of September 2017, when they invaded his house on a bloody raid, and by virtue of which position, they should tell the world if he was caught by fire of bullets in the hit of the bloody onslaught or he was arrested alive.
“In all probability, my client may have been killed by the invading soldiers who are now seeking ways to fool the world into believing that he has left the country. My request is that the military should produce my client wherever they kept him and stop diverting attention of the public,” Mr. Ejiofor said.

A woman has been caught by CCTV camera walking into a Church and stealing bags, phones and car keys of some of it’s members.

According to reports and some sources, she comes every Sunday, without being caught, but she was finally apprehended on a fateful Sunday.

At first she denied stealing the bags, and claimed the bag was hers, but she later confessed. This happened at The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 17, New Oko-oba.

A comment reads:

Is this what you are suppose to do disgrace her publicly why don’t you call her to order tell her that Jesus loves her besides you don’t know God’s purpose over her life come to think of it all Of you are the same what is the difference between police and thrives please don’t send us this kind of rubbish happening in the church next time even some pastor are criminals.

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A Bayelsa Magistrate Court has sentenced one peadophile identified as, Godbless Ogiode to jail for unlawful series of sexual intercourse with a 4-year-old girl and unlawful carnal knowledge of a 5 year-old boy.

He was sentenced to 8 years impriosonment in Okaka prisons.

More on this later.