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Dear Chinedu, I unspeakably appreciate your paper, "The History of Igbo People in Nigeria", published at Academic.edu. I must confess that you have taken enough time to achieve such a vast research work. Kudos sir and more power to your elbow. Beside the beauty and fancy I found on the job sir, permit me to point out that you did not touch the most recent discovery on Igbo origin. You did not precisely mention any particular source for the Igbo race, but I see you tilting towards the most outlandish belief that was propagated by our erudite scholar, A.E. Afigbo. In "The Spell of Oral Tradition...," Published in Cambridge University Press, Afigbo said that "Awka, Orlu and Okigwe are taken as the Igbo heartland of civilization...." Following this remark, later writers began to lay claim that the Igbo first settled around Orlu and Okigwe and later they moved to Awka. This is not true. I have  opposed Sophie Dickson's claim of this kind.  Please dear,, Igb

 Australia’s number two telecommunications company, Optus, said on Saturday it was contacting customers about a cyberattack that accessed personal details of up to 10 million customers, in one of Australia’s biggest cybersecurity breaches. Chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said on Friday she was angry and sorry that an offshore-based entity had broken into the company’s database of customer information, accessing home addresses, drivers licence and passport numbers of the equivalent to 40% of Australia’s population. In an update on Saturday, the company, owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, said it was contacting “all customers to notify them of the previously announced cyberattack’s impact, if any, on their personal details”. “We will begin with customers whose ID document number may have been compromised, all of whom will be notified by today. We will notify customers who have had no impacts last,” it said in a statement. “No passwords or financial details have been compromi

The American Principles Project has released a new ad slamming Joe Biden and Democratic Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for  cosponsoring  a bill that would weaponize the Department of Justice and push “dangerous transgender drugs and surgeries on kids.” The video features child psychologist Miriam Grossman, M.D., who says, “We have to go out there and stop this. Our children deserve better.” The new law is sold as “A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.” It would empower the Department of Justice to “intervene in equal protection actions in federal court on account of sexual orientation or gender identity” and strip parents of their rights. It would also “prohibit an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity,” allowing any man into a women’s restroom based on what gender they th

The legal team of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has demanded his immediate and unconditional release from custody of the Department of State Services, to enable him have access to medical personnel of his choice. The demand was based on alleged excruciating pains on Kanu occasioned by his gastro intestine disorder. Kanu’s lead lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, in a statement on Friday, in Abuja, said that the detained IPOB leader had not been able to eat in the past 48 hours due to his poor health status. Ejiofor who issued the statement after another routine visit to Kanu in the custody of the Department of the State Service in Abuja explained that from all indications, the security agency had no facility to cope with health challenges of his client. The statement read in part, “As usual, the court-ordered routine visit to our client – Nnamdi Kanu – was conducted today, at the Department of State Services’ Headquarters, Abuja, where Kanu is sti

  According to Akintoye, the British empowered the Fulani over other tribes in 1960 during independence. Renowned historian and leader of the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination movement, Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Prof Banji Akintoye, has insisted that the Yoruba ethnic group needs its own country out of present Nigeria. According to Akintoye, the British empowered the Fulani over other tribes in 1960 during independence. The renowned historian was reacting to the move by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to acquire weapons for the state’s Security Network, known as Amotekun after the Nigerian government allegedly approved sophisticated weapons for a similar security outfit operated by the Katsina State Government. “The video making the rounds showing the equivalent of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun Corps) in Katsina, obtaining the approval of the Federal Government to bear arms is fraught with great dangers. Denying Amotekun the urgently needed rights, to

The latest claim by ISWAP comes a few hours after it said its men attacked a police vehicle in Ondo State.   The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police checkpoint in Edo State. According to ISWAP in a post, seen by SaharaReporters, the attack occurred in the state on Thursday, September 22, 2022. It added that a policeman was killed during the attack. Edo is in the South-South region of Nigeria. The latest claim by ISWAP comes a few hours after it said its men attacked a police vehicle in Ondo State. The attack was carried out by “soldiers of the caliphate” occurred in Ipele, Owo Local Government Area of the state, the terror group said. The attacks on the police checkpoints in Edo and Ondo States by ISWAP could be a hint that the group is moving towards the Southern part of Nigeria. ISWAP had claimed expansi

GETTY IMAGES 45 th   President Donald J. Trump could be back on Facebook as soon as next year. Nick Clegg, Meta’s President for Global Affairs, announced that the company will make a decision on Trump’s account by January 2023. On Thursday, Clegg also said that Meta is consulting with experts and third parties about whether or not they should allow the former president back on the platform. The Meta executive also notably expressed his concerns that the company could become “the greatest industrial-scale censor ever in human history” if its platforms censor too much content. The decision on whether or not to allow Trump back on the platform will be made by January 7, 2023. The former president is currently undergoing a two-year suspension from Facebook.