IGBO traditional rulers and religious clergymen have issued a joint statement calling on the federal government to honour the recent Federal Court of Appeal judgement which called for the release of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Last Thursday, Nigeria's Court of Appeal declared Nnamdi Kanu's detention illegal and unlawful and quashed the terrorism charges brought against him by the federal government.

FORMER Ogun State governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel has kicked off his ward-to-ward campaign tour  as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Ogun East Senatorial District.

Ignoring the instructions of the APC chairman in Ogun State Yemi Sanusi, who had asked all APC candidates to wait for further directives from the party before kicking-off their campaigns, Otunba Daniel has hit the road.

ALL Progressive Congress officials have confirmed that they have initiated talks with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State ahead of the 2023 elections with a view to woo him away from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In late June, the PDP elected former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as its flagbearer for next year's presidential election at its annual convention.

PAN-Igbo cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to name the newly-completed Second Niger Bridge after  the former Ikemba of Nnewi Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Earlier this week, Nigeria's works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola announced that the federal government has completed the construction of the Second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta State with Onitsha in Anambra State.

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has hinted that he may decide to back former Anambra State governor Peter Obi in next year's presidential elections pointing out that he cannot publicly support him now because they are in different parties.

In February next year, Nigeria goes to the polls and there are currently four frontrunners seeking the job of presidency including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party.