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Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has said that only the federal government of Nigeria, has the constitutional right to declare the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wanted. Buratai also refuted claims that the Army is under any pressure, to withdraw troops from South-East. He gave the statement on Monday, after the opening of the third quarter Nigerian army conference in Abuja. Ever since the launch of Operation Python Dance in the South East, many have called for its termination, especially after some military personnel clashed with IPOB members in Umuahia and Aba in Abia State. Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the wife of the late Biafran warlord, Bianca Ojukwu, have condemned the Army’s terming of IPOB as a terrorist organization, describing such categorization as unconstitutional and unjustifiable. However, Buratai refuted insinuations that the army is under pressure to withdraw troops from the region and insi...

Mixed reactions have trailed the report by the National Bureau of Statistics that the Nigerian economy is officially out of recession. Some Nigerians who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja said that the report was a pointer to the fact that the federal government was working hard to improve the economy. Others however disagreed, saying the verdict should not only be on paper, but should be seen positively in the lives of the people as the prices of products were still out of the reach of ordinary Nigerians. The Nigerian economy slipped into recession in early 2016. Ojo Akindele, a civil servant, said that the verdict by the NBS was commendable and a reflection of what most Nigerians had been yearning for, adding that it would help to cool the tension in the country. She said that the word recession had fuelled increase in goods and services that had not gone down well with the masses. She added that many traders took advantage of recession to increase the p...