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Ugandan Member of Parliament fined for urinating in public

Ihesiulo Grace 25 October 2017 0

Abraham Abiriga, a Ugandan Member of Parliament has been fined by a court in the capital, Kampala, for causing a public nuisance by urinating in public after pictures of the incident were widely shared on social media. He was given a fine of 40,000 Ugandan shillings ( $10, £5) for the 25

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Arewa ultimatum was hate speech – UN

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2017 0

Two UN bodies, the UN Office of Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), have denounced an ultimatum issued by members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum for demanding that Igbo resident in all parts of northern Nigeria vacate the area by October 1, 2017. The two UN bodies […]

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Forget IPOB, stay with us – Arewa youth to Igbos in North

Ihesiulo Grace 27 August 2017 0

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has urged Igbo people in the North to ignore the directive of the Indigenous People of Biafra that they should leave the region, and called on the Federal Government to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu. The youths stated that having withdrawn their notice to quit issued to the Igbo living in the […]

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Arewa Youths Back Akumefor Senate Presidency

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2015 0

Arewa Youth Parliament (AYP), an umbrella body of all northern youth organisation, has thrown its weight behind the out-going Senate minority leader, Senator George Akume, to emerge the next Senate President of the 8th National Assembly.   It said it was a democratic norm that whenever a minority party becomes the majority party, the minority […]