Day: November 4, 2021

U-TURN: IPOB Cancels Sit-At-Home Order, Urges Participation in Anambra Poll

Precious Ibekwe

Secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has cancelled a one-week sit-at-home order it issued across the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports IPOB to have said that it called off the order after consultations with elders, traditional, and religious leaders from the region. The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday after denying IPOB’s involvement in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election. He stated that it is not IPOB’s intention to add to the pains of the people it…

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Ikoyi 21-storey building Owner, Femi Osibona’s body recovered from debris

Gbenga Adeoti

Osibona visited his 21-storey building to inspect ongoing construction not knowing that was going to be his last. He died inside The body of Femi Osibona, Managing Director of Fourscore Homes, and owner of the collapsed Ikoyi building, has been found.  His body was recovered on day four of the search and rescue effort at the site. Osibona was last seen on November 1, at the site of the 21-storey-building on Gerard Road, Ikoyi. Though he has, until now, not been seen except for his vehicle which was at the…

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Corper who redeployed from Borno to Lagos confirmed dead in Ikoyi building collapse

Precious Ibekwe

A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Zainab Sanni Oyindamola, has been confirmed dead in the 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi area of Lagos. The lifeless body of Zainab, who was serving with the construction company, Fourscore Homes Limited, was pulled out from the rubbles on Wednesday, November 3. It was gathered that the deceased’s mother got her redeployed from Borno State due to insecurity. The deceased was among the six Corps members deployed to the company. But while others escaped by whisker on the fateful day,…

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