A Socio-cultural group in the Southsouth, Ikwerre Peoples Congress has called for a total scrap of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, saying, the document does not have the peoples consent.
The group also argued that the National Assembly which is currently conducting public hearings across the six geopolitical zones of the country lacked powers to draft a Constitution on behalf of the people.
The position of the group was made known in a memorandum submitted to the Constitution Review Committee, sitting in Port-Harcourt on Thursday and obtained by DAILY POST.
The group claimed the 1999 Constitution was originally a military decree.
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By Vincent Ujumadu & Davies Iheamnachor
No fewer than four military men have been feared killed in another attack on security men in Rivers State.
The incident happened at Omenema community in Abua Central, Abua/Oduah Local Government Area of the state on Sunday evening.
This came less than 24 hours after unknown gunmen killed eight security operatives on Owerri-Port Harcourt road.
In another development, there was pandemonium on the Igbariam campus of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, yesterday, as students and residents ran to safety, following the alleged killing of nine persons and 23 cows by gunmen.
The Niger Delta ethnic group, Ikwerre People’s Congress (IPC) has condemned what they described as “spurious and puerile representations” made by the Minister of Petroleum (State) Mr. Timipre Sylva where he stated that the International Multinational Oil Companies cannot relocate their headquarters to the Lower Niger region.
Sylva had at an event over the weekend told the International Multinational Oil Companies not to relocate their headquarters to the Lower Niger for security reasons.
But reacting through a statement on Tuesday, which was signed by the Convener of the group, Livingstone Wechie, it accused the Minister of emboldening oil companies to cheat on the region.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has issued an alert on planned attacks on airports across the country.
The Deputy General Manager, Administration and Logistics of FAAN, S. M. Mamman wrote to the heads of security, the Cable reports.
The document dated April 9, 2021, listed the airports in Kaduna, Maiduguri, Sokoto, Kano, Abuja, and Lagos as the targets.
“I am directed to convey an alert from the Ministry of Aviation regarding security threats by criminal elements against Airports in Nigeria and to request for the immediate enumeration of necessary countermeasures for the protection of Airports/Facilities under your purview,” it reads.
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