The former Minister for Defence, General Theophirus Danjuma has called on Nigerians to rise and defend themselves against ethnic cleansing. • Rtd Gen. T. Y. Danjuma Danjuma gave this warning today (Saturday) at the maiden Convocation ceremony of Taraba state university in Jalingo Taraba state capital. Danjuma speaking at arena of the convocation, said he […]

Read More Defend yourselves or you will all die, TY Danjuma tells Nigerians.

Let me acknowledge without any reservation whatsoever, that I am honored by the invitation to deliver this year’s convocation lecture from an outstanding institution named after the great Zik of Africa. In the course of this lecture, with the topic in mind, we shall hear a lot more about The Right Honorable Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe […]

Read More The Igbo In The Politics Of Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe University, 12th Convocation Lecture Delivered by Rt.Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi

The expression of leadership in the current dispensation, from local government levels up to the federal government level, simply say one thing –that the bandwagon effect of the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was a disservice to Nigeria. With that effect, Nigerians fell for the lure of the centre. That lure gifted us […]

Read More Why Re-Order Elections? By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns the All Progressives Congress (APC) and certain officials in the Presidency for staging the abduction of the schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, for political purposes. Our Party considers this act as wicked, callous and tormenting to use innocent schoolgirls as pawns in an ignoble script that was designed to […]

Read More TEXT OF PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ON THE RETURN OF THE ABDUCTED DAPCHI SCHOOL GIRLS PRESENTED BY the NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN, TODAY, MARCH 21, 2018.

For a candidate to win election in Nigeria, he/she must be prepared to spend lots of money. Money has long dominated our elections, and the problem is worsening. People spend unlimited sums of money in order to win the primaries and elections to the positions they are contesting for. The major problem with money politics […]

Read More Update on the Oblong 2019 campaign.

On January 20, 2017 immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Obama family moved to a rented apartment after spending eight years at the White House. The Obamas don’t own a house till date. Also, Obama paid for groceries from toothpaste to toilet papers and dry cleaning from his own pocket. Even the family vacation was […]

Read More GOVERNANCE WITH INTEGRITY AND HONOUR.

“Beware! When Fortune would elect to trick a man, she plots his overthrow/By such a means as he would least expect.”—Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400. February 2018 was a busy month. I had spent days interacting with potential candidates for 2019 still reluctant to step forward or to start to prepare in earnest for their election which […]

Read More Possible reversal of political fortunes in two southern states By Dele Sobowale

It was former president Obasanjo who started this whole business of turning the nation’s foreign reserves into an achievement to be celebrated. When Obasanjo took office in May 1999, Nigeria’s foreign reserves were just under $5bn. By the time he left in May 2007, it was $43bn. But beyond that, there was a difference in […]

Read More What’s inside Nigeria’s foreign reserves? By Feyi Fawehinmi.

It is no longer news that the Senator representing Owerri Zone in the Senate, Sen Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has joined the race to occupy Imo Douglas House come 2019. What perhaps maybe news is the record acceptance and endorsements his ambition has generated across the State in 4 weeks. Like Best Sellers and Record Albums, […]

Read More SENATOR SAMDADDY ANYANWU’S GUBER AMBITION RECEIVES RECORD 2.4m ENDORSEMENTS IN 4 WEEKS.

By Collins Osuji Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Chief Chimazuru Nnadi, 2019 Federal House of Representatives aspirant for Owerri Federal Constituency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that with the way things are retrogressing in Imo, APC will most likely suffer its worst nightmare. Speaking to Daily Nigerian Horn […]

Read More Ahead of 2019 Governor Okorocha’s ego and political rascality will bring about APCs downfall – Oblong

Nze Sympathy Chibiko Nwosu, a Philanthropist and Prominent UK based Lawyer, former Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (UK) and presently the BOT Chairman of the party has confirmed what began as a tittle-tattle in the UK Political and Social circles that he will contest the 2019 Presidential election in Nigeria under the banner of […]

Read More IT’S OFFICIAL: NZE SYMPATHY NWOSU TO CONTEST THE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and an Igbo leader, Emmanuel Iwuanyawu, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has done very well and deserves a second term if he wants to re-contest. According to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has no right to tell an eligible citizen of the country not to seek […]

Read More 2019: Buhari Has Done Well, Obasanjo Has No Right Advising Him – Iwuanyawu

The Nigerian Senate yesterday, confirmed that each senator collects N13.5m monthly as running cost in addition to N750,000 monthly salary/allowances, but quickly added that the information about the emoluments of senators was never a secret. According to the Senate Spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the figure of the running cost of the offices of Senators […]

Read More Senate Finally Admits N13.5M Monthly Allowance For Senators.

A former bank managing director, Mr. Nick Opara-Ndudu, has declared interest to contest the Imo State gubernatorial election in 2019. Opara-Ndudu, who intends to contest on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) on Wednesday, in Owerri, Imo State, called for divine intervention “in the governance of our dear state” because of the […]

Read More 2019: Former bank boss, Nick Opara-Ndudu, declares interest for Imo governorship election.

The attack on the Catholic Bishop of Owerri Diocese,Archbishop Anthony Obinna by thugs of the Imo State governor is no doubt sacrilegious and highly condemnable. However a public Affairs commentator, kwento Maduabuchi has described it as karma at work. According to report in an interview with kwento he said, that both the Archbishop and Okorocha […]

Read More Rochas Okorocha’s Political Down Fall And Archbishop Anthony Obinna (Karma At Work) By Rev Mbaka

The greatest initial strength of Biafra came from the *Onyeaghalanwanneya* Spirit, upon which the record-breaking Technological feats of Biafra found a firm berthing. It was this Spirit that drove the many exploits of the *Igbo State Union,* the illustrious ancestor of the dubious *Ohanaeze* Many of the Igbo that got Western Education were the fruits […]

Read More THE NIGERIAN-MADE HERESY OF “IGBO-HATE-THEMSELVES” – Tony Nnadi

…As Adebanjo Blasts Tinubu For Yoruba’s Woes Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman who is the secretary-general of the Arewa Consultative Forum has warned that any attempt by the north to retain power in 2019 may lead to disaster. In an interview with The Sun, the member of the National Executive Committee said Nigeria belongs to everyone and […]

Read More Nigeria Will Collapse If The North Insists On Power In 2019 – Arewa Chieftain Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman

Today, 11 March 2018, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session, elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji (Nigeria) as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect. Judge Robert Fremr (Czech Republic) was elected First Vice-President and Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France) Second Vice-President. “I am deeply […]

Read More New ICC Presidency elected for 2018-2021

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has declared that any member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caught rigging election in 2019 will be lynched. He said this while maintaining that he will certainly fulfil the promise of 75% votes he promised President […]

Read More 2019: PDP members caught rigging election will be lynched – Orji Kalu

As far as today’s Imo PDP is concerned, two names that easily come to mind when the race for the party’s 2019 Imo guber ticket is discussed are, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha and Sen Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), with the latter having thrown his hat into the ring just last week. Over the years, the two […]

Read More THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SAMDADDY’S GUBER AMBITION TO IMO PDP. By Lancelot Obiaku

• Says Orlu and Okigwe Zones are indispensable if Owerri zone must produce governor. Senator Samuel Anyanwu has revealed that the interest and welfare of Imolites are the overriding reasons behind his governorship ambition. Senator Anyanwu made the disclosure while speaking to newsmen at Imo airport on his arrival from South Africa on an official […]

Read More MY AMBTION IS FOR THE INTEREST OF IMOLITES. Senator Samuel Anyanwu.

After weighing some of what I hear as the reaction of some people to the behavioral ways and mannerisms of my Principal and friend, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, that seem to have been misunderstood by a section of people, which I otherwise refer to as, ‘The misunderstanding of Emeka Ihedioha’, it has become important to […]

Read More COME, LET’S REASON WITH EMEKA IHEDIOHA By Chibuike Onyeukwu

According to Saturday Vanguard, President Muhammadu Buhari may have strengthened his hand in getting the Presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with last Tuesday’s sweeping extension of the tenure of the National Working Committee, NWC. However, more trouble lies for him in the general contest from a coalition of displeased party members […]

Read More Aminu Tambuwal, Bukola Saraki, Atiku Abubakar, 2 Others Mentioned, As The Secret Deadly Plot To Stop President Buhari Ahead Of The 2019 Elections, Gets Bloody.

My attention has been drawn to comments by President Muhammadu Buhari alleging that he handled the Dapchi Girls kidnapping better than former President Jonathan handled the Chibok girls kidnapping. President Buhari, speaking in Damaturu said as follows: “The Federal Government’s response to the unfortunate abduction of the school girls is a clear departure from the […]

Read More President Buhari’s Claims That He Handled Dapchi Better Than Chibok is False.

There is no greater evidence of total reckless incompetence and deadly cluelessness than president Buhari’s pronouncement of not knowing for almost two months that his police chief disobeyed his orders and pulled out of terrorized Benue state. While all eyes have been on Benue, an epicenter in the Boko Haram herder-farmer terror crisis, to realize […]

Read More IMPEACH BUHARI: HIS DANGEROUS CLUELESSNESS IS NO LONGER PARDONABLE

It is a fact of history that the Federation of Nigeria collapsed in1966 when the 5 Constitutions that defined it got toppled and jettisoned by the Military Incursion into Nigeria’s Political space. It is also a fact of history that the attempt to resuscitate the Union at the Aburi Sovereign Conference January 1967, was truncated […]

Read More THE BATTLE FOR THE CARCASS OF NIGERIA BETWEEN CALIPHATE COLONIALISTS AND ENTRAPPED REGIONS: THE BRIDGE TO 2019 HOLDS THE ACE.

..Says he won’t back down to intimidation, not even from the spiritual realm. …The issue of zoning is myopic, it’s a cheap approach to gaining power, he says …Challenges opponents to present evidence as he dismisses zoning arrangement in Imo By Joseph Erunke Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said his decision to throw […]

Read More 2019: Okorocha explains why son-in-law must succeed him.

His Grace Anthony Obinna, the Archbishop of Owerri, has no apology for saying that Imo State needs a seasoned administrator to govern it and not Uche Nwosu. “What we need is a democratically elected Governor and not a handpicked successor”. The Archbishop also has no regrets in saying that Governor Okorocha cannot succeed himself and […]

Read More What Archbishop Obinna told Uche Nwosu.

Leaders of 11 host communities of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, (FUTO), Imo State have protested against alleged occupation of about 4,050 hectares of land by the university in defiance to the decision by the Imo State government to excise 3,123 hectares to the communities. Speaking on behalf of the communities, one of the […]

Read More Land dispute: Ihiagwa residents threaten fire and brimstone.

. *Big Pharma company has its license revoked after being caught sterlizing 500,000 girls via vaccine A Big Pharma company who manufactured a vaccine allowing for a state-sponsored forced sterilization of over 500,000 girls in Africa has had its licence revoked. According to Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, half-a-million young girls are now infertile following […]

Read More Big Pharma Co. Has License Suspended As Vaccine Sterilizes 500,000 Girls.

Friends a major major development has occurred in the Catholic Church in Nigeria in the last 10 days which has gone largely unannounced and I believe a lot of people are oblivious of. In fact the Catholic Church in Nigeria will never be the same again with this major shift. I am not referring to […]

Read More MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NIGERIA

In 1999, The PDP met an economy without the likes of MTN, Airtel, Glo, Etislat, Dangote Cement, NIPP, Shoprite, privatized NEPA and many more. There were no agencies like ICPC, EFCC, to fight corruption. No regulatory agencies like NERC, NCC, PPPRA etc,. No due process or procurement Act, no UBE Act and many other laws. […]

Read More The PDP Vs The APC

I’ve tried over the years since my purported impeachment from the office of the Deputy Governor of Imo State not to join issues with any of the principal conspirators/actors who contrived the act. But reading this morning in the Horn Newspapers the interview of Chief Uwajimogu, former speaker of Imo state House of Assembly who […]

Read More I AM SHOCKED AT BEN’S AMNESIA ; JUDE AGBASO REPLIES UWAJIMOGU

A message for elusive Igbo self hate advocates. You may have heard it in one way or the other; the Igbos are not united, the Igbos hate each other Again, wnd endless negative vibes and jibes from some of the Igbos who are either acting out of ignorance or simply playing to the gallery to […]

Read More DOUBLE OUR TROUBLES, DON’T TRIPLE OR QUADRUPLE IT; WE ARE STILL A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

My dear friends, associates, peers, family and constituents, Over the past 17 years, i have received several calls from various friends and political leaders urging me to translate my almost extreme passion for politics, social media activism, mass education and social enlightenment into service to the people by running for office. Some have urged me […]

Read More Update on the “OBLONG 2019” campaign.

•Igbo presidency, a mirage without restructuring Elder statesman, Professor Ben Nwabueze has warned that the nation that the much anticipated 2019 elections may not hold if the country is not properly restructured before then. In this interview with VINCENT KALU in Lagos, he equally opened up on a lot of national issues including how former […]

Read More 2019 will make or break nigeria – Prof Ben Nwabueze

* As Party Carpets APC, Okorocha. The Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State Friday debunked reports that the party in the State belongs to an individual. Addressing journalists at the State party secretariat in Owerri, the State party Chairman, Chief Barr Charles Babatunde Ezekwem, said the insinuation is a wicked rumour circulated by enemies of […]

Read More No Individual Owns Imo PDP, Says Party Chairman.

My brethren the Infidels in this country are pointing their fingers to our faces we also should do the same. After the message I gave in Rijau Niger state and presently am in Kontagora the message was delivered to the President through a reliable source. I stand by the existing code that all Muslims must […]

Read More Femi Fani-Kayode: The madness of Sheik Gero Argungu and the devil in Osinbajo

A Nigerian, Toni Iwobi has become the first coloured senator elected in Italy and will be the only black parliamentarian in the next legislature, according to Yahoo News.  Iwobi from Nigeria is an IT Expert with a company that provides assistance on hardware and software for both private and public bodies. He has been living […]

Read More Record Breaker! Nigerian Man Elected As First Black Senator In Italy.

That everyone exists for a purpose cannot be overemphasized but rather the burning issue should be on how many people have actually known and realized their true purpose for existence – and as many that have done, what proportion has taken conscious steps towards fulfilling them without fear or favour? Thus the question: “Why am […]

Read More The art of harvest by Livy-Elcon Emereonye.

Now here’s a question that demands an answer. Why is it that arguably the world’s richest continent – in terms of natural resources – has some of the world’s poorest people? To answer it, we’d need to take a trip down memory lane. Already I can sense you rolling your eyes deep into the back […]

Read More Why is the African continent so stricken with poverty?

Those who do not yet understand that Nigeria is the name of a scam, set up, first by rogue British Colonialists, but currently under the control of their local agents, the Caliphate, operated for the sole purpose of legitimately looting and carting away humongous values of assets, will continue to wonder why bizzare things happen […]

Read More NIGERIA IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, NOW BEING TAKEN OVER BY A VICIOUS CALIPHATE – LNC 21/10/16.

The United States government has spoken on the upcoming general elections in Nigeria. The US said the 2019 general elections was its priority focus, and vowed to work towards achieving a peaceful transition. America’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said this while doing a background briefing on his planned trip to Africa from Tuesday. He […]

Read More US Speaks On Nigeria’s 2019 Elections.

This is the same Boko Haram that they told us had been “technically defeated” two years ago and whose leader, Abubakar Shekau, they claimed to have killed a number of times over the last three years but who keeps popping up all over the place like a bad coin. This is the same Boko Haram […]

Read More Femi Fani-Kayode: Buhari, his two-headed dragon and the war against terror [Part 2]

The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State Chapter, has been drawn to the unwarranted and satanic assault on His Grace Archbishop Anthony J. V. Obinna, the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Archdiocese, by officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. The infamous attack which was […]

Read More Press Release 05/03/2018 THE UNWARRANTED AND SATANIC ATTACK ON HIS GRACE, ARCHBISHOP A.J.V. OBINNA BY THE APC GOVERNMENT OF GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA

President Jonathan replies buhari. I have just read President Buhari’s speech to the All Progressive Congress members who visited him at the Presidential Villa on Monday the 26th of February, 2018. It is rather unfortunate that a man who once deceived the nation with his fabled ‘integrity’ can descend so low as to spew forth […]

Read More Dear President Buhari, Lying Is Corruption

Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or […]

Read More This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime

IT IS TIME! Dear citizens of Nigeria, today, we have come to announce to you the commencement of a new era. We have come to let you know that, the generation we have been waiting for has arrived. The hour is now upon us to query the conditions of our polity. As we do this, […]

Read More IT IS TIME! – A call to the youths of Nigeria… (Part 1)

IT IS TIME! As we get ready to embark on this mission to create a better society, let us consider what we have been told; it has been said that, there is a national cake big enough to go round and that everyone could get a piece of it. However, it would be wise for […]

Read More IT IS TIME! A call to the youths of Nigeria… (Part 2)

THE COUNCIL OF SEVEN IT IS TIME! As we deliberate with our peers in seeking solution to the Nigerian problem, we have been asked by cynics to stop wasting our time. They say that, the youths will never be allowed to administer governance to this nation, that it will always be an elusive opportunity. But […]

Read More IT IS TIME! A call to the youths of Nigeria… (Part 3)

Tunde Bakare, the serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), says he cannot comprehend what President Muhammadu Buhari and 22 state governors were doing at the Kano wedding, while 110 Dapchi schoolgirls are still in captivity. On Saturday, at least 22 governors convereged on Kano, to celebrate the wedding of Idris Ajimobi and Fatima […]

Read More Bakare: I can’t comprehend what Buhari was doing at the Kano wedding with 110 girls missing.

“No-one is more hated than he who speaks truth”- Plato. These deeply profound and insighful words of Plato, Ancient Greece’s greatest and most reverred philospher, who was a student of the great Socrates and a teacher of the great Aristotle, are as true today as they were in 400 BC when he wrote them. You […]

Read More MUHAMMADU BUHARI, HIS TWO-HEADED DRAGON AND HIS ‘WAR’ AGAINST TERROR (PART 1)

Chairman of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiatives(PCNI), Gen Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd) and former military President, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) Thursday met for a crucial but secret security meeting. The meeting held at the IBB Hill Top Villa in Minna, Niger State. None of the camps has revealed to the media details […]

Read More IBB, TY Danjuma meet secretly in Minna.

Mr. Gwnfor Evans MP, the great Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, for no less than 36 years before he passed on in 2005, made the following historic and profound observation many years ago. He said, “‘Britishness’ is a political synonym for ‘Englishness’ which extends the […]

Read More The Fulanisation Of Nigeria, The Perfidy Of British (Part 1) By Femi Fani-kayode

Perhaps the most insightful and concise contribution that I have read about the history of the Fulani and their inordinate ambition and insatiable thirst for domination and conquest was provided by Mr. Gbonkas Ebiri. His research and analysis of this topic is as historically accurate as it is outstanding. Permit me to share his words. […]

Read More The Fulanisation Of Nigeria And The Perfidy Of The British (2) By Femi Fani-Kayode

Any discerning mind who listened to Governor Rochas Okorocha recently when he was talking on how the APC Governors have been asked by the Presidency to set up campaign councils in their zones, will immediately know where the governor is heading to. He wants to make himself the emperor of the South East in the […]

Read More WHY OKOROCHA SHOULD NOT LEAD BUHARI’S CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH EAST BY COLLINS OJEMBE