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Tribute to late Governor Sam Mbakwe on his 15 years remembrance by his Daughter Helga Mbakwe Nosiri.
15 years today, Agbawo Dike Izu. I am so proud to be counted as one of your 5 daughters. You came and left an indelible mark. Here I am thinking of how you, as an ordinary citizen fought the Ayo Irikefe Panel, the Justice Mamman Nasir Panel, the David Mark Panel, the Daramola Panel, the Roseline Omotosho Panel on various issues; Creation of States, Boundary Adjustment when they tried to pass off Oil reach areas in old Imo to Rivers State and the Abandoned Property saga which you eventually won during the Shagari era. You were the Secretary of the…
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“Nigerians risk having a fascist government under Atiku because of his open alignment with former heads of state and retired generals, who have some questions to answer. “That is why I am highly disappointed at the illusion by some Nigerians that Atiku is better than Buhari. There is absolutely no comparison between Buhari and Atiku.” Former heads of state, retired generals and PDP are afraid of Buhari’s second term bid. These people and the PDP are mortally afraid that if Buhari returned, he would probe the criminal annulment of June 12 and wage a more ruthless war against corruption. “They…
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Brethren, I bring you greetings. It is beyond argument that, through the agitation for Biafra which you lead, you, The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) have brought both local and international attention to the plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria. You have raised our consciousness to a level never seen before. In the face of naked brutality and state terrorism, you have stood tall, refusing to bow to tyranny. Your members have paid the ultimate price for the emancipation of the people of old Eastern region from the clutches of Nigeria, a country that is deaf and dumb to the sanctity…
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Yinka Odumakin is the spokesperson for Afenifre, the pan-Yoruba social-cultural group. He shares his thoughts in this interview with NATHANIEL AKHIGBE on how a formidable alliance between the Yoruba and the Igbo can rescue Nigeria from the current leadership crisis and onto a path of sustainable development. Excerpts: Q• There is a recent development which many people have termed ‘handshake across the Niger’ between the leaders of the South and Middle-Belt. What is it all about? A• The South and the Middle-Belt come under what is called the South and Middle-Belt Leaders’ Forum, but the ‘handshake across the Niger’ is…
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It cannot be said too often that with the way the government is treating opposition members, who it claims are in violation of the law, that the Nigerian government has become a violent violator of human rights. It is a fearful and dangerous thing for the people to feel that they need protection from their government. It is like a sheep needing protection from a shepherd. The spectacle of police men laying siege on the house of a serving senator for 8 days and the senator lifeless being dragged into police station paints a very sad and worrying picture of…
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There is a noticeable whirl of feverish desperation in the Presidential Villa. No perceptive person can miss that. From indiscriminately arresting and detaining political opponents and critics, to squelching dissent in the traditional news media through blackmail and threats, to undisguisedly deploying security forces in the service of overt partisan agendas, it’s now starkly transparent that the Buhari regime is not interested in or prepared for a fair electoral contest. The starker the reality of impending electoral defeat stares the regime in the face, the more extreme the intensity of its desperation becomes. All the institutions that are crucial to…
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“ABURI 1967 was a Demand by an embattled Eastern for Restructuring back to being a Federation from the 1966 Accident and Collapse of the Federation of Nigeria. Nigeria agreed but later dithered and rather resorted to Violence of Genocidal Proportions in what became, for the embattled Eastern Nigeria whose Peoples were the targets of that Genocide, a War of Self-Preservation and Independence, waged as the Republic of Biafra 1967-1970, in which over 3.5 Million Easterners we’re killed” LNC, April 21, 2015. The LNC asks toady, January 5, 2019: “51 Years after ABURI, with the Caliphate Proprietors of One-Nigeria still bluntly…
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Mrs. Amina Zakari just said to the BBC, “I’m not [Buhari’s] niece.” That’s flat-out mendacious. And it puts a huge question mark on her honesty, probity, and trustworthiness. A person who can lie this casually about something as basic and as verifiable as her relationships is disreputable and unworthy of the responsibility she’s been entrusted with at INEC. So what is the truth? In a December 27, 2018 article, Mohammed Haruna, former Daily Trust columnist and current INEC commissioner, confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s biological sister was once married to Mrs. Amina Zakari’s father. That makes Amina Buhari’s niece. This…
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Amina Bala Zakari, mum of 5, a widow, was married to Bala Zakari Kazaure who passed away in 2000, is not related by blood to Buhari but is more than a niece or daughter. She is from Jigawa. Her father former perm Sec and Emir of Kazaure, Husaini Adamu, was married to Buhari’s elder sister. Amina ‘s mum was wife#1. Buhari grew up in the Emir’s house, Amina was there with Buhari from the outset. We hold no grudge against her appointment or her job at INEC, commissioner , AG Chair. She is a pharmacist, well educated, Queens College Lagos,…
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As it is common with this season, we have in the past two days been treated to a deluge of prophecies from religious clerics about what will happen this year in our country with specific reference to the 16th February presidential election. While many of these clerics have boldly told us what God told them about who will win the election that is barely six weeks away, it is interesting that only two candidates are in the agenda of God if one believes these prophecies: The incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. That should worry all…
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  There is a struggle going on in Nigeria. It is a struggle between two evils – one, less so with a touch of human face and the other, extremely so – aloof, insensitive, unfeeling, deeply hypocritical and incompetent on a level never before seen in our country. My dilemma is not so much with choosing between the two, but about some people’s warm embrace of the latter. Ordinarily, one would think that the less dangerous of the two would be more attractive to many people. But I have been shocked by some people’s blind craving for danger…
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Mrs. Amina Zakari just said to the BBC, “I’m not [Buhari’s] niece.” That’s flat-out mendacious. And it puts a huge question mark on her honesty, probity, and trustworthiness. A person who can lie this casually about something as basic and as verifiable as her relationships is disreputable and unworthy of the responsibility she’s been entrusted with at INEC. So what is the truth? In a December 27, 2018 article, Mohammed Haruna, former Daily Trust columnist and current INEC commissioner, confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s biological sister was once married to Mrs. Amina Zakari’s father. That makes Amina Buhari’s niece. This…
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It will be a task impossible to actualise for the Igbos, to follow the Yoruba’s Ideology. The Igbos are more republican by nature, which is why it is very difficult for you to tame such tribe. From the extensive research I did on the three major tribes, I find out that the Igbos are the most westernized, most enterprising, most astute, most dynamic, most intelligent (smart), and the most technically gifted tribe found among the black race. The Hausa/Fulani and the Yorubas have limitations. But an Igbo man doesn’t see any limitations. An average Igbo man is highly competitive, unlike…
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We live in a society where the ruling class has lost their moral compass and the prevailing trend is staying silent in the face of severe threats to our collective existence as a nation; recent events and the lamentable situation across the country is a matter of grave concern to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe, partisan affiliations or creed. In the past few months alone, the security landscape has further deteriorated with numerous reverses in the fight against terrorism. Nascent criminal activities like kidnapping have become daily occurrences, causing incalculable losses to our economy, and catastrophic damage to our fragile…
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Introduction. Recently, a shocking story came out to public knowledge about how Keystone Bank and 9Mobile were acquired in controversial circumstances by the business interests of one Alhaji Isa Funtua, a close friend of President Muhammadu Buhari, via the instrumentality of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). As the smoke raised by the scandalous story is still swirling in the air, with some public groups challenging the government to come out clean on what could be a serious dent on its anti-corruption stance, there is indeed no smoke without fire. For starters, it is a confirmed fact that the son-in-law…
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Most knowledgeable Nigerians do not need any religious con artist to tell us that Nigerians are in for torrid times in 2019, if we do not elect men and women , who can help us to wither the impending fiscal revenue disaster that stare us right in the face . Any smart ten year old kid, based on facts and realities on ground today in the world , Nigeria and Imo state can easily predict that Nigeria is about to enter her worst season in over 4 decades The only thing that can mitigate the impending doom to some great…
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We started last year by recounting how the good people of Imo state have been let down over the last one decade of failed democratic experience, which has done nothing but to deepen the unemployment, poverty, disenchantment and misery situation amongst the populace. We paid special attention /emphasis to the immediate past 8 years of most tragic governance experience. Interestingly, some other candidates of other political parties have started plagiarising our Imo Transformational Blue Print/Road Map, without understanding the hows, when, what capital/technical resources, timelines and deliverables behind our SWP. You can borrow zeal, but not the deep knowledge, hands…
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The emergence as President of General Muhammadu Buhari was heralded with optimism as a catalyst of much-trumpeted change in 2015. Many Nigerians wanted a change of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that was tagged as corrupt, and the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) was seen as the last resort for the masses to bring about the change. Unfortunately, since the inception of the APC-controlled government of President Buhari, Nigerians have not experienced any iota of change to justify their mandate entrusted to him as Commander-in-Chief of our dear country. The Buhari Government had made the fight against corruption its topmost priority,…
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In the same week in which former army chief Alex Badeh was shot to death on an open road, journalism professor Farooq Kperogi was ousted from Daily Trust, the newspaper where he cut his teeth 20 years ago and for which he had continued to write. The presidency immediately ordered the security agencies to “fish out” Badeh’s killers. They won’t, as sadly, the era of assassinations Nigeria first experienced under the PDP has returned. That era, like this one, had little room for justice. On the other hand, Kperogi himself identifies those behind the termination of his weekly Daily Trust…
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I don’t have the data. But the migration of the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria homewards for the Christmas season is one of the biggest migrations in Africa. I need to be convinced that there is any other nationality in Africa that does as much as Igbos in going to their ancestral land during the Christmas and New Year’. Reason is that the nationality is dispersed all over the world and there is a compulsion, almost a duty to visit home during this period The struggling Nigerian economy and the logistics of coming home has always been a damper. The roads…
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WE DEMAND AN OFFICIAL AND OPEN INVESTIGATION TO ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH – REVEALS ATIKU ABUBAKAR IN A NEW STATEMENT ‘The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has called on the appropriate authorities to urgently institute a probe to unravel the hidden faces behind the new ownership structure of multi-billion naira telecoms giant, Etisalat Nigeria, as well as Keystone Bank. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the Special Assistant to Atiku on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said such a probe was necessary in view of reports that members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s family now own…
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Dr. Bolali Akinyemi, The President, PVC-NAIJA. Report Of Our Findings As Requested. When they say Atiku is corrupt and that PDP being a corrupt institution which lacked the capacity to build governmental institutions to frustrate looting and corruption, it always beats my imagination. I don’t understand where that claim is coming from; EFCC, ICPC, TSA, BPE, NSIA, Burea of Pubic Procurement, Pensions Reforms, and BVN , etc all legacies of PDP are what? Let’s be retrospective and objective in our comments. Nigeria is far more than APC and PDP put together, a nationalist approach at striving for the country survival…
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I will take them to the market place, he says National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress(R-APC), Alhaji Buba Galadima said on Wednesday that the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari should stop laying claim to integrity. . Galadima, who spoke on Channels Television’s breakfast programmed, Sunrise Daily, said that he was ready to take the President and the APC to the cleaners if they continued to lay claim to integrity. . He said: “I can’t see any integrity whatsoever on the side of Mr, President. Which integrity? Somebody, who condone corrupt people around him? We know…
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Nigeria is holding Igbo region back, but many Igbos flourish in many different parts of Nigeria. This has been obvious in the last 25 or so years. The systemic running down of infrastructure in Igbo land, and deliberate underdevelopment of sea ports and airport in East Nigeria are clear policies to retard the emancipation of Igbos and our economic empowerment. The one thing the north and west fear most is that Igbos would disinvest from their regions, if the East is allowed the same freedom they have to develop. We are the ones who buy swamps in Lagos, drain it…
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The Young Democratic Party (YDP) governorship candidate in Imo State, Evang. Myke Ikoku has warned that the State can no longer survive under the heavy burden of career politicians whose only business is politics, while reiterating his commitment to build a strong State when elected as the next governor of the State in 2019. Evang. Ikoku made the declaration while speaking to newsmen on his chances in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the State. He said service to humanity is not rendered seasonally or should be done by compulsion, but service is one that should flow from the inside. According…
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For the same reasons the Apartheid Constitution of South Africa was not cured by Amendments, the Nigerian Unitary Constitution 1999 cannot be be cured by Amendments. The Mandate of the National Assembly is to make Laws according the dictates of the Constitution. That Mandate does not include Constitution Making which requires Constituent Powers. Constituent Powers reside exclusively with the Peoples of Nigeria as an incident of their Sovereignty. The Legislative Powers conferred by Election on the Legislature does not include Constituent Powers and unless the People specifically confer that Power on a Body with Constituent Powers (maybe by some kind…
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The sad and brutal assasination of the former Chief of Defence Staff and former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Alex Badeh, a day after President Buhari’s birthday, is a despicable and cowardly act. Not only was he an officer and a gentleman but he was also a profoundly good man who was criminalised, humiliated and treated in a malicious and unacceptable manner by a vicious, malevolent and evil government that had targetted him for villification and destruction right from the start. Despite the fact that he was subjected to a well-orchestrated and relentless degree of persecution from the…
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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a child of a peculiar circumstance and that peculiarity clearly reflects in its sloganeering. ‘APGA bu nke anyi’; or, ‘Nkea bu nke anyi’ has a very long history, which appears lost in long use as clichés. These slogans deeply resonate with the philosophy behind the formation of the Party between 2002 and 2003. Let us do a bit of historical tour de force. Those who were around and active in the buildup to the military hand over and enthronement of the current democratic dispensation in 1999, would agree that the PDP primaries was…
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Huge differences exist between the standards of living of the Nigerian elites and those of the deprived masses, who, so to speak, are his opposite number or counterpart. While the privileged elites are few in number, mostly educated and live in reckless opulence, the masses or ordinary citizens are uncountable and have poverty and misery as their first and second nature. However, despite the wide gulf in their standards of living, education and exposures to civilised world, both the elite or rich and the poor in Nigeria unrguably behave the same way when it comes to matters of their respective…
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With some two months to the almighty presidential election in Nigeria, one cannot but feel encapsulated in the frenetic build up to that day. Although for now, there seems a situation that can be likened to the calm before a storm, political watchers know for sure that it is all about the calm before the final push. But despite the slow motion build up, things have been happening, right from the moment the identities of the major gladiators and their running mates were known. There is no doubt that one which caused ripples across the country, was the announcement of…
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Since the advent of Boko Haram insurgency in 2009, the security situation in Nigeria has continued to worsen. In the last three and half years, it has intensified across the length and breadth of the country. This has been worsened by the brazen and wanton killings by herdsmen. On top of these are other forms of social vices such as kidnapping and ritual killings. Most people believe that these gory tales have been underreported even in the news media. The statistics are galling. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) about 1,061 persons were killed by Fulani militias in the Middle…
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“Failures are those who, despairing to rise into distinction by their virtues, are happy if others are depressed to a level with themselves. “ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 54. By any measure known to observers of any government, this administration is a dismal failure. Let me once again apologise to Nigerians that in 2011 and 2015 I was a fanatical promoter of Mr. President. On both occasions, it was my belief that once elected, he will recognise his own limitations and will appoint people who will fill the gaps in his capacities. But, like many…
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The people of Ovahimba and Ovazimba tribes in the Kunene and Omusati regions in Northern Namibia have an upheld culture that has defied western influence and agitation. With a population of over 50,000, the women engage in the daily activity of milking their cows, taking care of the children and other extensive duties while the men go hunting leaving, sometimes, for an extended period of time. These nomads’ wealth is determined by the number of cattle one has. A polygamous people, the Himba girls are married off to male partners selected by their fathers once they attain puberty. You cannot…
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When the presidential flag-bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku nominated Mr. Peter Obi as his running mate, joy was universal. In the political history of Nigeria, no such nomination was greeted with the type of elation with which Nigerians welcomed it. From North to South and East to West, the citizenry proclaimed Atiku’s choice as the best Nigeria has witnessed preparatory to general elections. Most Nigerians were excited by Obi’s nomination due to his performance as Governor of Anambra State. They believe, rightly, that teaming up with Atiku, they will replicate the Anambra wonder. As Nigeria’s Vice-President…
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As an incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari is coming into the elections in a strong position. By reason of access to government financial resources and control of coercive institutions, he has an arsenal of incentives with which to affect voters’ behaviour. An incumbent, by default, still possesses the biggest bully pulpit in the public space and the ability to commandeer national attention at any time and place of his choosing. Buhari’s support base – millions of voters in the north-west and in the north-east – is still intact. His populist message of fighting elite corruption and modelling integrity in public office,…
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A female governorship aspirant in Imo, Irene Ottih, has called for the cancellation of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship primaries in Imo, alleging her exclusion from the contest. A female governorship aspirant in Imo, Irene Ottih, has called for the cancellation of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship primaries in Imo, alleging her exclusion from the contest. Ottih made the call at a news conference at the party’s National Secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja. She said that she purchased and submitted her nomination and expression of interest forms but was not screened by the screening committee led by Mike Onolememen. Ottih…
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Defending looters such as Abacha, Babachir, Dambazzau, Buratai, Abba Kyari and others, is toxic, mephitic and septic, but it is not the greatest sin. Protecting looters like Amaechi, Fayemi, Fasola, , Maina, Baru, El Rufai is banditry, but it is not the greatest sin. Lies are not good, but they don’t constitute the greatest sin. False propaganda is atrocious, but it is not the greatest sin. Incompetence is very destructive, but it is not the greatest sin. Fraud is abominable, but it is not the greatest sin. Corruption is annihilative, but it is not the greatest sin. Nepotism is noxious,…
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· Mr. William M. Obiano Executive Governor of Anambra State · Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, PhD Executive Governor of Abia State · Mr. Rochas Anayo Okorocha Executive Governor of Imo State · Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Executive Governor of Enugu State · Engineer Dave Umahi Executive Governor of Ebonyi State · Barr Ike Ekweremadu Deputy Senate President of Nigeria · Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe Chairman of the Southeast Senate Caucus · Mr. Chukwuka Onyema Chairman of the House of Reps Southeast Caucus · Fifteen Members of the Southeast Caucus in the Senate · Forty-three Members of the House of Reps Southeast Caucus Sirs,…
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1. Dr. Oby Ezekwesili 2. Fela Durotoye 3. Atiku Abubakar 4. Omoyele Sowore 5. Donald Duke 6. Chief Obasanjo 7. Professor Charles Soludo 8. Pastor Tunde Bakare 9. Pastor Sunday Adelaja 10. Father Ejike Mbaka 11. Professor Pastor Yemi Osibanjo 12. Professor Tam David West 13. Professor Wole Soyinka 14. Rev. Chris Okotie 15. Professor Pat Utomi 16 El-Rufai 17 Dino Melaye 18 Lai Mohammed 19 Bola Tinubu 20 Rotimi Amaechi These people actually believed that Buhari had what it takes to lead Nigeria into a first world. These people went to school. Many are professors. Some claimed to have…
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The vice presidential debate was very interesting. Yemi was good. Peter did well. They reeled out statistics and numbers, facts and figures, analysis and projections. Atiku may try to perform like Peter. But can you imagine Buhari imitating Yemi? But Buhari must debate. They must ask Buhari about Aisha’s lamentations. About the APC that collects nomination money from aspirants without any intention of allowing them to contest. About the billions Aisha’s ADC fleeced from people. And about the two unelected men that actually runs the government. Buhari must debate. Buhari must be asked about the actual source of the billions…
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Duruebube made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, that voting for parties had been the trend in Imo and it must stop. He explained that for Imo to be great again, it’s electorate must learn to vote individuals not minding the political party they belong to but considering the pedigree, the credibility and the competence of the candidate. “Since the inception of democracy in 1999 in Imo people have been voting for candidates one party or two other parties. “And we have realised the voting strictly along party lines has not…
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Like his predecessor before him, Atahiru Jega, who had announced a skewed allotment of ‘new Polling Booths’, allocating much more of such booths to areas in Nigeria’s North East region where Boko Haram were supposedly in control of than was allocated to entire regions in the South and had also announced the discarding of the use of PVC Cards mid-way into the 2015 Presidential election (an announcement that was deliberately ‘heard and implemented’ by INEC officials mainly in some sections of the country), Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Mahmood Yahaya, buoyed by a feeling of impunity, has announced his…
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Since you walked the red carpets as a beauty queen, many of us have followed you. Though beauty contest is a mere competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, most contests have evolved to also incorporate personality traits, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges’ questions as judged criteria. So, becoming the African queen of your time, and even now, was no mean feat. It comes with real beauty, brains and brawn, no doubt. You really didn’t need any contest to prove you are one of the most beautiful women to walk the…
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As the general elections in Nigeria draw closer, i advise the electorate of Owerri federal constuency and Imo state in general to vote for individuals and not political parties which as we all know are mostly bereft of manifestos and ideologies. By embracing fanatic partisanship, we have become perfect examples of protagonists of the polarity of our political system. By voting blindly for party’s bereft of ideology, we are not acting intelligently; rather we are brainwashed into blindly and gullibly following a personal prejudice and escalating and fuelling an increasingly corrupt, counter productive and fraudulent system. While i can’t give…
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Signatories to the CUPP that adopted Atiku as presidential candidate last week Friday include the Action Alliance, the unregistered association called the Reformed- All Progressives Congress (APC), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Africa Democratic Party (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP), and All Grand Alliance Party (AGAP), Action Peoples Party (APP), and Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD), Better Nigeria Progressive Party, Democratic Alternative (DA), Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC), Grand Democratic Party of Nigeria (GDPN), Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), KOWA Party, Labour Party (LP), Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA), and Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN). The National Conscience Party (NCP), New Generation…
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Nde Owerri anyi of the 33 wards of Owerri federal constituency, we the “Hazie Owerri Campaign organization”, hereby introduce to you our Brother, friend, uncle and acquaintance, Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi who has put himself forward to join hands with other like minded progressives to reorder the pace of social, infrastructural and economic development of Owerri federal constituency, Imo state and Nigeria in general at the Green Chambers of the National Assembly. Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi is from the prominent Nnadi-Oforgu family of Umuadamoche, Umuelem, Ihiagwa in Owerri west LGA of IMO state. His father was the late Chief Sir…
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Political parties organize the terms of elite competition, and thus offer and defend alternative choices to voting citizens. Similarly, competition among political actors is only meaningful when it is aimed towards party institutionalization which is a function of organizational loyalty. Multiparty democracies need multiple parties, where one serves as an alternative to the others. Unfortunately, third World countries such as Nigeria face a major and persistent problem: incessant decamping among elected political actors and aspirant candidates which tend to impede democratic consolidation. Defection, party switching, party-hopping, decamping, is a situation where politicians cross from one political party to the other…
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For many of us, when a door closes, we feel our world has come to an abrupt end. No matter the reasons or circumstances for a closed door, it is important not to lose hope. Not to see an end, rather to look for another entry. I have a furnace level burning desire, a near calling to represent my people at the federal house and i am re-presenting myself as an additional choice for ndi Owerri. The recently concluded primaries have thrown up some choices for ndi Owerri, i am altruistically obligated to present myself as an extra choice for…
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…says, my support for Ugwuanyi’s re-election indisputable THE fiery Catholic Priest and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Catholic Prayer Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has predicted doom’s day for President Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, saying that none of them would win, without mentioning the eventual winner. Speaking during the 2018 harvest and bazaar celebration at his Adoration Ground in Emene, he said it was bad and scandalous before the Holy Spirit that after their prayers on Adoration altar made Buhari the President, he had refused to come and do…
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The Arabian Peninsula has a very rich history dating 6000BC. The peninsula was occupied by Bedouins…the modern day Arabs. The peninsula is mostly sandy desert, hard rocky mountains, and wetlands around the coastal areas. To say this is one of the most uninhabitable places on earth is an understatement! Summer temperatures are so high that you’d be convinced your brains were being melted within your cranium; winter temperatures are so low you’d pray for global warming day and night! The desert is filled with sand boas, cobras, scorpions, goats and camels! It is a most uninhabitable peninsula! The area was…
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The cliche “it is not over until it is over” very popular talk in the beautiful round leather game of football. The game of football is full of dramatics and histrionics and surprise is one huge factor. The above are also true of politics. Those who know will easily agree that twenty four hours is a long time in politics. Politics is characterised by concentric rings of conspiracies. Hence, you do not count your chicks before they are hatched in politics as anything can happen. No man is an Island…certainly, not in the roguish business of politics. Politics is a…
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Those who do not understand what Buhari is saying should realize that he is laying claim to the whole of Nigeria as the Estate of their Greatgrandfather Uthman Dan Fodio and he is showing the exit door to those who are not happy about the definition (ie the Constitutional Arrangements imposed on all by Caliphate-inspired Decrees), of that Nigeria. The only chance the rest of Nigeria stands today against the complete CONQUEST and COLONIZATION Agenda of the Caliphate is the immediate dissolution and unbundling of the failed, toxic and defunct Federation of Nigeria. The background to this mindset is that…
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Security of lives and properties is the number one priority , cardinal and focal point of the Tony Nwulu / Nnaemeka Obiaraeri UPP GUBER Team . We are not going to just mouth security of lives and properties without plans , policies and programs to ensure scientific , timelined and pragmatic execution of these promises as we have today in Abuja and Owerri . We shall be providing Ndi Imo with detailed execution framework and implementation strategic work plan that are actionable and measurable. To turn / make Imo State into the Las Vegas (truly and safe Ngwori center /…
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In my last write up, I postulated that four major power blocks have emerged in Imo in the jostle for Imo Governorship in 2019. They are; Uzodinma, Okorocha, Ararume and Ihedioha. Baring all unforeseen circumstances, one of the above mentioned power blocks will be Governor of Imo state come 2019.That is every other thing been equal. In this race to Douglas House, George Orwells Animal farm comes to mind where Orwell proclaimed in that epic book that all animals are equal but some are more equal than the others. So when I say that Uzodinma is not like others, I…
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I have taken time to read thru the historical perspective of the current political intrigues in Imo PDP, and the looming electoral backlash that may revisit the party if adequate safeguards are not put in place. What brought me into this conclusion was the character of the man that is currently at the storm of this political imbroglio. What started as a family misunderstanding, has snowballed into bitter and fierce political rivalry of national magnitude. I took my time to profile Dr. Fabian Ihekweme, a known and unrepentant Sen. Sam Daddy ANYANWU’s adherent and a strong character with the strength…
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Just like the bible quoted alcohol as being a mocker to the consumer, same way the social media has equally become a clog in the wheels of the aspiration of Emeka Ihedioha. Yes i give it up for the maverick politician called Emeka Ihedioha, i tag him as maverick because he is a political fraud expert whose strategy involves a long term fraudulent planning process which terminates at fair stages to those who are shallow both in reasoning and strategy interpretations. I say this because i have followed him right from when he represented my federal constituency at the green…
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On Monday, November 26, 2018, some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo State chapter, met in a Hotel in Owerri, where they formed a pressure Group called New Peoples Democratic Party N-PDP and issued a mandatory two-days ultimatum to the State Executive Council of PDP led by Chief Charles Ezekwem to meet their demands or else they pull-out of the party. Unfortunately, the men behind the N-PDP in Imo State are mainly the campaign team members of Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu representing Owerri zone in the Senate. Senator Anyanwu (Samdaddy) is a distinguished son of Owerri zone, who…
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Following reports earlier in the week that governors of the South-East elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were reluctant in throwing their full support behind the party’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; findings have revealed the reasons for this development . It all started last Saturday in Yola, the Adamawa state capital when a gathering of eminent personalities including some state governors visited the big city to felicitate with the PDP candidate on the occasion of the America University of Nigeria, AUN, Founder’s Day. Copiously absent from that gathering were the three governors of Abia, Enugu…
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The attention of the office of Distinguished Senator Samdaddy Nnaemeka Anyanwu has been drawn to the division in Imo State Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) with the emergence of a splinter group known as the N-PDP. Senator Anyanwu disassociates himself from this group, and views this latest development which is a direct response to the anger and displeasure that characterised the October 1st, 2018 governorship primaries of the Party in the the State as not only divisive but is capable of undermining the electoral fortunes of the party as we approach the next round of elections in 2019. Coincidentally, the promoters of…
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We must stop being frivolous, self centered and address the looming danger before our eyes! There is a crack in Imo PDP at the of verge of 2019 general elections and it will be absurd to be cosmetic about this! It make no political and common sense pretending that there is no crack while there is! There is a solution to every problem! The approach, spirit of give and take, humility and intelligence to resolve crisis is all it takes! PDP is an opposition party in Imo state and federal. We therefore need to be more coherent, United and together…
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Plans have been concluded by Igbo Bu Igbo, a leading Igbo sociocultural association, for its inauguration conference billed to hold in Enugu on December 1, 2018, under the chairmanship of Ven. Canon Prof Chinedu Nebo, Nigeria’s former Minister of Power, and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In a press release signed by Dr Law Mefor and Dr Mrs Bibiana Okereafor, Chancellor of the Group and Chairperson of the Planning Committee, respectively, the theme of the inauguration conference is “Ndigbo: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”. While the Deputy Senate President, Prof Ike Ekweremadu is the Special Guest of…
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Hundreds of members of the Imo state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday formed a New- PDP with Fabian Ihekweme as the state Chairman. The N-PDP, was formed in Owerri, capital of Imo state. The N-PDP has as Deputy chairman, Jerry Ogoke, Secretary, Ifeanyi Oguzie, while Johnbosco Ben and Christigonus Okoro as spokesperson and Organizing Secretary respectively.The legal adviser was given to Uche Igbokwe. They also gave the National Working Committee, NWC, of PDP, on or before 29th of November 2018, to resolve all the issues or face mass exodus of defection of members of the PDP to an opponent camp.…
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At an Interactive Session Held with Nigerians resident in France, November 12, 2018, on the sidelines of the World Peace Forum in Paris, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was reported by the Media as saying the following: “There are too many People talking lazily about Restructuring in Nigeria. Unfortunately, People are not asking them individually what do they mean by Restructuring? What form do they want Restructuring to take? Do they want us to have something like the Three Regions we used to have? And now we have 36 States and the FCT. What form do they want? They are just…
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Next three months before the general election will determine the direction Nigeria will go in the next four years—possibly eight years. The decisions, indecisions, actions and inactions of us, will shape the future of Nigeria. Coming presidential election, is not just a contest between the PDP (Atiku Abubakar) and the APC (Mohammadu Buhari) but a referendum on the type of nation we desire to have in the next four years. This article is not for Buharideens or Atikulators—those who have taken sides already, but for those still sitting on the fence; playing ostrich. This write-up is a wake up call…
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ON OCTOBER 6, 2018, I SOUGHT AND OBTAINED THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, TO FLY THEIR FLAG AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. TODAY, I AM FORMALLY PRESENTING MYSELF TO YOU AS THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF NOT JUST THE PDP, BUT OF THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF ALL NIGERIANS. THE SAD FACT TODAY, AS YOU KNOW, IS THAT TOO MANY OF OUR PEOPLEARE NOT WORKING AND ARE LIVING IN POVERTY AND INSECURITY. THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY IS BREAKING DOWN. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO DIVIDED AS A NATION.…
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I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87million extremely poor people and 13million children out of school in 2018, the mighty has indeed fallen and change has come. Now I know ‘all things’ are possible in a country ruled by incompetent ‘saints’. We have mass starvation in the North East, yet a clan of ‘Grass cutters’ are making their billions and smiling to the bank with the blood of hungry, homeless children,…
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This is copied from “FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938” Forum, posted by Chief Olurotimi Williams, a Lawyer. This is a most Logical Summation of facts and and a most brilliant deployment of Logic on the subject of Fulani guile, and what the rest us, particularly in the South and Middle Belt should do, in *Self-Redemption*. First is to reckon that the Caliphate-Imposed *”1999 Constitution”* to which the winner of any Election in 2019 will *Swear Allegiance* and by which he/she *Will Govern,* is the very instrument by which the Caliphate *Legitimize the Enslavement of the rest of Nigeria.* Many here would…
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China has an electric car manufacturing company, BYD. BYD is a major rival to America’s Tesla and actually produce and sale their electric cars at 50% the price of Tesla. As part of the policy program put in place by the Chinese government to ensure the production and sale of 2m electric cars in China by 2020, the Chinese government now subisdises buyers of these electric cars. Here in Nigeria we do not manufacture cars. The only indigenous company, that has invested so much to do a semblance of car assembly and production plant, Innoson Motors does not enjoy maximum…
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Polaris, Fidelity, UBA Uyo Branch Managers quizzed. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has begun a discreet probe into suspicious N865billion cash deposits allegedly made by former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio in three banks in Uyo. The monies are allegedly secretly kept in Polaris, Fidelity and UBA banks with each of the bank managers in the State serving as “unofficial” account officers of the money. “More shocking to the apex bank is the discovery that the monies were not paid into any known account but kept as ‘unrecorded’ cash deposits by the former Senate Minority Leader”,…
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For some personal reasons, I have refrained from commenting on the programmes of the current administration in Kaduna State. However, after careful observation of the ploy to ‘rename’ or ‘change’ the nomenclature’ of traditional institutions in Kaduna State by fiat, I cannot turn a blind eye to the matter given the imminent disaster such a move could bring, now or in the future. Even though I am NOT a historian by training, providence had afforded me access to a wide range of literature, about the area which is now ‘Nigeria,’ and can emphatically say much about the history of the…
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One thing as certain as tomorrow is that the incumbent Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha will from May 29, 2019 cease to be the Chief Executive of the State. However, what the Governor is not too sure of presently is who would be his successor. Before now, Okorocha had wished to produce his own hand-picked successor, which naturally is the dream of every Leader. Therefore, it is not a selfish act for Okorocha to work to leave a successor behind. Even tenants packing out from an old house to a new one, ordinarily try to bring the new…
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One of the most celebrated Emperors in Nigeria is fast losing his empire. He is working very hard to cling to it. But the empire is slipping. The once beloved Emperor is on a long lonely road. For him, sunset beckons. And dreams seem to be dying fast. And hard. The Emperor’s admirers are bewildered. They want to be woken up from what they think is a nightmare. But not a few people are laughing at him. And the chorus is: Serves him right. If anybody ever doubted the Law of karma, the recent happenings in Imo state proves them…
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will kick-start his campaign for president in the 2019 election through an address to the Nigerian people on Facebook at 12 noon on Monday where he will launch his policy document. In his address the PDP presidential candidate will present his vision for Nigeria and his action plan to achieve it as encapsulated in his policy document. The document will promptly be uploaded on his website (www.atiku.org) for all Nigerians to access. The decision of Atiku Abubakar to kick-start his presidential campaign with…
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In all honesty according to snippets from the grapevine, the crowd that greeted Senator Hope Uzodinma was said to be unprecedented. If it was a popularity contest, the governorship of Imo State would have been won and lost that day. The crowd that met Hope Uzodinma’ was definitely not a rented crowd. Who could have paid all those big men who brought more than 1,000 vehicles to welcome home their true liberator ? Wednesday, November 14, 2018 was a day of all days. The APC candidate in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma returned to the State from Abuja and the…
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I am constrained to write you this open letter for posterity! As you are aware I am a political activist, whistleblower and PDP stalwart with wide networks. I guide the privacy of my contacts and networks religiously and only use it to fight injustice for public interest. I have championed the campaign and struggle for owerri zone to produce the next governor since 2015 at the risk of my personal and long standing relationship with the Okorocha family and uche nwosu. You could imagine the material things I have lost for not supporting the present Imo first family and influential…
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Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise born former lawmaker and Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Nkemakolam Chukwuemeka Ihedioha was a guest of the Sunrise Daily, a program of the Channels Television between the hours of 8am to 8:45am. His discussion was centered on Imo politics, governance and development amongst other sundry issues. Ihedioha who represented Aboh Mbaise /Ngor Okpala federal constituency in the green chamber’s of the National Assembly for a period of 12 years displayed high sense of maturity, diplomacy and thoughtfulness in answering many critical questions thrown at him by the presenters. Most controversial questions which could…
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On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, the Face of Democracy in Africa, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be 61 years old. On that same day, he will be presenting his brilliant book, My Transition Hours, to the public. Finally, through that book, the world will get to see the man behind close doors and will, I hope, found out that no Nigerian leader has shown the level of self sacrifice, self control and restraint that former President Jonathan showed during and after his five year tenure as President. However, because of a long succession of brutal military dictators beginning from 1966 and…
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1) CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ABUJA – KADUNA RAIL TRACK: President Jonathan’s administration has constructed the new world class infrastructural project; the Abuja-Kaduna Rail is ready. [WATCH VIDEO ON YOUTUBE) 2) OPERATION AQUILA: Operation Aquila under President Jonathan has helped reduce up to 20 million litters a day in PMS subsidy fraud by using technology to track the movement of petroleum around Nigeria. 3) DRY SEASON FADAMA FARMING: Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of N26 billion for the 2015 dry season farming in the country, the scheme was launched in 2012 and has provided thousands of jobs.…
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Former Chief of staff to Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Uche Nwosu, yesterday said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomole, cannot stop his 2019 governorship candidature for APC, in the state. Nwosu spoke to newsmen in Owerri, following report that Senator Hope Uzodimma, name has been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as authentic candidate for Imo APC guber. He said he was shocked that Oshiomole, had disregarded court orders stopping APC and INEC, from accepting or submitting any other name other him( Nwosu) adding that at last he would defeat Oshiomole,…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak out on revelations of how N378 billion proceed from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas dividends was allegedly siphoned by the Buhari Presidency cabal, under sleazy oil subsidy deals. The party said Nigerians were startled by revelations of how the funds from the NLNG, an agency under President Buhari’s direct supervision as Minister of petroleum, was secretly lifted and spent without the appropriation of the National Assembly. Available intelligence shows that the Presidency cabal cornered the money under the guise of subsidy payments but…
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The federal government illegally diverted $1.05 billion (N378 billion at N360 to a dollar) sourced from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividend funds to secretly fund subsidy payment on petroleum products, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. The diversion details are coming amidst revelations from accusations the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has a $3.5 billion subsidy fund it is spending without appropriation by the National Assembly. In October, a motion by Biodun Olujimi, (Ekiti-PDP) had triggered debates in the National Assembly on the purported $3.5 billion fund alleged to be managed by the state oil company. But the NNPC…
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To call Nigeria a nation is an aberration. It has never been a nation at anytime. Maybe the thoughts were for it to be, but it simply couldn’t take off. To for a nation out of so many nation states, with varied and often conflicting cultural, social, hierarchical and historical antecedents, some basic agreements must be in place. None exists amongst us, none is allowed to evolve. And no patchment of nationhis created by fiat. On the way to making Nigeria a country, Britain destroyed the nation states from within and plunged a historical process down the drain of obsolescence.…
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The Chairman Of All Progressives Governors’ Forum and Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has threatened to dump the ruling party, the APC if his preferred Governorship candidate and son-in-law, Uche Nwosu is denied ticket. Governor Okorocha made this disclosure during the swearing in of new Commissioners in the state at Nicks Banquet Hall, Government House, Owerri. The two time Governor also vowed to dump President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election should any attempt was made to drop his son-in-law in the 2019 governorship election. According to him, President Buhari cannot win any election in the South East geo-political zone in particular…
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• …Ezeife, Ozekhome, others blast Fashola • …It’s an eye opener to Ndigbo in APC – Umahi Ohanaeze, Afenifere reply Fashola on 2023 Presidency • …ACF Sec hints at Northern participation in 2023 Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere, the apex socio cultural bodies of the Igbo and the Yoruba were yesterday united in chiding politicians from their ethnic zones advocating a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari as the fastest route for the presidency to come to their zones. The two groups in separate assertions said that they were more preoccupied with the restructuring of the country than the allotment of…
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•El rufai, Bello, reject being co-opted into anti-Oshiomhole camp •Okorocha schedules another meeting for Tuesday * •Sen Uzodinma APC candidate in Imo President Muhammadu Buhari was infuriated by the refusal of Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha; Ogun State governor, Sen Ibikunle Amosun; and Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Abudulaziz Yari to accept his solution to the crises over their choice of governorship candidates in their respective states. Governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, The trio, who had visited the President in Abuja to seek his support in their quest to oust the National Chairman…
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(Egbe-onu kwurukwugide Egbe-uche na Egbe-aka). 1. Lessons from the Bolshevik Revolution The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia popularly known as The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917, came in the wake of the First World War (WW1) in 1917. The Leader of the Revolution, Vladimir Illych Lenin, was in exile in Finland as those two momentous events were going on simultaneously. The Russian Ruling Class, popularly referred to as the Bourgeois Class, were facing two life-and-death fronts, namely, • the German Military machine that was ravaging Europe and pushing ferociously into the Russian territory, and • the Working class revolutionary push…
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Questions and Answers on Igbo I was going through the archives of the evergreen Nigeria Village Square and I saw an interesting post that tried as much as possible to clear some false misconception about the Igbos. Tighten your seat belt and read through. In this piece, I intend to focus on the Igbo as a people. The Igbo, their culture, civilization, and their contributions to world greatness, are, perhaps, among the most little understood, taught, publicized and recognized of all human knowledge. What is sometimes upsetting is the little the Igbo themselves, including their educated sons and daughters know…
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Let us understand the argument first! There is no doubt that on the basis of the provisions of sections131 and 138 of the Constitution, President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest the 2019 Presidential election. Even if he has only the Primary School Leaving Certificate, he would still be qualified to contest, having served in the Army for more than ten years, rising to the rank of Major General. That is the purport of section 138 of the Constitution interpreting what is meant by the equivalent of “at least a school certificate”, as used in section 131 of the Constitution.…
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“When they asked me to name what I want for me to stop I told them to open Calabar seaport, Port Harcourt seaport, and Warri seaport and allow direct flight from SE, what did they do ? they refused…..”. ‘Nnamdi Kanu, Oct 27th For the benefit of those, who do not understand what Restructuring is or who have deliberately refused to appreciate what fuels the Nnamdi Kanu phenomenon and why this struggle will not stop until justice is done here in Nigeria, kindly read a recapture of what Ndi Igbo, Afanifere, PANDEF, Middle Belt Forum and other Progressive Nigerians desire…
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A section of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faction popularly called Ndi Agburu and led by the governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha took to the streets of Owerri Monday to protest the automatic ticket which APC national leadership granted its national legislators. By that exercise some members of Owelle’s kitchen cabinet has been affected from realizing their political dreams having been displaced by those with automatic ticket. For instance, Prof. Nnamdi Obiareri and Kingsley Uju lost out to Senator Ben Uwajumuogu and Goodluck Opiah respectively. Uwajumogu and Opiah are died hard Coalition members. It is surprising that not until his ‘children’…
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Two former top executives of energy firm, Afren, were on Wednesday convicted after they were found guilty of money laundering offences in the United Kingdom. Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah were found guilty of fraud and money laundering offences from which prosecutors said they personally received more than $17 million in a case involving Oriental Energy, founded by Nigerian billionaire oil magnate Muhammadu Indimi. Prosecutors said Mr Shahenshah, 55, the former chief executive of Afren and Mr Ullah, 58, the oil company’s Texas-based former chief operating officer, laundered $45 million by deceiving the Afren Board into agreeing a $300 million…
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• …DIRECTOR OF LEGAL INEC, MRS. TOYIN BABALOLA FINGERED Following the indefinite adjournment of a case to determine who flies the flag of APC in the 2019 Governorship election in Imo State over a petition against the presiding Judge, Justice Orthman Musa, Governor Rochas Okorocha has offered N40 million Naira cash and another $50, 000 Dollars respectively totalling over hundred million to the Director of Legal, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Toyin Babalola to influence the removal of an in-house INEC lawyer handling the matter and replace him with a new lawyer that will do their bidding. According to…
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Ensure Comprehensive Reforms In The UN and Permanent Resolution Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
—Intersociety Urges UN & 20 Foreign Missions In Nigeria (Chima Ubani Center, Onitsha Nigeria: 23rd October 2018)-The gateway to world peace and security remains comprehensive reforms in the United Nations and facilitation of permanent peace in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The alternative to these is disbandment of the United Nations and its immediate replacement with a new world body founded on a new world order devoid of deepened signs and conducts of divided society including nuclear and small arms holocaust or threats of same, Intersociety said today in Onitsha, Nigeria in a statement summing up its special letters to the…
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Just 17 years ago, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they were bankrupt. This will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people in those industries don’t see it coming. It will happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Software disrupting 90% of traditional industries within 5-10 years. It is amazing to think that Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the…
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“We must suspend all discussions about building-up Nigeria, it’s Democracy, Economy etc, to first engage the more fundamental Question of : WHAT IS NIGERIA?. If we don’t, and we continue to build on that Nigeria defined by the rogue 1999 Constitution, we will wake up under the rubble of our folly” -LNC, October 23, 2018. Responding to the LNC prescription as encapsulated above, Tonye Fiberesima had posted on his Facebook Wall, suggestions to the effect that all the Groups from Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt, canvassing Restructuring, Self-Determination or some other Reformist Proposal for the distressed Federation of Nigeria,…
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Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be having a good laugh wherever he is. If he is just finishing a meal, he can afford to pick his teeth and belch from the deepest part of his biological system, and even turn up his nose as he asks for a glass of water. He can also look around and thank Karma for being kind to him, as he gulps down the water and reflects on the circumstances of the APC since he was shunted aside and Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State…
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……ERA May Back Atiku/Obi If…… Given the tensed and heated political atmosphere saturated in Nigeria at the moment owing to the incoming 2019 general election where Nigerians decide their fate, the Eastern Region Assembly (ERA) have taken it upon themselves, to call Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for a national discourse in London soonest since it is yet unclear to them what he means by restructuring, a relative term that could be seen from different lenses. This was made known to the press by the National President, Eastern Region Assembly (ERA), Ejike Ikezuagu after their highly powered meeting held last Monday in…
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Indications have emerged that the National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have shifted allegiance from his party’s Presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari to that of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar towards the 2019 Presidential election. The Southwest strong politician is said to be weighing his options as he may not be able to bear the humiliation that may follow, should antagonists succeed in pushing out the APC chairman, Adams Oshiomole, following growing call for his removal by Governors in the party. Jagaban, a close source said, is restrategising ahead of the…
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Many funny things have happened since the 2019 Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party; Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, made public his conviction that a former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, is his choice as running mate. This announcement was welcomed with excitement and appreciation by the peoples of South-east geo-political zone, both at home and in the diaspora. The joy Atiku’s announcement elicited was not limited to the peoples of the South-east. It even cut across the country. Mr Peter Obi’s choice by Atiku is, in every sense, unique. Apart from the fact that he is one of the…
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