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The Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District and front line governorship aspirant in Imo State, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy) has been in the news lately, mostly for the right and positive reasons. Three days ago, the ranking Senator of the federal republic addressed a press conference at his residence wherein he expressed displeasure at the extent to which politics of bitterness and the unguided utterances that accompany it have threatened to destroy completely what binds us together as a people. Addressing newsmen, the Ikeduru born Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics and Privileges said: “A few words spoken in anger can…
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Africa’s most celebrated novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe did posit in his book Arrow of God, that “there is no honour greater than the one bestowed on a person by his own people”. This axiomatic assertion by the late literacy icon, underscores and reinforces another age long expression that” east, west, north, and south, home is the best”. In Igbo cultural world view, any person conferred with a significant honour by his community or one whose presence evokes a kind of volcanic eruption and joy among his people, is considered “a son of the soil”, meaning, an illustrious and worthy son.…
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HATE SPEECH, IMO STATE, 2019 AND THEREAFTER I welcome you gentlemen of the Press and the guardian of our speech and actions to his press briefing. I have been moved to address and brief you on the thorny issue which is slowly and gradually destroying the very fabrics that binds our humanity and brotherhood, particularly in the charged and power game of politics. Permit me to therefore commence this briefing by quoting a favorite and guiding statement by one of the great philosophers which our late father and politician Late Sab. Obinna Anyanwu read out to me every Sunday morning…
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The three-pronged focus of the current administration resonated through the conversation, as President Muhammadu Buhari held a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister, Theresa May, on Monday at 10, Downing Street, London. “We campaigned on three major issues, to secure the country, revive the economy and fight corruption,” said the president. “We have elections next year, politicians are already preoccupied with the polls, but I am bothered more about security and the economy.” Recalling that Nigeria and Britain have a long history of cooperation on several fronts, President Buhari stated: “People ought to know how they arrived where they are,…
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The governor of Imo state, Chief Rochas Okorocha has on Monday said that he will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after his second term re-election. Rochas who disclosed this while hosting some political stakeholders at the state government house in Owerri, opined that, “Buhari will win again and again and after Buhari, the turn will come to south-east and it will be the turn of Okorocha”. Okorocha Speaking further he said “Nwosu is the least of the political children I have trained but I don’t know any of them as much as I have known Nwosu,” Okorocha said. “I took him…
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Nigeria Police Academy (NPA), Wudil, Kano is inviting suitably qualified Nigerian citizens for admission into it 6 th Regular Course degree programmes for the 2018/2019 academic session. Candidates admitted into the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil degree course will undergo a combined academic and Police training for a minimum period of Five (5) Years leading to Bachelor’s degrees and commission into the Nigeria Police Force as Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). Requirements. a. Candidates seeking admission into the Academy must be Nigerian citizens and must be between 17 and 22 years of age, and must have a height of not less…
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In 2015, we changed a govt under which human beings and businesses fared well. The South watched as the Northern oligarchy, with the help of Lagos media, demonised the govt of the day, manipulated the electoral process to install a radical Islamist and we said nothing. 1. He appointed our Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Air Staff from his tribe/religion, we said nothing. 2. He appointed our National Security Adviser from his tribe/religion,we said nothing. 3. He followed it up with appointment of DG DSS from his village/ religion, we clapped for him. 4. He appointed Chairman EFCC…
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April 14, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid may hit the rocks because of the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen in the middle Belt and some southern states. Statistics recently released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that the country as of January 2018 had a total of 73,944,312 registered voters. Herdsmen have killed hundreds of farmers, and other villagers in the Middle Belt states with thousands displaced this year alone. Reports are suggesting anger against Buhari who is perceived as being lenient with the attackers. The North Central (Middle Belt) has 10,586,965 voters with Benue which is…
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As reactions continue to trail Monday’s declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek re-election in the 2019 general elections, there are indications that some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would dump the ruling party ahead of the polls. The looming defection, it was learnt, is because the President’s confirmation of his second term bid has foreclosed the ambitions of some APC chieftains also eyeing the party’s presidential ticket. A party source, who disclosed this to our correspondent, said the presidential hopefuls, mostly outgoing governors of northern extraction and top ranking federal lawmakers, have to look elsewhere…
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The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has confirmed that the commission will not deploy the use of electronic gadgets to conduct voting during the 2019 general elections. Yakubu, who is also the President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) said this while briefing reporters at the end of the three-day International Conference on “ Opportunities and Challenges in the use of technology in Elections”, which ended in Abuja on Wednesday. The conference organized by the INEC, the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), the Electoral Commissions Forum of Southern Africa Development Countries…
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Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to say it as bluntly and categorically as possible, our dear country, Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is slumbering and snoring deeply. The Federal Government apologists are free to live in delusion and denial, but I stand by this obvious position. They can continue to deceive President Muhammadu Buhari and although he can continue to suffer under their hypnotic spell for a long time, he would one day wake up to appreciate people like us telling him the unadulterated truth. We were abused black and blue by the Jonathan guys in those days, but where…
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(Intersociety Nigeria: 5th April 2018) The National Assembly of Nigeria and the organized labour (NLC, TUC, etc) have been dangerously aiding the Executive Arm of central Government in Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to sink the country into irreparable and harmful borrowings/debts since mid 2015. By the end of this 2018 fiscal year, the central Government of Nigeria headed by President Muhammadu Buhari must have incurred total public debts of N10.6t or $34b; thereby surpassing or out-borrowing all previous central Administrations in Nigeria, put together, since 1861. Lagos State holds a national dark record as…
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The news of the sudden death of my friend, Hon. Independence Ogunewe, on Tuesday, March 3, 2018 came to me as a rude shock. We were both elected into the 6th Assembly in 2007 as members of the House of Representatives even though he had been there before me betwwen 2003 and 2007 in the preceding 5th Assembly. By providence, we became friends and partners in the struggle for a corrupt-free House of Representatives. Hon. Independence Ogunewe represented Ahiazu/Ezinhitte Federal Constituency of Imo State from 2003 to 2011 and he served as chairman of the House Committee on Aviation while…
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We have watched as the NNPC hiked our daily fuel consumption of petrol from 30 million litres to over 60 million litres, yet over 70% of the country suffer from one form of scarcity or another. To justify the above claim, they told us that they have spent $5.8 billion between December and February. If you do not know, this is N1.76 trillion ( 20% of the 2018 Budget). They claim they imported 9.8 million metric tonnes of fuel within this period. In 2017 alone, NNPC spent $28 billion to import fuel. Yet early last year, we celebrated “our refineries”.…
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For the life of me, I will never understand how former President Olusegun Obasanjo does it. When you think he is done, he has just begun. I have watched in utter amusement how he has, yet again, wangled his way into the front page of newspapers on a daily basis. I don’t know of any other former head of state elsewhere who has turned himself into the subject and object of national attention long after he has left power. Obasanjo is always there, always scheming, always screaming. It is his luck, I must say, but, as a mere mortal, I…
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The Chairman of George Uboh Whistleblowers Network [GUWN], Dr. George Uboh has sharply condemned the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who, a few days ago, released two lists containing alleged list of members of the People Democratic Party [PDP] that looted the treasures of the country. Reacting to the development, the foremost whistleblower in Nigeria, Dr. George Uboh said that the response, albeit belated, partially justified his position. Dr. Uboh, in several memos to ElombahNews, had always maintained that it is not just enough to recover loots without disclosing the looter as well as the amount recovered.…
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‘Fixing Nigeria’ is actually a book, written in an unconventional style and content. Of course the thrust is fixing Nigeria, a nation where everything seems to be going wrong despite huge government efforts and investments. Such missing links and how they could be articulated into a workable whole is what the book under review has strikingly identified. Negative growth still pervades the polity, despite the claim of the nation recently exiting recession. What exactly is the problem besetting a country once prided as the African giant? Many say it is leadership; some say it is the structural defects – unitary…
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I Have known Major Hamza El-Mustapha for 17 years. We have been together since our cadet days. He was with the former Head of State, General Sani Abacha. But in 1985, he had some problems with him. And was posted to Calabar. I was also posted to Calabar. I was there till the end of 1990 when I travelled to England. By the time I came back in 1994, Mustapha & Abacha had made up. It was Mustapha who told me that I was needed in the Villa (Aso Rock) by Abacha in 1994 and I went. Security at the…
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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 saw a diverse cultural display organized by Taraba state cultural groups which to him showed that state represents Nigeria in all aspect. He said the unnecessary killings which is a target to ethnic cleansing on the people of Taraba and Nigeria at large must stop,…
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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 but not about this university and I hope you will all forgive me. I will trace the history of the Igbo people from the middle years to the era of Trans Atlantic slave trade, the colonial and post-colonial era, relying chiefly on the works of…
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Some Senators are planning to resist the National Assembly’s plot to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on amendments to the Electoral Act, The Nation has learnt. Their major concern is to ensure that the President’s veto survives, especially the rejection of the new Order of Elections for 2019. No fewer than 46 of the 108 senators have signed a register to stop moves by the Senate to pass the amendments to the Electoral Act without Buhari’s assent. Besides, some supporters of the President are lobbying members of the House of Representatives to oppose the plot to override his veto. The lobbyists are…
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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 with the system of leadership where governors do not see themselves as answerable to the people, but to Buhari. It was such that even Buhari’s body language became an understandable summon to belong with the centre, and the APC, for developmental benefits. For this reason,…
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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 hoodwink Nigerians and orchestrate a great rescue and security prowess of a conquering general, all to push a 2019 reelection bid, is an unpardonable gamble with human lives. While this failed Dapchi drama remains a poorly crafted tragicomedy: a scam of no equal dimension, Nigerians…
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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 is that politicians psyche get corrupted because they are forced to invest by spending heavily for the primaries and during the campaigns and must recoup these moneys as soon as they get into position especially if money was borrowed or property was sold. This ugly…
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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 not free. Similarly, after the ceremony, Joe Biden, Obama’s deputy, carrying his own brief case, took the famous Amtrak Acela Express train to get back to his hometown Wilmington. Poor people! Aren’t they? Incredible examples of personal integrity by two highest ranking office holders of…
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“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 is now less than eleven months away. Challengers of incumbent office holders have been placed at a distinct disadvantage by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which had reduced campaign time to only three months. The professors who make up the bulk of INEC Commissioners…
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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 the composition of the reserves from today. For simplicity, let’s distinguish the two types of reserves as Paper and Cash Money. Out of the $43bn left by Obasanjo, around $11bn was Cash Money. Cash Money is money in the bank that you have not spent.…
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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, the news of his interest has received unprecedented endorsements, and opened a flurry of political alignments and realignments. According to findings by the the Media office of Senator Samdaddy Anyanwu, the acceptance is like a movement and rates slightly above the goodwill and acceptance Rochas…
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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 over the Telephone of Friday, the renowned human right activist cum social critic predicted an imminent leadership crisis in Imo APC which according to him will rob the party of any opportunity or likelihood of retaining power in the state come 2019. According to him,…
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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 the PDP. Nze Nwosu, who is a true believer in One Nigeria, is so upset with the lack of One Nigeria consciousness amongst the citizens hence he intends to restore that vital National Consciousness in the citizens for the ‘Good of our One Nigeria’. Nze…
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We have been depraved by the propaganda with which we built this administration. Governance is enamoured of deceit, and citizens’ gullibility elevated to a somewhat psychiatric display. How is it that 180 million Nigerians have lost the art of perceptiveness to the extent that we are sold to this Dapchi story? And that is in spite of the annoyingly ludicrous narrative that Chibok turned out to be: illiterate physics students, robust abduction returnees, venacular-speaking WASC candidates, military absenteeism on abduction date etc. We believed these arrant dross. We shouted “bring back our girls”. The international community crested this belief with…
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Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding is a relation between a person and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object or concept of knowledge sufficient to support and sustain intelligent behaviour, attitude or belief. A person understands something if he/she is able to gain idea of what the concept is all about, why it is being discussed or mentioned,…
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We have been depraved by the propaganda with which we built this administration. Governance is enamoured of deceit, and citizens’ gullibility elevated to a somewhat psychiatric display. How is it that 180 million Nigerians have lost the art of perceptiveness to the extent that we are sold to this Dapchi story? And that is in spite of the annoyingly ludicrous narrative that Chibok turned out to be: illiterate physics students, robust abduction returnees, venacular-speaking WASC candidates, military absenteeism on abduction date etc. We believed these arrant dross. We shouted “bring back our girls”. The international community crested this belief with…
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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 re-election in 2019. Speaking with Vanguard, he said Buhari had the right to contest election since there was no age limit, adding that the president is just 74 years old. He said, however, that the problem he has with the President had to do with…
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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 were contained in various line items and expenditure heads, of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public before now. With the new revelation, it was gathered that each Senator takes home a N45m quarterly allowance. According to Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi…
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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the National Assembly to stop taking any further actions on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, which seeks to provide the order in which the Independent National Electoral Commission must conduct the 2019 general elections. The restraining order issued by Justice Ahmed Mohammed is to last till March 17, which is the next hearing date. Delivering ruling on an oral application by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), lawyer to the plaintiff, Accord Party, Justice Mohammed held that the restraining order was made to preserve the substance of the main suit. President Muhammadu…
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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 prevailing, deplorable conditions. He added that “with decrepit infrastructure across the state and in particular, in our rural areas, we must rise to the challenge of ensuring that government is held accountable for providing quality, durable roads; good hospitals, conducive environment for learning in our…
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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 are reaping what they sowed by spreading fake news that Mr Ikedi Ohakim as Imo state governor flogged and detained a catholic priest. He said, when Ikedi Ohakim was the governor of Imo State his power drunk dispatch riders forcefully evicted a catholic priest from…
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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 of the Communal Sacrifices that characterized the Igbo State Union. It was this Spirit that founded the well established *Igbo Apprenticeship System* (Igba Odibo/Igba boi), in which the Master Set up the Apprenticed *”boi* after a few years (Hoping we know the cadence of “boi”,…
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…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 the north must stop giving the impression that it owns the country. He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari came into power on the basis of an alliance and called on the north to respect it. He said: “We must not lose sight of the fact…
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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 honoured to have been elected by my peers as President of the International Criminal Court. As I take up my duties, I feel encouraged that I am able to rely on the wide experience of the two Vice-Presidents, Judge Robert Fremr and Judge Marc Perrin…
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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 Muhammadu Buhari from the South-East. Kalu said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had done well in effectively carrying out the ongoing continuous voters’ registration exercise. The former governor addressed journalists at his Igbere, Bende Council country home, of Abia State, shortly after hosting the…
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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 political gladiators have made name for themselves both at the state and national levels, hence, no one can doubt that the two giants from Owerri Zone are qualified and ripe to govern Imo State. While Ihedioha had risen to the height of Deputy Speaker of…
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• 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 function under the auspices of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream. The Senator who is a frontline aspirant in the PDP guber primaries explained that his decision to join the race was borne out of the desire to salvage the situation in the state in…
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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 reason with him with a view to addressing perceived misconceptions about him. I see nothing tangible in it. Therefore, I have concluded that surprisingly, some people who are so convinced they know him prove that in real terms they do not know him well enough.…
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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 and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that could make last Tuesday’s endorsement of the NWC a pyrrhic victory. That is if the President resolves to seek a second term, despite health and age concerns. Buhari, who was inaugurated as President at the age of…
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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 insensitivity of the past administration which looked the other way while the Chibok girls were taken away in 2014 and held in captivity for over three years. “Due to our commitment, over 100 Chibok girls have been rescued and reunited with their families, sent back…
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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 that Nigeria’s president is totally negligent, received no security updates and did not care to read the headlines till he visited the state, is tearfully painful and deserving of nothing less than impeachment. Buhari must be eased or forced out. He is either too old,…
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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 shortly after the Parties returned to Nigeria from Ghana and that it took a brutal War of Genocide between 1967-1970, to force the break-away Biafra back into the Nigerian Union. It is yet another fact of history that the triumphant side in that Nigeria-Biafra War…
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Beloved Nigerians, when I appeared on AIT’s Focus Nigeria with Gbenga Aruleba on the 29th of January 2017 and exposed amongst others that : 1. Global Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (GINL) was no longer owned by Pramod Mittal but a Nigerian named Alhaji Musa Bello 2. That Pramod Mittal’s appearance at the August 1st 2016 re-concession of NIOMCO was a sham to deceive Nigerians. 3. That as the contract was being signed at the V.P’s office by the “fake” owner Pramod Mittal; the real owner Alhaji M. Bello was having tea with Gov. Yahaya Bello (GYB) of Kogi state right in…
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..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 his support for his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, to succeed him as governor in 2019, was based on age and ability to move the state past his achievements. The Imo State Governor said of all that have indicated interest in his seat, only Nwosu,…
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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 that pushing for his son-in-law, Ugwunba Uche Nwosu, to replace him is an indirect way of doing that, which is unacceptable. That was basically the beginning of what caused the fracas at a funeral mass at St Michael’s Catholic Church, Ngwoma, Saturday 3rd of March.…
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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 leaders, Chief Sam Anokam, insisted that the institution must excise certain parts of the acquired land, stating that the institution acquired human settlement, in Ihiagwa and Eziobodo, as well as Owerri West Local Council of the state in neglect to the National Universities Commission (NUC),…
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. *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 a tetanus vaccine administered by the government in 2014 and 2015. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: The controversy began coming to a head in 2016 when Agriq-Quest Ltd, a Nairobi-based pharmaceutical company got in a dispute with Kenya’s Ministry of Health over their tetanus and polio vaccinations. A…
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“Fellow Nigerians, finally, we have dutifully intervened to save this nation from imminent collapse. We therefore expect all Nigerians, including those who participated directly or indirectly in bringing the nation to this present predicament, to cooperate with us. This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future generations, have no country other than Nigeria. We shall remain here and salvage it together.” Those who are old enough would remember these words. They were the concluding statements made by the then Major General Muhammadu Buhari on his acceptance of the role of the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an amendment to the excise duty rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco with effect from June 4, 2018. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, said the new excise duty rates were spread over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020 in order to moderate the impact on prices of the products. The minister said the new excise duty regimes followed all-inclusive stakeholder engagements by the Tariff Technical Committee of the Federal Ministry of Finance with key industry stakeholders. According to her, the upward review of the excise duty…
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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 the heroic and honorable resignation of Bishop Okpaleke as his sacrifice of love for the faithful of Ahiara, no, far from it. Now this is it. On 28th February 2018 Pope Francis announced the creation of a new catholic diocese in Nigeria. The Pope named…
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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. No Communication satellites, and many other creations of the PDP. Bellow are brief list of PDP achievements: **Abuja National Stadium. **Revamping of the Railway Sector. **Launching of the first Satellite into space. **Launched the first Unmanned Drone. **Built 150 Almajiri Schools Across the Northern States.…
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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 superintended the purported impeachment leaves me little choice than to reply. The least I can say is that I am very shocked at Chief Uwajimogu’s amnesia or ignorance of the facts of my purported impeachment. However to set the records straight as regards points and…
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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 win acceptance and preserve his interest, (whatever that may be). But in reality what we have is over extrapolation on the negative side and it is wrong. Where Igbos did what is right and noble by all acceptable standard measures across the world they blame…
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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 to run for governorship, some for senate, federal house and even state house elections. After prayerful consideration and family discussions, i have decided to accept this challenge before me, by running for the House of Representatives seat to represent Owerri federal constituency of Imo State…
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•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 President Obasanjo doctored the nation’s constitution to create the current problems the country is facing today. He also spoke on the near hopeless situation of the Igbo and the tough conditions through which an Igbo can become Nigeria’s president. Nigeria doesn’t seem to be working,…
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* 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 the party. He said the PDP in Imo State is too large to be owned by one man or for one man to dictate what happens within the party. Flanked by State party executive members and faithful, Ezekwem said the party is a broad based…
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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 rise and defend ourselves from all Infidels and all Muslim uniformed men must stand and defend Muslims at all cost for every one should know the road to his or her fathers home. We have sent our message to the President and I was assured…
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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 in Italy since the ’70s, long after leaving the shores of Nigeria. He was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in northern Italy. “Friends, it is with great emotion that I inform you that I was elected senator of the Republic!” he said in…
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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 I here?” What is your true mission on earth? Why do you do the things you do? What drives your passion? To live, up to this moment, is the greatest privilege of life – enjoy it. Make best use of the time. Some would have…
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A statement from the United States Government caught my attention this morning, I didn’t miss its emphasis and language, the statement said in reference to 2019 elections in Nigeria , “we are focusing on how to do a peaceful transition and a democratic transition for Nigeria”. I thought the language was unusual. Previous governments of the United States, Obama’s for example would say, “ we want to see free and fair elections in Nigeria”. Study the language closely, it is clear the Trump administration has transition at the heart of the 2019 elections. And what does transition mean, “the process…
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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 of your head. “If I hear one more time about slavery in Africa …” We often seem to be a people with little patience for history or interest in the impact of past events on present realities. But time isn’t linear and we aren’t always…
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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 here all the time. Those who think that we operate in democracy here, must be ignorant of the meaning of Democracy, even by the simplest definition of democracy “Government OF the people, BY the the people and FOR the people”. Nigeria does not pass the…
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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 said the United States recognizes that Nigeria would be the third most populous country in the world by 2050, and as such was worried about the complex political issues and ethnic and tribal issues and security issues it is currently contending with. He said, “As…
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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 that they took 1 billion USD from government coffers a few weeks ago and claimed that they wanted to use it to fight. The truth is that they have told us yet another lie and anyone that believes the fanciful tale that the money was…
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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 not the first on the Archbishop and the Catholic Church by same agents of the Imo State Government occurred during a requiem mass for the late mother of Chief Alex Mbata held at St. Michael Catholic Church, Ngwoma, Obube Owerri North LGA, Imo State and…
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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 very obvious lies and a revision of history. If nothing else justifies the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index rating which revealed that corruption in Nigeria has worsened under President Buhari, this latest Presidential Speech does. In psyching up the APC for 2019, the President, obviously…
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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 maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. 1. In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatest…
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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, we must consider how we began our journey and be brave enough to chart a better course where we find necessary. This is the most crucial time in the life of our nation and, whatever we decide now may well determine our trajectory and our…
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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 us to demonstrate an informed sense and not deceive ourselves into thinking that the national cake is big enough for everybody. The truth is that, the cake will not be enough because, it is exhaustible. Our country’s unpleasant situation at the moment is testament that,…
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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 we will not allow the cynics’ opinions become our reality. Our destiny is in our own hands. Let us decide now that, we will no longer agree to remain stagnated nor pushed backwards by old, retrograde ideologies. We are now required to move forward with…
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I brought it to the attention of PDP chairman Prince Uche Secondus on his facebook page, the need to stop APC from registering minors for the 2019 election and the need for PDP to use the 2014 Confab report as a tool for campaign. Now, over 40 million votes has been secured for PMB by INEC before the 2019 elections via registration of minors and foreigners. This will deal a devastating blow on the opposition in the coming elections if nothing is done about it. Yes, Prince Uche Secondus condemned the non-inclusive 8 man panel set-up by INEC to investigate…
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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 Ganduje, offsprings of Abiola Ajimobi, and Ibrahim Ganduje, governors of Oyo and Kano states, respectively. Also in attendance was the president, and high-ranking members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state. Bakare says the wedding, which came two…
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“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 will not read the following account about President Muhammadu Buhari’s so-called “war against terror” in Nigeria’s mainstream media because they have mostly been compromised and intimidated by the Federal Government. You can however read it in this two-part essay if you are interested in knowing…
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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 of the meeting which lasted for hours. It was gathered that the parley may not be unconnected with recent developments in Nigeria. These include the Boko Haram resurgence; herdsmen/farmers clashes resulting to numerous killings in Taraba, the home state of Danjuma, Benue, Plateau and other…
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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 English culture over the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish”. As a student of English and European history and one that was not only trained and educated by the British from the age of 7 but that is also highly conversant with their system and…
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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. “Kingdoms that accommodated Fulani herdsmen in the past were eventually overthrown by the Fulani. In all situations, these herdsmen took up arms and fought for a Fulani leader to overthrow the kingdoms that accommodated them and their cattle. Examples in history: The first Fulani Jihad…
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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 name of campaigning for President Muhammadu Buhari. Although the Presidency through the spokesman, Femi Adesina has debunked the claim that a Director General has been appointed with campaign councils, for the purpose of re-electing Buhari, the people of the South East, especially those in the…
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A gathering of pro-democracy and civil rights groups in the five states of the South-East geopolitical zone under the auspices of Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Good Governance Organizations, SBCHROs, has published the result of its fieldwork which returned Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state as the Worst Serving Governor in the South-East. The exhaustive project also singled out the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the most unpopular and unfriendly federal government among the people of the South-East, as it named the Nigerian army and its 82 Division in Enugu as the most atrocious security organization in…
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The peace moves in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have run into a hitch, with the chief peace maker, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accusing the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of frustrating the reconciliation efforts. He said the chairman had compounded the challenge of reconciliation by taking “improper unilateral decisions” on issues affecting national and state chapters. Tinubu added that Odigie-Oyegun had refused to cooperate by delaying the release of information critical to the resolution of crises in state chapters. The former Lagos State Governor made the observations in a February 21 letter to Odigie-Oyegun, titled: “Actions and conduct…
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Geneticists claim rising cases of deceptions, infidelity and adultery among couples have made the need to popularize Deoxyribonucleic Acid testing otherwise known as DNA test inevitable, BUKOLA ADEBAYO writes Deoxyribonucleic Acid, also known as DNA testing is still not a very popular procedure in Nigeria. However, experts say there is a need to increase awareness on the dynamics of the test . The importance of DNA testing came to the fore after a Dana plane crashed in Lagos on June 3 killing all 153 passengers including crew members on board and others on ground. Most of the bodies were burnt…
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Imo State is said to be the fifth richest State in Nigeria, blessed with abundant mineral and natural resources; blessed with favourable physical environment and human resources. Since the creation of the State in 1976, successive administrations have undertaken various developmental planners, policies and projects, either aiming at reviving or restructuring the economy to generate revenues for the state and also create employment opportunities for the teaming population of the unemployed. Most of these stood and produced the desired results during the eras of their initiators and immediate successors and later either become quasi-effective or moribund. These administrations failed due…
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A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political process and former Cross River State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke. Last Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Duke gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of pro-democracy advocates, including the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), of the modus operandi of State Chief Executives and Resident Electoral Commissioners to thwart the mandate of the electorate, not just in states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but all the others. In his opinion, it is not just a…
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Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he should be examined by a psychiatrist if he joins the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) masterminded by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo recommended the coalition in a letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari in January. The elder statesman had asked Nigerians to rally round the movement, saying neither the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could give Nigeria the leadership it deserves. But speaking in an interview with BBC Yoruba, Soyinka said the coalition is not meant for someone like him. “Me? Obasanjo would establish a group and I…
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Nigeria’s leading carrier, Air Peace on Friday set a new record with the arrival of its newly acquired Boeing B777-200 aircraft, becoming the first and only Nigerian airline to procure and register the brand of airliner in the country. The development is coming weeks after the airline took delivery of two Embraer 145 aircraft on January 31 and February 9 respectively and made history with the setting up a subsidiary, Air Peace Hopper to organise its short-haul operations in line with its no-city-left-behind project. The 274-capacity aircraft, which touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 3.45…
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The clash between the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and Kaduna State Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i over 2019 was the reason behind the boycott of the Kaduna Centenary celebration by northern governors and some prominent traditional rulers, this newspaper reliably gathered. Multiple sources at the Kaduna Centenary secretariat told our correspondents that the anniversary was almost sabotaged by the Sokoto monarch, who is the spiritual head of Nigerian Muslims over irreconcilable differences with the Kaduna state governor over 2019 presidential elections. “The fact remains that the northern traditional rulers, the state governors are sharply divided over the 2019 presidential…
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Imo State is said to be the fifth richest State in Nigeria, blessed with abundant mineral and natural resources; blessed with favourable physical environment and human resources. Since the creation of the State in 1976, successive administrations have undertaken various developmental planners, policies and projects, either aiming at reviving or restructuring the economy to generate revenues for the state and also create employment opportunities for the teaming population of the unemployed. Most of these stood and produced the desired results during the eras of their initiators and immediate successors and later either become quasi-effective or moribund. These administrations failed due…
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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 not know that this Constitution was commissioned in 1975 by the *”Butcher of Asaba”* himself, Murtala…
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Without the North, Nigeria and Nigerians would be reduced to nonentities. In 2005, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank forecast that Nigeria will be the 20th largest economy in the world by 2025 and the 12th largest by 2050; ahead of Italy, Canada and South Korea. Having identified Brazil, Russia, India and China as four emergent powerhouses of the world economy referred to as the BRICS; it included Nigeria among “the Next Eleven” countries of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam. At the U.S.-Nigeria Trade and Investment Forum organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation…
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Tinubu made the allegation in a letter written to the president, vice-president, senate president and speaker of the house of representatives and dated February 21, 2018, reports online news platform, TheCable. President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved members of the APC, but the former governor accused Odigie-Oyegun of contravening the spirit of the discussions both of them had at the party secretariat when Buhari gave him the assignment. Tinubu’s letter read in part, “Disappointment greeted me when I discovered that you had swiftly acted in contravention of the spirit of our discussions. Instead of being a bulwark…
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Northern Elders Forum appoints new leaders, condemns insecurity in the country – A meeting was held by the Northern Elders Forum to discuss some critical issues. – Lamenting the state of insecurity in the country, the Forum condemned kilings going on in the north and other parts of Nigeria – It promised to work to ensure that peace returns to the north and to Nigeria The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, February 21, in Abuja, to deliberate on critical issues concerning the organization and the nation. At the end of deliberations, NEF approved the new…
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In the run up to the 2015 General Elections, the All Progressive Congress (APC) hired a vicious media propaganda team with the objective of misleading Nigerians, planting concocted stories about opponents and destroying the foundations of the growth of Nigeria. They achieved this ugly goal. Through high level political blackmail and propaganda, the APC was able to gain control of the Federal Government, majority of states and the National Assembly. One of the key tools in the APC Propaganda Machine ahead of the 2015 General Election and in 2018 is Daily Trust Newspaper. This newspaper was key to plunging Nigeria…
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The Devil is most successful amongst people who believe he does not exist. That is the situation around this debate of whether or not there are Masters and Slaves in the Nigeria of now. Those who reduce everything to spurious academic arguments and vacuous postulations are at liberty to amuse themselves but there are some of us who already have the monster enslaving Eastern Nigeria in a pinfall and chokehold and there will be no letting until that monster is fully dead and interred, thereby freeing its many Captives starting with Eastern Nigeria. That monster is called “One-Nigeria”. HERE ARE…
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The Archbishop AJV Obinna of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri on Sunday, February 18, 2018, took a swipe at Governor Rochas Okorocha in his 2018 Lenten message to the Catholic faithful, lamenting the incessant demolition of markets and people’s properties by the Okorocha government, even as he said that Governor Okorocha is inflicting pain and suffering on the people of Imo State. The Archbishop also cried out againat what he said was anti people policies of the government, praying God to console the people in the face of biting hardship and poverty in the state. In his letter which was…
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