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Nine states including Delta, Ogun and Adamawa are to wait for now before collecting their own share of the third tranche of the Paris Club refunds, The Nation leant last night. However, 27 other states have collected their dues in what promises to be a rosy Christmas and New Year seasons for public servants in the benefitting states. Much of the funds is expected to be utilized to offset arrears of workers’ salaries and pensions. The release of the refunds to the states is in keeping with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari that the states should get the money…
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The British Government has again said it does not support the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, or any other secessionist group in Nigeria. The British Government said this while also stating that the issue of restructuring would be a major determinant in the 2019 general elections. It said it would not support anything that could disintegrate Nigeria. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, said this when he visited the management team of Joy 101.9 FM in Jos. Arkwright said, “We are in favour of a united Nigeria; we do not support IPOB, we do not support secessionists. “Equally,…
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The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has said 66 per cent of inmates in prisons are awaiting trial. Jaafaru Ahmed, controller general of the service, said this at the quarterly meeting of the Penal Reform Media Network (PERMNET) in Lagos. Represented by Francis Enobore, NPS spokesperson, he said a total of 72,384 inmates are currently in prison across the country. “As of today, December 15, 2017, the current population of prisoners in Nigeria is put at 72,384 while 48,527 of the figure are the awaiting trial inmates,” he said. “The awaiting trial inmates therefore constitute about 66 percent of the prison…
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December 18, 2017 The Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) wishes to inform the world that Imo State has unfortunately become a fascist state where freedom of expression and assembly is no longer guaranteed. We say this because of the ugly incident that happened this morning where the Imo State government used the police to brutally attack peaceful protesters. We peacefully commenced our protest this morning from Wethral Road Roundabout in Owerri, Imo State, and were accosted by heavily armed policemen who demanded we stop because the commissioner of police did not approve the rally. We insisted that we must…
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If Nigeria restructured into provinces – 1) Northern Province 2) Middle Belt Province 3) Oduduwa Province 4) Eastern Province 5) Niger Delta Province (Atlantic) Then Central Government at FCT. Here are 9 positive things that could happen within 5 years (primarily due to inter-province competition) 1. The first province to experience economic explosion would obviously be the Western Province. The Oduduwa Master plan will be revealed. There would be trans-regional 4g internet fiber connection/rail/subways/highways/power grids etc. Yoruba will become the 2nd official language. They are relatively united. They have oil. They own academia. They have mega corporations. The WP would…
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The federal government has made good its promise to release the balance of the Paris Club refund to states, as 27 states of the federation have so far benefitted from the latest refunds. The Director, Home Finance of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Olubunmi Siyanbola, disclosed this in Abuja saturday while briefing journalists on the outcome of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting for the month of November. Siyanbola noted that 27 states had so far benefited from the new tranche of refunds, with nine others yet to receive their share of the Paris Club refund. She explained…
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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has distributed N609.95 billion from the federation Account to Federal, States and Local Government as revenue generated in November. This is N77.25 billion more than what they shared in October, Mr. Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation said. The distribution is also timely as it will enable states and local councils to pay workers ahead of Christmas, in the opinion of the Chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum, Mr Mahmoud Yunusa. Idris said that after the cost of collection deductions by FIRS, Customs and DPR, the Federal Government received N248.2 billion, representing 52.68 per…
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The Leaders’ Conference and Inauguration of the New Executive Council of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) was held on Tuesday, 12th December, 2017 at Ajuji Hotel, Abuja, FCT. The Conference was attended by leaders and delegates from the following states of the Middle Belt Forum: Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Southern Borno, FCT, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Southern Kebbi, Kaduna, Gombe, Taraba and Southern Yobe. There was an opening remark by the outgoing President of the MBF, Prof. Jerry Gana; a presentation by Dr. Obadiah Mailafiya, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank and development economist; as well as a lecture…
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Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, has expressed worries that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may oust the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progress Congress (APC) government from power in 2019. Amaechi said unless relentless prayers are offered to God ahead of the next general elections, the APC may lose its grip on power at the poll. “If we (APC) don’t pray, 2019 will be very far from us. If we don’t win 2019, it would be your fault, not anybody else. We go to God because he answers. We pray, and then go home and work,” the minister said in…
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12th December, 2017 THE EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVE, 21 CRESCENT, OFF CONSTITUTION AVENUE, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, ABUJA. Your Excellency, Prolonged Detention And Unjust Denial Of Medical Attention For Benjamin Madubugwu We are solicitors engaged by BENJAMIN MADUBUGWU called “our client” on whose standing instruction we write this letter. Our client was arrested on 28th day of October, 2015 from his home town in Ubuisiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State by the Operatives of the State Security Services in a Gestapo style operation and moved to Abuja, Nigeria Federal Capital Territory and consequently charged to court on a two…
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South East Buhari 198,248 Jonathan 2,464,906 South South Buhari 418,590 Jonathan 4,714,725 *South West* Buhari 2,433,193 Jonathan 1,821,416 *North Central* Buhari 2,411,013 Jonathan 1,715,818 *North East* Buhari 2,848,678 Jonathan 796,580 *North West* Buhari 7,115,199 Jonathan 1,339,709 As we prepare for another general election come 2019, it is important that we analyse the results of 2015 very carefully. Contrary to popular sentiment that the *South West* gave Buhari his victory, It was obviously not the South West at all. Their votes were very easily cancelled out by the votes of the South East alone, not to talk of the massive support…
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Chris Imafidon claims to be a genius and a professor at Oxford University and has been making the interview rounds in Nigeria, making sure to wear an Oxford keychain, which you can buy for 10 Pounds from any Oxford University souvenir store, on his neck. PUNCH interviewed him and ran a glowing headline and story on him afterwards. Then the University of Ilorin invited him to deliver its 2017 convocation lecture–the respected University of Ilorin! Turns out Imafidon is our latest high profile international academic scam artist, in the tradition of Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo. An explosive investigative report…
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Prince Aminu Sanusi Lamido, the first son of His Highness Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II and the grandson of the late Emir Ado Bayero, has become a police officer. Prince Aminu born in 1991 joined the Nigeria Police after he graduated from University of Buckingham united kingdom with Bsc accounting after which he left for Riyad the kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he studied Arabic before coming back to Nigeria and did his NYSC in Lagos. The prince then joined the service of the Nigeria Police, Plateau Academy where he passed out with the rank of Assistant Superintendent of…
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The federal government has released a State by State breakdown of another tranche of Paris Club refund of over-deductions on Paris Club, London Club Loans and Multilateral debts on the accounts of States and Local Governments from 1995-2002. A statement from the federal ministry of finance said these payments which totalled N243, 795,465,195.20 “were made to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory upon the approval of the President on May 4, 2017.” Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Kano and Rivers states received the largest disbursements of N10 billion each. S/N STATE AMOUNT PAYABLE (NGN) 1. ABIA 5,715,765,871.48 2. ADAMAWA 6,114,300,352.68…
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One billion dollars is about N365 billion, that is a whopping N1 billion everyday of one year. Is it world war 3? You see, boko haram has become quite a lucrative political and economic venture for the workers of change. In 2015 presidential elections, boko haram was a lethal weapon in their political arsenal and after assuming power, it has remained a sumpuous bait for pacification of the masses: each time the country is in a plight, if orphan loots are not discovered, boko haram will be defeated or Shekau’s flag and quran will be captured or chibok girls will…
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The Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) has noted with dismay the plot by the Imo State government to use the Imo state command of the Nigerian police to scuttle our peaceful rally scheduled to commence on the 18th of December 2017 in Owerri. As a responsible organization we had earlier written to both the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Services to inform them of our rally and for them to carry out their constitutional obligation of providing protection for the rally. While the later saw no problem in a peaceful rally, the former could not conform to…
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NNPC faults an online publication linking Abba Kyari to the sum of N50bn kept away from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) – The Corporation describes that allegation as a misrepresentation the truth The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has dismissed allegations that he ever stated that the chief of staff to the president, Mallam Abba Kyari, directed the corporation to keep the sum of N50billion away from the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Baru’s denial was contained in a statement by the NNPC’s spokesperson, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement on Friday, December 15. The…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has noted the feverish moves by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to create disaffection among our members, distract our great party, and divert the attention of Nigerians from the colossal failure of its government. Having woefully failed to stop the PDP elective National Convention, a desperate APC has again failed in another bid to plant seeds of discord within the ranks of our members in the Southwest, particularly on issues relating to the outcome of our hugely successful National Convention. The people of the South West have, however, seen through the antics of the APC…
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. Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last weekend elected a new set of leaders who will run the affairs of the party for the next four years. The new party officials are mostly people with experience in local and state politics. These are their profiles: Uche Secondus (National Chairman) Mr. Secondus has been in politics for 39 years He joined politics in 1978 during the Second Republic as the youth leader, in Rivers, for the now-defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN. He later became the state publicity secretary of another national party, the National Republican Convention,…
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There were revelations yesterday on why former Senate President, Senator David Mark, was arrested and quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC). A source in Mark’s camp told our correspondent that the EFCC wanted the former Senate President to account for the campaign cash sent to Benue State by the campaign team of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election. But the source said that EFCC was merely chasing shadows because Mark was never a part of ex-President Jonathan’s campaign team. “EFCC is chasing shadows, all the allegations border on sheer politics because…
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Politics is the only process to national development starting from school and if you stay out of it, you are far away from the reality that leads to development. The cost of garri is determined by politics, the school fees, the motor parts and even your salaries are all determined by what happens in politics. When the wrong people are in power and the right people are protesting, analysing, criticising and complaining, the status quo remains the same until those right people get involved. Anyone who feels too pure or clean to get involved in the game of politics, he…
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I never saw Tai Solarin till he died except in newspapers. I also did not meet the eccentric but brilliant British Finance broadcaster when he came to Nigeria a few months back – apparently to do a PR job to shore up the image of the country. But from what I’ve heard or read these two men say, they have some profound ideas about how we can turn around the power or energy sector in Nigeria. The advices these gentlemen are offering, are simple. Let’s start with Richard Quest: I am presently going through some videos on Youtube where he…
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Olufunke Abimbola-Akindolie has been awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, for her contribution to the diversification of the legal profession. According to http://www.financal-style, Funke is a senior lawyer and leader for the world’s largest biotech. She is currently the most senior black lawyer working within the UK pharmaceutical industry and one of the most senior globally. A multi-award winning solicitor and diversity campaigner, she has received national and European recognition for her legal and diversity work. In 2015 alone, she won the Gender Role Model award (National Diversity Awards),…
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As I lay on my bed in the early hours of today, the tears continued to pour steadily and uncontrollably. From the side of my eyes they found their way into my ears. I’d use my hands to wipe them, and they’d start pouring again. This has never happened to me. What is the matter? The more I tried to check what was happening to me, the more the tears kept pouring. Maybe I brought this upon myself. Who sent me to Jane Akwani’s Facebook wall to read her one-sentence analysis of each of Buhari’s ministers? What took me to…
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2017 offered a ray of hope for Nigeria as the country exited a recession. However, the feeling remains that Nigeria failed to make good use of the opportunity presented by the economic recession. Our economy remains non-diversified and heavily reliant on oil to all intents, Nigeria has wasted the crisis. In 2017, the Buhari Administration had a chance, with its second full year budget, to effect a change the budgeting process, and break a cycle which has kept the economy in the doldrums for a very long time. This did not happen, and with 2018, politicking is certain to take…
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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the decision to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram insurgency as a means by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. “For posterity sake, I wish to place it on record that I was not among the governors who approved the withdrawal of almost half of our savings in the Excess Crude Account, which belongs to the three tiers of government to fight an already defeated insurgency,” he declared. In a press statement issued in Ado Ekiti on…
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The All Progressives Congress should address the growing disaffection among its members instead of attacking the Peoples Democratic Party, writes Shola Oyeyipo Since the advent of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leadership under President Muhammadu Buhari, the government has had relative peace because the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was unable to give the government the kind of fight it got from the APC while it was in opposition. The reasons are not far-fetched. While most PDP members who held one public office or the other in the last administration are facing corruption allegations and charges, the leadership crisis…
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NNPC GMD, Baru says Abba Kyari instructed N50bn Oil Revenue be kept in private account outside the TSA • Buhari ordered me to instruct NNPC GMD on N50bn private saving~Abba Kyari The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised questions over a “purported ” presidential approval withholding some special Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation accounts from being transferred to the Treasury Single Account . The accounts, with funds worth N 50bn , are still being kept by commercial banks in breach of the TSA policy , which provides that all accounts belonging to Ministries , Departments and Agencies of government should be…
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After he was reportedly pelted with pure water sachets yesterday 13/12/2017 @ New market Owerri by traders who he ejected from their shops and source of livelihood, and asked them to leave before friday, i got a report that unidentified individuals have set the market on fire last night. In the middle of this festive period ? The Imo house of Assembly members on the other hand are busy waiting for crumbs that will fall from his table while our dear state has become a subject of mockery in the country. Enough is enough. This is pure wickedness. Copied.
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YOU ARE INVITED Dear Sir/Madam, Invitation to the Hand Shake Across The Niger Event. We write on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Nzuko Umunna (NU) for the Handshake across the Niger project. NU is facilitating Handshake across the Niger project under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo and in conjunction with Afenifere, and wish to request your kind presence and participation at the forthcoming Hand Shake Across The Niger Event holding at Enugu as follows: Date: January 11, 2018 Theme: Handshake Across The Niger: A necessity for mutual growth and development. The raison d’etre for the event…
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday declared that Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming. He, however, stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained. According to the former Lagos State Governor, some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built. The Minister said these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps. Fashola said, “They were built in the 1970s, and not only have they outlived their design life, they…
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Gentlemen of the press, it is our pleasure to welcome you to this press briefing. We have called you here today to inform the world through you that the Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD) will be holding a one week peaceful rally tagged OCCUPY IMO from Monday the 18th to Sunday the 24th December 2017 at Okigwe road opposite Rock view Hotel Owerri. This rally is a response of the people to the increasing height of bad governance in the state which is now attaining its peak such as: 1. Lack of due process and respect for rule of…
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But for this day, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme would have become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The day was Thursday, August 13 1998. The setting was a meeting of the nascent People’s Democratic Party, PDP, just metamorphosed from the activist G-34 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The agenda was to decide on the policy of the emergent party, especially on power-sharing and rotation of the presidency. The buildup long started with Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa’s second visit to Nigeria to meet with Gen. Abacha, after his 1995 release from prison. He was here to advise…
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Nigeria is again in the throes of the annual rituals of national strikes by workers in public universities. As of now, the non-academic staffs have locked up the classrooms in almost all Federal universities. The yuletide session is not allowing many Nigerians to realise that like the harmattan haze, the strike session is with us. The culprit, according to the workers, is the Federal Government which has reneged on earlier agreements on staff welfare. After decades of continuous and almost yearly strikes, the Nigerian university system is now poorly rated among leading universities in the world. Yet there was a…
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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated that the Igbo would back only political parties and candidates with the interest of Ndigbo in their agenda in the 2019 general elections. President General of the body, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said that their support will only go to a presidential candidate with manifest programme that would address the multifarious interests and challenges confronting Ndigbo in Nigeria. Nwodo spoke last week, at a reception organized by the Enugu Chapter of the group in his honour on arrival at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, after a trip to the United States of America, where…
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Until Saturday December 9, 2017, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had a huge opportunity of deposing the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2019 Presidential elections. The APC government at the centre in Abuja, and even APC administrations in several states such as Imo, Jigawa, Osun, Oyo, Benue, Plateau, Nasarrawa, Kaduna and other places have dissipated significant goodwill from voters since 2015. In Imo state, the state government of Rochas Okorocha is now more-or-less a joke; Nasir El-Rufai’s administration in Kaduna has chosen to oppress significant portions of his state’s electorate; I’m told the governor of Jigawa appears…
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REASONS FOR HIS INVITATION 1. Hon Onyeagucha accused of opposing Rochas mindless and illegal destruction/demolition of private property without compensation. 2. DSS says that the Government of Rochas Okorocha is accusing Hon Onyeagucha of planning to lead a violent protest in Imo State soon. 3. DSS says Hon Onyeagucha is accused of organising oppressed groups such as: a. Displaced Orji Mechanic Village artisans b. Displaced Ekeukwu Owerri Market Traders c. Displaced Nekede Mechanic Village Artisans d. Now displaced New Market Owerri Traders e. Landlords of illegally usurped lands/properties in Owerri and environs e. Landlords of illegally demolished buildings for road…
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14th Dec 2017 PRESS RELEASE IMO PDP CONDEMN GOV OKOROCHA OVER THE FORCEFUL EVICTION OF TRADERS FROM NEW MARKET OWERRI. The Peoples Democratic Party, IMO State Chapter has condemned in its entirety the forceful eviction of New Market Traders by the Rescue Mission Government of Rochas Okorocha. The party described the eviction as unfortunate and ill-timed considering the Yuletide Season when the people are preparing for Christmas. It is now obvious that Gov Okorocha does not know or respect God. If he knows God, he will not be embarking on unnecessary eviction of traders at the New Market at a…
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The Nigerian Senate has passed the Electoral Act No. 6 2010 Amendment Bill 2017 into law. *Card Reader technology to be fully implemented henceforth *House of Reps aspirants to pay N1,000,000.00 *State Assembly aspirants to pay 500,000,00 1. There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and/or other technological devices, as INEC may introduce for elections from time to time. 2. Presiding Officers must now instantly transmit accreditation data and results from Polling Units to various collation centers. Presiding officer who contravene this shall be imprisoned for at least 5 years (no option of fine).…
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) document is 69 years old this year and will mark 70 years next year. The theme for this year’s celebration as enunciated by the United Nations is “Let’s stand up for equality, justice and human dignity” Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the statement from the UN, this year’s Human Rights Day kicks off a year-long campaign to mark the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,…
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Know that Imo State Budget totals One hundred and Ninety Billion, Nine Hundred and Twenty One Million, Four Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Two Hundred and Nine Naira (N190, 921, 464, 290). Know too that the Imo House of Assembly is considering the Budget as presented by the Executive Governor of Imo State HERO on the 13th December 2017. Imo Must Be Better!
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Senator Osita Izunaso, the National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress and a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, has taken a jibe at his former party, saying it is no longer a national party. He spoke with Amby Uneze in Owerri. Excerpts: Q- What are the plans of the APC to capture more states in the South-east, considering that it is the party at the centre? A- In every political calculation, our party is doing well now in the South-east more than before. Recently we went to receive the former governor of Ebonyi state, Chief Martin Elechi…
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Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has alleged that the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima is behind the Boko Haram terrorists that have been unleashing mayhem on the people of the North East zone of the country describing him as “the Boko Haram boss and the keeper of Chibok Girls.” Sheriff made the allegations on Wednesday in a statement made available to The Daily Times and signed by his Special Assistant on Media Kolo Adams. The statement was in reaction to a purported video on the social media titled “SAS lynched in Maiduguri” allegedly aimed at discrediting…
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I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivalry between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn. I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appers to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age…
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On January 11, 2018, sons and daughters of Igbo and Yoruba extractions from all walks of life would gather in Enugu as one people from the two divides of the Niger to not only celebrate their age long but greatly ignored brotherhood which historians have recently traced to a common ancestry, and symbolized by the rare acts of bravery and comradeship by the late Generel Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria’s former Head-of-State and his friend and former governor of former southwest region, late Col Adekunle Fajuyi, when both men were mowed down in cold blood in a counter coup by some disgruntled…
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The days of acrimony should be over, there is so much to give when the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic nationalities put aside the extraneous wedge between them. Our country cannot move forward in the face of rancour. Those of us who know history must not stand aloof and watch the younger generation degenerate to the vile language that has taken over the social media. It is like there is an undeclared war going on. Every comment is twisted to paint either the Igbo or the Yoruba in bad light. We cannot continue like this. Besides politics, there is so much…
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“My boy, may you live to your full potential, ascend to a dizzy height as is possible for anyone of your political description in your era to rise. May you be acknowledged world-wide as you rise as an eagle atop trees, float among the clouds, preside over the affairs of fellow men…. as leaders of all countries pour into Nigeria to breathe into her ear. But then, Chuba, if it is not the tradition of our people that elders are roundly insulted by young men of the world, as you have unjustly done to me, may your reign come to…
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* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state. * His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex. * His government built the Lagos State Television * His government built the Lagos Radio * His government built Lagos State University * His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care. * His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education. * His government built low cost…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has mandated all political parties in Nigeria to hold and conclude party primaries between 14 April to 15 May 2018. This directive is according to information made available to Oblong Media. The primaries will be used to select various candidates to run for elective positions in the upcoming 2019 general elections. More details of this development will be made available as more information becomes available.
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YOU ARE INVITED Dear Sir/Madam, Invitation to the Hand Shake Across The Niger Event. We write on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Nzuko Umunna (NU) for the Handshake across the Niger project. NU is facilitating Handshake across the Niger project under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo and in conjunction with Afenifere, and wish to request your kind presence and participation at the forthcoming Hand Shake Across The Niger Event holding at Enugu as follows: Date: January 11, 2018 Theme: Handshake Across The Niger: A necessity for mutual growth and development. The raison d’etre for the event…
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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has described as fake news a newspaper report that he is to pair President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential ticket of the party. Tinubu, in a statement yesterday, said the report which envisaged that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was returning to full-time pastoral work was without empirical or logical basis. Affirming that he had full confidence in the pair of Buhari and Osinbajo continuing through 2019, Tinubu, in the statement issued by his media office, said the present administration was making progress despite challenges supposedly accumulated during what he…
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Tinubu may become Nigeria’s vice president in 2019 as Osinbajo prepares to go back to pastoral work.
– A report says Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is being considered as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of 2019 – The report also claims Professor Yemi Osinbajo could be returning to the pulpit as a pastor – It states that series of meetings have been held between Tinubu and Buhari’s men The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may become President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate, a report by Daily Sun has indicated. The report, which has not been independently verified, says while Tinubu could become the next vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo could…
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Sen. Shehu Sani (APC – Kaduna Central) has urged the northern region of the country to stand up to end Islamic fundamentalism and violent extremism and revive its manufacturing sector. He made this known as some of the positions he took at the just-concluded Northern Senators Forum retreat held in Katsina. In a statement published on his Facebook page, Sani said he equally urged the north to create a meeting point between major and minor ethnic groupings within its fold. Summarising his positions at the retreat, he said: “1. The north must stand up and end extremism and terrorism “2.…
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1. National Chairman – Prince Uche Secondus 2. National Deputy Chairman South – Elder Yemi Akinwonmi 3. National Deputy Chairman North – Sen. Gamawa Babawo Garba 4. National Secretary – Sen. Ibrahim Tsauri 5. Deputy National Secretary – Dr. Agbo Emmanuel 6. National Treasurer – Hon. Aribisala Adewale 7. Deputy National Treasurer – Alh. Wada Masu 8. Financial Secretary – Ibrahim Husseini Maibasira 9. Dep. Fin. Sec. – Hon. Irona Alphonsus 10. Nat. Org. Sec. – Col (Rtr) Austin Akobundu 11. Dep. Nat. Org. Sec. – Barr. Hassan Yakubu 12. Publicity Secretary – Kola Ologbondiyan 13. Dep. Nat. Pub. Sec.…
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The State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Imo State, Chief Barr. Charles Chukwudi Ezekwem, Ikemba Okigwe, has congratulated the brand new National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Ike Uche Secondus on his victory at the just concluded National Convention of the party held in Abuja between the 9th -10th of December, 2017, at Eagles square. He described Secondus as a man who has made sacrifices for the party in the time past even when He had the opportunity to hold on to power. According to the Okigwe born politician, Secondus is a man whose time has come and nothing…
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It is no longer news that the change mantra is a fraudulent transaction gone sour. Everywhere in Nigeria, people are yearning for a new direction. An immediate change to the evil change that has destroyed the foundation of the country. There is no single geo-political zone that is enjoying the dividends of good governance. Not even the President’s zone. Governance has taken the back seat while unbridled looting, blame trade, insecurity, fuel scarcity, unprecedented hunger, excruciating poverty, deadly division, collapsed infrastructure and poor education have become sad advertisement for the incumbent administration. Sadly, the APC Federal Government is doing nothing…
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British Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of chemical crystallography. Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world class computer centre in Africa. The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in nuclear physics. Our premier University of Ibadan had an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in tropical medicine, development economics and the historical sciences. The Saudi Royal family used to frequent UCH for medical treatment in the sixties. The engineering scientist Ayodele Awojobi, a graduate of ABU…
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No one conversant with the history of Nigeria in the I950s and 1960’s will miss the overwhelming impact of Dr M.I. Okpara on the nation. After all by 1964 he was fully in charge of the fastest growing and industrialising economy in the world- the Eastern Nigerian economy. Nothing illustrates the warped sense of history and the complete abandonment of the values of merit and excellence in our national affairs as this wilful omission. And now to the review. The life of Dr Michael Okpara will make a fascinating and historical story anytime. The surprise for me is that it…
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Former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has hailed the emergence of the National Executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by Prince Uche Secondus and members of National Executive at the just concluded Elective National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party held, weekend in Abuja. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha described the smooth and transperant conduct of the elective convention as a deliberate signpost that PDP is poised to taking the reigns of government in 2019 and enjoined the newly elected officers to immediately hit the ground running with a view to consolidating on the achievements of…
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In this no-hold-barred interview at his residence in Owerri on Sunday 26 November, 2017, Chief Barr. Willie Amadi, former Zonal Vice Chairman of Imo State PDP and former Special Adviser to former Governor Ikedi Ohakim on Sanitation and Transport, makes hair-raising revelations about politics in Nigeria and Imo State as he clocks 55 years. He concludes that Nigerians have been misled by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and that his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has learnt its lessons and is poised for a comeback that will unseat APC at federal and state levels come 2019. Excerpts. Q –…
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The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, without further delay, sack everyone involved in the recall and reinstatement of former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. The CNPP said this rising from its consultative meeting with representatives of civil society groups drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country in Abuja on Tuesday. It issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to order all its officials named in the scandalous reinstatement of fugitive Maina to the federal civil service to immediately step aside for proper probe of…
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Former Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has pleaded with the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, Sokoto state governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, Aliyu Wammako, Kwara state governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Attahiru Bafarawa to quickly come back to their former political party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) so as to reclaim victory come 2019. Alhaji Sule Lamido also lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) for their inability to keep former vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the fold despite claims of perfections that their party would perform better than the PDP. Alhaji Sule Lamido said this while…
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The Southeast Caucus in the Senate has reacted to the Amnesty International, AI, report, which painted a very chilling picture of the brutal killing of about 150 defenceless members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, allegedly by the Nigerian military, urging the Federal Government to immediately constitute a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the alleged killing of the peaceful protesters. The Nigerian Army had faulted the claims by AI that its men killed over 150 pro-Biafran protesters, accusing the human rights organization of championing a campaign of calumny against Nigeria’s military, especially the Army But in a statement…
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(Being the Contextual Interpretation of some key terminologies in the raging debate over the inevitable Reconfiguration of the broken down Federation of Nigeria, issued by the LNC July 15, 2016). 1) RESTRUCTURING. “Restructuring”, as being canvassed in Nigeria, simply means a return to the Federal basis of Nigeria which was destroyed since 1966 by the abrogation of the 5 Constitutions that defined the Federation of Nigeria.(Four Regional and one Federal), thereby restoring the hijacked Sovereignty of the erstwhile Federating Units each of which also reworks its internal Constitutional Structures ahead of the consensual Reconstitution of the broken down Federation of…
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Thursday last week, former Lagos State governor and the self-proclaimed national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan won a gold medal in corruption. Tinubu made the remark at the Banquet Hall of the State House while delivering the keynote address at the launch of a book titled, ‘Making Steady Sustainable Progress for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity,’ a mid-term scorecard of this administration, authored by the trio of Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande, the media aides in the presidency. I wonder what had been listed in the book as…
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Last week President Muhammadu Buhari( PMB) visited the South East for the first time since he became President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria two and half years ago. Was he on a genuine state visit or was he on a campaign mission? Some people believe he was on a campaign mission to Anambra state to support the gubernatorial ambition of his APC party flag-bearer, Mr Tony Nwoye. Such people believe that the visit to EBONYI State was an after thought, a camouflage. To buttress their view point, they remarked that if a presidential visit was actually planned for EBONYI…
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The Senate has described as herculean the investigation of the sacked Chairman of Presidential Task force on Pensions Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, disclosing that over 222 houses recovered by the EFCC have been allegedly shared by the EFCC officials. Raising through order 42 and 43, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, Chairman of Federal establishment pointed that the Committee which was set up barely a month now ran into trouble in the course of investigating the embattled Pension Task-force chairman. He further explained that the combined team of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) allegedly recovered…
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For millions of Zimbabweans, the 21st day of November will forever remain a historic day for that was the day what book-makers had thought impossible happened in the Southern African country as the strong man of Zimbabwean politics; President Robert Mugabe, was forced to step down as President after 37 years in power. Worthy of note here is that Mugabe was not forced to resign by the common Zimbabweans protesting on the street or the activities of Morgan Tsvangarai-led main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change. He was forced out of power by his own ZANU PF party, his…
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Ahead of the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) slated for 9, December, the party on Tuesday released its zoning arrangements for the various party offices at the national level. According to a report presented by the chairman of the zoning committee, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, the position of National Chairman was zoned to the south, comprising the Southwest, Southeast and the South-south. The North takes the position of National Secretary. The party will now have two Deputy National Chairman, one for the North and one for the South. Other positions zoned to the South include…
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After Nigeria was dragged to the brink of the abyss by two military coups in 1966, its military leaders met to try to bring the country back from the brink. The meeting evolved into perhaps the best documented constitutional debate of all time which touched upon fundamental concepts regarding the balance of power between the central government and federating regions in a federation and professional soldiers’ outlook to military coups and seniority. It was a potential breakthrough occasion. Between January 5th and 7th 1967, the memembers of that SMC. Following a second bloody army coup in July 1966, the mbers…
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• He is being investigated for alleged theft, says anti-graft agency. Armed with superior firepower and men, the Department of State Services (DSS) Tuesday prevented the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting a former Directors General of the DSS, Mr. Ita Ekpeyong, and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr. Ayo Oke. Operatives of the anti-graft agency, assisted by the Nigeria Police Force, had stormed No. 46 Nasir Mamman Street, Asokoro, Abuja, the residence of Ekpeyong, at about 6 a.m. in a bid to arrest him. They had blocked the two entrances leading to the street, preventing vehicular movement…
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“The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me” Matt 26:11. I was a discussant with one of Governor Okorocha’s die-hard supporters and commissioner nominee, Prof Nnamdi Obiareri, Hon Barr Uche Onyeagucha and Prof Protus Nathan Uzoma on Saturday November 11, 2017. The event was the 5th anniversary of Imo Youths for Positive Change held at the Mega 1 Event Place, Akanchawa Road, Concorde Area, Owerri. The event comprised of public lecture and discussion segments, where we discussed “Integrated State Development: A Comparative Analysis of Sam Mbakwe Era and Post Mbakwe Period – The…
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The Ekwueme family regrets to announce the peaceful passing away of their patriarch, the former Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Chief Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON. The sad event occurred at The London Clinic at 10:00 pm on Sunday 19th November 2017. Condolence Registers have been opened at the following locations: LONDON: Nigeria High Commission 9 Northumberland Avenue Westminster, London WC2N 5BX ABUJA: International Conference Centre Central Area, Area 11 900 Herbert Macaulay Way Abuja, Nigeria LAGOS: 4 Ikoya Avenue Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria ENUGU: 11 Ezzikwo Street Independence Layout, Enugu, Nigeria ABAKALIKI: Vice Chancellor’s Office Ebonyi State University…
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Dr Alex Ekwueme occupied a unique space in Nigerian history. As the first elected Vice-President, Ekwueme was the face Nigeria advertised to the world that indeed the Igbos were back into the mainstream of Nigerian politics after the gruesome Civil War that ended in 1970. After that war, he made more money and decided to show the way to other Igbos who had come into wealth. By the time he was made the Vice-President to Alhaji Shehu Shagari, his philanthropy was well known. He single-handedly built the vocational centre, in Oko, his home town which has now been turned into…
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One of the initial challenges Innoson faced during the construction of the vehicle manufacturing plant at Nnewi is the unlawful seizure and auction sale of about 25 pieces of 40ft containers of imported completely knocked down (CKDs )motorcycle belonging to Innoson Nigeria Ltd. It only took the grace of God for Innoson to survive the trauma that came with it. The value of the CKDs ran into Hundreds of Millions of Naira and a major part of the funds came from Bank loans. According to Dr. Innocent Chukwuma, this period when the Nigeria Customs auctioned and sold his goods is…
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In The Supreme Court of Nigeria On Friday, the 12th day of May, 2017 SC.694/2014(R) Before Their Lordships MUSA DATTIJO MUHAMMAD Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria CLARA BATA OGUNBIYI Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria KUDIRAT MOTONMORI OLATOKUNBO KEKERE-EKUN Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria EJEMBI EKO Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria SIDI DAUDA BAGE Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria Between GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC – Appellant(s) AND INNOSON NIGERIA LIMITED – Respondent(s) Summary INTRODUCTION: This is a ruling on an application to raise fresh issue on appeal. FACTS: In the suit…
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Nigerians have never shown such level of patience and tolerance towards any of their past leaders for his record and strange policies as that shown to their current leader, Muhammadu Buhari – a former military dictator now self-confessed democrat who said he came to fight corruption. Buhari, 75, is being plagued with failures across every single sector in the economy, the like as has never been seen before. Less than a year into office, the economy plummeted into recession, an economy which had till then grown at an average rate of 7% in previous years (2011-2014). The nation’s currency lost…
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I have seen all the attacks against Uche Secondus in his bid to become the next elected PDP Chairman. I accept the genuine agitation of those who feel it is the turn of Southwest Geopolitical zone to produce the next National Chairman of the party, having not occupied the office before. That seems plausible in the PDP and Nigerian system where zoning is a big issue. Surprisingly however majority of the attacks against the Uche Secondus campaign for PDP National Chairmanship have come from the Pro-Sherrif group who lost their grip and stranglehold on the PDP by virtue of a…
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The United States Government has said it would not meddle in Nigeria’s choice of leader in the 2019 presidential elections. John Sullivan, the U.S Deputy Secretary of State, said at the end of the US-Nigeria Bi-national Commission in Abuja, that the U.S will neither endorse President Muhammadu Buhari nor any presidential candidate in the elections. “What we want to do, is to ensure to the extent that we can assist, free and fair elections and we won’t pick those candidates,” Sullivan said. “We won’t pick any candidate, we won’t endorse any candidate, we want to support the Nigerian people and…
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The People’s Democratic Party, Imo State, is enjoying it’s reformation and overhauling process, with the state Chairman, Barr. Charles Chukwudi Ezekwem, anchoring the ship. The Okigwe born former EA to Governor Udenwa and former LGA elected chairman has shown that He has the capacity, strong will and the needed dexterity to lead a great party with many big people. It has been proven that one of the greatest challenges in leadership is managing your contemporaries. However, Barr. Charles Chukwudi Ezekwem has shown strength, respect and power to handle this situation when ever it comes up. He has shown that the…
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Witchcraft needs to be refined and made more relevant to our daily lives like flying to avoid those hectic traffic jams. As it is in Nigeria, it is still practiced in a very crude form. Can you beat this bizarre story? I had engaged a friend on the topic of witchcraft and the evils they did to us growing up in the village then. He told me he never believed in witchcraft until i told him those stories and that someone he knew had reported this to him earlier: It’s a family of 7, parents inclusive, but the head of…
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APC tried to use President Buhari’s influence to win election. It all manifested when they redeployed Obiano’s security details days before his election. Thank God for great Nigerians who condemned the act and Mr President who ordered that his security details including his ADC be restored to him. They wanted to lay Obiano ambush in his own election. That was an unsuccessful democratic electoral coup. They deployed money, the governors donated Billions to Nwoye, state by state. Most of them are owing salaries, pensioners are being given bounced cheques for months. What a country! APC deployed federal might through security…
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©️ *Chinedu Agu* If APC had won, the traditional institutions in Anambra State would have been turned into a laughing stock. More so, Obi of Onitsha, that fine Gentleman, would be dethroned by the Government of the day and replaced with a Bootlicking Traditional Ruler. Eze Alfred Achebe would go to Court and obtain a judgment for his reinstatement, but they would disregard, scorn and despise it. Ask any Imolite. If APC had won, all the houses and structures lying beside the already solidly asphalted Ekwulobia Ezinifite road, Ndiokwu-Amikpa-Oki Umuchi road, Nsogwu Umunze road, Oye Neni-Adazi Nnukwu-Akwaeze-Igboukwu road, Agulu Nwanchi-Obeledu-Neni…
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Anyone asked the impact of Governor Obiano’s victory in the November 18 gubernatorial ballot in Anambra State could answer with a single word: Crushing. He won in all of the 21 local government areas of the state. His closest rivals came up in dismal second, third and fourth places. The combined total of the votes garnered by the rest of the 33 candidates managed to hit the hundreds. Significantly, ex-Governor Peter Obi, the godfather of PDP candidate Oseloka Obaze lost in his Anaocha local government area. Mr. Obaze himself lost in his Ogbaru local government area. His running mate, Mrs.…
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The leadership of APC Youths Renaissance deeply regrets the abysmal performance of our party in the just concluded Anambra State Governorship election despite all the assurances given to leaders and members of the party by Tony Nwoye and the Southeast leaders of the party. Before the election, all necessary logistics were given to the leaders of the party in the zone to deliver victory to APC, but it looked as if such logistics were diverted as it did not get to the intended people in the region. How on earth can anyone explain the rational behind the 21/21 victory of…
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The Fulani in Nigeria have said they will not accept cattle ranching because the country’s geographical location was not suitable for it. * It’s caused by strangers fuelled by politicians, religious leaders – Miyetti Allah Besides, the Fulani said the species of cows they had, as subsistence livestock farmers, were not good for ranching in the country, saying they could only be confined to ranching if their livestock were replaced with breeds suitable for it. This was even as they said the anti-open grazing laws being established by state governments would die a natural death like ‘political sharia law’ in…
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“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be”* Matthew 24:37-39. On Tuesday, 14th November 2017, the whole world woke up to the news of military takeover of government in Zimbabwe where 93 years old President Robert Mugabe had…
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Some people said imposition cost PDP in Anambra State but I laughed. How? How can? PDP has not won APGA since it relinquished power to it between 2003-2005 at the tribunals to get back at Chris Ngige. In the last election, no person fielded by APC or PDP would have made a difference. The reason is that those who failed to get the ticket would either sit bye and watch or connive, compromise or make a deal with APGA. Fact is every party gives ticket to whom they wish. They may narrow their choice down to 3 candidates, but a…
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If you know Anambra very well, you will understand that no candidate produced by either APC or PDP would have defeated Governor Willy Obiano. Dr Chris Ngige saw this after two serial defeats to APGA and quietly dodged this time around. PDP had always won in Anambra when they did and in National Assembly elections by the PDP Federal might and not by popular will of the people. That is why even many years after elections are won for the legislative houses, there remain a constant battle as to whose list actually produced the authentic flag-bearer. More often, it has…
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FOR THE POLITICIAN 1. The will of the people is always paramount 2. Godfatherism is becoming extinct 3. Soldiers, police cannot silence a determined electorate. 4. Federal influence in state elections is becoming less important 5. The electorate is becoming politically aware and can no longer be taken for granted. 6. If you deliver on your election promises, people will stand with you. If you don’t, you will be rejected. FOR THE ELECTORATE 1. You are in charge and can choose who you want to lead you. Your vote is your Power. 2. It is possible to take their money…
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Obiano wins the Anambra Elections. Winning in all the local governments. As I wrote and submitted yesterday, that Anambra would surprise us all, the surprise has been overwhelming. The anticipation was that both PDP and APC would one way or the other win the election. But my position was that whilst that was a possibility, surprises would be aplenty. The victory was a triumph of governance against turbulence. While the APC had no real plan and their candidate, a no brainer; the PDP candidate Obaze, looked a good match to continue the good pace already set in Anambra. But the…
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In order to solve the riddle of this apparent anomaly in Italy, in which the Government of the Home Country of dead and distressed Citizens in a Foreign Land, show no iota of interest or concern, make a list of the 26 girls, showing the place of origin of each of the deceased. Then take the Map of Nigeria and place each of the 26 names according to their *place of origin* on the Map. You will immediately see why “Nigeria” which just finished murdering the siblings of the dead girls with Pythons and Crocodiles at home, would not care…
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On September 30, 2017 we officially flagged-off our campaigns for the election. That event at Uli, the remarkable site of the historic Biafra Airport remains significant to our people in our collective search for a new beginning. Our campaign attracted the finest and brightest of Anambra. The bold and the courageous were with us as we exerted our best in running the most robust issue-based and technology-driven campaign in the history of our dear state. We attempted to change the course of events and chart a new beginning for our state. We believed and we dared; we engaged with all…
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Ndi b’ anyi, ekenem unu With utmost humility, I stand before you to accept thehistoric mandate you have bestowed on me today! Umu nnem, the victory we savour today belongs neither to Willie Obiano nor to our great party, APGA. No! This sweet victory belongs to Ndi Anambra! It belongs to the wheel barrow pushers and the Okada riders who have clearly seen in our recent political experience, a glimmer of light in the horizon. It belongs to the farmers in Ayamelum, Onono, Ogbaru, Omasi, Omor and Ufuma who have now realized that Agriculture is the future of Nigeria. It belongs to the teachers and civil servants who have seen that a motivated workforce is the greatest asset of any government and have rewarded our…
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…Emerges governor-elect, re-elected for a second term On Sunday, 19th November, 2017, incumbent governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano was declared winner of the Anambra governorship election which held on Saturday 18th November, 2017, with a total of 234,071 votes cast in his favour. Tony Nwoye of the APC came second with 98,752 votes, while Oseloka Obaze of the PDP came third with 70,593 votes and Osita Chidoka of UPP came fourth in the just concluded election with 7,746 votes. That means that Willie Obiano has been elected for the second and final term of four years. APC 98,752…
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 The candidate of the United Progressives Party, UPP, Osita Chidoka has accepted defeat in the Anambra governorship election even as result is still being announced by the INEC. Chidoka said he lost because he was approached and told to pay voters for their votes, but he refused.  He said that the choice of Obiano was an indication that the people preferred the highest bidder against those with ideas. A press release sent to DAILY POST by Chidoka reads, “Our campaign attracted the finest and brightest of Anambra. The bold and the courageous were with us as we exerted…
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Orumba South LG Final Result: APC = 3,808 APGA = 8,125 PDP= 2,412 Orumba North LG Final Result: APC = 3,501 APGA = 8,152 PDP= 3,522 Aguata LG Final Result: APC = 5,807 APGA = 13,167 PDP= 4,073 Anaocha LG Final Result: APC = 5,297 APGA = 11,237 PDP= 6,554 Awka South LG Final Result: APC = 6,122 APGA = 20,140 PDP= 5,490 Ayamelum LG Final Result: APC = 5,412 APGA = 14,593 PDP= 2,323 Njikoka LG Final Result: APC = 5,756 APGA = 16,944 PDP= 3,477 Onitsha North LG Final Result: APC = 3,808 APGA = 10,138 PDP= 4,143…
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Today’s governorship election in Anambra is expected to be a close contest between four leading candidates. However, there are 37 candidates in the election including five women. Here are 10 major things to know about the coming election as well as previous elections in Anambra. The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in partnership with PREMIUM TIMES will bring you a comprehensive coverage of the election. 1. Godfatherism The politics in Anambra State is the case study for Godfather Politics in Nigeria where the quest to hold on to power with so much enthusiasm, by these politicians as our foremost…
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First of all, let me seek the permission of my readers to invent a new word. The word certificateless does not exist on the English dictionary. I invented it due to the peculiar situation we find ourselves in, in Nigeria. The word is created to be a noun which simply means the absence of a certificate in a situation where a certificate is required. For instance, both President Muhammadu Buhari and the 20,000 Kaduna State teachers in the midst of Nasir El-Rufai’s brouhaha are certificateless. I will state this saga with a true story. In Edo history, there existed a…
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At his incarnation, wise men gifted in astronomy came from the East, all the way to Bethlehem, in the south of Jerusalem, to worship Jesus Christ. They are today known as the Magi, who gave the newborn gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. There is a lot to say on the significance of each gift item, but that is not the purpose of the writing today. Maybe, another day, as the need arises. What we need from that nativity story is that the wise men came all the way from the East, following a star that led them to Bethlehem.…
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