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1. Firstly, it is acknowledged that this is a decision of Imo State Government backed by relevant and extant CGC and Autonomous Communities Laws in Imo State. 2. Out of abundant caution, it must be accentuated and underscored that creation and recognition of Autonomous Communities in Imo State beginning from the 1978 Imo State Traditional Rulers and Autonomous Communities (TRAC) Law as variously amended has always been predicated on a number of stringent conditionalities some of which include contiguous land mass, large population and viability measured through abundance of leviable adults. All the relevant amendments to Imo State Traditional Rulers…
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Sincerely, no country or her leadership can truly lay claim to any honest fight against systemic corruption without sustainably instituting an enduring culture of openness, accountability, transparency and probity in the way and manner the nation’s resources are generated and dispensed . For weeks now, I have expected the National Assembly to institute a high powered probe into the NNPC claims that they paid Petroleum subsidies of N1.4trillion/$4.6b over the last one year . Such outrageous amount of money is enough to start and complete 1. over 1,400 kilometers of brand new Narrow Guage Rail network and infrastructure across Nigeria…
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REPORTS ON RE-INTRODUCTION OF NEW POLLING UNITS. The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been drawn to some newspaper reports alleging that the Commission had perfected plans to re-introduce 30,000 new polling units in order to compromise the 2019 General Elections. The fact of the matter is that in response to 3,789 requests so far received nationwide for the creation of new polling units, the Commission directed its Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to thoroughly asses and provide it with information on: 1. New settlements that are not served or inadequately served by existing polling units; 2. Areas…
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Intersociety, Nigeria: 22nd April 2018 Killing in the name of Islam or Political Islam is centuries-old global headache that had led to estimated global death of 270million Christians including animists and ors otherwise called “unbelievers” by radical Muslims and Jihadists in the past 1400yrs or 622 AD when the first Muslim Jihad or “legitimate killing of unbelievers and possession of their properties and inheritance” started. This is according to the Religion of Peace or TROP in its research statistics of April 2018. Most of the ancient killings in the name of Islam took place during the first major global wave…
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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant to the Owerri federal Constituency seat at the House of Representatives Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi-Oforgu, has unveiled his political manifesto to his election sponsors in Lagos and Abuja with a promise to bring social-economic development to his constituency through a participatory approach. The PDP aspirant, who reeled out his political manifesto to a select group of his core election sponsors, assured them that to achieve a legacy of sustainable development across the constituency he is going to use a participatory approach to ensure that the constituents are carried along in the prioritization, design, implementation,…
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Royal Dutch Shell paid a total of $4,322,742,582 (about N1.5 trillion) to the Nigerian government in 2017, according to its annual payments report seen by TheCable Petrobarometer. The amount is broken down as $3,197,530,557 for production entitlement, $765,526,389 in taxes, $245,769,306 in royalties and $113,916,331 in fees. By comparison, Nigeria earned a total revenue of N10.6 trillion in 2017 from both oil and non-oil sources according to CBN Economic Report — meaning Shell alone contributed about 15 percent to the country’s income. The total paid to Nigeria by Shell is the highest to any of the 29 countries where the…
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For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests. When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “Negotiations…
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By Tyler Durden As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which allegedly killed more than 40 people in an April 7 chemical weapons strike on the former rebel outpost of Douma -was staged with the help of a foreign secret service. “We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services…
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28 years have flown by Fellow Nigerian citizens, On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human…
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Being text of a Joint Declaration by the Lower Niger Congress, the Federation of Oodua People and the Middle Belt Congress at a World Press Conference held on June 30th 2011 at Lagos We, the undersigned Representatives of: The LOWER NIGER CONGRESS, made up of indigenes of The Lower Niger, (the Homeland of the ethnic nationaliities of the former Eastern and Mid-western Regions of Nigeria), involved in the mission of evolving a LOWER NIGER FEDERATION, The FEDERATION OF OODUA PEOPLES, made up of indigenes of Oodua Land (the Homeland of the Yoruba ethnic nationality of the former Western Region of…
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It would appear that since the dethronement of Alhaji Mustapha Jokolo as the 19th emir of Gwandu and the ascension of his successor, Alhaji Muhammadu Ilyasu Bashar, also known as Major General Muhammadu Jega, this pair of closely associated emirs have placed their connection by family on ice with one suspecting the other. It would also appear that beneath the not too stormy exterior which the people of the Gwandu emirate on both sides take for tranquility, there have been developments which have pitched both emirs in a battle of words. The twist in the ill-temper and feelings of bitterness…
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In this Nigeria, an average Southerner is a weakling. A born coward with serious complex issues. A fool and an idiot. A slave. A typical example of a butterfly who thinks himself a bird. But this is not even the problem. The biggest problem is, he doesn’t even realise he is any of those things. The only thing an average Southerner is good at is blowing high sounding grammar and acquiring degrees upon degrees but when it comes to things that matter most, he goes to slumber. An average Southerner has this twisted mindset that the best way to be…
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on youths in Nigeria to show President Muhammadu Buhari that they were not lazy and uneducated by voting against him in 2019, saying; “it is painful that the President could describe youths in Nigeria that are daily struggling to make a living under a harsh economy as lazy people.” Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; “Contrary to the morale-killing comment of the President, Nigerian youths are hardworking, intelligent and enterprising. Their future was mortgaged by past leaders like President Buhari, who had…
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The Nigerian Senate has stepped down the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls in a general election. The bill, which was considered for second reading, on Wednesday suffered a setback when several lawmakers raised various issues against the amendment. The lawmakers resolved that the bill be stepped down and referred to the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, with a mandate to expunge the clauses faulted by President Muhammadu Buhari, for which he withdrew his assent. The parts not faulted by the President, however, would be sent back to him for assent.…
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Major Hamza Al Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has been deepening mobilization in the North for his presidential ambition in the 2019 general elections which his followers said has been shaking that part of Nigeria. The former CSO has reached out to prominent northern leaders seeking their support. However, his major focus is on the youth whom he indicated he is going to represent in governance. He was gathered to be popular in Kano and within the Abacha dynasty in the North. To stabilize his presidential campaign, Al-Mustapha formed a new political…
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The Arch Bishop of Canterbury is the head of protestanism, the spiritual head of the house of Lords, the head of international capitalism, superior to the PM of United Kingdom in political ranking after the Queen. He is a strategic global leader exerting tremendous political and spiritual influence. His meeting with Buhari is one in his series of acceptance trips to Europe and America precedent on his re-election in 2019. Buhari got the acceptance in 2015 and the Arch Bishop visited Nigeria as a show of that acceptance. In the last meeting, buhari was confronted with the issues of poverty…
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Elder statesman and prominent politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai has revealed that massive rigging took place in the North in the 2015 general elections. Yakassai revealed the electoral fraud to journalists when he led the newly formed Northern Leaders’ Stakeholders’ Assembly to former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, at his Uphill Mansion in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Sunday. According to him, while the electronic voting was religiously observed in the southern part of the country, it was not so observed in the north. He remarked: “When the electronic voting was introduced, I was in support of it, but I…
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PRESS RELEASE: We have read in the print and social media Governor Okorocha’s disdainful disrespect to the office of the Governor of Imo State. Unfortunately he has been the occupant of that office since 2011. Okorocha had on Monday, 16th April 2018 opened his basket mouth once more and made vitriolic remarks to the bewildered and suffering Imo people, that he has retired some politicians in the state, including His Excellency Dr Ikedi Ohakim, who was Governor of the state for four years and now running for a second term in 2019. Okorocha’s senseless comments and actions in the state…
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Date: 19th April, 2018 * IGP orders Commissioner of Police FCT Command to beef-up security at the National Assembly. 1. Sequel to the invasion of the Senate Chambers of the National Assembly, Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 18th April, 2018 by some suspected thugs who disrupted the Senate Plenary Session and carted away the Mace of the Red Chambers, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, immediately instituted a high-powered Police Investigation and Intelligence Team coordinated by the IGP Monitoring Unit of the Force and further directed a total lockdown of the Federal Capital Territory…
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Our attention has been drawn to a plot by Gov. Okorocha to dupe the 644 Autonomous Communities in Imo State the sum of almost N4billion in the dying days of his regime. In a letter issued by his Commissioner for Community Government, Culture and Traditional Affairs, Hon Louis O. Duru, each of the 644 Communities was been directed to pay the sum of N6million as counterpart funding for developmental projects. The communities have been threatened with withdrawal of their autonomy were they to fail to pay as well as suspension of Salaries/Allowances of their Traditional Rulers. This cheap blackmail to…
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Buhari’s description of the “Nigerian Youths” at the 2018_Commonwealth Conference would have been entirely correct if only he added the prefix, “Northern” before “Nigerian” and also go further to describe the “North” in question to exclude the Middle-Belt where his “North” is currently staging death shows, delineated Purple in the Map below. That North that boasts of millions of out-of-school, but school age children, who Buhari’s North calls amajiris, blindfolded with illiteracy and ignorance, but who are armed by their demon-possesed elders with both PVC’s, guns machetes and sundry dangerous cudgels on Election days, to dictate the outcome of Elections,…
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It has come to the knowledge of Ohanaeze Ndigbo FCT chapter that renegades from the disbanded Okechukwu Isiguzoro-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing and the Callista Adimachukwu Ohanaeze Ndigbo Women are presently in Abuja for a purported endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 Presidency. This shameful exercise which is been coordinated by an Enugu-state born head of a federal government parastatal is the crystallization of the vituperations of these discredited groups on the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for the past one month. It should be noted that while Ndigbo are not against the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari in…
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As a General Caveat, let me posit upfront that all the demands for the *Restructuring of Nigeria* are fueled by the *Self-Determination desires of the Constituent Components of Nigeria.* Let me also posit that *”Restructuring”* as being currently canvassed, basically means the *Reconfiguration and Reconstruction of the Constitutional Architecture of Nigeria* to revert of to the Federation it was designed to be at inception. Accordingly, it follows that *Restructuring* is not mutually exclusive with *Self-Determination,* rather the former is one of the means of attaining the latter. It also goes without saying that *”Restructuring “* may deliver varying degrees of…
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The Federal Government, said, Wednesday that it is focusing on establishment of cattle ranching as solution to the protracted clashes between the herdsmen and farmers, which resulted in killings of several people and wanton destruction of properties by suspected herders across the country, especially, Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Adamawa States. Minister of Interior, LT. Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau, Retd, who made this known in Abuja, at the stakeholders’ dialogue on the eradication of herders-farmers conflict in Nigeria, said another measure put in place by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior is the establishment of Agro Rangers. Danbazau, while speaking…
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Given their backgrounds in the industry, the relationship between Dr Edmund Dakorou as Minister of State for Energy and Mr Funso Kupolokun as the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was always going to be difficult. And so it proved. By 2005, it had become clear that the duo could not work together in harmony and their hostility towards each other had become known not only within the oil and gas sector but also in the media. Against the background that working at cross-purposes in such a critical sector was detrimental to the goal of his…
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Investigations have shown that snatching of mace, the symbol of authority in the Nigerian lawmaking institutions as witnessed yesterday at the National Assembly had a root in First Republic’s western region(1965) following the crisis that ensued between the leadership of the defunct Action Group (AG) and the premier of the western region. Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo led some members of the Western Assembly to remove the premier, Chief Samuel Akintola and the governor of the region. Consequently, the development split the lawmakers into two factions thereby leading to a mild drama on the floor of the House; and in the…
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The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is underway in United Kingdom. On the heels of the conference is the Commonwealth Business Roundtable where experts from all over the Commonwealth Nations are carefully selected to profer solutions on thorny issues affecting member Nations. The theme of this years Business Roundtable is on “”Energy Transition””. Engr Chibuike Achigbu who represented Nigeria at the Roundtable spoke on how to ensure access to sustainable and affordable energy for all and how to ensure sufficient energy forbour needs.
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The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), has announced its appointment of Mr. Obinna Anyanwu as its first Country Head for Nigeria, ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Obinna Anyanwu who hails from Mbaise in Imo state is the son of 2nd republic Senator Tony Anyanwu and the younger brother of the late Hon Tony Anyanwu of the House of Representatives 6th house. The CWEIC is mandated by 52 Heads of Government to promote trade and investment across the Commonwealth. It explained in a statement at the weekend, that recognising that Nigeria is vital to this mission,…
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One evening in Medford, Massachusetts in March 2017, I was seated at the back of an elegantly designed classroom at the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The master’s degree students were from various countries including the USA, Japan, India, Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The Fletcher School was jointly established by Tufts University and Harvard University in 1933 as an exclusively post-graduate institution to train leaders in the field of international affairs. Its curriculum covers international law, politics, economics, and diplomacy. Its privileged students typically end up in leadership roles in governments, business…
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Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africa’s resources in just five commodities – oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, reveals that 101 companies, most of them British, control $305billion worth of platinum, $276billion worth of oil and $216billion worth of coal at current market prices. The ‘Scramble for Africa’ is proceeding apace, with the result that African governments have largely handed over their treasure. Tanzania’s gold, Zambia’s copper, South Africa’s platinum and coal and Botswana’s diamonds are all dominated by London-listed…
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Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) stirred up a hornet’s nest recently when he called on Nigerians to rise in self-defence against killer herdsmen who have displayed an unrelenting thirst for human blood. He blamed the government and the security agencies which have shown articulable suspicion of collusion in the mindless carnage being perpetuated by herdsmen. The unwillingness of the Buhari-led government to stem the killings is well known. We have even seen excuses and some justification for the unending killings by top officials of the government. I dare say it took Danjuma too long to speak out against the atrocities…
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If it be true indeed that Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, did say that “The Shortest route to Igbo Presidency in Nigeria is to support Buhari in 2019”, my response to him is to inform him that his suggestion is dumb, to say the least. Whoever sees the Boss Mustapha fellow should tell him that the reality of now is that even if Buhari resigns today in 2018, for an Igbo man or woman to take over as President of Nigeria without the gauntlet of Election, that will not alter the resolve of…
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The Good Book posits that in the mouth of two witnesses, a matter is established. I will put aside this piece by Austin Okere titled *”You do not Embellish a War”* amongst the very few that get so archived, as evidence that there are indeed others who understand the nature of the danger the Igbo is in at this time in Nigeria, namely : *That Igbo is targeted by a determined and relentless enemy which seek nothing but our complete extermination; sparing only those so totally subjugated at heart, that they proudly and actively aid the enemy in it’s onslaught…
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An Abuja Based Developmental Economist, Dr. Katch Ononuju, has revealed President Muhammadu Buhari’s role in the drastic decline of Nigeria’s foreign transactions, from N274.32 billion in December 2017, to N128.83 billion in February 2018. According to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Foreign Portfolio Investors’ FPI records, transactions at the floor of the NSE dropped by N123 billion in the first two months of the year. Foreign portfolio investment, stood at N83.22 billion in February, 2018 compared to N206.48 billion recorded in December 2017. Domestic transactions fell to N128.83 billion in February, from N274.32 billion recorded in December, total transactions at…
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PRESS RELEASE The attention of former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, has been drawn to a newspaper report in the Monday, April 16, 2018 edition of The Sun, titled, “Why Ihedioha Must Leave PDP – Oye”. The former Deputy Speaker views the statement as “unwarranted, mischievous and a misplaced demand, borne out of mere imagination. Chief Victor Oye, National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) had urged Rt. Hon. Ihedioha to dump the PDP and join forces with APGA members in the South East, as according him, it is the easiest route through…
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In response to a comment by someone who wanted to know why the British are crying more than the bereaved as One-Nigeria staggers to it’s inevitable demise at ARABA Terminus, I had written as follows in 2017: “The whole essence of “One-Nigeria” over which tight Caliphate control was emplaced, instituted and promoted by Britain, was so that Britain can take whatever it wanted from any part of the vast Territory, including Oil and Gas, without having to deal with the actual owners of the assets, since the Caliphate-Controlled so-called “Federal Government” will be there to sign off for Britain, whatever…
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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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