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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The coordinator Enugu State Grassroots Boxing Talent Hunt, Okechukwu, has presented N10,000 each to 17 young talented boxers discovered during the 2022 boxing talent hunt competition in Enugu State. He made the presentation at the Grand Finale of the competition held in Enugu. He said the boxers were discovered across the 17 local government areas of the state. “We also have four boxers that their International Passport are still undergoing processing with the Nigeria Immigration Service,” he said. He mentioned the boxers to include, Chinaza Okoronkwo, Zoe Okoronkwo, Isreal Ogbodo and Chinagorom Ngwu. According to him the boxers would travel outside the country…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Member representing Aba South state constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Obinna Ichita, has written to Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, demanding explanations on how he spent the N27.4 billion World Bank largesse for road rehabilitation in Aba. The lawmaker in a letter through his lawyer, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, requested the Governor under the Freedom of Information Act, to furnish him with accounting details of how the State Government disbursed the funds. Ichita also sought to know the identities of contractors that handled the projects and how much they were awarded. The letter made available to…
Our Reporter, Abuja The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called his supporters and the youths to go out en masse to cast their votes for the Labour Party candidates in the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections nationwide. Obi made the call through posts he personally made through his verified Twitter handle Thursday evening. The LP flag bearer reminded his supporters how they braved the obstacles and trooped out en masse on February 25, to vote for him, and asked them not to despair because of the current state of affairs. “On 25th February 2023, Nigerians…
By Azu Ishiekwene The last thing he wants to hear is that he desires anything other than what is good for Nigeria. Hero of Nigeria’s civil war; former military president who supervised the first-post war transition to civilian rule; two-term civilian president; and a much sought-after African leader, Olusegun Obasanjo considers it beneath his status to suggest he can sometimes be wrong about his choices for the country. He has mastered make-belief uber-patriotism over the years, cultivating this ruse into an art form that disguises his large ego. Yet, it won’t be a bad thing if he had the modesty…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Dissatisfied with the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to transmit the results of last Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections from the polling units, protesters have stormed INEC office in Umuahia, Abia State to register their grievances. The protesters under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society, South East chapter, accused INEC of colluding with anti-democratic elements to subvert the will of voters at the polls. They rejected the outcome of the polls, alleging that the original results which INEC staff failed to upload from the various polling units were later doctored at…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Chief Emma Eneukwu, the National Deputy Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the new President-Elect, Sen. Ahmed Tinubu is someone with known knack for wealth creation. Eneukwu said this in while reacting to the declaration of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the party, as winner of last Saturday election. In a congratulatory message to the President-Elect, made available to Journalists in Enugu, Eneukwu said: “This natural innate quality of the master strategist, Tinubu would definitely turn things around in the country.” He said that the former Governor of Lagos State, had all it takes…
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking them away. Imagine other ballot boxes being destroyed. Imagine being beaten to keep you from voting for a particular candidate. Imagine a crowd of people chanting “We must vote! We must vote!” when polling workers failed to arrive as expected. Imagine the police doing very little. All these things happened during the Nigerian presidential elections on Saturday. Through it all, there was a chilling…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Shouts of “You are my President” rented the air Thursday in Abuja, as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, addressed a press conference in Abuja. Excited crowd of newsmen, guests and visitors at the Abuja venue of the event could not hold their emotions as they began to shout “my President, my President,” as Obi addressed a world press conference. The former Anambra State Governor who was believed to have won the highly compromised February 25 presidential poll, was nearly mobbed at the end of the press conference by enthusiastic admirers who jostled to exchange…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has called for the cancellation of last Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections, alleging unprecedented rigging. Wabara who dismissed the exercise as a sham expressed disappointment over the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to upload the results directly from the polling units contrary to its earlier promises. Addressing newsmen Thursday in Umuahia, Abia State, Wabara demanded an investigation of INEC over its role in the obvious sabotage of the elections. He wondered why INEC could not deliver a credible poll after raising the hope of Nigerians. Wabara who…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Abia Central senatorial contest, Hon. Sam Onuigbo, has expressed bitterness over the omission of the APC name and logo in the result sheets for the election held last Saturday. Onuigbo who is currently representing Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency in the House of Representatives, rejected the result of the poll declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. The lawmaker who made the observation at a press conference in Umuahia, said the gross omission by INEC affected the documentation of his results. Hon. Darlington Nwokocha of the Labour Party, was declared winner of the contest…