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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Abia State governorship flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Professor Gregory Ibe, has challenged security agencies in the state particularly the police to fish out those behind the gruesome killing of three innocent staff of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA, by suspected cultists in Aba. Professor Ibe who described the murder as callous and atrocious demanded probe into the heinous crime. Three ASEPA workers were, over the weekend, gruesomely murdered at Samek area of Fauks Road Aba by suspected cultists. Condemning the dastardly act in a statement by the Director Media…

By Owei Lakemfa The raging arguments today include whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari should have obeyed the Supreme Court ruling on the continued use of the old currencies. One argument is that it was the Federal Government that was sued, not the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. But our forebears have a wise saying: the slave master owns the slave. It is illogical that the President who appoints the CBN Governor and gives the bank directives can be restrained by the Supreme Court but the appendage says it is not affected. It is simply a case of impunity, and…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Governor Nasir el-rufai, has ordered Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Kaduna State to continue to transact with both old and new N500 and N1000 currency notes. This was contained in a statement issued Sunday by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye. The Governor directed that agencies in the state should allow old and new naira notes to circulate simultaneously in line with the order of the Supreme Court. According to the statement, no agency should reject any payment made with the old currency notes. The statement posted on the Governor’s verified Tweeter handle…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) Anambra State branch has praised citizens in Anambra State for their calm and mature dispositions in the face of socioeconomic hardships in Nigeria. It said there is massive suffering and hardship in the land majorly caused by Federal Government’s new naira redesign policy and the scarcity of fuel in the country. A statement by the group endorsed by the Chairman, Evangelist Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme; and Secretary, Comrade Chidi Mba; the group described the situation as “pathetic and despicable.” It noted that many families have lost their loved ones within the period due to the…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Gunmen at the weekend invaded an All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally venue in Ebonyi killing one person. The wife of a Journalist in the State narrowly escaped death during the attack when the gunmen shot her and her companions. The incident happened at Ezzagu Ward 1 in Ishielu Local Government Area where the Ebonyi Central senatorial candidate of the party, Ken Eze, visited for campaign. An indigene of the area and a Journalist, Mr Benjamin Nworie whose wife escaped death during the attack, narrated how the gunmen stormed the campaign ground and opened fire on party faithful. He said the…

By Gabriel Agbo       With few days to the presidential elections, Nigerians have finally come to the very decisive stage for the last push to save their traumatised country from the current pain, bondage and chaos. Yes, the country is in total mess. As I write, there is an acute scarcity of fuel and currency, worsening insecurity and even scarcity of hope that things will get any better soon.  And if we miss this opportunity to get it right at the poll, then prepare for the generational consequences. I mean, this is that time to mobilise everybody around you to vote…

By Hassan Gimba The death of a thousand good men is not as tragic as having an unfit man in a position of national leadership – Usman dan Fodio. The above quote by Sheikh Usman Ɗan Fodio, a Fulani philosopher, Islamic religious teacher, revolutionary, and leader who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first Caliph, is quite true. This is so because an unfit leader can cause the death of millions and plunge a nation into chaos, anarchy and civil war. We are just about five days away from a presidential election, an important one because it is…

By Jude Eze Watching Malam Nasir el-Rufai, the executive governor of Kaduna State in the evening of Thursday February 16, make a counter state-wide broadcast to President Muhammadu Buhari’s earlier verdict in a nationwide address on the naira redesign policy, made me reminisce the tragic story of May 30, 1967. That was the fated date when the Late Igbo Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, used his power as the Governor of Eastern region, to make a counter pronouncement to the creation of 12 states by then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, and declared Eastern Nigeria “Independent State of Biafra.”…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On Saturday, 25 February, 2023, Nigerians will vote in an election to select the successor to the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari. This will be the seventh consecutive cycle of presidential elections since the country returned to civil rule in May 1999; the 10th since the onset of the presidential system of government in 1979. Nigeria’s start to the presidential system of government is by no means auspicious. The military supervised the first ballot in August 1979, which installed Shehu Shagari as Nigeria’s first elected president. The election ended up before the Supreme Court, establishing what would become a…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Prof Aloysius-Okolie, has urged 6,313 students offered admission into various disciplines in the Institution for the 2022/2023 academic session, to eschew examination malpractices, ‘sorting’ for grades, cultism and other social vices. He congratulated the students on their successful admission into the Institution, and urged them to always pay the approved fees and register their courses within stipulated time to maintain their studentship. Okolie made the call at the permanent site of the university, at Agbani, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, during the…