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Police deploy 25,000 personnel for Imo guber poll Ugo Nosiri, Owerri The Nigeria Police force says it has deployed a total of 25,565 police personnel “to man the land, airways and waterways” for today’s governorship election in Imo State. The supervising DIG Imo State Gubernatorial Election, DIG Frank Mba, disclosed this while inspecting the operational vehicles deployed by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun, to beef up security in the state. DIG Frank Mba also disclosed that over 80 trucks, 20 buffaloes, 20 Hilux vehicles and 20 gun trucks have been made available to help in strengthening the…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Ebonyi State Government has released a white paper on the Report of the committee on the resolution of the land dispute between Amana in Ezza South Local Government Area and Ohankwu in Ikwo Local Government Area of the State which claimed many lives with properties destroyed. This was as the committee set up by the government has recommended immediate re-establishment of cement boundary pillars to end the crisis taking bearing from existing ones to determine the owners of the disputed Lead site and surrounding farm lands under contention. The Commissioner for Information and State Orientation in the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has distanced himself from posts making the rounds on Social Media that he was giving out ₦2 billion grants to 5,000 Anambra youths. Soludo, in a statement signed by his Press Secretary, Mr Christian Aburime, described the posts as a blatant scam, totally fraudulent and unauthorised by the government. The governor said his government does not engage in any form of cash transfer programme through the link provided in the scam message, and warned the public to verify whatever information they consume to avoid being scammed. The statement read: “It has…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As the N60 billion budgeted for Sports Utility Vehicles, SUVs for members of the National Assembly, continues to generate controversy and public outcry, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 poll, Mr Peter Obi, has said that nobody would have contemplated spending such a stupendous amount of money on lawmakers’ cars under his watch. Obi who took to his X (formerly Twitter) handle to bare his mind, said it was regrettable for the President Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to place the pleasure of the ruling class above the interest and basic needs of the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene, has told South East Governors and other stakeholders to sustain efforts towards reviving apprenticeship schemes for which Ndigbo are known. Chief Ogene said this would help the zone tackle the challenges of unemployment, crime and other social vices. Speaking in Awka , Chief Okeke Ogene recalled that the apprenticeship scheme in the past promoted a sense of enterprise and self-reliance among Ndigbo that advanced human capital development in the region. He regretted that some crafts like palm wine tapping, blacksmithing, basket and mat weaving are no longer…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The National Coordinator of APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, has warned Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District against making inciting comments that could drag the people of Nnewi to war against other communities in the state. Obigwe was reacting to Ubah’s recent media statement that Nnewi people were let down in a statement credited to Obigwe and APGA, recently. It would also be recalled that Ubah had stated that  “Anambra is owing Nnewi North the opportunity to produce a Governor,” and had vowed that Nnewi clan must produce the next governor of the State. However, Obigwe,…

By Press Statement Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on Federal and State Governments as well as law enforcement and security agencies to take adequate measures to protect journalists and other media workers during this weekend’s off-cycle elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, saying their role in providing information about the electoral process is critical in ensuring free, fair and transparent elections. In a statement issued in Lagos ahead of the elections, MRA urged journalists to be safety conscious and to utilise its existing hotline in reporting any threat or attack that they may experience throughout the process as…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Again, the family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of denying the pro-Biafra movement leader access to his visitors. The family who spoke through Prince Emmanuel Kanu, after a botched attempt Thursday to visit the IPOB Leader, alleged that the action of the secret police, was a ploy to hide from the public, the current state of Kanu’s deteriorating health. He accused DSS of flagrantly violating court orders that said Kanu should be allowed unfettered access to his family and lawyers twice…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The police in Ebonyi State on Wednesday paraded two persons, Alegu Nwabueze, and Moses Onyema, for allegedly defrauding one Emmanuel Nnaji from Enugu State, of the sum of N54 million. Police Spokesperson, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, said that Nwabueze, his wife Chinyere and Onyema who is a former Local Government Chairman in Ikwo, committed conspiracy/forgery and advance fee fraud by selling people’s land. “This is a case of conspiracy/forgery of title document and advance fee fraud, reported through a written petition against the suspect, one Alegu Chinyere, Alegu Nwabueze and Moses Onyema. “Forged title document were recovered from them,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Federal Government has blasted the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, over his criticism of the N2.17 trillion supplementary budget recently approved by the National Assembly, and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Obi had knocked the President for signing the supplementary budget which he said, was not addressing pressing National needs The former Anambra State Governor, had on Wednesday, via a post on his X handle (formerly Twitter), lamented that the supplementary budget failed to capture “urgent items of national welfare.” He accused the Federal Government of being “uncaring and…