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Our Reporter, Abuja Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has urged the people of the South-East to do all it takes to participate in the 2023 general election in spite of all the obstacles the system puts in front of them because the consequences of non-participation would be grave for the zone. The immediate past Senate Minority Leader gave this advice Thursday as Keynote Speaker at the inaugural Ikengaonline monthly virtual town hall meeting. The lawmaker who said that their (opposition senators) walking out of the Senate chamber yesterday showed that there are serious problems in the country. The senator said that with…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The immediate-past Senate Minority Leader and the Senator representing Abia South, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that the emergence of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has re-awakened the interest of many Nigerians in the political process and the 2023 general election. Senator Abaribe who stated this as keynote speaker at the inaugural Ikengaonline monthly town hall virtual meeting Thursday, said the Obi phenomenon was a revolution in the country’s electoral system. He explained that a lot of youths and Nigerians from across the different geo-political zones who had lost interest in the political…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Social commentator and Coordinator of the African Center for Transparecy(ACT), Dr Osmund Agbo, was last Friday in Abuja, conferred with the prestigious Technology & Innovation Award, by the Rotary Club International. The honour according to Rotary Club, is in recognition of his role as Founder, Technology and Innovation Centre, Enugu, an organization that supports local inventors and incubators in Nigeria. The award was conferred on him during the investiture of Rotarian Max Amuchie, the publisher of the Sundiata Post, as the 6th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja, on Friday the 22nd of July, 2022. Dr.…
By Aloy Ejimakor The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a quasi-judicial body that has a subsisting legal mandate of the United Nations to consider and adjudicate human rights petitions against member nations of the UN. Its rulings or decisions (diplomatically called Opinions), such as was recently issued in favor of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, are legally binding on Nigeria on myriad grounds, including the fact that the decision is based on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both of which Nigeria ratified several decades ago. Ratification is a means…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the festering insecurity in the country and the economic malady, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has warmed that if no urgent measures were taken to halt the spate of insecurity in the land, Nigeria may collapse before 2023. Senator Ohuabunwa who represented Abia North in the 8th Senate, expressed rage over the worsening insecurity which he warned might soon engulf Nigeria. The former Leader, ECOWAS Parliament, who gave the warning when he visited victims of the recent flood disaster in Nkporo communities of Ohafia Local Government Area, Abia State, said “Nigeria is on the precipice.” Ohuabunwa cited the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the worsening insecurity and threats of impending terror attacks in Abuja, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has demanded immediate and unconditional release of its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu, has since his ‘abduction’ and rendition from Kenya in June 2021, been detained at the headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS, Abuja. IPOB said its demand had become necessary following intelligence reports by various security agencies in Abuja. This is coming few days after security agencies said there was intelligence report that the Islamic State West of Africa Province, ISWAP; and Boko Haram…
Our Reporter, Lagos Foremost Kenyan humorist and brain behind the XYZ Show, George Mwampembwa, popularly called Gado, has revealed why the Kenyan media suppressed information regarding the extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu from the country. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was abducted in Kenya and subsequently flown to Nigeria in June 2021 to face trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony. Speaking on the show 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah on Sunday, July 17, 2022. Gado said that Kenyans don’t know much about the event because it was barely reported by the country’s…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Ebonyi State government on Thursday denied allegations on social media that herdsmen were involved in the killing of a young lady in Onicha local government area. The body of the young lady from Amaporo village whose name could not be ascertained was found dead along a bush part between Agbebor, Isu and Onicha-Igboeze communities on Wednesday. The situation caused tension in the area as the youths raised a search party to hunt for the killers. However, their efforts were not successful as the killers were said to have allegedly escaped. Pictures of the slain lady soon flooded…
By Azu Ishiekwene After BBC Africa service promoted a story on Friday of an interview with the bandit warlords of Zamfara State, a senior Nigerian journalist, Kadaria Ahmed, called out the broadcaster in a tweet. Kadaria, an ex-Beeb, said the interview would give the terrorists oxygen, stoke hysteria and bring nothing but pain and misery to hundreds of victims and their families. In the thread that followed, the BBC Eye co-founding executive producer and others who weighed in disagreed with Kadaria. They said without understanding the enemy you cannot solve the problem. Or perhaps get the government to see the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Stakeholders including government functionaries, the academia, students, professional associations, the media among others, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to provide an enabling environment for private sector to thrive. The call was made at an event organized by Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, (ONICCIMA) as part of its annual public lecture tagged: the Perspective. It held at Archbishop C. J. Patterson Auditorium, All Saint’s Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra State. Former PDP governorship candidate in Anambra State, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, who chaired the occasion, observed that meaningful discussions as dialogue or trialogue should be guided by emotional intelligence to…