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Stephen Ukandu, News & Features Editor The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Tuesday, sentenced two co-defendants of the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwana to six years in prison. Trial Judge, Justice Emeka Nite, who delivered the judgement, convicted Umeibe and Ezenwanne facing trial over drug trafficking, on counts 5, 6 and 7 of the drug trafficking charge the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, preferred against them. Both of them were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu while attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country. They were later arraigned…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, and one of the presidential aspirants of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has resigned from the party. The 2019 presidential candidate of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, in his resignation letter to the National Chairman of ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, cited massive monetary inducements and lack of transparency during the party’s presidential primary at Abeokuta as reasons for his action. He said that his continued stay in the party after observing the charade that took place in Abeokuta, would amount to endorsement of “political corruption of most…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Nine days after the kidnap and continued detention of their colleague, Professor Uwadinachi, by unknown gunmen, doctors in Abia State Tuesday, announced withdrawal of their services in both public and private hospitals to register their grievances over the sad development. The former Chief Medical Director of Abia State University Teaching Hospital Aba was Kidnapped on Sunday 6th June 2022, around 4:00pm, in front of his house at Umuokpara in Umuahia South Local Government Area. During their earlier protest last Friday, the doctors had threatened to down tools if after 47 hours their Kidnapped colleague were not released.…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has continued to receive knocks from various groups, individuals, and leaders from the South-East for his call on the people of the state not to vote for Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The governor had on Monday said the people of the State will only vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State and not Labour Party. But as soon as reports of the statement broke residents of the state and beyond took to social media to lambast the governor for making the statement. They accused the…
By SKC Ogbonnia The blind ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rule Nigeria at all costs is on course to provoke a civil war. But this war will not be fought between the Yoruba and the Igbo, as Tinubu would wish; it is a civil war between the Nigerian masses and the corrupt oligarchy that he represents. Keenly aware that he is neither physically fit nor morally sound to mount a presidential campaign let alone governing Nigeria, Mr. Tinubu is already attempting to win by hook or crook. Barely less than one week after grabbing the presidential ticket of the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisations, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has given all Igbo delegates at the just-concluded presidential primaries of the two major political parties in the country the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC; and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – who did not vote for South-East aspirants at the conventions – to vacate the zone without delay. Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, described such delegates as traitors sabotaging the quest for Nigeria President of Igbo extraction in 2023. In a statement issued Monday in Abuja after a review of the conducts of delegates…
Our Reporter, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders Forum has asked for a credible and acceptable Vice Presidential candidate for the party. The Forum, which briefed the media on Monday said that the concern of the party should be winning election and not ethnicity or religion. The stakeholders displayed banners with captions like Winning election should be priority; Only Governor Zulum or El-Rufai can pull out Northern votes; and Credible and acceptable VP is key to winning 2023 election.” Briefing the media at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, the Chairman of the Forum, Abdullahi Aliyu Katsina, said they…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has refuted social media reports that it had extended the deadline for voters’ registration earlier fixed for June 30 to August 31. INEC said that the media report was false and never emanated from the Commission. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said on Monday that there was no iota of truth in the said report, and urged members of the public to disregard it. He maintained that the June 30 deadline remained sacrosanct. According to him, “the deadline for the Continuous Voter…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Association of Persons with Albinism (ASAA) has expressed sadness over discrimination, stigmatisation, and inhuman treatment of members because of their skin colour. The group called for a total attitudinal change and perception of the public on persons with disabilities in the state. Commemorating this year International Albinism Awareness Day organised by ASAA over the weekend at Prof Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre Awka, Chairperson of ASAA, Comrade Vivian Ezeonwumelu, in her address, enumerated many ill treatments meted on her disability group as a result of the colour of their skin. According to her, “Persons…
By Owei Lakemfa The Federal Government on Thursday announced that the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, was responsible for the June 5, 2022, massacre of 40 worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State. Not unexpectedly, it gave no evidence, did not state how it came to that conclusion and did not announce the arrest of any suspect. Just a declaration it expects Nigerians to believe. When the killings occurred, the general claim and belief in the state was that Fulani terrorists were responsible. This unverified claim was articulated by Honourable Olayemi Adeyemi representing the good people of…