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By Owei Lakemfa In my part of the world, it is said that when the address on the envelop is longer than the content of the letter, it means there is nothing substantial to say. This was the conclusion I arrived at when I read the Kigali communiqué of the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference which held from June 19-21, 2022. The 117-point communiqué was 10,248 words long on bland statements and endorsement of already endorsed programmes. For instance, the conference meandered around the same Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, formally endorsed by world leaders at the United Nations in September…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally extended the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise after weeks of pressure from Nigerians. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The exercise was originally scheduled to end on Thursday, June 30, but the electoral umpire directed all the states Resident Electoral Commissioners and local government Electoral Officers to continue with the exercise pending further directives from the Commission. Okoye said the Commission has consistently reiterated its resolve to continue to provide electoral services to the Nigerian…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia There is uneasy calm in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State as the fate of all the party’s flag bearers in the 2023 elections seems to be hanging in the balance. This is following the ruling by an Abia State High Court sitting in Aba that reversed itself on its earlier order which recognised the three-man Ad hoc delegates list that produced them. One Akuoma Friday, had on May 16, 2022, approached the court, urging it to vacate its earlier order. After due consideration of the suit, the court, presided over by Justice C.U.…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Five years after its proscription by the Federal Government, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has engaged the services of Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, SAN, to step up on their 2018 appeal, seeking the reversal of the proscription and the terrorist tag on the pro-Biafra movement. Recall that when the proscription was made ex parte in October 2017, IPOB had then, approached the Court of Appeal insisting that the trial court was in error and praying that the lower court’s ex parte orders be set aside. IPOB had proposed five grounds of reversal which included that the activities of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, and Member representing Aba South state constituency in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Obinna Ichita, has again, advocated political solution as the best option to resolve the Federal Government’s issues with the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has remained in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, since his rendition from Kenya in June 2021. He is standing trial for treasonable felony at the Federal High Court Abuja. Hon. Ichita urged the Federal Government to…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Filmmaker and rapper, Abdulrasheed Bello, known professionally as JJC Skillz, has opened up on the events that led to the collapse of his six years old marriage. The husband to Nigerian popular actress, Funke Akindele announced separation from his wife in a post on his Instagram page. He said he moved out of the house three months ago and that they have been living separate lives. JJC Skillz had, in April, denied reports of his marriage crisis but confirmed in the Instagram post that the recent development in the last two years had been extremely difficult them…
By Azu Ishiekwene Until she asked, I didn’t know it was a problem. Her problem, I mean. When people say whatever gets your time and attention gets you, it’s often true. For as long as I can remember, 38 weeks every year, this thing gets my time and attention. It starts slowly, usually on weekends, at the beginning of the season. And then, as the fixtures pick up tempo and the men separate themselves from the boys, weekends morph into weekdays. Other chores become placeholders yielding to just one desire: watching the English Premier League. From the way my wife asked whether there was no…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Kinsmen of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu have demanded that due process be followed in the investigation of the alleged ‘organ harvest’ charge proffered against him and his wife by British authorities. The group under the auspices of Ikeoha Mpu Pacesetters League, made the call in a statement in Enugu by its Coordinating Chairman, Mr Chijioke Ezekwe. Ezekwe also called on the Federal Government, African sub-regional institutions and the Igbo community to ensure that justice was done in the matter. Recall that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, were recently arrested by the Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police…
Our Reporter Forty students and faculty members from Morehouse College Glee Club in Atlanta, United States of America, USA, on Wednesday, took Igbo names and declared their ancestry to the Igbos of South-East Nigeria. Some of the students disclosed that they traced their Igbo ancestral roots through DNA tests conducted on them. While performing the Igbo-name-giving ceremony at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, the traditional ruler of Ibagwa-Aka community in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, HRH, Igwe Hyacinth Eze, expressed happiness over the reunion of the Igbo-Americans with their ancestral brothers. The monarch said he was…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has directed the abolition of revenue collection by proxy in parks, roads and markets in the state. It also declared that it will start the implementation of the new tax and levy regime in the state from July 1, 2022, to curtail leakages of government revenue which usually end up in private pockets. The State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, disclosed this at a one day town hall meeting held at Women’s Development Center, Awka, with Transport and Market Union Executive Members in Anambra State. Governor Soludo warned anyone posing as a government revenue collector in any part…