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 By Arinze Chijioke There has been a recent upsurge of turnout by intending voters in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Southeast, a situation many view as encouraging in a region that has been defined by voter apathy since 1999. However, as the crowds of intending voters swell in the various registration centres, official INEC weekly CVR Updates for the zones do not seem to reflect this noticeable upsurge of new registrants as the Southeast firmly remains at the basement of the Table of newly registered voters week after week. In…

Our Reporter, Vancouver Convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, and US-based publisher of African Abroad-USA newspapers, Alex Kabba, have disagreed over a possible Tinubu presidency in 2023. Mr Adeyanju and Mr Kabba squared off Sunday on the online interview programme 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah. While Mr. Kabba argued that Mr Tinubu is the best candidate for the position of president in 2023, Mr. Adeyanju disagreed saying that the country does not need another ailing president. “The Left movement in Nigeria has always been in political doldrums. I have always been praying that we have a man…

Our Reporter, Abuja Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, wife of the late Biafra Leader, Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has reacted to Fr Ejike Mbaka’s allegation that Peter Obi is a stingy man who cannot be Nigeria’s president. Mrs Ojukwu debunked Mbaka’s allegation in a write up titled “No Apologies, Please, on Peter Obi’s supposed ‘stinginess.” In the piece, the wife of the Iate Igbo leader came through for Obi arguing that if the way the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, lives his life is termed ‘stinginess,’ “then we all need to adopt this mould for a more sustainable and…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Determined to deal with the spike in the wave of kidnappings for ransom in the state, Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has inaugurated a special committee on security, charging them to mobilise youths to chase away any stranger-elements occupying Umunneochi forests. He gave marching orders to members of the Special Security Committee on Umunneochi to deal mercilessly with any stranger-element occupying Abia forests. Ikpeazu who gave the charge while inaugurating the special committee Thursday at the Government House Umuahia, vowed that no stranger would be allowed to take over any part of the state. He decried the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police operatives in Anambra State have arrested a thirty-four-year-old man for alleged murder of a three-year-old child in Anambra State. A statement by the Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this on Thursday. He said the suspect committed the murder after a brief altercation with the victim’s father after spending the night in their house. According to him, “the Anambra State Police Operatives have today 16/6/2022 arrested one Mr Onwele Anayo ‘M’ aged 34years over the murder of Divine Eze ‘M’ aged 3yr residing in Hillview Estate, Nkwelle -Ezunaka. “Preliminary investigation shows that…

 By Ikem Okuhu It is obvious that the Catholic Church in Nigeria has lost the fight to rein in one of their most vocal evangelists in the South-East, who has carved a niche for himself as the champion in the very profitable area of prophetic political evangelism. I do not know just yet how this failure will impact the largest Christian denomination, whose strongest demand for its priests is unquestioning obedience, but it does not look good, considering how the fiery, often controversial sermons of Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has negated the letters and precepts of the Catholic faith and the…

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo On Monday, August 4, 2004, one week after he made a speech at the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston, I wrote a column for the Nigeriaworld called “Obama: An audacity of hope?” Here is how the column started. “Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Congresswoman, recently visited the White House with a congressional delegation. Making her way out, she passed President Bush, and the president literally jumped back on seeing “Obama” button pinned to her chest. Guessing what the president was thinking, she told him, “Mr. President, it is Obama with a “b”. Still, the president did not…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Imo State, has expressed worry that Imo State was the only state without a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in the federation. The Assistant Commandant Narcotics, NDLEA, Mr Ahehu Lamuwa, made this known to newsmen during the feast of Barracuda organised by the National Association of Seadogs, NAS, in Owerri. Lamuwa said if nothing was done, it would worsen the case of persons with drug addiction in the state. According to NDLEA, “246 million people use drugs worldwide, and 14.5 million use drugs in Nigeria. And the production of…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has introduced regenerative agriculture as the pathway to food sufficiency and repositioning of the state’s economy. Governor Soludo performed the function at the flag-off of the 2022 Farming Season in Anambra State at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka. According to the governor, his administration is championing the reenactment of the palm revolution which built the old eastern region. It will be a way of going back to where the Late M.I.Okpara stopped. The Governor expressed his administration’s readiness to partner communities and individuals who are interested in going into palm and…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Enugu-based Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has come under severe attacks by Nigerians for describing Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a “stingy man.” The fiery priest had during his sermon taken Obi to the cleaners, boasting that he would not win the presidential race because of stinginess. Mbaka who claimed to have played a key role in Obi’s reinstatement as Anambra State Governor after his impeachment by the state lawmakers, said that if Obi failed to come and apologize to him at the Adoration ground, he would fail in…