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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A group, Anaocha Stakeholders, made up of elders from Anaocha Local Government Area, Anambra State, has disclosed plans to begin a victory grassroots mobilisation and campaign for the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and other candidates of the party in Anambra State. The elders vowed that they will do everything political and spiritually possible to ensure that their son, Obi, the Senatorial candidate of Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh, the party candidate for Anaocha 1 State Constituency, Hon.Nkechi Ogbuefi and others contesting under the LP platform in the state emergence victorious in the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Archbishop Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger and Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Grace Most Revd Alexander Chibuzo Ibezim, has predicted that Nigeria is likely to witness the emergence of  Christian-Muslim leadership in the 2023 election. Though the Anglican Prelate failed to disclosed which among the contesting presidential candidates in the country he feels may clinch the seat of the presidency, he said the winner will boast a Christian-Muslim combination. The archbishop made the prediction during a press briefing in Awka, Monday, as part of the preparations to mark his 60th birthday anniversary which comes up on Friday.…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka. Stakeholders have tasked young people to key into the Smart Mega City and digital economy plan of Governor Chukwuma Soludo to transform Anambra State. They spoke at the election of the Chuchu Nwalusi-led Amawbia Youth Vanguard whose officers were presented with  Certificates of Return by the Deputy President-General of Amawbia Town Union, Hon. Nnamdi Onwuzuligbo at Ezi-Okpaligwe Town Hall.                           Speaking at the occasion, the Acting National President of ASATU, Onwughalu Nkwado, urged the Nwalusi-led team to develop policies akin to the manifesto of the Soludo administration for easy integration in the blueprint.    Nkwado who hailed the election…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has asked South-East politicians based in Abuja, the federal capital territory to pressure the Federal Government to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, or forget returning to the East. Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) and is standing trial for treasonable felony in a federal high court in Abuja. In a statement issued on Monday, IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said Igbo politicians and elders would not be spared if they return home without its leader. The statement read: “As terrorists and insecurity are gradually…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Professor of Political Economy and Management expert, Professor Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, will be the Keynote Speaker at the second edition of the Ikengaonline virtual town hall meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 25, 2022. Professor Utomi is the founder of Centre for Value in Leadership and the African Democratic Congress. According to the organisers, the Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a former presidential candidate, will be speaking on the theme: “Handshake Across the Niger: The imperatives of Southern Unity Now and Beyond.” A release signed by Dr Chido Onumah on behalf of the Management of…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The presidential running mate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Dr Enyinna Kasarachi, has lampooned the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the party is a colossal failure, and incapable of fixing the country’s security and socio-economic woes. He noted with regrets that instead of generating ideas to navigate Nigeria out of the woods, APC is rather compounding the woes of the country. Dr Kasarachi who accused APC of taking Nigeria 50 years backwards, said that the party was not only overwhelmed but bereft of ideas to tackle the festering insecurity and biting economic hardship in the country. The…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The lives of residents of hilly community of Ogwuma in Afikpo South Local government area are at risk following persistent landslides in the area. Another landslide hit the community on Saturday destroying houses, economic threes and blocking the major road which runs through the community Governor David Umahi on hearing the news, quickly visited the area on Monday to access the level of damage. He solicited for financial intervention from the Federal Government to tackle the incessant landslide in Afikpo South Local Government Area which is threatening the lives inhabitants of the area. He stated this while…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State government has explained why it arrested its former agent on Paris club refund, Jackie Ikeotuonye. A statement by the Special Adviser to Governor David Umahi on Media and Strategy, Chooks Oko, on Monday night said the former agent to the state government on Paris Club fund refund recovery was arrested for possible fraud by the police. Social media has been awash with Ms Ikeotuonye’s arrest by the police in Abuja on Sunday allegedly on the orders of Mr Umahi. Social Media activist, Deji Adeyanju, had in a post on his Facebook page on Sunday night…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Moves by Chief Emeka Atuma to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise him as the All Progressives Congress, APC, flag bearer for the 2023 Abia Central senatorial poll, hit the rocks weekend, as a Federal High Court sitting in Katsina rejected his request. The Court presided over by Justice E. M. Shittu Abubakar, struck out Atuma’s name from the list of APC candidates seeking to be uploaded by the party as its candidates. The APC and 16 of its candidates had in an interlocutory Application, approached a state high court in Abia,  claiming that they would…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The menacing activities of kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen got to a feverish height weekend, when the dare-devil bandits blocked the ever-busy Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway and began to abduct unlucky passengers. According to a local source, no fewer than the entire occupants of three passenger buses were abducted and whisked away into the bush by the bandits. The bandits numbering over 30 according to a local source, blocked the dual carriage expressway around evening hours and unleashed terror on commuters. The incident, according to the source, took place between Leru Junction and Ihube cashew plantation in…