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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Mao Ohuabunwa who represented Abia North in the 8th Senate, has appealed to youths from Umunneochi not to make real their threat to take laws into their hands should the Army fail to dismantle the military checkpoint at Lomara Junction and open the barricaded Ihube/Isuochi Road, after seven days. The youths had alleged that criminal herders behind the incessant cases of kidnappings for ransom in the area have been carrying out their nefarious activities under the nose of soldiers at the checkpoint. During a peaceful protest Wednesday, the youths had given the Abia State Government seven…
By Azu Ishiekwene After last weekend’s primary by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal. According to pro-zoning interest groups in the South, it’s not supposed to be this way. After over two decades of an internal zoning arrangement in the PDP that has produced presidents from two other zones and sprung Atiku as candidate in the last general election, the groups are upset that the system is once again rigged…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Owerri, on Thursday, sealed off some of the branches of Zenith Bank in Owerri, over an alleged N1.9 billion debt owed the former Imo Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, by the Imo State Government. The sealing off of the Zenith Bank branches followed a garnishee order issued by Hon Justice I.S Galadima of the National Industrial Court, Owerri in a SUIT NO: NICN/OW/19M/2021, between Prince Eze Madumere and Governor of Imo state, Attorney General of Imo state, Imo State Government and Zenith Bank PLC. Part of the order reads: “It is hereby…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A pro-democracy and environmental rights advocacy group, Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development, FENRAD, has commended the Federal Government for ordering the cancellation of all contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, from 2000 to December 31, 2019, for which the beneficiary contractors are yet to mobilize to site. FENRAD in a release jointly signed by its Executive Director/Abia State Co-ordinator, NDDC Advocacy Groups, Comrade Nnanna Nwafor; and Head, Corporate Accountability and Human Rights Enforcement, Mr Akande Femisi, a lawyer, demanded probe of the affected contracts and prosecution of any contractor found culpable. The…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A former Chief Judge of Anambra State, retired Justice Peter Umeadi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the 2023 presidential election. Justice Umeadi who is the sole presidential aspirant of APGA was declared winner of the primary election of the party on Wednesday. His candidacy was affirmed by 150 delegates who voted at a special convention of the party held in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The former chief judge, in his acceptance speech, asked Nigerians to respect the ballot and promised to secure votes at the polls that would…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State following controversies arising from its three-man delegate congress and primary election is yet to be over as the pioneer Director General of Nigeria Directorate of Employment, NDE, Chief Chuku Wachuku, has said that he had resigned his membership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State. He expressed disappointment over the level of impunity and lack of internal democracy in Abia PDP. Wachuku, a senatorial aspirant for Abia Central senatorial, had last week, withdrawn from the race before the PDP primaries, citing lack…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election, lawmakers in Anambra State have re-echoed the call for the consideration of aspirants of the South-East extraction to emerge the flag-bearer of the party for the 2023 presidential election. The legislators made the appeal while speaking with journalists in Awka. They stated that the consideration would give the South-East opportunity to produce the president to lead the country. According to them, the emergence of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction will douse the tension and agitations in the South-East. Member representing Dunukofia Constituency in the Anambra State House…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, on Wednesday, commended the Director of State Services, DSS, over the arrest of the suspects who were allegedly involved in the beheading of the lawmaker from Aguata State Constituency in Anambra State last month. The intersociety group led by Emeka Umeagbalasi stated this in a statement issued in Owerri. The group described the arrest as “one of the high profile and intelligence and technology-powered and fastest arrests in recent times in connection with violent crimes.” According to Intersociety, “An Unubi High Chief and malevolent herbalist, Chief Chukwujekwu…
By Osita Chidoka No other group did more damage to the idea of zoning than the 80 out of 95 Igbo delegates to the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention who cast their votes against Igbo aspirants. The 80 delegates and their sponsors, in a tragic display of lack of group consciousness and primacy of personal interest, sent the country a clear and loud message: zoning is not an issue dear to Ndigbo. Igbo PDP delegates told Nigerians that a President from the Southeast is not a priority and not an issue of justice and fairness. The country heard them.…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The government of Imo State on Wednesday declared that Governor Hope Uzodimma was hale and hearty. It described as descendants of Lucifer, those spreading the rumour that he (Uzodimma) was down with stroke and flown to India for treatment. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, made this statement to newsmen in Owerri, while dismissing a viral voice recording on social media. According to the state government, “Uzodimma is not only hale and hearty but has been energetically attending to all his scheduled activities in the nation’s capital, Abuja. Those behind the satanic rumours are…