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Our Reporter, Abuja The South-East has only made a minor improvement in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise according to the Weekly Update from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Figures released by INEC as at 7am on Monday June 6, 2022, indicate that the South-East with a total of 683,066 new registration is still behind all the other zones in the registration table. The new figure represents 24.02% increase of the figure from the previous week, which was 550,771. The breakdown of the latest figures according to states in the South-East puts Ebonyi State with 274,640 above the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Immediate-past Minister of State for Education, and one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has finally opened up on why he boycotted the party’s presidential primaries in Abuja on Tuesday. Nwajiuba cited his respect for due process and internal democracy as the reason for keeping away from the convention ground. The Imo State-born politician in a press statement Wednesday, thanked his supporters and appealed to them to be calm. He also believed that his presence would not have changed anything and may even be misconstrued as an incitement given his younger age…
Stephen Ukandu, News & Features Editor Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has finally emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2023 presidential election. The APC chieftain polled 1,271 votes to floor 13 other contenders some of whom scored zero votes. Tinubu had before the balloting gotten the endorsement of six aspirants, who stepped down for him. The immediate past Minister for Transportation, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, came a distant second with 316 votes; while the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, placed third with 235 votes. Just before balloting commenced, six aspirants stepped down…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu is about picking the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as he maintains a strong lead in the ongoing presidential primaries of the party. With the majority of the votes already counted, Tinubu is being trailed by the immediate past Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The winner will be declared when the counting is concluded. Details later…..
Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Enugu State has suspended the one month old strike by public primary school teachers in the state. Recall that the NUT had in Circular No. 001/05/2022 dated May 6, 2022, directed public primary school teachers in the state to proceed on an indefinite strike. According to the circular signed by the NUT Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Theophilus Odo and Macs Nnaji, respectively, the strike was due to the inability of the state government to pay the teachers the N30, 000 minimum wage. According to the circular, the strike will continue…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer than 1, 000 teachers employed by the government of Anambra State, under the immediate past governor, Chief Willie Obiano, have asked the incumbent governor of the state, Prof Charles Soludo, to give them back their jobs. The protesting teachers were recently sacked by the Anambra State Government with efforts being made to employ new ones. The teachers in a protest on Tuesday said they were previously engaged by the Parents Teacher Association (PTA) of the various communities in the state before the Obiano administration converted their engagement as permanent staff in the state’s school system.…
Our Reporter, Abuja The former governor of the old Abia State and the immediate past minister of science and technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has criticized the unjust treatment of the South-East in the politics of the country. Onu a presidential aspirant, made his position known while addressing delegates and members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tuesday night at the presidential convention of the party holding at Eagle Square, Abuja. The former minister reminded members of the party and the president, Muhammadu Buhari, the role he played in the birthing of APC as a political party to the point that…
By Jude Eze The story of Most Rev. Peter Ebere Okpaleke is familiar among many, no thanks to the censurable hostility people of Mbaise Diocese meted out against his appointment as their Bishop. Recall: On 07 December 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Okpaleke Bishop of Ahiara Mbaise Diocese Imo state. But he was pointedly rejected by the people (both laity and clergy), on the ground that he was not from their town, being a priest of Awka Diocese in Anambra. So, his episcopal consecration was held on 21 May 2013 outside the Diocese, in the Major Seminary of Ulakwo, Owerri…
By Hassan Gimba Had Atiku Abubakar, Wazirin Adamawa, former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, two-time unlucky in presidential elections on the platform of two different parties, and a veteran of four presidential primary elections, been a pugilist, he would have been one in the mould of the great Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali, who called himself ‘The Greatest’, with the world agreeing, invented the famous rope-a-dope style of combat. He would lay back on the squared ropes, exposing his torso, specifically the abdomen part, for the opponent to keep on punching. Being mostly wham-bam pugilists, they usually got…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Bishop Church of Nigeria, Diocese of Amichi, Rt. Rev. Ephraim Ikeakor, has advised Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, not to rely on feedbacks from sycophants and political jobbers in the State. The Bishop urged the Governor not to repeat the mistakes of leaders who recorded failures by their reliance on the recommendations and feedbacks from individuals whose interests and priority are to satisfy selfish desires at the expense of the state. Delivering his Presidential Address at the Second Session of the fifth Synod at St. Peter’s Church, Amichi, Nnewi South LGA, Anambra State, the Bishop…