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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Thirteen out of 18 political parties in Nigeria, Monday threatened to boycott the forthcoming polls if the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, extends the deadline of February 10 for the old currency notes to cease being a legal tender. The parties expressed suspicion that any further shift on the deadline for the currency swap would negate the very aim of the policy. Declaring their full support for the naira re-design policy which they said would help curb vote buying, the coalition of political parties threatened to stay away from the general elections if CBN attempts to further…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Uzo-Uwani Professionals in collaboration with Rev. Fr. Paulinus Ogara at the weekend organised a stakeholders/Community Leaders inaugural town hall meeting to discuss the perceived political marginalisation of the Local Government Area. The professionals said they were worried about the continued domination of the people of Uzo-Uwani by the Igboetiti Local Government Area whom they share common political constituency. In a speech read by Barrister Obidike Okolo, the professionals lamented that the Uzo-Uwani people have been relegated to the status of political slaves. “Since 1999 following the constituency delineation exercise, Uzo-Uwani has witnessed political marginalisation and injustice in political representation…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Supreme Court, Monday, restored the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as the Yobe North senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ikengaonline had reported that the Court of Appeal had sacked the Senate President on the grounds that having participated in the APC presidential primary, he could not have also been a participant in the senatorial contest in the same election. It upheld the candidacy of Bashir Machina as the authentic senatorial candidate of the APC. But not satisfied with the judgment, the APC headed for the Supreme Court. Delivering judgment on Monday, the apex court upheld the appeal filed by the APC…
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today (Monday) urged the National Assembly to launch an investigation into the regulatory activities of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), accusing it of succumbing to the control of an overtly politically partisan Minister of Information to cow broadcasting stations in Nigeria in an effort to prevent them from criticising government officials and powerful political figures. MRA said in a statement issued in Lagos that it was compelled to seek the intervention of the National Assembly in the light of Friday’s imposition of fines of N2 million each on two television stations, Arise News and Television Continental…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Former Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Barr Eugene Odo, has lambasted the State APC Chairman Ugochukwu Agballah over comments he made during a recent campaign tour of Opi, in Nsukka Local Government Area. The party chairman reportedly accused Nsukka APC leaders including the former Speaker of working against the party. Agballah claimed that APC leaders in Enugu North Senatorial zone were working for the ruling Peoples Democratuv Party (PDP) “as agents of PDP in APC.” But reacting to the APC chairman’s claims, Odo described it as baseless and unfounded. He said: “Before Agballah came…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade has arrested no fewer than 18 touts selling illegal tickets and collecting unauthorized revenues from drivers in Anambra State. The suspects were paraded after they were apprehended by a joint team led by the Managing Director of OCHA Brigade, Comrade Celestine Anere at different locations in Onitsha and environs. The suspects were nabbed on accounts of cultism, illegal collection of tickets from unsuspecting vehicle operators, and other criminal activities. Briefing newsmen In Awka, the Public Relation Officer of the agency, Mr. Anthony Agbaefune said that the state would not tolerate…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Naja’atu Mohammed, has revealed that the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is part of the cabal in Aso Rock holding the country to ransom. She was corroborating a recent statement made by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, that some Aso Rock cabals were working to frustrate the victory of APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the February 25 presidential poll.. The audacious politician who made the corroboration Monday while featuring on Arise TV Morning Show, said that unlike El-Rufai, she was not afraid to mention names.…
By Osmund Agbo Ever heard of culinary diplomacy? Me neither. At least not before now. But little did I know that my daughter’s sixteenth birthday would unlock a treasure trove of knowledge, starting with this conversation. Wife: You remember your daughter will turn sixteen in a few days right? Husband: Ok! Wife: Did you just say ok? I know you don’t pay much attention to birthdays and the likes but this is your daughter’s Sweet Sixteenth, sweetie. Please don’t start with me on this one. (She said half-rolling her eyes and chuckling through it.) Husband:…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, Onyekwere Akym Uche, has told the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Abia is not its birthright or inheritance. Uche, who was reacting to a plea by PDP’s new governorship candidate, Chief Okey Ahiwe, that “Abians should not allow PDP to die,” said it was a wishful thinking for the ruling party to regard Abia as its acquired estate. The AA governorship hopeful in a press statement by his Campaign Organisation, accused the PDP of stagnating the state since it took over power about two decades ago. According to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Council of Elders on Sunday, condemned the bloodletting in Igboland saying that such a thing is alien to their people in Imo State, South-East region and Nigeria at large. The Obi of Obinugwu, and Chairman of the Council, HRM, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, stated this on Sunday after he received a delegation from the International Republican Institute and Impact Development Organization. To resolve the issue, he advised Nigerians to embrace peace and love for one another. He also called for reform in the economic and political system of the country. According to Ilomuanya, “there is…