Month: January 2019

Indigenes of Imo State in South Africa have endorsed the candidacy of Sir Bruno Oparaocha as the next Governor of the state. Addressing newsmen after a dinner in support of the governorship hopeful, the chairman of the group Chief Bright Isiguzo enthused that Bruno is the right man needed at this time in the state to reorder its battered economy. Chief Isiguzo lamented on the decline of education in the state insisting that before the coming of the present government pupils and students were doing well in both external and…

Hon. Kingsley Echendu, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Isu/Njaba/Nkwerre/Nwangele Federal constituency for the 2019 reps race is a man of great leadership qualities, credible sources have revealed. Sources say the PDP king makers in the area have resolved to consolidate the party’s over 15-year land lordship of the federal constituency trhough Echendu’s candidate. According to reliable sources, Hon. Echendu has commanded overwhelming support and endorsement from across board more than any other party’s candidate, as both socio-cultural, religious and pressure groups have drummed support for him. Many who…

Orluzurumee Youth Assembly has dismissed what it described as the purported suspension of its National President, Comrade Darlington Uzoahia and the National Secretary, Comrade Ebere Okeke by “a faceless, illegal and unexisting “Board of Trustees (BoT)”. In a press release signed by Comrade Okeke, the national secretary of Orluzurumee Youth Assembly, a copy of which was made available to Nigeria Newspoint, the organization maintained that “Comrade Darlington Uzoahia (Dynamic) and Comrade Ebere Okeke remain the National President and National Secretary of Orluzurumee Youth Assembly and no individual or group of…

It was a political earthquake today in Abuja as the Independent National Electoral Commission closed its submission before the Osun Election Petition Tribunal without calling a single witness and with a clearly disturbed countenance. At the resumed hearing today in Abuja, the commission throughout its counsel Adesina Agbede rose in disquiet to apply to close his case to the other consternation of even APC and Gboyega Oyetola’s legal team. The counsel had staked his reputation yesterday when he promised the tribunal that the witnesses would testify at today’s proceedings. The…

As 2019 General Election is fast approaching the Candidate of Action Alliance (AA) for Okigwe Local Government State House of Assembly in Imo State Hon. Adaora Onyechere has reassured the people of Okigwe Constituency her determination to transform Okigwe into Mega City if being elected. Hon. Adaora while addressing journalists in Owerri took time to explain why she decided to run for the race and at the same time highlighted why she is the best for the plum job, pointing out that the provision of infrastructural development especially on the…

A husband, Abdullahi Yadau, has divorced his wife, Hafsat Suleiman, over political differences between them in Kanem Local Government Area of Plateau state. Yadau told the BBC Hausa service that he pronounced the divorce on his wife in the presence of her parents after she insisted on voting for President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election, while he was supporting Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. He said in previous elections he and wife had supported Buhari, “but the president has disappointed me to the extent that I hate him…

An American trained computer programmer, Mr. Tony Mbah has stated that he is jostling to govern the State in 2019 not to be addressed as “His Excellency” but to reposition and relaunch her into the mainstream of development geared towards making the state the hub of most economic vibrant area for investment in Nigeria. Mr. Mbah, an IBM software and hardware analyst disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Owerri, according to him, he feels ashamed that Imo State that parades the best brains in the country including the globe at…