By Jerry Chukwueke The week-long series of events that marked the landmark 80th birthday anniversary of the living legend, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has all the trapping of a festival. From far away in the United States of America, I monitored all the events and I kept clapping. Nigerians, not just Ndigbo, showered encomiums on a man who employed his personal resources and attributes to see to the welfare of individual Nigerians but also to the collective interest of Nigeria as a whole. What we saw couldn’t be anything less. For a…
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Iwuanyanwu Assisted Us To Improve Our Talents -Ex- footballers
By Williams Odunze The Association of Ex- Footballers, Imo State, has expressed gratitude to a great statesman and super entrepreneur, Chief Engr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, for helping them to develop and use their football talents to become popular and useful in life. The ex- international players hinted that the rich impact Ahaejiagamba of Igbo Nation made in the lives of youths across board was quite enormous and wonderful, adding that he practically and fatherly taught them that football is part of life and that one can beat poverty, vulnerability and hatred…
Read MorePeter Obi Does Not Need Fake News To Be Accepted By Nigerians
By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones In an apparent display of frustration and helplessness at Peter Obi’s rising acceptability across all tribes and strata of the Nigerian society, promoters of the two opposition candidates; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have resorted to planting fake news across social media platforms, with the aim to pass such fake news as coming from Peter Obi’s team. This is after they have dug everywhere and sniffed everything and found that Peter Obi is absolutely free of any blemish, throughout his eight years as governor…
Read MoreIgbo Town Unions Reject IPOB order to bury dead ones in 3 days
The Association of Igbo Town Unions, otherwise known as ASETU, has reacted to the statement credited to Indigenous People of Biafra , IPOB, that the Igbos should bury their dead 3 days after death occurred. In a statement monitored in national dailies and other news platforms, the spokes person of the agitation group, Emma Powerful, warns that people of the South East must bury their dead within three days, stating that it may shut down morgues that flout the directive. Powerful said that the group has viewed spiritually and discovered…
Read MoreIwuanyanwu-Philanthropic, Human Builder, Says Samdaddy
…Hails him at 80, urges others to emulate him Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Samdaddy) felicitates with a foremost nationalist, industrialist, and elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu on the occasion of his 80th birthday anniversary, calling on other leaders in Nigeria to emulate him. Anyanwu, who is the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the successes recorded by Chief Iwuanyanwu (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo) in business, social and political arena as exemplary. In a congratulatory message personally signed by him, Senator Anyanwu noted that “Chief Iwuanyanwu’s contributions towards upliftment of …
Read MoreImo NUJ appoints Ori Martins, IIJ Coordinator
The Imo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has appointed Comrade Ori Martins acting Coordinator of the International Institute of Journalism Owerri located at the NUJ secretariat along Port Harcourt road Owerri. His appointment was conveyed in a letter dated August 28, 2022, signed by the secretary Imo NUJ, Comrade Austin Okoro. The appointment followed the death and subsequent burial of Chief (Dr) Ndudi Nnadi who until his demise few months ago was the substantive Co-ordinator of the institute. The union before this time had said that…
Read More2023 Presidency: It’ll Be Miracle Of Century To Beat Peter Obi -Prophet
“Tinubu’s allies will betray him” …Says: Battle, between Obi and Tinubu …There’ll be Miniwar against body of Christ The General Overseer of Wisdom Church of Christ International in Lagos State,Prophet Bisi Olujobi has declared that it will be a heculean task to beat Mr Peter Obi in the upcoming 2023 Presidential election. He made it clear that the battle would be between Obi and Tinubu as he was divinely inspired, but the ex- Lagos state Governor can’t defeat him because of his many past mistakes. The prophet warned Governor Nyesom…
Read MoreOkorocha And Owerri Nchi Ise Ezeship Crisis
By Chidi Nkwopara The eventual balkanization of Owerri Nchi Ise, which makes up the municipality, by the Rochas Okorocha administration, started like a tale from moonlight. The powers that be, at the time and a handful of their indigenous supporters, may have had their reason(s), good or bad, for deciding to create five autonomous communities out of the original entity. A lot more people, were not comfortable with the plan and they showed it in varying ways, which is a story for another day. Some believed and held as a…
Read MoreGender-Based Violence: Give Effective Implementation Of VAPP Law
By Betty Anyanwu- Akeredolu Nigerian Newspapers, on August 14, 2019, were awash with reports that Betty Anyanwu- Akeredolu, wife of Ondo State Governor, summoned what was tagged ‘a million-man protest march against the Nigerian Army. A randy Army Lance Corporal had raped a 300-level female student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, on July 31 at a military checkpoint along Akungba-Ikare road. I led the said protest to the state Commissioner of Police to add force to the matter for the obvious reasons. The randy soldier was dismissed from…
Read MoreMiyetti Allah To Peter Obi: Northern Progressives And Youths Will Vote For Obi
By Chuks Osuji Recently, a Northern group associated with Miyetti Allah has claimed that it has advised members of the group, Miyetti Allah that they will not vote for Peter Obi. According to the group, their reasons is that if Obi becomes the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in support of Miyetti Allah that Obi Presidency will be a substitute for Biafra. When I read the headline, perhaps, along with many other thinking Nigerians, my reaction was to laugh to the marrows. I did this for two or…
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