Tension has escalated in Enugu, the Coal City capital, after a police officer from the Anti-Cult Unit of the Enugu State Police Command allegedly shot and killed popular Ogene musician Igbo Jah. EKO HOT BLOG gathered that angry youths are staging protests by setting bonfires in the Obiagu and Asata areas of the city. Reports indicate that the incident occurred Friday night when the musician, who had attended an event at the Anti-Cult Unit office, was shot by a police officer as he was leaving. Igbo Jah was rushed…
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BIAFRA: Kanu’s Reps Member- Aguocha Meets Him, Resolves DSS Restriction On Lawyers.
…Kanu has now received private medicare,lawyers now see him” The House of Representatives member from Ikwuano, Umuahia North and South Federal constituency, Obi Aguocha,in response to the blockade imposed by the Department of State Security,DSS has met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Hon. Aguocha physically met with Kanu on Thursday, October 24,at the DSS facility in Abuja. Recall that Kanu had challenged his trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court to recuse herself from his trial. Kanu had expressed…
Read MoreA Tale Of Two Different States In South-East Of Nigeria.
The difference between fiction and reality in Enugu State and in lmo state under the current administration. What did the current administration in lmo state do with the millions of naire that were given to the good people of lmo state by the federal government through their governor to cushion the effect of hunger and food shortages across the state. Other states in the southeast of Nigeria make good use of their fund by purchasing tractors for mechanised farming whilst the lmo state government keeps hanging handouts palliatives by so…
Read MoreIPOB: Nigeria Has An Igbo Problem,Says Sowore On Kanu’s Detention
Omoyele Sowore, Sahara Reporters’ publisher, has accused some Igbo elites of complicity in Nnamdi Kanu’s prolonged detention. He said that Kanu’s incarceration proves “Nigeria has an Igbo problem,” showcasing post-civil war marginalization. Speaking on 90Minutes Africa, Sowore stated, “Nigeria has an Igbo problem. It’s like when a father is dying, they will tell their children, I have a problem with Igbo people; please continue from there.” Sowore expressed disappointment in President Bola Tinubu’s administration for not releasing Kanu. “I expected Tinubu’s first act to be Kanu’s release. But the worsening…
Read MoreEx-INEC Chair, Humphrey Nwosu, Dies At 83 In USA
Professor Humphrey Nwos, who served as Chairman of the then National Electoral Commission (NEC) from 1989 to 1993, has passed away. The NEC is now known as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Born on October 2, 1941, Nwosu died in a hospital in Virginia, USA. He became a professor of political science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.He served in the cabinet of Samson Omeruah, governor of the old Anambra State, where he helped traditional rulers to gain staffs of office, receive salaries and settled intra and inter community land disputes. Nwosu also…
Read MoreAbia LG Polls: I’ll Not Support LP Party Candidates In Nov 2 LG Polls — Otti
Abia state Governor Dr Alex Otti says he will support candidates from another political party for the November 2 local government election in the state. Governor Otti who is the only Labour Party elected Governor in Nigeria disclosed this through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Ferdinand Ekeoma in ABN TV show ‘Political Perspective’ monitored by THE WHISTLER. This comes on the heels of a report that the governor is courting the Zenith Labour Party as the crisis in the Labour Party continues. He admitted that the Labour…
Read MoreCitizens Cry Out To Uzodinma,Save Onuimo LGA Link Roads.
An Appeal to Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma, Governor of IMO State Your Excellency, as a Concerned Citizen of Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State, I wish to use this medium to congratulate you on your victory at the November 11, 2023 governorship poll as well as your victory at the three layers of the tribunal. Congratulations. I also use this medium to appreciate your determination which saw the conclusion of the Okigwe/Owerri Highway which was last constructed during the headship of Imo State’s greatest son, Dee Samuel Onunaka…
Read MoreOFOROLA EZESHIP STOOL: OKORAFOR DISCLAIMS OKORIES DENOUNCEMENT ON EZE-ELECT
(1) This clarification to disclaimer by Mr Okechukwu Okoroafor on his purpoted Crowing as Eze-Elect by my humble self, Elder Ozuocha Emmanuel Okorie, former Onye Isi Ala Oforola, now known and addressed as Evangelist Ozuocha Emmanuel Okorie has become necessary due to his response rooted in emotional and psychological blackmail against my personality as seen in the maner he deliberately cut corners, misinformed and misrepresented issues to confuse the general public to disbelieve a reality I published as former Prime King Maker of Oforola, on Star Post Express dated Monday…
Read MoreImo CP Orders Release Of Twin Boys Seized In Exchange Of Unpaid Hospital Bill By Doctor.
…Orders probe of doctor, maternity The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate release of twin boys, Chidindu and Chijindu, who were held in a maternity since May 4, they were delivered through a cesarean section over their parents inability to foot their medical bill. The CP who gave the order in his office at the command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday, also ordered that the Medical Director of Goodwill Maternity at Obinze in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the…
Read MoreImo NUJ To Emelumba: You Can’t Speak For Us Through Miscreants Parading As Journalists
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Imo State Council has frowned at what it referred to as a trend where the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba whose hatred for journalists is well known, consistently uses miscreants to discredit and tarnish the image of the union. The ridiculous aspect of it, according to the union is that those he uses for such hatchet jobs are impostors who parade themselves as journalists. The Chairman of Imo NUJ, Comrade Precious Nwadike,stated this while reacting to a report in a section of…
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