Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has won the Enugu North Senatorial District Primary Election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general elections. Gov. Ugwuanyi was declared winner of the peaceful and transparent senatorial primary election amid jubilation by the Chairman of the five-man Electoral Panel from the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, Prince Vin Yandev Amabei. Prince Amabei disclosed that Gov. Ugwuanyi scored 299 valid votes cast to defeat three other aspirants in the ballot paper, namely Mr. Okanya Celestine, Chief Eze Godwin…
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Negative Effects Of Continued ASUU Strike
By Gerald Njoku It is incontrovertible to state that the continued ASUU strike in the country has placed the nation’s education system on a momentous crossroad. The recent extension of the warning strike by the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) by another twelve weeks has again dashed the hopes of parents, students and all stakeholders in the education system of the much anticipated resolution of the crisis between ASUU and the federal government. This crisis in the education system has continued to frustrate the ambitions…
Read MoreMariupol Fighters Finally Surrender
By Alex Nwahiri The Ukrainian forces holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks, today surrendered to the Russian authorities to allow the wounded soldiers and civilians, receive urgent medical attention. A statement from the garrison commander of the troops in the Azovstal steelworks explained, that the garrison was obeying orders to save the lives of troops and get the wounded to the hospital. Journalists who covered the evacuation, reported seeing dozens of buses carrying both the fighters and the wounded, to a medical facility in the Russian controlled town of Novoazovsk…
Read MoreOnyeagucha’s Purported Warning To Onyewuchi: A Mere Rhetorics Of Over-Floating Dejection!
…He lacks Authority to Issue Warning. By Frank Nwaete Next Tuesday, MAY 24, the PDP SENATORIAL PRIMARIES would have been held. Incumbent Dist. Sen. Francis Ezenwa Onyewuchi (Ebubedike) who is seeking re-election to consolidate on his great achievements, having done tremendously well, has been toast of Owerri Zone People, is on top of the game! The massive followership and genuine support, Sen. Onyewuchi has continued to enjoy, is ceaselessly rattling other Aspirants Chiefly among who is Barr.Uche Onyeagucha. Barr.Uche Onyeagucha and his team have unfortunately resorted to throwing sands at…
Read MoreBuhari’s Romance With Corruption
Visualizing in one’s mind eyes, images of President Muhammadu Buhari promising that he will fight corruption to a standstill, if he was elected president, and juxtaposing it with what is happening today, truly brings tears to the eyes. Prior to his emergence in 2015, and particularly during the presidential election, he had relentlessly voiced his strong hatred for corruption, vowing to stamp it out as president. To convince Nigerians more, he included it as one of the three major tasks he tackle seriously in office. The other two were the…
Read MoreOwerri Senate: Nwachukwu Advises Constituents To Look Beyond Party, As Accord Woos Him
By Williams Odunze One of the top aspirants for the Owerri Senatorial seat, Chief Mike Nwachukwu has said that he is the best political alternative, to correct the long years of neglect and poor representation of Owerri Zone, and advised the good people of Owerri Senatorial Zone to look beyond the two popular political parties namely,APC and PDP as they prepare to elect who will represent them at the red chamber come 2023 general elections. He argued that with the two major political parties that it has always been money politics,…
Read MoreNorthern Nigeria; Safe for Igbos, Christians?
By Christian Akpunonu In retrospect, the sad memories of human carnage in the Northern parts of Nigeria sends rude shock and chill down ones nerves. The commemoration of ugly incidences like the Maithasinian riots, the Kaduna massacre,Sabo Ngeri Kano massacre and countless others will definitely pose a natural question as to whether the North is actually safe for soujourners.The chequered history of the Northern Nigeria is replete with ugly incidences of mass killings,arsons, kidnapping,terrorism and all sorts of violent criminality. This is the consequence of typical religious intolerance. The Islamic…
Read MoreIkenga Shuts Down Ideato In Grand Reception
After the failed attempt to scuttle his political ambition, indigenes of Ideato nation over the weekend trooped out, in massive solidarity to formally receive their son, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. The jubilant crowd went wild on sighting Ikenga for the first time since the reaffirmation of his qualification by the National leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and clearance to participate in the forthcoming primaries of the party for the Ideato federal constituency. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, former aide to the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and former President, National…
Read MoreOrlu/Orsu/OruEast Reps: Political Tsunami: Orlu Leaders Endorse Odunze’s Aspiration
By Frank Nwaete In what is now described as Political Tsunami, there are now more endorsements from credible leaders of Orlu Federal Constituency for Chief Ben Uche Odunze continues to occur on daily basis. Chief Odunze is aspiring under the PDP for Orlu/Orsu/Oru East Federal Constituency Seat. The Unprecedented Scenario of massive followership and endorsements is the first of its kind in the Orlu/Orsu/Oru East Federal Constituency. The latest of such open acceptance and endorsement of Chief ODUNZE came from Chief Marcellus Ikpa and Barr Emmanuel Orji. Both leaders in…
Read MoreYou Can’t Intimidate Delegates In Orji Owerri North With Suspension Threat, Onyeagucha Warns Onyewuchi
…Says: Purported suspension, irrational Hon Barr Uche Onyeagucha, the frontline PDP Senatorial Aspirant in Imo East Senatorial District, has noted with consternation the purported suspension of the PDP Orji Ward Chairman and Secretary as masterminded and sponsored by Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi on the suspicion that they are supporting his Senatorial ambition. Both the chairman and the secretary were not accused for any wrong doing except that Senator Onyewuchi directed the PDP Chairman in Owerri North to issue them with a two months suspension notice on the allegation that they may…
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