BIAFRA AS FRANCHISE

By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones When the highly revered Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu (Eze Igbo Gburugburu) used his family’s wealth, spent his youth and lost his blossoming career in the Army while fighting to protect the Igbos from unprovoked genocidal assaults from some roguish military and civilian murderers who were mostly from the Northern part of Nigeria, he didn’t imagine that his legacies would be converted to a multi-billion dollar spinning criminal venture, manured with the blood of innocent, genuinely patriotic and able-bodied Igbos. When our scientists and technologists were turning scraps…

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News Echo Newspaper for unveiling, June 11

News Echo newspaper and News Insider magazine both published by Deking Holistic Communications Network Limited, will be unveiled on Friday, 11 June, 2021 at The Royals Entertainment, opposite NTA, Owerri, Imo State. According to a release by Jennifer John Executive Editor News Echo newspaper is a regional paper circulating in South East Nigeria and Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa States. The statement further added that personalities expected at the unveiling include politicians, religious leaders, traditional rulers, captains of industry and the academia amongst others. It also requested the attendance of other…

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Samdaddy To Igbo: Join PDP To Hasten Restructuring …Says: Neglect, Political Imbalance of S/East Root Cause Of Insecurity

Sen. Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, Samdady has called on the people of the South East geopolitical zone to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to fast-track restructuring. Sen.Anyanwu, the Chief Sponsor of the South East Development Commission’s ,SEDC Bill in the 8th Senate maintained that the clamour for restructuring was part of the programmes of the PDP aimed at entrenching development. According to him, “what the South East zone is passing through in Nigeria is not healthy and encouraging, hence the need to join the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP to change the…

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National Security Meeting: Without South East Members

By Christian Akpunonu Recently the National Security Council held a crucial security meeting to brainstorm on how to tackle the fast deteriorating precarious security situation in the Nigeria.The Constitution of the Nigerian National Security Council is drawn mainly from the service chiefs of all the armed forces. Unfortunately,the current President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB led Federal Government of Nigeria,FGN  did not appoint any military personnel of the Southeast extraction as any of the service chiefs.The entire members of the present service chiefs are constituted mainly  by the Northern personnel of the…

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Imo Government Should Prioritize Agriculture Now

Nigerians and Imo people are currently groaning under the burden of daily soaring prices of food items in the market. Prices of almost all food staples which  were  affordable  by  the poorest of the poor few years back, have gone through the roof  and out of their reach. A few years ago, garri was a cheap and  affordable food stuff and because of that, virtually everyone could afford it.   But, today it is no longer the case, as it has spiralled  beyond the reach of the poor. A paint measurement …

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Imo Commissioner Emelumba, plans to arrest me, others -NUJ Caretaker Chair

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Imo State Council, Comrade Precious Nwadike has raised the alarm over alleged plot by Imo State Commissioner for Information, Hon Declean Emelumba to frame him up and arrest him. According to Comrade Nwadike unimpeachable sources revealed the plot to him even as he said Hon Emelumba is working with his agents from the other faction of Imo NUJ. He disclosed that the plan is to frame him up and arrest him for rejecting Emelumba’s moves to pocket Imo NUJ. While expressing…

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Imo Auditor-General denies Assault of Kinsman

By Nkechi Ojukwu  The Imo State Auditor-General,Chief Ebenezer Osuji has debunked that he was ever trapped in the net of the Nigeria Police Force as published by one state based  tabloid on May 25. Chief Osuji described the publication captioned, “Imo Auditor-General in police net,as kinsman escape death in office”,as full of frivolities emanating from mischief makers ,urging the public to disregard the said jaundiced report. He noted   that the writer might have been paid by some “black sheep” around him to tarnish his highly  earned image. “Journalists should ask…

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Refuse Heaps: RIWAMA Sole Administrator, Appeals For patience …Begs Aluu Community also

From Joe Ezuma, Port Harcourt The Sole Administrator, Rivers State Waste Management Agency, (RIWAMA), Bro. Felix Obuah has explained why wastes would be noticed in some areas of Port Harcourt, the State capital and its environs, from today, Saturday, May 22, 2021.  There has  been a recrudescence  of refuse heaps dotting  in some places within and around  port Harcourt in recent times, there by rubbing off the gains the state capital had gained  in coming back to garden city status  The development has given much concern to residents at the…

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Two Women Feared Dead As Sporadic Shootings By Security Agents Continue In Owerri

Reported sporadic shootings by security agents in the Orji area of Owerri, the Imo State Capital has allegedly claimed  two lives. Those allegedly killed by stray bullets were two  women who were  reportedly  hit when soldiers and police operatives who were said to have gone to Orji to confront hoodlums who attacked the Police Divisional Office in the area, started shooting indiscriminately. A source told this newspaper that the security agents arrived the scene of the attack after the hoodlums had left and immediately Started shooting sporadically, leading to the…

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Anokam’s Family Celebrates grand Child’s baptism

It was all excitment, thanksgiving and celebration as the family of ESV. Chief sir Sam Anokam a notable humanitarian and philanthropist from Ihiagwa in Owerri west LGA celebrated in grandstyle the infant baptism/christening of their beloved grand child little Miss Adaugo Anulika Naomi Nwabunike. The baptism took place at the Cathedral of Transfiguration CATOL Owerri followed by a grand reception to commemorate the ceremony. The grand parents of the child ESV. Chief Sir and lady Sam Anokam in their separate speeches expressed their delight for the gift of a grand…

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