The younger brother of former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac, has called on President Bola Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and give him contracts like ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did with Niger Delta militant leader, Tompolo. Fayose said Kanu’s release would help Tinubu get more votes from the Southeast in 2027. In a video on his Instagram handle, Fayose said releasing Kanu would reduce the level of insecurity in the Southeast. According to him: “Releasing Nnamdi Kanu will reduce crime in the…
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Bad Road:Owerri Building Material Traders lament Erosion, Low Patronage
…Cry out for Govt’s Intervention The entire Owerri Building Material Market Traders, Naze, Imo state have cried over the spate of gully erosion, bad road network and insecurity in the market beckoning on Imo State Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma to come to their rescue. It was gathered that the ugly situation has become the undoing of the market since nearly twenty (20) years of it’s existence. According to reports aside the fact that the 30 feet deep erosion had yanked off some shops in the market with one of the…
Read MoreOhaji-Egbema/Oguta/OruWest Reps: Stop This Lawmaking By Blackmail, Intimidation, Obodo Tasks Dibiagwu
“Show your score card in 2yrs,that’s all we ask” A legal Practitioner and Activist Barr. Goodhead Obodo has advised the Member representing Ohaji-Egbema and Oru West Federal Constituency, Engr. Eugene Dibiagwu to try as much as he could to shun what he described as ” lawmaking by blackmail”, adding that, he should focus on what he’s at the National Assembly to do. Obodo also advised the lawmaker not to allow his media aides to destroy him by attacking people who are not at the National Assembly at the moment with…
Read MoreShocker! Media Report Panics Imo Speaker To Suspend 4 Lawmakers Over Alleged impeachment Plot .
“No motion, but announcement used to sack them” The Imo State House of Assembly has,on Tuesday, Yesterday, July 2,suspended four of its Lawmakers over an alleged plot to remove the Speaker, Rt. Hon.Chike Olemgbe. The suspended four Lawmakers are; Hons.Chidiebere Ogbunikpa, Okigwe Constituency, Samuel Otuibe, Ahiazu Mbaise Constituency, Henry Agbasonu, Ezinihitte Mbaise Constituency and Dominic Ezerioha of Oru West Constituency. The suspension of the Lawmakers did not come as a motion, rather it came through an announcement at the floor of the House by the Speaker,Rt Hon OLemgbe who revealed…
Read MoreNLC to Police, Vacate Rivers LGs’ Secretariats or We’ll Drive You Out
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Rivers State have warned the police to vacate the premises of the 23 local government secretariats in the state immediately. The ultimatum was issued at an emergency state administrative council meeting held at the NLC secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday. Alex Agwanwor, the NLC Chairman in Rivers State, acknowledged the efforts of the police to maintain peace but stated that denying workers access to their offices is a violation of their fundamental rights. He…
Read MoreDokubo Stirs Controversy As He Claims To Be From Abia
In a bold and controversial statement, Asari Dokubo, a prominent figure in the Niger Delta region, has declared that the Ikwerre people of Rivers State are indeed Igbos. Dokubo, who is known for his outspoken views, made this assertion despite being identified as an Ijaw man himself. According to Dokubo, 80% of Rivers State land is Igboland, and he questioned why some Ikwerre people deny their Igbo identity. He emphasized that the names and language of the Ikwerre people are evident proof of their Igbo heritage. In his words; “It…
Read MoreNeed To Stop Expensive Burial In Igbo Land
By Chiemena Abara There’s a dangerous extravagant financial air that has filled the entire Igbo land which is expensive burials to make one appear like a king in death . It has become very worrisome, especially to right thinking individuals that burials in Igbo land are now made unnecessarily too expensive.. This has made a lot of families to borrow in order to burial their deceased member to meet up with the new societal burial standard. It is very disheartening and sad to observe that a person who died in…
Read MorePeter Obi: Nigeria Not Fair To Nigerians
The speech at the Valedictory Session of graduates of Physiology at Nnamdi Azikiwe University at Okofia, Nnewi, where I represented Mr Peter Obi. Three days ago, on the 26th, His Excellency Mr Peter Obi was a Guest Speaker at the 6th Annual Lecture of the Board of Fellows of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria at UNIZIK. As he left, he mentioned he would phone me about a function on the 28th, which he was struggling to plan to attend. However, he did not call back until early yesterday morning, around…
Read MoreFurther Thoughts On Being Sick, Tired About Nigeria
By Farooq A. Kperogi When I wrote my column last week about being sick and tired of being sick and tired, I had not the slightest inkling that it would resonate with such vast and varied strata of the Nigerian public sphere. I merely wanted to ventilate the pent-up disillusionment that had welled up in me over time and expected most people to ignore my self-absorbed rumination. Columnism is, after all, self-expression before it is public commentary. In fact, all forms of writing are conscious and unconscious self-portraitures. As Nobel-Prize-winning…
Read MoreNASS Move For Another State For S/East, Laudable
The many decades of clamour for an additional state for the South East geo-political zone of Nigeria has been on for some years now. This clamour is predicated on the obvious fact that the southeast remains the only geo-political zone of the country which has only five states with fewer number of local government areas. The other geo-political zones namely: South-South, South-West, North-East, North West and North Central, have six states each except North-West with seven states to her advantage. Only five states means the South-East has just 15 senators,…
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