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Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, has criticized Festus Keyamo, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, campaign, over his recent request that the Department of State Services, DSS, arrest the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate and his vice, Datti Ahmed. Wednesday, Keyamo disclosed that he had petitioned the DSS to order the secret police to detain Peter Obi. Keyamo, the current Minister of State for Labor and Employment, claimed he requested DSS to detain and charge Obi and Datti Ahmed over allegations of “incitement and treasonable…

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The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele is not just about political prophecies, his prophetic warnings go beyond revealing the outcome of elections. He gives prophetic warnings to personalities on what they will encounter and they always end up coming to pass. The crises currently faced by the former president of the United States Of America,Donald Trump has fulfilled the word of prophecy Primate Ayodele gave to him shortly after his tenure ended. It would be recalled that Primate Ayodele was the only prophet that foretold the end of Donald…

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Nigerian workers have been ordered to take over all the offices of the Central Bank of Nigeria nationwide starting from next week over the current cash crunch in the country. The order was given on Wednesday by the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). NLC President, Joe Ajaero, gave the directive during a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. The labour leader said the directive became imperative following the expiration of one week ultimatum given to the apex bank to make cash available for Nigerians. The NLC last week gave…

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Some candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last Saturday’s House of Assembly elections in Imo State have rejected the outcome of the elections in the state. Briefing journalists separately, the PDP candidates in Nwangele and Aboh Mbaise state Constituencies, Solomon Ucheka and Princewill Amuchie, alleged that the APC candidates surpressed and intimidated the voters. Ucheka said that in Nwangele LGA, the APC candidate, Amara Iwuanyanwu compromised the process. The PDP candidate said that he won the lawful votes cast but the APC candidate in company of security agents…

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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and a Lead Counsel in the legal team of Labour Party’s presidential candidate pursuing his petition against the result of the 2023 Presidential election, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu SAN has lost his second daughter, Nwankie Ikpeazu to the cold hands of death, newsmen report. The daughter of the renowned legal luminary was said to have passed on last week after a brief illness and her funeral Mass has been fixed for the 24th of March, 2023 at their Onitsha hometown. As condolences continue to pour in,…

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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is set to release all N1,000, N500 and N200 notes in its custody to Deposit Money Banks. A source at the CBN disclosed this to media on Wednesday. According to him, the apex bank has concluded plans to disburse old notes to Deposit Money Banks across the country starting from Thursday (today). He added that the development would end the two-month-long Naira scarcity in Nigeria. This comes on the heels of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, planned nationwide strike and protests in CBN offices…

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By Onyinyechi Nwankwo For a successful and smooth conveying of election materials and officers to various polling units in Imo State,the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Imo State chapter, has partnered with the Federal Road Safety Corps in the state.      Speaking at the first year meeting of Imo NURTW at it’s office in Owerri, yesterday, which had in attendance the FRSC and the Union’s Chairmen in the 27 LGAs of the state, the State Chairman of the Union, Hon. Samuel Udeh(Ezeumuokorobia) noted that the driver’s license…

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The sole administrator of Owerri Municipal Council, Hon. Christian Nze, has inaugurated the interim executive council of Umuoyima Youth Organization. The inauguration ceremony which took place at the Owerri Municipal Council on  Wednesday, January 11, had some prominent people of the community present to witness the event. The inaugurated interim exco of Umuoyima Youth Organization comprises the following: Ikechukwu Ofurum( Chairman), Chijioke Ucheoma (Secretary), Sylvester Ebere, Chiwuogu Nkwopara, Moses Mbanu, Chukwunonyerem Eziefula, Innocent Osigwe. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, the Sole Administrator, Hon. Christian Nze, charged the youth leaders to…

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By Chigozie Uzosike To ensure food security in Nigeria, especially in Imo State, CARA Development Foundation, Community and Youth Development Initiative, CYDI have called for an increase in budgetary allocation of agriculture to at least 5%. Speaking during the two-day training for Civil Society Organizations, CSOs and Media partners on Political Economy Analysis, PEA, Advocacy Strategies and Campaigns held in Owerri, the Executive Director of CARA Development Foundation, Nnennaya Enyinna-Eneremadu noted that the present allocation of 1.1% for Agriculture is not enough to address the issues surrounding agriculture; if Nigeria,…

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