Category: EDITORIAL

Unless something urgent is done by authorities of the Imo Environmental Transformation Commission, ENTRACO, state Ministry of Health and other relevant agencies, residents of Owerri especially, those who live and do business around Item Street, Mbari and environs may have to grapple with looming epidemics following stinking deadly refuse that has blocked all the drainages there with health-threatening ordour oozing from the said drainages. A walk through Item Street around UBA junction up to Diamond Bank along the same street, will make any right thinking citizen of this state put…

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With the primary elections of Political parties almost over and done with, serious politicking is about to commence in earnest. Parties and their chosen candidates are about to march into the field to start campaigning and wooing the electorate to support and vote them into office. When the campaigns begin Nigerians would be looking and listening to the hundreds of candidates jostling for various offices, sell themselves and their manifestoes and agenda to them in the hope of winning their votes. As we all know campaigns is a critical component…

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The much anticipated political parties primaries have come and gone but certainly not the dusts raised. Generally, these primaries never met the expectations and aspirations of Nigerians and indeed, the democratic world owing to many unsavoury fallouts from the exercise. The most disturbing of these ills no doubt was the monetization of the exercise. Contrary to expectations most of the political parties sold their nomination forms at highly exorbitant costs. This worrisome development no doubt quenched the fire of enthusiasm kindled in many Nigerians especially the youth most of whom…

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Politics essentially ought to be a game of wits rather than physical combat. Brutes and desperados who jump into the game of politics usually come with the strange mindset that the ability to brutalize and oppress others especially, opponents gives them the edge to win. They careless and give no hoot about critical socio-economic issues that ought to form the fulcrum of political campaigns. Recently, there have been outcry from politicians contesting various elective positions in political parties in Imo that their billboards are being destroyed by unknown suspected agents…

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Recently during the last national convention of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja, president Muhammadu Buhari had caused a stir when declared that the rule of law should play second fiddle in matters of public and national interest. The President had gone ahead to say that the Supreme Court had in the past made similar pronouncement through a judgment it delivered. Expectedly, this presidential declaration has elicited so much controversy and reactions with majority of them condemning totally the statement. Nobel Laureate Prof Sole Soyinka in his reaction described…

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Nigeria security agencies the Police, Armed Forces and Para Military agencies were created by the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria for the purposes of providing security of lives and property of Nigerians from both internal and external aggression. The same constitution in realization of the primary, importance of the duties and responsibilities of these agencies placed them on first line charge in terms of payment of salary, allowances and other performance enhancing emoluments. Primarily the major reason for this prioritization is to ensure that personnel of these agencies…

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Imo pensioners recently took to various media platforms including radio, Owerri and national newspapers to lament what they described as non-payment of their pensions including years of arrears under the present APC administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha in Imo State. The pensioners mostly retired permanent secretaries according to media reports, even went to the extent of penning an open letter to the President Mohammadu Buhari to notify him of their plight. The pensioners equally featured in a radio phone-in programme where they told Imolites and indeed Nigerians what they have…

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Last Tuesday, August 7 2018, Nigerians and the international community woke up to behold a strange sight at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja. Masked security operatives from the Department of State Security DSS, had invaded and blockaded the complex, preventing lawmakers, journalists, workers and Nigerian who had one business or another in the complex from gaining access into it. The siege lasted for some hours before various reactions and interventions brought it to an abrupt end. To say the least, that invasion apart from stalling legislative business especially the planned…

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Last Tuesday, August 7 2018, Nigerians and the international community woke up to behold a strange sight at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja. Masked security operatives from the Department of State Security DSS, had invaded and blockaded the complex, preventing lawmakers, journalists, workers and Nigerian who had one business or another in the complex from gaining access into it. The siege lasted for some hours before various reactions and interventions brought it to an abrupt end. To say the least, that invasion apart from stalling legislative business especially the planned…

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The reported police siege on the residence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy Ike Ekweremadu and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday once more brings to fore, the obvious danger facing our democracy. This development came on the heels of the planned defection of some APC senators and members of the House of Representatives to PDP. Security agents were said to have taken over the official residence of the said principal officers of the National Assembly presumably to stop them from attending yesterday’s plenary…

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