Category: FEATURES

By Chuks Osuji Anybody who sees the Nigerian political process as it continues to unfold since the emergence of PMB would not find it difficult to conclude that all is not well in our polity. Yes, several authors and writers have conjectured why Buhari and APC won the elections of 2015. Most people believed that PMB and APC won because of the administrative failure of President Goodluck Jonathan. They may have a point. But that in fact was not the main reason. There were quite a number of reasons why…

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There are so many thing wrong with our local government area: Mbaitoli at the same time.  Unfortunately, there are very few of these problems that we can honestly and dispassionately discuss.   So even as the local government drifts on the ocean of economic rudderlessness, and infrastructural decay, everyone is watching with morose silence. Mbaitoli is heading to God knows – where but we are too scared to tell our representatives the truth. Everybody is cheering and jeering. But I know one thing for sure: the hottest place in hell will…

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It is no longer news that since the declaration of intent by the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere to contest the Imo governorship election in 2019, his boss, Governor Rochas Okorocha has been undermining his efforts, vowing to do everything within his powers to whittle down the rising profile of his Deputy. The Governor of Imo State at various meetings, with those he described as members of his agburu (lineage), has lamented over the decision of his deputy not to key into his project of imposing his…

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Following the latest heavy down poor in Imo state, Hon Uche Onyeagucha, an APGA governorship aspirant in the state has observed with deep sense of sympathy and concern the undue sufferings the people are subjected to by the devastating flood caused by the so-called urban renewal program of the Okorocha led administration. ”Indeed, it is very shameful and worrisome that what this administration understands as urban renewal is destruction of drainage pipes and water channel ways which has been observed as the main cause of the devastating flood that recently…

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It is natural as well as cardinal principle that a successful pupil or student in school be promoted to the next level in the education system. Simply put, if you passed your examinations and satisfy every other requirements expected of someone in school classes, promotion to the next class is made perfect and justly too. This implies that one must pass class one before moving to class two. What is being insinuated here is that in all matters of effective representation, Hon. Chudi Jones Onyereri, the member representing the largest…

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As part of his efforts to alleviate poverty among the people of Nkwerre/Isu/Nwangele/Njaba federal constituency in Imo State, an American-based optometrist, Dr. Alex Nnabue on Monday commenced a three-day entrepreneurial training programme for youths and women in the federal constituency. The programme, which thoroughly examined entrepreneurship education, trained more than 500 youths and women in skills like baking technology, piggery, fish, grass-cutter, mushroom, poultry, snail and vegetable farming, to channel the focus of the youths to skill acquisition for sustainable self-employment. Speaking during the opening ceremony at the Christ the…

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He is a clergyman- the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Diocese. Archbishop AJV Obinna is the spiritual father of all Catholics in Imo State. And this is why he earns enormous respect and recognition from all Catholic faithful who constitute more than half of the Imo population. He has stood out as a firm believer in justice and equity. When Col. Tanko Zubairu was Imo State military administrator and wanted to remove the Alvan Ikoku College of Education and Federal College of Agriculture, Umuagwo from their locations, the Archbishop led the…

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I just finished watching a video in which Farouk Adamu Aliyu, who is a notorious Fulani irredentist and hardliner, a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari and a former Minority Leader in the Federal House of Representatives said the following: “The oil in Bayelsa and the Delta belongs to the people of Jigawa. If they try to take it from us we will fight for it. We will not allow them to stop us from having free and unhindered acccess to the oil and the money that comes from it.…

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The Founder and leader, Living Christ Mission and the Proprietor/Chancellor Hezekiah University (UNIHEZ) Umudi, Nkwere Local Government Area, Daddy Hezekiah has celebrated the triple special events of the church in grand style, recently. The triple events which include; the international” thanksgiving for a successful Golden Jubilee celebration of His Grace, the most Rev Prof Daddy Hezekiah, the observation of Easter Sunday and the post Golden Jubilee special birthday of her honour, the Head of Service and shepherd mother-General of Living Christ Mission worldwide was held in Onitsha, the administrative headquarters…

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The Member Representing Okigwe South Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives Abuja and House Committee Chairman on Health Care Services, Hon. Deacon Chike John Okafor has thrown his weight behind the decisions of the Imo State Governor and leader of the Rescue Mission political family in the State Owelle (Dr.) Rochas Okorocha (OON) as regards his anointed candidate for 2019 general elections. This was conveyed through his successful hosting of Okigwe zone APC meeting at Umuariam Obowo penultimate Sunday, 25th March, 2018 where the APC party leadership and…

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