I have always wanted to stay off any issue concerning politics especially, when it is linked to the 2019 governorship election in Imo State. But as an individual and one of the leaders in Orlu Zone, I find it very disturbing and nauseating to continue to keep quiet when wrongs are seen as rights. To start with, an uninformed fellow will be curious to find out the difference between Orluzurumee and the Orlu political consultative Assembly, OPOCA. But by virtue of the fact that I am an Orlu man, I…
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Daddy Hezekiah Urges righteousness to escape tribulations in 2018
The founder and leader of Living Christ Mission Inc, His Grace, the Most Rev. Prof. Daddy Hezekiah has called on Christians to strive and enter the kingdom of God through the narrow gate as there are many people that will try to enter into God’s kingdom but cannot because of sins, distractions and other unforeseen forces as there will be lots of surprises on the last day. Rev. Daddy Hezekiah made this call during his new year special service to mark 2018 at the Church Cathedral at Onitsha, Anambra…
Read More2019 Guber: The New Face of Araraumephobia
By Kelechi Mejuobi Expectedly, the activities preceding the next general elections in the country is indeed coming with the inevitable trappings. In Imo State, fondly called the Eastern Heartland, the race for who becomes the governor undoubtedly will be interesting if the potpourri of political intrigues and schemings going on behind the scene are anything to go by. The battle for the possession of Government House, Owerri, otherwise known as Douglas House, before the incumbent renamed it “People’s House” will be more fascinating as it would usher in a new…
Read MoreImo 2019: Okey Ezeh and big question of the time
Every leader grapples with the big question of the time. Success, therefore, is determined by the extent to which he addresses it. An oratorical leader – a Cicero – is very much unnecessary to a people at war, just as a peaceful society should have no business electing the Hobbesian Leviathan whose calling is fulfilled only in a chaotic atmosphere where life is nasty, brutish, solitary, poor and short. The Machiavellian Prince became a necessity when Italy sorely lacked leaders with ingenuity in statecraft. In South Africa, Albert Luthuli, a…
Read MoreOsuji, MAJA Party and a new order for Imo State
By Aloysius Osuji It is often said that if one continues to do things the same way, he will continue to get the same old results. From one dispensation to the other, people keep lamenting about the failings of their leadership. Issues of unemployment, poverty, poor healthcare, hunger, declining educational standards, insecurity, absence of social security schemes and widening inequalities in income distribution, continue to resonate. But like an American best-selling author of Why Ask Why rightly posited; “If you do not ask the right questions, you will never get…
Read MoreThe sinister plot of Fulani against Nigerians
By George Akinola There is a dangerous, sinister war looming upon us all, the Fulani have declared war against the rest of Nigeria! All non-Fulani Nigerians are threatened by a cold hearted, brutal, unfeeling menace called Fulani. They have perfected a plot from the nethermost parts of hell and have promised to unleash unimaginable terror on the rest of us! We must all come together to collectively fight, defeat and annihilate this 21st Century horror! The Fulani spread has been allegorically likened to a slithering snake with its tail in…
Read MoreEducation Trust Fund- Dickson urges IOCs, Corporate bodies to Contribute
By Elizabeth Vincent from Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson on Tuesday, urged the private sector, particularly corporate organizations and individuals to make contributions to the State Education Development Trust Fund, to enable indigent children acquire free and qualitative education. Governor Dickson stated this, when members of the board of the Education Development Trust Fund, led by its Chairman, Prof. Turner Isoun presented the 2017 report of the board to him in Government House, Yenagoa. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo,…
Read MoreUNN Alumni honour Uwakwem, AIFCE Provost
The Alumni Association of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has honoured Imo State Commissioner for health, Hon. Dr. (Mrs) Angela Uwakwem with an award of excellence in public service. According to the association, the prestigious award of excellence was in appreciation of the awardees’ great learning, indelible impacts in the medical profession and outstanding devotion in service to humanity. Presenting the award to Angela Uwakwem at the Imo State International Trade and Investments Centre, Owerri, the president of Owerri branch of the association and permanent secretary (establishment) in the…
Read MoreIkedi Ohakim and the walls of Jericho
By Collins Ughalaa What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground…”, Zachariah 4:7. “So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall (of Jericho) fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city”, Joshua 6:20. “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too…
Read MoreUnneccessary wahala over election sequence
By Chuks Osuji Having travelled quite a lot particularly having lived in the two highly acclaimed democracies, United States of America and England, it baffles me how some political issues are handled and discussed in this country. Of course, it comes to one fact, “Nigeria is still experimenting democracy.” I recalled what the late Sam Mbakwe said in 1982 due to so many political crises all over the country, as the country was gradually inching towards the 1983 general elections, in apparent anger, he exploded, “ I wish that the…
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