Category: FEATURES

Worried about incesant  media publications and public awareness by mischief makers of the Labour  Party, different groups;the  Peter Obi unified Movement, Concerned Imo Youths, (Home and Abroad) and Devine Mandate Solution have, enjoined  detractors to stop parading themselves as candidates of the party in Imo State. Speaking with newsmen in Owerri, recently, the convener of Peter Obi  Unified Movement, Peter Obi Foundation movement, the Coordinator, Imo Solution as well as the coordinator Concerned  Labour Party Youths, Home and Abroad,  Comrade Modestus  Iheme stated, that His Excellency, Ikechukwu Joseph Ukegbu (Ikenga),…

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The victory of Hon. Modestus Osakwe of the PDP In the just concluded Isu state constituency House of Assembly election and subsequent issuance of certificate of return (CoR) to him by the INEC has been celebrated by the 11 ward chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the LGA. The ward chairmen, speaking on Sunday, April 30, through the Isu LGA PDP ward chairman of chairmen, Mr. Mathew Onwenu (idiagbon) described Osakwe’s victory as a special gift to the entire people of Isu state constituency by God who had…

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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 polls, Peter Obi has said that nobody can force him to leave the country because he is fighting for a change. He stated that his party is committed to creating a new Nigeria, adding that there are too many “thieves” who are inflicting suffering on the masses, and vowed that his party is committed to purging the country’s political system of such people. He said he will not give up until such people are shown the way out of political offices…

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From Elizabeth Vincent,Yenegoa The gubernatorial primary of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP which took place at the Dr. Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa  State saw the incumbent Governor emerge on Wednesday, April 12 with a total of 305 votes as sole aspirant of the party. The total votes cast was 313 during the primaries, with 8 voids. The chairman and Chief Returning Officer of the PDP Electoral Panel and Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, while addressing the delegates and party stakeholders, said Gov. Diri having satisfied the…

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…Fears Over Family Safety Following  Threats What many had  seen as an outright victimization and infringement on human rights was recorded on Saturday, April 15, 2023, at the Ibusa community, Asaba in Delta State, following the rough-handling and demolition of a residential house belonging to Mr. Martin Nwaokobia, by an alleged notorious land grabber, Fred Ajudua and his cohorts. The 53-year old house owner, Martin Nwaokobia is currently not only in pains but also homeless following the destruction of the  building  he laboured in his life time  to erect  was…

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…Gives nod to Uzodinma’s re-election Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Sam Daddy) and Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi have both received a congratulatory message of an Elder statesman, Prince Bob Kay Njemanze on their election victories.    While Senator Anyanwu received the kudos of the fiery social crusader, Prince Bob Njemanze on his emergence as the flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP at the recently conducted governorship primaries in Owerri, and Senator Onyewuchi of the Labour Party, LP, who is also the current Senator representing  Imo East at the Red Chamber, got a…

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Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and their doctor, Obinna Obeta will be sentenced on May 5 after they were convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act in the United Kingdom. The former deputy senate president, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and Dr. Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey. They conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader…

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Chief Humphrey Anumodu an aspirant for the ticket of the Labour Party in the upcoming Governorship election in Imo State has been found dead in his house. Chief Anumodu, a native of Mbieri Ancient Kingdom of Imo state was reportedly found dead in his house in what family sources described as “spiritual attack.” It was gathered that the late politician had paid the sum of 25 million Naira for Labour Party’s Governorship form for the November 11th 2023 Guber contest. Chief Anumudu, a respected legal luminary and an astute politician…

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From Isi gate, Umuahia’s busiest area, to Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, the people of Abia state on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, went into a frenzy as they celebrated the declaration of   Dr Alex Otti of the Labour Party as the state’s Governor-elect. As commercial tricycle operators conveyed passengers to their destinations without collecting fares, sound of gunshots and local landmines were heard in some parts of the capital city as the people celebrate Otti’s victory. Abia’s Gubernatorial election gained more national prominence when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) suspended…

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Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Sir Peter Gregory Obi, has accepted to be the Chairman of the party’s Interim Steering Committee in Imo State. It would be recalled that following the dissolution of the Dr. Ambrose Onyekwere-led Caretaker Committee whose tenure expired in May, 2022, and the appointment of the Comr. Festus Bethel Iyke Onyekwulisi-led Caretaker Committee on March 6, 2023, which was challenged at the Federal High Court, Owerri last week, the National Working Committee held an emergency meeting in Abuja recently, aimed at an amicable resolution of the matter.…

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