Category: FEATURES

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,…

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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…

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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…

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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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  A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State, Mr. Okey Ezeh, has chided members of the state House of Assembly for voting against local government autonomy in the ongoing constitution amendment. In a release made available in Owerri, Mr. Ezeh who expressed utter surprise at such posture by the state House of Assembly, submitted that it has confirmed that the people are there for themselves and not for the people. The APGA chieftain noted that the local government has been…

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Appalled by the current state of affairs in Imo state, one of the gubernatorial aspirants jostling to represent the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in the 2019 guber election in Imo state Chief Charles Onyeagbako has unveiled his desire to restore Imo to its former glory. Chief Onyeagbako who made this known during a chart with journalists at the grand finale of APGA’s sensitization/rally tour across the 27 Local Government Areas of the state, at Mount Canel, Emekuku, in Owerri North added that APGA is the only political platform through…

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The Imo state police command has geared up towards arrest of two male sex mates wanted for homosexual act which is offensive to Nigerian law. Nigeria Newspoint gathered that the homosexuals were given a hot chase on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by the police at an Owerri hotel (name withheld) where it was revealed that both gay men lodged in the state. When the police got wind of the two men performing their act in the hotel, they came after them and they reportedly escaped from the windows of their…

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared a 29 year-old Journalist,Mr Okonkwo Johnbosco Chiebonam wanted for what it described as “playing vital role in the promotion of activities of Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB . Nigeria Newspoint gathered that Mr Okonkwo who was born in May 20,1990 is a notorious journalist who is said to have been helping in the promotion of IPOB’s ideas for South East seperation from Nigeria led by President  Muhammadu Buhari,an Islamic extremist. Nigerian government has further alleged that Mr Okonkwo is “carrying out hidden functions for…

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Activists of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a group clamouring for the independence of the South East region of Nigeria, have fled the region in droves, the wake of increased military clampdown by Nigeria Security Forces deployed  to their agitation. The IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has in the recent past intensified agitation for secession from Nigeria allegedly on the basis of gross marginalization of the people of South East by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government. In line with that plan members of the group in…

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