The word pension according to an English dictionary means a gratuity paid regularly as benefit, due to a person in consideration of past services, notably to one retired from service on account of retirement, disability or similar incidence, especially a regular stipend paid by the government to retired public officers. Almost all the countries of the world practice pension. There is no gain saying the fact that almost (if not all) cultures value old age and if one did not meet an untimely death, it will meet old age. It…
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Fighting Poverty through Quality Representation: Ogbuagu’s Initiative
Poverty has remained endemic in Nigeria. The absence of the three basic needs of man, food, health and shelter culminates in extreme poverty. Ironically, these are also the three primary responsibilities of government. Successive governments in Nigeria have overtime played lip service to the issue of eradicating poverty. This perhaps, is the reason Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world, overthrowing India. The June, 2019 report of the United Nations Development Program has it that over 98 million Nigerians are multi dimensionally poor, although the National Bureau of…
Read MoreBirthday tribute: The big question Nzeribe asked Okadigbo in Apr. 2000: “Ole ka ndigbo ketara”
At the same plenary session where Chief Evan Enwerem was impeached, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo was elected to replace him as senate president. That thus ended months of restlessness among his, Okadigbo’s, supporters and anti presidency elements in the senate who did not want to let go even after their effort to get him elected earlier as senate president failed as already seen in the last chapter. As expected, Okadigbo’s ascendancy brought back verve and enthusiasm to the senate. Wrote Banjo again: “His colleagues would for the first time hold their…
Read MoreHas Ihedioha abandoned those who made him governor?
With opposition to the stewardship of Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State gaining impetus and verve, it becomes important to analyze the post-election politics which the Mbutu-born former lawmaker has grappled with since he was elected governor and the implications of same on his political survival and Imo’s political stability. Essentially, three factors brought Ihedioha to power among which one stands out over and above the other two. The first was his relative credibility. In the assessment of the Imo electorate, Ihedioha was more credible than the other frontline governorship…
Read MoreOrluzurumee: The untold story part 2
The first part of this series has raised three fundamental questions about the leadership imbroglio in Orluzurumee. Those tripartite undebatable and incontrovertible issues, as a matter of necessity, should also be summarized here. First, on November 5, 2015, the General Assembly of suspended Chief Reuben Okoro from Orluzurumee on on allegations of seizure of the group’s property and conversion of same to personal use, extortion and purported collapse of Orluzurumee into a political party. This was published on page 11 of Nigeria Newspoint newspaper of November 6, 2015. Chief Okoro…
Read MorePeriscope on Rochas’ morbid phobia for jail
The article entitled: Governor Emeka Ihedioha And The Contract Award Panel From 1999 To 2029 (20 Years)” written by Sam Rochas Onwuemeodo, the Special Antagonist on Media to ex-governor Rochas Okorocha, has only one deep structure theme and leaves one message: “Rochas is afraid of jail”! On the surface structure, however, the ex-governor presented his usual façadé of crying for Jesus instead of crying for himself. He waxed advisorial, analysing the down side of the probe of contract awards in the State since the advent of the 4th republic, 1999-2019.…
Read MoreOkorocha: How not to be a leader
By Bob Njamanze While urging displaced traders who today litter Douglas Road to move gradually back to their respective market sites to enable free flow of traffic, this bottleneck in Owerri is due to the closure of Douglas Road for over two years, the destruction of various well constructed gutters and the digging up of road junctions making the entire city a construction site with no hope of completion. The outgoing government of Chief Rochas Okorocha must be careful of any action or actions that could precipitate revolt and a…
Read MoreClamour for Chike Okafor’s speakership position in House of Representatives is auspicious
That axiom with deep biblical correlation that there is time and season for everything created under the sun is a truism. It is God’s own design and desire that there must be growth and progression in human society to actualize destinies and God’s big plan for mankind. Our role as individuals is to work hard and play our noble parts,while God navigates the rest as it pleases him. It is obvious that the protracted marginalization of the people of Southeast Nigeria appears to have been allowed for divine reasons, until…
Read MoreHenrietta Jacobs: Woman of Integrity and Service
Those that know Pst. Mrs. Henrietta Jacobs in and out will testify without beating an eyelid that she is one person that doesn’t compromise especially when it comes to strictly complying with due process. “Getting things done rightly has always been her slogan”. At the inception of this administration, the government went in search of an individual of proven integrity, virtuous and one closer to God for the position of an Special Advicer, S.A. Religion to the governor. After a prolonged search, Pst. Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Jacobs was found worthy…
Read MoreImo’s true Rescue has come
Before the historical advent of the Owelle Rochas Okorochas led Imo Rescu Mission Government, Imo State was not dysfunctional. In fact, nothing really went awry in Imo State as to call for such a radical notion. The entire facets of the Imo State’s economy were functional and things were moving on smoothly. Surprisingly, the 2011 General Election was a first case of testing the timely revolutionary expression of discontentment by the Imo State masses. This they did through the power of their massive repudiation of the former Governor Ikedi Ohakim.…
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