By Aloy Ejimakor It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in the course of time and generations – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie and brazen propaganda, institutionally purveyed (against the Igbo) since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the Atlantic Ocean. The gaslighting is so successful that vast majorities of Nigerians, including Ndigbo have accepted it as a geographical truism. Just recently, this…
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Orlu, Orsu, Oru East: Blood Results, Blood Victory
I only know how to campaign and win votes but i don’t know how to write and rig election results. This is my assertion. Since May 2022 that i voluntarily resigned from the APC government of Imo state led by Sen. Hope Uzodimma as Special Adviser Political Matters, i have dedicated 90% of my time to the campaigns of Chief Charles Ahize. The man Ahize had wanted to run as Senator in the APC but providence ported him into Labour party which later became the rave of politics in contemporary…
Read MoreImo Govt, NLC Fight: Strike Well Deserving To Halt Uzodinma’s Meddlesomeness
By Afam Echi Strike is a phenomenon that connotes many negative implications. It is a willful effort of workers to withdraw their services in protest against actions of employers in order to drive home a demand. Strike is an ill wind that blows none any good including those who institute it. It attracts all manner of negative comments especially from all those who are hurt by it. There are always the two sides of a coin. Looking at the flip side the Imo NLC strike has some positives that is…
Read MoreSuspension Or Expulsion’ Of Barr. Willie Amadi In A Haste: What APC Leaders Failed To Understand
By Linus Amaraizu Two weeks after the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in both Owerri Municipal and Ikenegbu Ward In Imo State are beginning to brew unwarranted crisis following what they termed, “anti-party” activity against suspected “enemies”. The man at the center of the storm is a no nonsense legal czar and community leader, High Chief Barr Willie Amadi who holds the traditional title of “Ukwa Achi Aka & Omeudo” of Owerri. The writer is not interested in his…
Read MoreImo PDP: Atiku’s Visit And Call For Peace
By Henry Ekpe The foundation of Owerri, Imo State Capital, was on December 17, 2022 shaken as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP received its Presidential candidate, and Vice in the February Election, Chief Atiku Abubakar and Dr Ifeanyi Okowa to the State. The event which took place at Hero’s Square (Ndubuisi Kanu Square) New Owerri was tumultuous, as it afforded the PDP the opportunity to rave its structures in the grassroots into action, since the campaigns has not yet properly commenced, except the Presidential Rally. The planned visit of…
Read MoreMass Communication, Imo Government And Emeka Ihedioha
By Henry Ekpe Emeka Ihedioha, a former Chief Whip and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives and later Ex-Governor of Imo State has dominated the airwaves in Nigeria these few days. He does all the times, though. The last time he attracted such concern and comment among Nigerians was in January 14, 2020 when the Supreme Court said he was no more the Governor of Imo State. However, the latest matter on Ihedioha was caused by a simple harmless speech he made in far away Ghana, during the occasion of…
Read MoreOrlu 2023 Legislative Election: Between Precious Nwadike And Desperation Of an Incumbent 2
As the race for who represents the Orlu LGA at the Imo House of Assembly in 2023 gathers momentum, I wish again to call the attention of the people to the destabilizing antics of the incumbent House Member for Orlu Constituency, Hon. Chief Paschal Okolie towards the youthful Comr. Precious Nwadike. Like I wrote in the first volume of this piece, the entrance of Comrade Precious Nwadike in the contest for the Orlu Representative at the Imo House of Assembly in 2023, has completely shattered the dreams of Hon. Paschal…
Read More2023: Can Nigeria Witness Obama’s Sunami?
By Chuks Osuji Historically, America was created in 1776. For it’s several years in existence of all the forty five (45) President none, absolutely none was a black person. Unfortunately, it was not until January 10th ,2009 when Barack Obama was elected the first black president. When this election was announced, the entire nation of United States and billions of black races saw his election as a political sunami. Why? Because the history of black Americans in their surgon in the United States was one punctuated with contradictions, contraptions and…
Read MoreImo Assembly with 4 Speakers in One Term, Yet Not Over
It is not yet uhuru for the Imo State House of Assembly to stop changing Speakers with four already in three years and may not be over before the term runs out, writes Amby Uneze Since the imposition of a Monday sit-at-home in the South east, so many activities were kept in the cooler. It is not that the people are not willing to perform their Monday activities as usual being the beginning of official duties in a week, but for the fear of the unknown. In the same vein,…
Read MoreFebruary of Every Other 4 Years Finds Us In Joy And Sadness
The Americans don’t miss it. For more than 200yrs, it has not changed. It is sacrosanct. Every other four years, the Americans on January 22nd usher in a new or renewed government. It is becoming a routine in Nigeria too. From 1999 till date, the same happens in Nigeria consecutively now. No mistakes. No shifting the goal post. All is well that ends well. It is now a democratic routine. Do you know that the American democratic genius bequeathed to the world is the tenure system. Whether you are the…
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