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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Adamawa State governorship election, Aisha Binani Dahiru, has filed a motion exparte before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking the leave of the court for a judicial review of the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission. She is seeking “leave of the court allowing…
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As the inauguration of the next Nigerian legislature, termed the 10th National Assembly, draws near, different people and groups have started plotting to emerge leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Arguments based on zonal and religious balancing have been pushed forward by different individuals and groups to favour them. One of such…
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A lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, says the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is bleeding through the nose after allegedly coming in contact with a tuberculosis patient in the detention of the Department of State Services. In a tweet on Monday, the lawyer said, “Today, my associate, Barr Mandela, met with Onyendu,…
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Researchers at Kwara State University, Ilorin, have won a N12.5 million naira research grant from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. The research will be conducted by a team led by Dr Olayinka Yusuf on “Influence of Cultural and Demographic Attributes on the Spread and Containment of Coronavirus Pandemic in Nigeria.’’ The varsity’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof….
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Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for State’s governorship election. Ahead the November 11 gubernatorial election, the ruling Party conducted its primary election at the Ndubuisi Kanu Square in Owerri, the state capital, on Friday. Following the excercise, William Kayoda, the chairman of the Governorship Primary…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling members perceived to be loyal to Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement delivered in two separate suits filed by the affected PDP members, held that the fears of these applicants were…
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The Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has ordered an immediate reversal of the tuition fee for Abia State University, Uturu, which was hiked by over 350 per cent. He gave the order to the management of Abia State University led by Prof. Maxwell Ogbulu. According to the invoices given to some new ABUS students…
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The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, restored Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The court set aside his removal by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), which happened on January 17, 2023. Senator Ararume had dragged Buhari before the court praying it to declare his…
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– Vow to resist clandestine plot to destabilize community The Heads of all the villages in Obi Mbieri autonomous community, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State have vowed to resist any clandestine plot by any person or group of persons to destabilize the community by conspiring to hijack the administration of Obi Mbieri autonomous…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has called on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to order the immediate declaration of the result of the Isu State Constituency election in Imo State won by PDP. The opposition party also said the total results from the eleven electoral wards in…
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The Imo State Elders’ Council has endorsed Sen Hope Uzodinma’s second term ambition for Governor of the state. The elders also adopted a Charter of Equity for the rotation of key political offices among the three senatorial zones which includes the position of the governor, deputy governor and speaker of house of assembly. In a…
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The Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to resist any plot to derail Labour Party, especially now that it is enjoying wide acceptance by Nigerians. The vow was made on Monday when the leadership of the labour union stormed the national secretariat of the Labour Party at Utako in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to show…
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday refused to vacate an interim order which restrained the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, and two others from parading themselves as leaders of the party. Alex Ejieseme SAN, counsel for Abure, had prayed the court to…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday night announced 29-year-old Akarachi Amadi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the winner of the supplementary election for Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru Federal Constituency of Imo State held on Saturday. Announcing the votes polled by the respective candidates at the federal constituency’s collation centre located at Nworuibi in the…
The crisis rocking the Labour Party in Imo State took another turn when two factions of the party produced different governorship flag bearers, Senator Athan Achonu and Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, in the parallel primary elections held over the weekend. Ukaegbu emerged winner in an affirmative election where one of the aspirants, Ihechi Ike, stepped down for…
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The monarch was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the command for allegedly sharing on a WhatsApp platform a write-up that was said to be very critical of the state governor, Hope Uzodinma. The Imo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested Eze Ekene Obinali, the traditional ruler of…
Candidates of three political parties — the Labour Party, the African Democratic Party and the Peoples Democratic Party — have rejected the declaration of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Akarachi Amadi, as the winner of the supplementary election held in Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru federal of Imo state on Saturday. The candidate of the ADC, Chinonso Uba,…
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The All Progressives Grand Alliance has condemned the attack on its delegates and officials in the Imo State Governorship primary held last weekend, The attack on the party officials was said to have happened at the state party secretariat in Owerri. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Tex Okechukwu, disclosed this in a statement…
The yearly Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards is an annual accolade presented by MultiChoice recognizing outstanding achievements in television and film. The inaugural AMVCA ceremony was held in Lagos, Nigeria on 9 March 2013, and was broadcast live in more than 50 countries. It commends outstanding performances in television, film, and entertainment. The 9th edition…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the PDP candidate for Isu State Constituency, Hon. Modestus Osakwe, winner of the election without any further delay. This was made known in a release signed by the Imo State PDP publicity secretary, Hon Collins Opurozor,…
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The Imo State Government has concluded arrangements with foreign investors from South Korea for the establishment of a smart city in the state. The Commissioner for Budget, Economic Planning and Statistics, Hon. Christopher Chukwuemeka Osuala, said this to newsmen in Owerri, Monday led by the Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodinma on Networking, Onwuzuruike Chantel…
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the parliamentary watchdog over a possible failure to declare shares his wife holds in an agency benefiting from a recent budget, an official said Monday. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg on Thursday launched the probe into shares Akshata Murty holds in childcare agency “Koru Kids”, his…
Barely one month after the reintroduction of old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes, some residents of Anambra have decried the unavailability of the new notes in many banks in the state. Some of them told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday that they hardly complete transactions with new naira notes because…
The Nigerian government has approved the use of R21/Matrix malaria vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University. “The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in exercising its mandate as stipulated by its enabling law, NAFDAC Act CapN1, LFN 2004 is granting registration approval for R21 malaria vaccine,” Director-general of the National…
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This text discusses the corrupt leadership in Imo state through the allegory of Aesop’s fable about the old woman and the doctor. Aesop was a slave and a philosopher of note, he embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved in view of his logical cum allegorical way…
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial poll. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu is expected to challenge the…
Governor of Imo State, Sen Hope Uzodinma has commended the people of the state for trooping out to vote massively for the All Progressives Congress in the House of Assembly election held on Saturday. The governor said the victory of the ruling APC at the polls was a significant attestation to the achievement of his…
Following the recent concluded general elections in Nigeria, it is obvious that both INEC and APC have no surviving souls respectively. The soul, yes, I mean the soul. No one in the world of matter, energy, space and time can plunge deeply into the realm of the soul without wise guides. Years of lone wolf…
According to Plato in his metaphoric and poetic way of expressing higher reality, he told a story about Er, a warrior who came back to life on the funeral pyre, after having been believed dead. Er according to Plato, was said to have seen many things in the afterlife, but he was told that he…
When the Duke of African music Bright Chimezie sang a song with the title “LIFE NA TEACHER,” the music did not make too much sense to me until this time around. Oh truly this life na teacher! Life is a stage centre where inner written script are acted; some people act it in reality while…
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