–As Umahi Denies Disruption By Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki Supporters of Peter Obi otherwise known as Obi-Datti movement presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Ebonyi state Saturday defiled security threat as they sojourned on peaceful one million movement. Members of the various support groups were dispersed at the party Headquarters, Mile 50, Abakaliki where they gathered to kick off the peaceful movement by men of Nigeria Police Force who used tear gas on them. However, they defiled the security molestation and continued the road walk which lasted for hours at the center of the metropolis. Reacting on the development, the state governor denied the disruption of the Obi-Datti movement and described the rumour as unfounded. The Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Strategy, Chooks Oko noted that the state governor is a democrat who believed […]
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Abakaliki Council Boss Begins Work With Prayer Submit, Assures To lead In Fear Of God
The executive chairman of Abakaliki Local Government Council, Hon. Ebere Nwogba has officially began work with prayer submit and assured to lead in the fear of God through out his administration to take the council to the enviable height. Nwogba who assumed office yesterday with prayer submit by the catholic priest in charge of St. Michael Parish Abaja, Rev. Father Alexander Eze in the Council headquarters Nkaliki, said every successful leadership comes from God. Speaking during the submit, the council boss noted he decided to start with God for the smooth running of his adminstration as one with God is majority. According to him “Like the saying goes that one with God is majority, any foundation led in God is always a solid one and I have decided to anchor this leadership in God” “We dedicated this council […]
Izhi People In Lagos Kick Off ‘One Million’ Vote Move, Declare, ‘Operation Show Your PVC’
By Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki The people of Izhi clan who’re residents in Lagos state and its environs under the umbrella of Association of Izhi-Nnodo Clan of Nigeria(AICON) have declared ‘operation show your PVC’ as they vowed to bring their members home to participate fully in the upcoming general election. This is even as they declared their support to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate in the recent concluded primaries,Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru and other governorship candidates of Izhi clan from other political parties. The group made their intentions known when their convoy arrived at Nkaliki, Abakaliki LGA Headquarters on Tuesday,7th June,2022. While receiving the team, the Chairman Abakaliki local government area,Hon Emmanuel Nwangele applauded the leadership of AICON for the great initiative and noted that the people are free to locate their council area to register […]
Guber 2023: Group Fumes, Warns Izhi Kinsmen Of Rumoured PDP’s Plan To Pick Izhi Man As Deputy Governor
By Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki Izhi Agenda, a socio-cultural organization have threatened to denounce Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP) faithfuls from Izhi clan who accepted Deputy Governor’s position from the party in the upcoming general election in Ebonyi state. The group made this known in a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary, comrade Onyibe Jeremiah and made available to our reporter in Abakaliki. According to the statement, the group frowned at the party inglorious attitude towards its zoning principle which they neglected with intention to keep the people as perpetual orphan with the party. They emphasized that the party that’s known to had gained alot of support from Ebonyi North zone whose turn to benefit from the rotational system as seen since the inception of democracy in the state turned back to deny their supporters with a “highest bidder” politics. The […]
How Attire With Lion’s Head Caused Court Drama Between Justice Nyako, Kanu, Ozekhome, DSS
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Department of State Service, DSS, on Wednesday, explained to the Federal High Court in Abuja, why it stopped the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, from receiving new clothes. However, when DSS said they refused the clothes brought by Kanu’s younger brother because it had a lion’s head insignia, Kanu said it was the traditional attire of his people. Kanu’s lead counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), said he had same clothes and see no reason why Kanu can’t wear it. Trial Justice Nyako, while admitting that she equally owns the type of wear, stressed that she would not allow Kanu to wear it to court for his trial. “The Defendant will not wear it in this my court. He can wear it to any other place, but not inside […]
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Anniversary: Regina Pacis Foundation Unites Izhi Clan
..Founder Preaches Craft Modernization From Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki Non Governmental Organization, Regina Pacis Foundation 18th year anniversary celebrated on weekend at Arc Edward Nkwegu’s villa, Nwofe Agbaja, Izzi LGA will ever remain fresh in the mind of Izhi people as it attracted creme la creme of all walks of life among gubernatorial candidates from various opposition political parties who preached on unity and support of Ebonyi North zone in producing a successor to Ebonyi state governor, Engr David Umahi come 2023. The event used to marked the 18th year successful operation of the foundation witnessed series of endorsement of the party flagbearer, Arc Edward Nkwegu and other Labour Party candidates from various support groups and Civil Society Organizations. Speaking, during the event, the founder of the foundation, and the Labour Party governorship candidate, Arch Edward Nkwegu appreciated friends […]
Disregard Antics Of Andrew Bishopton Court Claims, Ebonyi Govt Urges Public
From Amauche Agbo, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Government under the leadership of Engr. David Umahi has urged members of the public to ignore the antics of the habitually infamous companies viz: Andrew Bishopton Nig Limited and Mauritz Walton Nig Ltd. The State Commissioner for information and Orientation Barr. Uchenna Orji announced this while briefing newsmen in Abakaliki, the State Capital. According to the Commissioner, the attention of Ebonyi State Government has been drawn to a trending publication credited to one firm known as and called Andrew Bishopton Nig. Limited and its partners, Mauritz Walton Nig Ltd claiming that they got order of the Court to garnish the accounts of Ebonyi State Government. The Commissioner said State Government had in different communications extracted confessions from the representatives of Andrew Bishopton Nig Limited to the effect that the said company […]
2023: I’ve chosen people-centric platform to serve you-Immaculate
….As he flags off campaign exercise at Izzi Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki Labour Party, LP, candidate representing Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency, Dr Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh (Immaculate) has during the official flag off of his campaign exercise said he has chosen a people oriented platform to serve the constituents. Eze made the remarks during interaction with Journalists at his Otsokpuru Ezza-Inyimegu country home, Izzi LGA, Ebonyi State. The labour party Reps candidate expressed his avowed readiness to serve the people, noting that his coming into politics is not to enrich himself, rather to invest his wealth of experiences in service to humanity. The Oxford trained Entreprenuer who maintained optimistic of his people voting him in the 2023 general election hinted that he would introduce ‘No Youth Left Behind’ initiative targeted at ensuring that good number of young people are skillfully empowered […]
FG Sets To Mine Ebonyi Salt
….approves N29.08bn for road, wall projects The Federal Government, on Wednesday, approved N29,083,577,000 for projects in the Ministry of Works and Housing and Mines and Steel Development. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the weekly Council meeting chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). According to Mohammed, N27.23bn and N1.85bn were approved to rehabilitate the 30km Idoani-Otuo Road and construct a 27km retaining wall for the Ebonyi Salt Lakes, respectively. He said, “This is on behalf of the Honourable Minister of works and housing, who presented a memo for the approval of the award of contract for the rehabilitation of the 30-kilometre Idoani-Otuo Road, which links Ondo and Edo states and is close to Kogi State. “The contract is for the sum of N27,233,577,000 and awarded to […]
Ebonyi 2023: Appeal Court Affirms Nkwegu as LP Guber Candidate
The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu State on Friday affirmed Arc (Dr) Edward Nkwegu as the authentic gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in Ebonyi State. It could be recalled that the Abakaliki Federal High Court had on 3rd August 2022, mistakenly granted the reliefs sought by one Mr Splendor Eze Oko in his suit against the substitution primaries of the Labour Party in the state, but Dr Nkwegu later appealed the judgment. However, in Suit No: CA/E/224/2022, the Appeal Court, Friday set aside the judgment of the lower Court, which purportedly declared the Labour Party substitution primaries nullity, as requested by the plaintiff. The Enugu Court of Appeal in its considered judgment, today, held that the Abakaliki Federal High did not give the Appellants a fair hearing and that the Courts of Law are not invited […]
Nigeria: 2023 Elections May Make or Mar Nigeria, Obasanjo Warns
2022Daily Trust (Abuja) By Peter Moses Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said 2023 elections may make or mar Nigeria. Obasanjo spoke when the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Daniel T. Okoh, paid him a courtesy visit at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo noted that if clerics allow the political class to wreck Nigeria, “everyone would regret it” “If you stand on the truth, you stand for justice and equity, then the politicians will not be able to mess us around and I will say it with all sense of responsibility now, if we do not watch it, the politicians will wreck this country and we all regret it. “And where can we look for […]
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Guber: Nwifuru’s victory adequately defines Ebonyi charter of equity – PDP Chieftain
By Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate for the Ebonyi North West State Constituency, Barrister Obinna Iteshi in the just concluded general elections has felicitated with the Ebonyi Governor-elect, Chief Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru over his landslide victory in the exercise. Barrister Iteshi who had ahead of the March 18 polls dumped his ambition and adopted Nwifuru, described the victory of the APC gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi as the true justification of the charter of equity which has continued to prevail in the apex seat of the state since 1999 till date. Recall that Barrister Iteshi dumped his ambition and his party, PDP to join the APC at his Ekebeligwe Ishieke country home in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State before the march 18 polls. The decision according to him, was part of his contributions […]
Guber Polls: PDP Group Defends Anyim, Dumps Anyichuks
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP group operating under the auspices of Ivo PDP Caucus, has thrown its weight behind a former President of the Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim, for supporting the governorship candidacy of the All Progressives Congress, Hon Francis Nwifuru, in Ebonyi State. Senator Anyim, had on Wednesday, at his Ishiagu country home, in the Ivo Local Government Area of the state while playing host to Governor Umahi, declared his support for the APC governorship candidate, maintaining that equity and justice must not be trampled upon. He had since come under heavy attacks by supporters of the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Dr Ifeanyi Odii, who described him as a political betrayal and ‘mis-calculator’. The Director of Media and Publicity of Ebonyi PDP Governorship Campaign Council, Chief Abia Onyike, had while reacting to Anyim’s romance with […]
2023 Polls: APC Guber Aspirant Congratulates Ebonyi Governor-Elect, Umahi, Others Over Landslide Victory
Former Governorship Aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections in Ebonyi State, Dr Nnanna Elias Igwe, has congratulated the Governor-Elect and Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Right Honourable Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru on his landslide victory in the March 18, 2023 governorship election in the State. In a congratulatory message personally signed by Dr Igwe and made available to Journalists in Abakaliki, on Wednesday, also congratulated wife of the Governor-elect, Mrs Uzoamaka Nwifuru, the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, his wife, Rachel Ogonna Umahi for working very hard to ensure total victory for the APC family in the State. Igwe who is a Consultant Emergency Physician, National Health Service,London, United Kingdom, also congratulated the Deputy Governor-elect, Mrs Patricia Obila, all the APC National and State Assembly members-elect, in […]
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