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Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, have accentuated their governance blueprints for the country, as the campaigns for the 2023 general election intensify.   Tinubu yesterday assured entrepreneurs that he would turn the nation’s current challenges into opportunities for growth and development if elected in the forthcoming presidential poll. Obi, on the other hand, said his administration would be driven by youths and women mostly if elected next year. Tinubu spoke at a business luncheon with business owners titled, “Business Forward”, at the Wings, Victoria Island, Lagos, while disclosed his plans at a town Hall meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Capital. At the Luncheon in Lagos, the APC flagbearer also promised to work towards ensuring there is security in the country to create an enabling environment for them to do their businesses. Tinubu said since it is the responsibility of th...

  ~ Builds homes for the  indigents widows worth over 100M The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation yesterday the 21st of December 2022 put similes to the faces of many indigent women from Orafite numbering over 3000. The women where gifted with 50Kg bags of Rice, a wrapper and a take home stipend to support themselves and family. This is inline with the vision of the founder of the NGO, Sir Emeka Offor, to reduce the economic hardship occasioned by high cost of living in the country.  The founder of the foundation, Sir Emeka Offor was himself present to celebrate with the widows, an event which has now become a quarterly event aimed at giving succor to these widows. While addressing the women, who thronged out in their numbers to witness the Christmas get together, Sir Emeka Offor retirated his resolve to continue with the empowerment of women, especially widows who he said, are the bedrock of any family. He retirated the fact that the foundation was committed to improving the liv...

The criminal summons issued by a District Court against Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu is still pending hearing as adjourned to January 2023. There is no interlocutory appeal filed before the district Court against the ruling of the court, it will amount to abuse of court process for any court to assume jurisdiction over a matter that is pending before another court. A high court in the circumstance can only sit on appeal over the ruling/order of a district court and we state equivocally that there is no such appeal. We challenge ugochinyere to provide the suit number in which the court made the purported order. Note: Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu have already, through his counsel admitted to making the defamatory statement for which he is accused of. Ugochinyere should wait for his day in court. J. C. Nwosu Esq.

  Inspite of the antics of his Political adversaries, Gov. Hope Uzodimma has continued to be a trailblazer in the delivery of dividends of democracy to Ndi Imo. Under the 3R Government of Gov Hope Uzodimma, Imo State has continued to witness unprecedented infrastructural development, heathcare service delivery, agriculture, youth empowerment among others. Putting the cards on the table and critically reviewing the 2023 budget proposal wherein infrastructural development took  78.8% of the budget, there is no better way to appreciate Gov. Hope Uzodimma other than to continue to support him in order deliver more to Imolites. No one can be blind to the remarkable transformations that has happened to the road network infrastructures dotting the vast landscape in the state. This is owing to the fact that his administration saw to the increase of the internal generated revenue as never have been seen before in the state. There is no gain saying the fact that Imo State would witness ...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has again called for an end to the killing of indigenes of Eha-Amufu in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen.  Eha-Amufu has become a theatre of war, with several lives and properties lost.  Just yesterday, (Tuesday) Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State summoned another emergency meeting of all the stakeholders from Eha-Amufu where far reaching decisions were taken.  In a statement made available to journalists by the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he hailed Governor Ugwuanyi for all his efforts in search of solutions for an end to the carnage in Eha-Amufu.  The group, however, alleged that security agencies were not doing enough to save the situation in the area despite the support from the State Government.  Okwu, who said he had been keenly observing the ugly incidents in the area, noted that despite the complex nature of ...

Federal government has taken a swipe at opposition parties over claims that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration had “no achievements” to campaign ahead of the 2023 general elections. The minister of information and culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed who made the counter argument in his welcome address, during the presidential scorecard series, held at the National Press Center in Abuja yesterday said the administration was “spoilt for choice” on which of its achievements to campaign with, as it had several. The scorecard event is the 14th in the series, having previously held 13 editions that had presentations from the ministers of Works and Housing, Transportation, Aviation, Interior, Agriculture and Rural Development, Finance, Budget and National Planning, and the Minister of Water Resources, among others. He said, “As I have said on more than one occasion, we are spoilt for choice regarding the achievements we will pick upon to campaign. This is a fact, as you have heard from...

Members of the House of Representatives have stuck to their opposition to the new cash policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila meeting President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday to discuss the newly introduced cash withdrawal limits as well as the rising cases of violent attacks at political rallies. The Speaker, who disclosed this to State House correspondents after the closed-door meeting in the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, described the session as routine and meant to deliberate on key national issues. He, however, did not reveal the outcome of the discussion. Gbajabiamila also said that the House of Representatives was not involved in the ongoing controversy stirred by its member representing Kazaure, Roni, Gwiwa and Yankwashi Constituency of Jigawa State, Hon. Gudaji Kazaure, over the alleged missing N89 trillion accruing from Stamp Duty. The Speaker said: “It’s the regular routine discussions on state matters and of...

  Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that he was confident of winning the 2023 presidential election because the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari had personally assured him of a free and fair contest. The former vice president, in an interview with the Financial Times of London, said he met with President Buhari twice on the matter. “I’ve gotten a commitment from the president personally, because I sat down with him twice; (he said) that even if it is the only legacy he will leave, he will make sure he conducts free, fair and credible polls,” Atiku said.

By Chigozie Igbo Jr  I remember with zest, our vigorous exercise for the governorship of Anambra state in 2021, although it's now history, but it reminds me of my July 20th, 2021 piece  titled, IFEANYI UBAH: THE GRASSROOTS GENERAL . Since then, a lot has changed as Senator Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah has gone a notch higher to show that his interest is for the people and not just himself alone.  In that piece I started with Mohammed Ibrahim's quote which stressed that, "If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects." Mo Ibrahim.  Senator Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah has shown that the citizens matter to him, he has shown true representation, he has indeed shown that he loves his people by the many interventions he has brought to bear, even as a first time senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. He is indeed a Grassroots General, he has shown cap...

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday described the conviction of the director-general (DG) in-charge of his campaign organisation, Chief Doyin Okupe, as a deliberate ploy to distract him from his ongoing quest to lead the country, assuring he campaigns train was on track. He said the witch-hunting of persons in his campaign team cannot break his resolve to be Nigeria’s president. Obi, who was addressing journalists in Uyo at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council, said he remains undaunted by the conviction of Okupe, even as he affirmed that he doesn’t need his message to reposition Nigeria to be delivered on his behalf by another person. “I am hearing about it (the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the courts. I believe  in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralize me. “Today, when I arrived at Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it...