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The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has released the timetable for the conduct of fresh governorship primary in Abia State. This follows the death of its former guber candidate in the state, Prof Eleazar Uche Ikonne on the 25th of February, 2023. Consequent upon that, the Party is expected to replace its late candidate within fourteen days of the demise through a fresh primary election. The party at both the state and national levels have been working assiduously together to ensure they beat the 14-day deadline as stipulated by law. The National Working Committee of the party has therefore released a statement today setting the timetable for the conduct of the fresh primary election. In the statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, NPS, Hon Debo Ologunagba, and made available to N ews men, the process will start on Friday, January 27 and culminate in the state congress scheduled for February 4, 2023. The statement in full reads “Following th...

By Wisdom Nwedene , Abakaliki. File Image: UBA BANK. A middle aged man, Mr Nathan Oruta Ngwuta has accused the management of UBA Bank in Onueke, Ebonyi State of refusing to play CCTV footage of criminals stealing his new motorcycle which he packed to do transaction inside the bank. Speaking with our correspondent in Abakaliki, Mr Oruta said the ugly incident happened on Wednesday when he went to update his wife's account. According to him, " I went to update my wife's account and after about 2 hours of them dribbling me in the banking hall without doing what I came for, I went outside to check my bike, lo and behold the bike was gone." "I asked for the CCTV footage, the security told me that they are too busy to play footage. "How can the bank management tell me that they are too busy to play footage of the criminal that stole my new bike? ONUEKE EBONYI STATE, UBA BANK YOU DISAPPOINT ME 💔😭😭"  As at the time of filing this report, efforts by our corr...

By John Okiyi Kalu Gov Okezie Victor Ikpeazu PhD Section 14(2) (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) declares that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. In this declaration, the security and welfare of the people are conjunctively presented as a sole purpose. Accordingly, the primary purpose of government is seen as one but it has two interwoven limbs, namely: the security of the people and the welfare of the people. Notably, the deployment of the adjective “primary” in the said constitutional declaration suggests that the security and welfare of the people shall be the main or principal purpose of government in Nigeria. Failure of the government in this primary purpose will give birth to, if not tantamount to failure of the government in every other purpose because without the accomplishment of the primary purpose, the accomplishment of every other purpose of government shall be baseless, meaningless, ...

By Hon. Godwin Adindu (Media and Publicity Director, IGODO IGWE Campaign Team). Elder Erondu Uchenna Erondu The PDP candidate for the Obingwa West State Constituency, Hon. Erondu Uchenna Erondu, has declared his readiness for the Unit-by-Unit engagement of all electorates in his Uhie Constituency and charged his campaign council to come up with the schedule of visitations. The candidate who was speaking to a conglomeration of his campaign council, ward coordinators, unit coordinators and the Igodo foundation today at his country home assured his team that everything needed for this tactical action is ready and available and urged leaders of his council to come up with the plan of action immediately. He disclosed that the objective of the strategy is for him to have a one-on-one interaction with all Voters in his Constituency. He further discosed that the mass engagement strategy is also designed to enable non-politicians who may not have visited  or met him before to have a persona...

Jesus of Lubeck John Hawkins encouraged the Africans to enter his boat “Jesus of Lubeck,” otherwise called “The Good Ship Jesus.” for salvation. The people who entered soon found out they could not leave the ship. Jesus of Lubeck Ship: Jesus of Lubeck was a cruising ship built in the City of Lübeck in the mid-sixteenth century. By the year 1540 the ship was purchased by Henry VIII, King of England, to expand his fleet. Jesus of Lubeck was later chartered to John Hawkins in 1562 by Queen Elizabeth I after it sank during a Battle. Jesus of Lubeck ( “The Good Ship Jesus”) and John Hawkins: The ship became associated with the Atlantic slave exchange under John Hawkins. He effectively coordinated four journeys to West Africa and the West Indies somewhere in the range of 1562 and 1568. 300 Africans were captured from Sierra Leone and later sold to Spanish ranches in the Americas. A record holds that Hawkins who professed to be a passionate Christian found the Sierra Leoneans harvesting their...

Dr Okezie Ikpeazu PhD  Since 2015 when he was sworn in as the Executive Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has been working diligently and consistently to bring about tremendous development of diverse sectors in the state including education, health, security, commerce, infrastructure and industry among others. Barack Obama has achieved things that most people can only dream of. He was the first African American president to assume office and served two terms. From humble beginnings, he rose to become one of the most powerful men in the world. As a young person, he was a skilled writer and a hard worker, he recognized he could be a successful journalist if he worked his way up the ladder, he however also knew he could make more of a difference through politics, so he set his eyes on the White House for years. We all know how that ended. For Okezie Ikpeazu, he began his career as a clinical biochemist while serving under the mandatory National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) betwee...

Gov Okezie Ikpeazu Amidst Crowd of Aba Residents. Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has assured that his administration has not abandoned the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt road in Aba. Gov Ikpeazu who stated this at the Government Lodge, Aba, during a courtesy call on him by Generating Set Dealers, Port Harcourt road, explained that his administration considers the road as key  and would never abandon it. He further explained that his administration met no good road in Aba when it came to office in 2015, but has done over 50 roads in the city. Gov Ikpeazu added that the improved network of good roads is responsible for the improvements in security of lives and property and the upsurge in commercial activities which has in turn given confidence to traders from Akwa Ibom and other neighboring states to visit Aba for procurement of goods and services. “We don’t do half measures in road construction. We always try to build roads that will outlive our administration. We won’t ab...

The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested one Ikenna Ogbonna Ota, a native of Azuoto Okpoitumo community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of the state. Ota was arrested for stealing and presenting a stolen cow for the burial rites of his late father in-law. It’s a known tradition among the people of Izzi clan in the state to perform burial rites of their deceased relations, especially parents and in-laws with cows in order to avert stigmatisation by the people. Ota was reported to have visited the family house of his in-laws on Friday for the presentation of materials for the burial of their late father, according to The Point. He had come with a female cow he allegedly stole from his community to them for the ceremony. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the stolen native cow, Thomas Agbo, who came to sympathise with the family of the deceased, was able to identify the cow being presented by the son-in-law as his missing cow and raised the alarm. Agbo said he...

A couple who were brutally murdered by kidnappers despite the payment of N7.5m ransom has been laid to rest in Anambra state, ANAMBRA PEOPLE reports. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka, 36, and his wife, Mirian Chinwendu, 30, who got married in May 29, 2021, were returning home after attending a programme at the Holy Ghost Adoration, Uke, in the Idemili North LGA, when they were abducted. They were buried in their hometown at Isiekwulu, Ukpo, in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State on Thursday, December 15, 2022. It was gathered that the couple were with their four-month-old baby, whom the kidnappers abandoned in the car. A source said family members initially paid the kidnappers the sum of N5m, but the hoodlums demanded an additional N2.5m, which took the family time to raise, as they sold part of their land to generate the money. After collecting the complete ransom, the kidnappers reportedly switched off their phones. About two months later, the community saw the corpses of the couple...

Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu  Public position begets public scrutiny and it opens up a vista of shared opinions, assumptions and commentaries on the affairs of governance and public trust. Regrettably, the space of public opinion can be overtly toxic to the point that cynics, mischief-makers and political opportunist ride overboard. Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, is an accomplished academician turned politician who currently holds the trust of the people in the state. Since his foray into politics, this gentleman has been grossly misrepresented and called unprintable names, even by those with zero knowledge of his giant strides. Ikpeazu is the man in the arena, whose only sin may be that he hasn’t pandered to the whims and caprices of naysayers not been the regular boisterous politician and may have done little to blow his own trumpet.  It is not uncanny to see people throw jibes at him and ride on the bandwagon of naysayers who see everything bad but nothing good, who go to...