Abia ThinkTank

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Nov
21
2025
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US Lawmaker Urges FGN To Pardon Farmer Sentenced To Death For Killing Herdsman

US Lawmaker Urges FGN To Pardon Farmer Sentenced To Death For Killing Herdsman

FGN, Crime, Foreign Affairs, News Flash
US Lawmaker Urges FG To Pardon Farmer Sentenced To Death For Killing Herdsman A member of the United States House of Representatives, Riley Moore, has called on the Nigerian government to pardon a farmer, Sunday Jackson, who was sentenced to death for killing a herdsman during a 2015 confrontation in Adamawa State. Speaking on Thursday during a US House hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, Moore said the conviction was unjust. “I would urge the Nigerian government to take a look at pardoning Sunday Jackson, who is an individual who was fighting…
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Nov
21
2025
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US Panel On Christian Genocide In Nigeria Condemns Conviction Of Nnamdi Kanu, Mayor Sanction Justice Omotosho

US Panel On Christian Genocide In Nigeria Condemns Conviction Of Nnamdi Kanu, Mayor Sanction Justice Omotosho

Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Judiciary, News Flash
US Panel On Christian Genocide In Nigeria Condemns Conviction Of Nnamdi Kanu, May Sanction Justice Omotosho A United States Congressional panel sitting in Washington, D.C., at a public hearing on alleged Christian persecution and genocide in Nigeria has strongly condemned the conviction and life sentence handed to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Members of the panel described the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja as a travesty of justice and an assault on international human rights norms. The panel, made up of lawmakers, policy analysts, and human rights advocates, reviewed recent developments…
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Nov
20
2025
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Justice, Power, And The Moral Collapse Of Selective Leadership- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Justice, Power, And The Moral Collapse Of Selective Leadership- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, Human Rights, Judiciary
JUSTICE, POWER, AND THE MORAL COLLAPSE OF SELECTIVE LEADERSHIP The life sentence delivered against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by Justice Omotoso stands today as one of the most contested judicial decisions in the history of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Not merely for what was decided, but for what it exposes: the hypocrisy of power, the selective vibrations of political morality, and the collapse of leadership where it is most needed. Philosophers across centuries have warned that justice becomes tyranny the moment it begins to discriminate. Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, defined injustice as “unequal treatment of equals or equal treatment of unequals.” This…
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Nov
20
2025
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Terrorism Charge: Court Sentences Nnamdi Kanu To Life Imprisonment

Terrorism Charge: Court Sentences Nnamdi Kanu To Life Imprisonment

Crime, Judiciary, News Flash
Court Sentences Nnamdi Kanu To Life Imprisonment For Terrorism Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Thursday sentenced Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to life imprisonment, concluding a high-profile trial that has lasted several years. Kanu, who was arrested in Kenya under contentious circumstances four years ago and extradited to Nigeria, faced seven counts related to terrorism. The judgment was delivered in his absence after he refused to participate in the proceedings, insisting that the court had no authority over him regarding the terrorism charges. His refusal led the presiding judge to order…
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Nov
20
2025
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A Daniel Has Come To Judgement: Schooling Obinna Oriaku On Public Finance, Transparency And Intellectual Honesty – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

A Daniel Has Come To Judgement: Schooling Obinna Oriaku On Public Finance, Transparency And Intellectual Honesty – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, Good Governance
A Daniel Has Come to Judgment: Schooling Obinna Oriaku on Public Finance, Transparency and Intellectual Honesty It is curious — almost tragicomic — that the same man who supervised Abia’s finances between 2015–2019 without publishing a single Quarterly Budget Implementation Report now seeks to interrogate Q2 and Q3 2025 documents with the zeal of a philosopher-king. But as Shakespeare warned in Measure for Measure, “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” In this debate, however, the irony is reversed: he who fell by opacity now pretends to rise by feigned transparency. Before we engage his questions, the stage…
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Nov
20
2025
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OHAFIA HALL OF FAME: Prof. Eni Njoku, Prof. Kalu Ezera, Prof. Eme Awa, Prof. U. U. Uche And 13 Others For Posthumous Recognitions/Awards

OHAFIA HALL OF FAME: Prof. Eni Njoku, Prof. Kalu Ezera, Prof. Eme Awa, Prof. U. U. Uche And 13 Others For Posthumous Recognitions/Awards

News Flash, Ohafia LGA, People & Events
OHAFIA HALL OF FAME: Prof. Eni Njoku, Prof. Kalu Ezera, Prof. Eme Awa, Prof. U.U. Uche and 13 Others To Receive Posthumous Recognitions/Awards. After the Screening and consideration of 100 most influential/Impactful Ohafians In Nigeria and diaspora by the Hon. Chief Mba Ukaha led Screening/Planning Committee. The Committee further went ahead to identify Ohafia great heros whose impact contributed immensely in the development of Ohafia, Abia State, Nigeria and Africa at large. These were known names in the development of Nigeria and Africa. They were world class giants in Education, Science and technology, Law, Medicine, Political Science, Leadership, Finance, etc.…
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Nov
19
2025
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The Enyimba Economic Distric & The Rise Of Abia’s SME Powerhouse: A Historical And Data-Driven Argument- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

The Enyimba Economic Distric & The Rise Of Abia’s SME Powerhouse: A Historical And Data-Driven Argument- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Business, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance
THE ENYIMBA ECONOMIC DISTRICT & THE RISE OF ABIA’S SME POWERHOUSE: A HISTORICAL AND DATA-DRIVEN ARGUMENT The story of Abia’s economic revival cannot be told without acknowledging the deep historical roots of enterprise in Aba. From the 1970s textile clusters to the legendary “Aba Made” boom of the 1980s and early 2000s, Abia has always been Nigeria’s grassroots innovation capital. Yet, despite its enormous informal productivity, successive administrations allowed the economic engine to decay—flooded roads, epileptic power, zero standards support, and no export architecture. By 2019, UNIDO and the National Bureau of Statistics classified the Aba industrial cluster as one…
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Nov
18
2025
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Tension As Gunshot Rocks PDP Headquarters

Tension As Gunshot Rocks PDP Headquarters

Abuja, News Flash, Politics
Tension As Gunshot Rocks PDP Headquarters There is currently tension at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja over attempts to hold parallel meetings. The National Working Committee (NWC) elected in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, and the faction backed by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had fixed meetings for today. Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the pro-Wike faction, had arrived the Wadata Plaza with some of their Members.Shortly after, members of the Taminu Turaki faction also arrived the headquarters but were prevented from going in. However, two governors forced their way in, but…
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Nov
18
2025
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Unical’s Cyril Ndifon Jailed Five Years For Sexual Harassment

Unical’s Cyril Ndifon Jailed Five Years For Sexual Harassment

Crime, Education, Judiciary, News Flash
UNICAL’s Cyril Ndifon Jailed Five Years For S3xual Harassment Cyril Ndifon, suspended law faculty dean at University of Calabar (UNICAL), has been sentenced to five years imprisonment without an option of fine. James Omotosho, the presiding judge in the case, handed down the sentence at the federal high court in Abuja on Monday. In 2023, Ndifon was removed as a UNICAL dean over alleged abuse of office and sexual harassment, with female students as victims. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had charged Ndifon alongside his co-defendant, Sunny Anyanwu. Counts one and two, of four, accused…
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Nov
18
2025
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The Julius Berger Effect In Abia: Why Quality Infrastructure Is The New Political Currency – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

The Julius Berger Effect In Abia: Why Quality Infrastructure Is The New Political Currency – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance
The Julius Berger Effect in Abia: Why Quality Infrastructure Is the New Political Currency In a nation where road construction has historically served as a coded language for rent-seeking, inflated contracts, and premature collapse, Abia State’s insistence on Julius Berger is not merely an engineering decision—it is a philosophical reset. It signals a government that understands that reputation, not rhetoric, now builds economies. For the first time in decades, Abians are witnessing infrastructure designed to last, not to fail; infrastructure awarded on competence, not political patronage; infrastructure built to German standards, not patched with cosmetic asphalt that dissolves after the…
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