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29
2022
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FENRAD Mourns Victims of Illegal Refinery at Egbema/Ohaji of Imo state

FENRAD Mourns Victims of Illegal Refinery at Egbema/Ohaji of Imo state

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...Calls for Impact Assessment and Proactive Environmental Regime. Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy and environmental rights advocacy group sends its sincere condolences to all the families, friends and well-wishers of victims of the fire explosion which engulfed an illegal refinery in Abaezi forest within Ohaji/Egbema area of Imo State. The explosion, FENRAD gathered, claimed over a hundred lives with cars and other properties to boot. FENRAD by this release also commiserates with the people and government of Imo State over the sad occurrence. Repeatedly, FENRAD, as a pro-environment group seeking a fuller, greener planet with…
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Apr
29
2022
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We are buying Twitter from Elon musk – Cubana Chief Priest

We are buying Twitter from Elon musk – Cubana Chief Priest

Economy, Metro, , , , , ,
Less than 48 hours after taking over Twitter, Business mogul, Elon Musk is set to be put to the test, as celebrity barman, Cubana Chief priest, claims that him and some other billionaires from the Eastern part of Nigeria, are preparing a bid to buy Twitter from the world's richest man. "We are making progress on submitting our offer to acquire Twitter from Elon Musk, with $70B. Billionaires from the East comprising myself, Obi and E-Money and the rest, we are coming.." Cubana Chief priest tweeted. Early this year, business magnate Elon Musk proposed to buy out Twitter, Inc., for…
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Apr
28
2022
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Thousands storm APC Secretariat as Yahaya Bello picks nomination forms

Thousands storm APC Secretariat as Yahaya Bello picks nomination forms

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Leading Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday, picked up his Expression of Interest and Nomination Form to contest for the 2023 presidential election. Bello, who was the first to pay the N100 required for the forms, was received by a mammoth crowd of party faithfuls and support groups from across the country, who have been urging him to run for President. Addressing the mammoth crowd that had come to welcome him, Bello said, “Right now, what we have ahead of us is a task of canvassing and consulting all party faithfuls, leaders, delegates and…
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Apr
28
2022
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Train attack: Terrorists release kidnapped victim’s newborn baby picture

Train attack: Terrorists release kidnapped victim’s newborn baby picture

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The terrorists that kidnapped passengers of the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna bound train have released the picture of the newly born girl delivered by one of the pregnant women taken hostage. The mother of the baby was said to be eight-month pregnant before she and 62 others were abducted by the terrorists on the Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28, 2022. Of the 63 abducted passengers of the ill-fated train who are still in captivity, only the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Hassan, regained his freedom after he was alleged to have paid N100m ransom. Meanwhile, almost one month after…
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Apr
28
2022
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2023: Nigeria’s hope for total turnaround lies with PDP return to power – Kalu 

2023: Nigeria’s hope for total turnaround lies with PDP return to power – Kalu 

Metro, Politics, , , , , , ,
Chief Emeka Charles Kalu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the National Coordinator, Peoples Democratic Party Coalition (PDPCO) as well as Director-General, Global Initiative for Good Governance (GIGG). Dr Kalu, former governorship candidate in Abia State, in this interview with OHAFIA-TV News, spoke on the consultations going on among the party’s presidential aspirants, why the party should zone presidential position to South East, even as he expressed optimism that Nigeria would be better if PDP returns to power. He also spoke on other issues. Excerpt How do you see the large number of presidential aspirants that have emerged…
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Apr
27
2022
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NDLEA to investigate 6 Houses, Plaza with 100 Shops belonging to Abba Kyari

NDLEA to investigate 6 Houses, Plaza with 100 Shops belonging to Abba Kyari

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday marked six residential houses and one plaza belonging to the embattled former Intelligence Response Team leader, Abba Kyari, in Maiduguri as being under investigation. The two-storey shopping plaza, Assurance Plaza, located along the Giwa Barracks Road in Maiduguri, has about 100 stores. Six other residential houses within the Maiduguri New Government Residential Area allegedly belonging to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police had also been marked NDLEA. This is coming barely 48 hours after a suspected drug dealer linked to the N3 billion worth of tramadol intercepted by the then Kyari-led…
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Apr
27
2022
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Presidency: Keep off Southeast, you denied being Igbo man – IPOB warns Wike

Presidency: Keep off Southeast, you denied being Igbo man – IPOB warns Wike

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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday warned Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Presidential aspirant to steer clear of the Southeast. IPOB said Wike denied having any links with the Southeast in the past, hence should keep off the region as he tries to canvas for votes. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, issued the warning while condemning Wike’s recent visit to the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe. Recalling the killings in Obigbo, Rivers State, IPOB vowed to go all out against anybody who hosts Wike in the Southeast. In a statement, Powerful said the Peoples…
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Apr
27
2022
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I Will Give My All To Birth And Berth The Nigeria Of Our Dreams. -GYB.

I Will Give My All To Birth And Berth The Nigeria Of Our Dreams. -GYB.

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There has been a massive hoopla in the public space about the 100million fixed by our great Party the All Progressive Congress APC as cost for the Presidential Nomination Form. Typical of everything Nigerian the many discussants and ideologues have left unattended the reason the Party put such a huge amount as the cost for Presidential normination form. But does the Party not have the right to prune down the number of contestants/Aspirants? Does the Party not have the right to manage what would become a tortuous Presidential Primaries by reducing the number of Aspirants the way it deems best?…
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Apr
27
2022
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ASUU Strike Is An Injury To Nigeria’s Young Population, Says Ibe Okwara Osonwa

ASUU Strike Is An Injury To Nigeria’s Young Population, Says Ibe Okwara Osonwa

Abia North, Abia State, Education, Politics, , , , ,
A frontline House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Ibe Okwara Osonwa has called for meaningful dialogue between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis in the Nigerian University system. Osonwa stated this on Wednesday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, noting that the current strike by ASUU was affecting the youth population negatively. Osonwa, while describing himself as a youth said, "This will forestall Idle students from being easily recruited by terrorists, kidnappers, bandits, cultists and other criminal gangs." Osonwa also advised government to address the spate…
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Apr
26
2022
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Umuahia Central Constituency: Afaraukwu Youths Insist power must cede to them in 2023

Umuahia Central Constituency: Afaraukwu Youths Insist power must cede to them in 2023

Abia State, Politics, , , , ,
In the build-up to the political contest for the Abia State House of Assembly representation for Umuahia Central State Constituency in 2023, the Youths of Afaraukwu Ibeku Community made up of 3 autonomous communities (Okwulaga, Enyiukwu & Isiama) have insisted that power must be ceded to Afaraukwu in tandem with the existing power-sharing arrangement in the constituency. This call was contained in a communique issued by youths of Afaraukwu Community and made available to OHAFIA TV News, after a well-constituted emergency meeting of the leadership of the respective autonomous communities over the weekend. Among other contentious issues, the youths maintained…
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