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May

2024

Abiacentric News Magazine Ready To Be Unveiled This Morning @ Roots Restaurant

Abia State, Business, Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash

ATTENTION ! ATTENTION ! ABIACENTRIC NEWS MAGAZINE is just few hours to its launch. It is exotic, informative, educative, prosaic and will enrich our reading culture. Invited guests include : All members of Abia Infrastructure Mandate. Members of Abia North Project. Members of Arohafia Roundtable. Members of NUJ, Abia State Chapter. Media practitioners and outlets in and around Umuahia. Members of organized private sector and civil society groups in and around Umuahia. Come and join us at ROOTS RESTAURANT Umuahia on Wednesday, 29th of May by 10am. prompt. Come one, come all. Signed.Public Presentation Committee.

May

2024

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Cross River Assembly Reinstates Impeached Speaker

Columns/Opinions/Letters, House Of Assembly, News Flash, South South

Cross River Assembly Reinstates Impeached Speaker The Cross River House of Assembly has reinstated its speaker, Elvert Anyambem, who was recently impeached on grounds of high-handedness and financial impropriety. During the assembly’s sitting on Tuesday, Cyril Omini, representing the Yakurr I constituency, moved a motion passing a vote of confidence in the speaker, which Kingsley Ntui, representing the Etung constituency, supported. Seventeen of the 25 assembly members signed the notice to impeach the speaker. The members alleged that the speaker indulged in arbitrary expenditures in contravention of Section 9(1) of the state’s Legislative Funds Management Law, 2021. On Monday, Governor…

May

2024

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‘Nigeria Not Working’ – Atiku Hits Tinubu On First Year Anniversary

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash, Politics

‘Nigeria Not Working’ – Atiku Knocks Tinubu On First Year Anniversary As President Bola Tinubu marks his first anniversary in office, a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has criticised the All Progressives Congress-led government saying Nigeria is not working and that “Tinubu is a cocktail of trial-and-error economic policies.” Atiku said this in a statement made available to PUNCH Online and titled: “Nigeria is not working: One year of Tinubu is a cocktail of trial-and-error economic policies,” on Tuesday. Atiku stated that on May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu raised the hopes of Nigerians with his pledge to “remodel our…

May

2024

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ABIACENTRIC NEWS MAGAZINE Just 24 Hours To Be Unveiled

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, People & Events

ATTENTION ! ATTENTION ! ABIACENTRIC NEWS MAGAZINE is just 48hrs to its launch. It is exotic, informative, educative, prosaic and will enrich our reading culture. Invited guests include : All members of Abia Infrastructure Mandate. Members of Abia North Project. Members of Arohafia Roundtable. Members of NUJ, Abia State Chapter. Media practitioners and outlets in and around Umuahia. Members of organized private sector and civil society groups in and around Umuahia. Come and join us at ROOTS RESTAURANT on Wednesday, 29th of May by 10am. prompt. Come one, come all. Signed.Public Presentation Committee.

May

2024

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‘It’s Will Of Allah’- Dethroned Emir Of Gaya Accepts Removal

Culture, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Kano, News Flash

(Kano Tussle): ‘It’s Will Of Allah’ – Dethroned Emir Of Gaya Accepts Removal The dethroned Emir of Gaya, Aliyu Abdulkadir, has described his dethronement as the “will of Allah.” Abdulkadir disclosed this in an interview with BBC Hausa on Sunday. Recall that Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano, dethroned the Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Karaye, Kano and Gaya, and reinstated Muhammad Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano on Friday. Sanusi was dethroned in 2020 after he fell out with Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of the state. While the Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Karaye, and Gaya have complied with the directive,…

May

2024

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Abiacentric News Magazine To Be Unveiled On Wednesday 29th – Dr. Engr. Odo Ijere(Publisher)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, News Flash

All things being equal, Abiacentric News Magazine will be unveiled on Wednesday the 29th of May, 2024. The magazine is being launched to fundamentally compliment the electronic and internet based social media handles processing our information today. Abiacentric will mostly be Abia State based information medium as the name portrays. It is another of our efforts in Abia Infrastructure Mandate to contribute to robust information dissemination in support of good governance in our state. This anniversary edition being unveiled on the 29th of May will focus on the trending news of the scorecard of Dr. Alex Otti's one year in…

May

2024

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Atiku Blasts FG Over Role In Kano Emirship Tussle

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Culture, News Flash

Atiku Blasts FG Over Role In Kano Emirship Tussle Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the Federal Government for its action in deploying security forces to Kano over battle of emirship between the 16th and 15th emirs – Muhammadu Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero – respectively. Atiku said the matter remains under the influence of the state since Governor Abba Yusuf enacted the repealed Kano State Emirate Council law which consequently reinstated the deposed Sanusi as the current emir. He said the action of the Federal Government contravenes the 1999 Constitution as Amended. Atiku, who made this known in…

May

2024

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Liborous Oshoma: When A Media Platform Becomes A Lying Tool – By Dodoh Okafor

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Abia State, Good Governance, News Flash

Liborous Oshoma: When a Media Platform Becomes a Lying Tool BY DODOH OKAFOR The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) apparatchiks in Abia State have found great excitement, and as some say, some sense of ecstasy, akin in some way to an orgasm, in the circulation of a media broadcast wherein Gov. Alex Otti was harshly criticised, called names and maligned with tissues of lies, half truths and regurgitated propaganda lines by a certain Liborous Oshoma, a self styled activist, known for running media errands here and there. Many informed Abians and objective observers who understand the antics of using the media…

May

2024

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Remi Tinubu Urges Young Girls To Dress Responsibly, Shun Nakedness

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash, People Reorientation

Tinubu Urges Young Girls To Dress Responsibly, Shun Nakedness First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged young girls to embrace modesty and reject revealing clothing, emphasizing that nakedness is not acceptable in Nigerian culture. She spoke in a video shared on X by Arise TV on Saturday. She emphasized the importance of confidence and self-awareness, urging young girls to be proud of who they are without compromising their values for the sake of fashion. She said: “The message here is, we have to salvage our children. We see the way they dress, they keep forgetting that in Nigeria, we are…

May

2024

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Nigeria Is No Longer Bleeding, Last 12 Months Fulfilling – President Tinubu

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, News Flash, Presidency

Nigeria Is No Longer Bleeding, Last 12 Months Fulfilling – Tinubu President Bola Tinubu on Friday said Nigeria is no longer bleeding as his administration has stopped the bleeding amidst some challenges. He said despite the presence of some challenges that are being addressed frontally, the 12 months of his administration has been fulfilling. The president also called for a more effective local government system that fostered community development and delivers the essentials of governance within a strengthened federal structure. Speaking when he received a delegation of the Yoruba Leaders of Thought at the State House on Friday, President Tinubu…