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Oct
09
2025
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By Abia ThinkTank
Allerged Certificate Forgery: Why I Resigned As Minister – Uche Nnaji Breaks Silence

Allerged Certificate Forgery: Why I Resigned As Minister – Uche Nnaji Breaks Silence

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Crime, News Flash, Personality
Alleged Certificate Forgery: Why I Resigned As Minister – Uche Nnaji Breaks Silence Uche Nnaji, former minister of innovation, science and technology, says his resignation from President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet is not an admission of guilt but a mark of respect for due process. Nnaji resigned on Monday following allegations of certificate forgery against him. An investigation by PREMIUM TIMES revealed Nnaji did not complete his university education and that both the bachelor’s degree and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate he presented to Tinubu, as well as to the offices of the secretary to the government of the federation…
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Oct
09
2025
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Nigeria Has Pulled Back From Economic Collapse – Emir Sanusi Hails CBN Reforms

Nigeria Has Pulled Back From Economic Collapse – Emir Sanusi Hails CBN Reforms

CBN/Commercial Banking, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy
Nigeria Has Pulled Back From Economic Collapse – Emir Sanusi Hails CBN Reforms Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Muhammadu Sanusi, has praised the current leadership of the apex bank for what he described as a “remarkable turnaround” in Nigeria’s monetary and economic stability. Speaking on recent economic developments, Sanusi said he had “nothing but positive words” for the CBN’s policies, noting that the institution had successfully stabilized the exchange rate and curbed the reckless monetary expansion that once threatened the economy. “We came from a period of very high instability due to loose monetary policy and uncontrolled…
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Oct
09
2025
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2027: Atiku, Obi, Jonathan Can’t Defeat Tinubu – Orji Kalu Declares

2027: Atiku, Obi, Jonathan Can’t Defeat Tinubu – Orji Kalu Declares

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Interviews, Politics, Presidency
2027: Atiku, Obi, Jonathan Can’t Defeat Tinubu  –  Orji Kalu Declares Former Abia State Governor and Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, is confident that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win re-election in 2027, insisting that no opposition figure, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, or Labour Party’s Peter Obi, can defeat him. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Kalu said Tinubu has performed creditably in steering Nigeria’s economy and governance, maintaining that his achievements and political strength would guarantee him victory in the next general elections. “None of these people parading can defeat President Tinubu,”…
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Oct
09
2025
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Toe The Path Of Honour And Resign Immediately – A Civil Society Group In Nigeria Challenge The Chief Justice Of Nigeria

Toe The Path Of Honour And Resign Immediately – A Civil Society Group In Nigeria Challenge The Chief Justice Of Nigeria

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Human Rights, Judiciary
The Dependable Patriots for Nation Building and Transformation Initiative, a Civil Society group in Nigeria has challenged the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Kekere-ekun to toe the path of honour and resign immediately. The group while commending the Honourable Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji for being honourable indeed; by resigning from office following allegations of certificate forgery, has called on Justice Kekere-ekun to resign immediately for sustaining endemic corruption in Nigeria's judiciary. Briefing news men in Abuja on Tuesday, the Secretary of the Civil Society Group, Malam Ali Abacha berated the Chief Justice of Nigeria for imposing…
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Oct
08
2025
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Otti’s Rising Abia And The Desperate Cries Of The Children Of Baal – By Ebere Uzoukwa, Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

Otti’s Rising Abia And The Desperate Cries Of The Children Of Baal – By Ebere Uzoukwa, Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Politics
Otti’s Rising Abia and the Desperate Cries of the Children of Baal By Ebere Uzoukwa, PhD In the Bible, the children of Baal were known for their stubbornness, deceit, and resistance to truth. They clung to false altars and fought bitterly against righteousness until divine judgment silenced them. That same spirit seems to have resurfaced in today’s Abia, embodied by those who spread lies, blackmail, and propaganda against Governor Alex Chioma Otti, OFR. Like their biblical counterparts, they rage not because of injustice, but because truth and light have displaced their long reign of darkness, deceit, and corruption. Their lamentations…
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Oct
08
2025
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Beyond The Lekki Illusion: Aba’s Real Manufacturing Might Humiliates Lagos’ Paper Economy – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Beyond The Lekki Illusion: Aba’s Real Manufacturing Might Humiliates Lagos’ Paper Economy – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Business, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy
Beyond the Lekki Illusion: Aba's Real Manufacturing Might Humiliates Lagos' Paper Economy The narrative of "Lagos Boiled by Igbo Economy" and the potential for Aba to rival China in West Africa is not merely entrepreneurial aspiration; it is a story underscored by official data and a telling political context. The failure of President Bola Tinubu to personally commission the new projects of monumental significance for the industrial revival of the South-East, on multiple scheduled occasions may speak volumes to ignorant minds, but stop and ponder for a second. This perceived snub, whether logistical or political, stands in stark contrast to…
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Oct
07
2025
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A Jurisprudential Anatomization Of Political Atavism – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

A Jurisprudential Anatomization Of Political Atavism – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance
A Jurisprudential Anatomization of Political Atavism The cacophony emanating from the purveyors of yesterday’s malaise, those erstwhile lords of our collective patrimony, constitutes a veritable symphony of intellectual bankruptcy. Their dissenting murmurs against the Otti administration, founded on the quicksand of spurious allegations regarding fiscal management, have been rendered not merely obsolete but judicially preposterous by the recent encomiums from the European Union and UNICEF. These global arbiters of probity have undertaken a forensic audit of Abia's budgeting ethos and returned a verdict of res ipsa loquitur—the thing speaks for itself. While the opposition engages in a pre-Socratic level of…
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Oct
07
2025
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Benjamin Kalu’s Obsession With Abia’s Allocation – By Ebere Uzoukwa, Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

Benjamin Kalu’s Obsession With Abia’s Allocation – By Ebere Uzoukwa, Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics
Benjamin Kalu’s Obsession with Abia’s Allocation By Ebere Uzoukwa, PhD Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and member representing Bende Federal Constituency, appears to have developed an unrelenting obsession with Abia State’s statutory allocations. His recent outburst, in which he falsely claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been “releasing N38 billion monthly to Abia State,” exposes a troubling mix of ignorance, political mischief, and deliberate distortion of facts. What makes Kalu’s fixation even more disappointing is that the figures he bandies about are not hidden; they are publicly available on the official website of the…
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Oct
06
2025
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2027: Dangote-Otti Presidential Ticket Will Rescue Nigeria – APC Chieftain

2027: Dangote-Otti Presidential Ticket Will Rescue Nigeria – APC Chieftain

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Politics, Presidency
2027: Dangote–Otti Presidential Ticket Will Rescue Nigeria – APC Chieftain A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governorship candidate in Kebbi State, Mallam Salihu Isa Nataro, has urged Nigerians to consider a potential presidential ticket pairing Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, with Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, as a pathway to restoring economic stability and driving industrial growth ahead of the 2027 elections. Speaking in Abuja on Sunday, Nataro said a Dangote–Otti ticket would provide the kind of economic leadership needed to tackle unemployment, reduce poverty, and promote nationwide industrialisation. According to him, both men…
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Oct
05
2025
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The Otti Ledger: Balancing Abia’s Political Books For A 2031 Reckoning – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

The Otti Ledger: Balancing Abia’s Political Books For A 2031 Reckoning – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Politics
The Otti Ledger: Balancing Abia's Political Books for a 2031 Reckoning A consideration of the political trajectory of Abia State towards the year 2031 necessitates a dispassionate analysis of its prevailing economic and political currents, viewed through a philosophical lens that transcends the immediate fray of partisan contention. The present administration of Dr. Alex Otti provides a critical fulcrum upon which this future will pivot, not merely for its policy directives but for the underlying philosophical shift it represents. To prognosticate the landscape of 2031 is to engage with the dialectic between entrenched political traditions and an incipient technocratic idealism.…
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