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Nov
30
2025
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By Abia ThinkTank
History, Facts & Truth: A Response To “A Deliberate Waste Of Time – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

History, Facts & Truth: A Response To “A Deliberate Waste Of Time – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics
HISTORY, FACTS & TRUTH: A RESPONSE TO “A DELIBERATE WASTE OF TIME” AProf. Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke Your essay is emotional, poetic, and sincere—but it collapses under the weight of historical evidence, empirical data, and constitutional truth. Nigeria’s democratic evolution, including Abia State’s current governance dynamics, tells a far deeper story than the defeatist narrative you have built. Let us examine the issues—with history as guide and facts as compass. Good Governance Is Never a Waste—History Proves It You say “fighting for good governance in Abia is a waste of time.”That is not only false; it contradicts every democratic success story…
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Nov
30
2025
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Facts, History And The Politics Of Falsehood: A Response To The Alleged Demolition Narrative- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Facts, History And The Politics Of Falsehood: A Response To The Alleged Demolition Narrative- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics
FACTS, HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF FALSEHOOD: A Response to the Alleged Demolition Narrative The shock is not that people are discussing the Abia Hotels situation; the real shock is the eagerness with which some attempt to drive a wedge between Governor Alex Otti and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as though there is some political profit in manufacturing hostility where none exists. The story published by The News Gazette Online on November 30, 2025 — “Abia State Government Demolishes Hotel Over Hosting of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda Event” — is already being circulated with the intention of framing the governor…
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Nov
30
2025
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Rufai Oseni Reveals Monthly Salaries Of Nigerian Ambassadors

Rufai Oseni Reveals Monthly Salaries Of Nigerian Ambassadors

News Flash, Politics, Presidency
Rufai Oseni Reveals Monthly Salaries Of Nigerian Ambassadors A popular TV personality, Rufai Oseni, has revealed the monthly salaries of Nigerian ambassadors. This is following the list of Ambassadorial nominees forwarded to the national assembly by President Bola Tinubu on Saturday. Tinubu forwarded the names of 32 additional ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, following the recent submission of an initial three nominees. The list included former Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, Reno Omokri, former Enugu Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, among others. Rufai explained that the salary of a Nigerian ambassador, as a senior Foreign Service Officer…
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Nov
30
2025
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Zamfara Governor Allegedly Releases 69 Convicted Bandits Under ‘Religious Amnesty’

Zamfara Governor Allegedly Releases 69 Convicted Bandits Under ‘Religious Amnesty’

Crime, News Flash, Politics, Religion
Zamfara Governor Allegedly Releases 69 Convicted Bandits Under ‘Religious Amnesty’ The Human Rights Watchdog in Africa, HRWA, has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in Zamfara State following reports that hundreds of inmates convicted for banditry-related offences were recently released from the Gusau Correctional Centre. The group alleged that Governor Dauda Lawal authorised the release of 69 convicted bandits in September through what it described as a “secret state pardon,” reportedly processed through the Zamfara State Zakat and Endowment Board under a programme tagged “Religious Amnesty.” In a statement on Friday, HRWA Executive Director, Samson…
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Nov
30
2025
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Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s Ambassadorial Nomination: A Step Too Soon, Too Close, And Too Damaging- By Mohammed K Santuraki FCIoD, FNIM

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s Ambassadorial Nomination: A Step Too Soon, Too Close, And Too Damaging- By Mohammed K Santuraki FCIoD, FNIM

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s Ambassadorial Nomination: A Step Too Soon, Too Close, and Too Damaging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate past Chairman of INEC, for an ambassadorial position—barely two years after he supervised the very election that brought this administration to power. Nigeria’s democracy is already fragile. Perception matters just as much as process. Even where no explicit “cool-off” period is stipulated in law, some roles carry a clear moral obligation. The head of an electoral umpire sits at the top of that list. This nomination may be legal, but it is profoundly wrong. Why…
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Nov
30
2025
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“President Tinubu, If Your Proxy War Against Ndigbo Requires Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Death, Then Kill Him Openly And Return His Body To Us” – By Okey Anyanwu

“President Tinubu, If Your Proxy War Against Ndigbo Requires Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Death, Then Kill Him Openly And Return His Body To Us” – By Okey Anyanwu

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Human Rights, Politics
PRESIDENT TINUBU, IF YOUR PROXY WAR AGAINST NDIGBO REQUIRES MAZI NNAMDI KANU’S DEATH, THEN KILL HIM OPENLY AND RETURN HIS BODY TO US Okey Anyanwu What is unfolding under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s watch is not governance. It is not justice. It is not even prosecution. It is a slow, choreographed persecution. It is a continuation of a long and ugly history of hostility toward Ndi Igbo, masked behind the robes of a judiciary that has become the executive’s loudest whisper and its most obedient dagger. Watching the witch-hunt, the institutional bullying, and the judicial suppuration directed at Mazi Nnamdi…
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Nov
29
2025
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How To Critique A Constituted Government: An Exciting Game – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

How To Critique A Constituted Government: An Exciting Game – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Good Governance, Politics
HOW TO CRITIQUE A CONSTITUTED GOVERNMENT: AN EXCITING GAME! AProf. Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke The Philosophy Behind Government Critique Critiquing a constituted government is not rebellion; it is the highest expression of democratic maturity. No government—whether in Abia State, Nigeria, South Africa, the United States, or the United Kingdom—is above criticism. Democracies collapse the moment citizens stop asking questions. For more than two decades in the classroom, I taught that criticism rests on three pillars: intent, method, and moral discipline. The philosophical heart of criticism asks: Why am I doing this? What truth do I seek? Am I correcting or condemning?…
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Nov
29
2025
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Mascot, Governance Is Serious Business; Not A Playground For Convenient Amnesia- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Mascot, Governance Is Serious Business; Not A Playground For Convenient Amnesia- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics
Mascot, Governance Is Serious Business — Not a Playground for Convenient Amnesia Mascot Uzor Kalu’s latest outburst (“fantasy spending”, “fictional figures”, “economic roadmap without foundation”) is less an economic argument and more a revealing confession of how little he understands about modern public finance, state revenue modelling, medium-term expenditure frameworks, and the fiscal reforms currently reshaping Abia under Governor Alex Otti OFR. Let us take Mascot line by line, fact by fact, and teach him—politely but decisively—that governance is not guesswork, not noise-making, and certainly not nostalgia for the years when his family treated Abia’s treasury like personal estate. “Abia…
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Nov
25
2025
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Abia: WhenThe Center Struggled, But Things Did Not Fall Apart – Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia: WhenThe Center Struggled, But Things Did Not Fall Apart – Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Politics
ABIA: WHEN THE CENTER STRUGGLED, BUT THINGS DID NOT FALL APART In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the tragedy of Umuofia was never that the people lacked strength. It was that the old order refused to listen, even as new winds gathered at the horizon. The real danger was not the arrival of the white man but the rigidity of a leadership that mistook stubbornness for wisdom. When the center failed to adapt, “the machete struck the air.” Abia today stands at a similar crossroads — a place where old suspicions wrestle with new realities, where citizens, long betrayed by decades…
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Nov
25
2025
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UK Rejects Nigeria’s Request To Transfer Ekweremadu

UK Rejects Nigeria’s Request To Transfer Ekweremadu

Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Politics
UK Rejects Nigeria’s Request To Transfer Ekweremadu The British Government has turned down a request by Nigeria to deport former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is serving a prison term in the United Kingdom for organ trafficking, The Guardian UK reports on Monday. Ekweremadu, 63, was jailed for nine years and eight months in 2023 after a UK court found him, his wife, Beatrice, and a medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, guilty of conspiring to exploit a young Nigerian man for his kidney. The kidney was intended for their daughter, Sonia, in a private London hospital. According to The Guardian,…
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