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Nov

2025

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…

Nov

2025

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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…

Nov

2025

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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,…

Nov

2025

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Notice Of Postponement Of Ikenna Ukwa Progressive Group Summit & Empowerment To The Youths, Widows And The Disabled

Abia North, Abia State, Philanthropy, Politics

NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF IKENNA UKWA PROGRESSIVE GROUP SUMMIT & EMPOWERMENT TO THE YOUTHS, WIDOWS AND THE DISABLED The Ikenna Ukwa Progressive Group Summit and Empowerment Programme to the youths, widows and the disabled in Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency has been postponed to Sunday, 7th December 2025. New Details: Date: Sunday, 7th December 2025 Venue: Ohafia Central School Playground, Elu Ohafia Time: 10am This change is due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to our invitees, vendors, and all participants. Signed: Hon Mba Ukaha ,Chairman, Planning Committee

Nov

2025

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2027: APC To ‘Loose’ All South Eastern States – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Politics, South East

2027: APC to ‘Loose’ All South Eastern States The 2027 elections will test many things in Nigeria, but one outcome is already becoming politically inevitable: the All Progressives Congress (APC) is on track to lose every elective seat in the South East — and the reason is singular, emotional, legal, historic, and moral: the handling of Nnamdi Kanu’s case. For four years, the APC-led Federal Government has carried the burden of a decision that continues to inflame sentiments across Igboland — the abduction, extraordinary rendition, and prolonged detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).…

Nov

2025

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Justice or Impunity: Save Nigeria Group USA Condemns Terror Killings, Presses FG to Act Now

Politics

‎ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESave Nigeria Group (SNG) USADate: December 20, 2025. Save Nigeria Group USA Condemns Escalating Terror Violence, Demands Immediate Suspension of NSA Nuhu Ribadu, Public Disclosure of Terror Sponsors, and Presidential Address to the Nation. The Save Nigeria Group (SNG) USA expresses grave outrage and deep alarm over Nigeria’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, marked by relentless terrorist attacks, mass kidnappings, targeted killings, and credible allegations of internal compromise within the nation’s security architecture.SNG USA is particularly appalled by disturbing reports from Kwara State indicating that a captured Fulani Islamist militant, with an Identification card confirming him as a…

Nov

2025

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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…

Nov

2025

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Rt. Hon Gabriel Saleh Hosts Ikenna Ukwa, Commends His Stewardship And Unification Of Aro/Ohafia APC

Abia State, National Assembly, News Flash, Politics

IKENNA UKWA PAYS COURTESY VISIT TO RT HON GABRIEL SALEH The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa today paid a courtesy visit to his friend and brother, RT Hon Gabriel Saleh in his office at the National Assembly complex, Abuja to strengthen inter-chamber ties and reinforce their friendship. RT Hon Gabriel Saleh, who is also the Chairman, House Committee on Culture commended Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa's stewardship and efforts in strengthening and unifying the APC in Arochukwu & Ohafia LGAs, and his philathropic gestures to his people, describing him as a loyal, reliable and…

Nov

2025

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Let Love Lead Us To Victory; Ikenna Ukwa Charges APC Ward And LGA Party Excos

Abia State, Abia North, Politics

FORGIVE EACH OTHER, LET'S UNITE AND ALLOW LOVE TO LEAD US, IKENNA UKWA CHARGES APC WARD AND LGA PARTY EXCOS The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa has charged the ward and Ohafia LGA party Executives to forgive each other, and allow love and peace to exist among them, as it's the panacea that will unite the party and position it for victory come 2027 general elections. Chief Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa gave the charge when he hosted all the ward and Ohafia LGA chairmen and secretaries in his country home , Amaekpu Ohafia…

Nov

2025

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Abia State APC Chairman,Ononogbu Convenes APC State Stakeholders Meeting

Abia State, News Flash, Politics

ABIA STATE APC CHAIRMAN, ONONOGBU CONVENES APC STATE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa today Saturday 15th November 2025 joined APC stakeholders and political gladiators in Abia State to the APC stakeholders meeting convened by the State party chairman, Chief Dr Kingsley Ononogbu at the party Secretariat, Umuahia, Abia State. Chief (Dr) Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa charged the State party executives and the stakeholders to remain united in love and peace, which is crucial for the progress of the party and position it for victory in all elective political positions come…