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Apr

2022

Thousands storm APC Secretariat as Yahaya Bello picks nomination forms

Politics2023, All Progressives Congress, Football, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Yahaya Bello

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…

Apr

2022

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

Metro, PoliticsChief Dr. Emeka Kalu, Comr Amos Kalu, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, 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…

Apr

2022

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

Metro, Politics2023, Biafra, IPOB, Next Level, Nigeria, Nyesom Wike, Opinion, Politics

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…

Apr

2022

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

Politics2023, All Progressives Congress, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Yahaya Bello

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?…

Apr

2022

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

Abia North, Abia State, Education, PoliticsAbia State, Education, Ibe Okwara, Nigeria, Opinion, 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…

Apr

2022

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

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Umuahia State Constituency

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…

Apr

2022

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Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

Abia North, Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Comr Amos Kalu, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics, Rev. Dan Imo

By Dave Uma Are you aware that there are people who never believed or even imagined that certain things that had gone wrong in the past could still be changed for the better? Especially due to the conditional state of mind of an average electorate as a result of institutionalised maladministration that has forced the people to accept defeat at all times, with no ray of hope for the future full of uncertainties. But in reality, this is a very wrong impression our people have had about the way we play politics in our constituency and beyond, mostly because there…

Apr

2022

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Aro/Ohafia Fed. Constituency: Our Youths Need Investments And Not Handouts – Ibe Okwara

Abia North, Abia State, PoliticsAbia State, Ibe Okwara, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics

Ibe Okwara Osonwa has called on government at all levels to make its youths drivers of the economy through investments in the young people. He said that making youths the drivers of the economy will help eliminate crimes and other security challenges facing the nation. He made the remarks in an interview with journalists at the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja Osonwa who is a House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency of Abia State under the All Progressives Congress, APC, said politicians must stop giving out handouts and peanuts to the youths but…

Apr

2022

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2023: Anyone supporting Amaechi, Wike is backing Igbo Presidency – Ohanaeze

Metro, Politics2023, Igbo President, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Opinion, Politics

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said it would not be out of place for either Rotimi Amaechi or Nyesom Wike to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The Igbo group spoke through a statement made available to DAILY POST by its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro. He said the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide had broadened its search for a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction beyond the scope of the South-East zone to include “our own in the South-South Nigeria.” According to him, “it became necessary for the Igbo to jettison artificial separation through boundary adjustment by the Military and then…

Apr

2022

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ARO 2023: Feature an Attacker as a Defender and Loose the Match.

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Politics, Prince Ike Okorafor

Parading and featuring ineligible candidates for political offices stiffles societal development. It is as same as featuring a defender as an attacker in soccer. It's a coaching and technical error and breeds no positive result. Each time the unfits , asinine and uneligible candidates who emerged by human error and ofcourse who donot understand the concept of governance unfortunately get holds of power, abuse becomes inevitable. The end products of the error described are embezzlement, mismanagement, poor bargaining, misrepresentation, attracting and abandoning of consistency projects, swimming in white elephant projects to steal money, debasement of clear cut objectives, O-Yes member…