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Aug

14

2018

How I brought about 100 people back to life – Ulu, a US-based Nigerian doctor

Abia State, Health, SponsoredAbia State, Dr. Anuma Kalu, Health, Nigeria, Opinion, Personality, Reviews

By Chioma Obinna Anuma Kalu Ulu, a geriatrics doctor practicing in Central Islip, New York, obtained his first degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka. In this interview, Ulu, who was in Nigeria for his annual medical mission, spoke on the challenges in the Nigerian medical cycle. Medical care in Nigeria and abroad There is really no basis for comparison. It is like night and day. You have to experience the two to appreciate the profundity of the abject divergence. If I begin to expound the discrepancies, commonplace medical practices in America may sound utopian, outlandish, and even quixotic to…

May

19

2018

By Amos Oge Kalu

Senator MAO acknowledges Nkole’s laudable achievements

Abia State, Ohafia, PoliticsAbia State, Nigeria, Ohafia, Personality, Politics, Rt. Hon. Uko Nkole

Addressing the Abia State PDP Excos led by Chief Johnson Onuigbo, his entourage and other PDP faithfuls in Arochukwu LGA during the one day visit/project tour embarked by the Abia PDP leaders, Hon. Uko Nkole in his submission said he had earlier influenced the return to site of the contractor handling the Arochukwu-Ohafia-Abiriba federal road, Messers Beks Kimse Construction Ltd who are on site. Equally, he attracted the award of contract for the reconstruction of Arochukwu/Ohafia bridge, (Omenuko Bridge) Igwu River which is awarded by the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Power to Messers HI-MANSION ALLIED SERVICES LTD at…

Jul

27

2017

By Amos Oge Kalu

Comr Amos Kalu to fellow Youths: Only a stupid child will make a useless father

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, PoliticsAbia State, Comr Amos Kalu, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

I, Comr Amos Kalu, decided to write this piece as advice to my fellow youths in Nigeria and of Igbo extract in particular. I have watched with trepidation at the helplessness of our youths in the affairs of our nation and I wonder if we are actually ready to become the leaders of today or are we still reminiscing on the mantra of “leaders of tomorrow” to which our collective future had so blatantly been sold to, killed, buried and mourned. We have in the past been too prone to tyranny of mediocrity and bumbling arrogance of ignorance. Our efforts…

Sep

02

2016

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ohafia Community History, Culture and Heritage

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, OhafiaAbia State, Metro, Ohafia

The Ohafia are an Igbo speaking people who live in a region of about 100 square miles located west of the Cross River in Southeastern Nigeria. On these rolling hills twenty-six villages are found, the smallest are comprised of only a few households. The largest is the village of Akanu, the population of which was estimated by Phillip Nsugbe (1974:8) in the mid-sixties to be around 12,000. The ancestral capital of Ohafia is the centrally located village of Elu. The old part of Elu centers on the site where Udumeze, the founder, first built his fire. This is where the shrine of…