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Mar

09

2024

EEDC Boycotts Reps’ Summon To Public Hearing As Hon Okwara Tackles 5 Years Of Total Blackout.

Abia State, Business, Column, Economy, Metro, News, Ohafia, Opinion, PoliticsAbia State, EEDC, Ibe Okwara Osonwa, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Politics

By Odo Ijere .. KUDOS AS HONORABLE IBE OKWARA OSONWA BEGINS TO TACKLE THE EEDC CANKERWORM. Finally, the people of Ohafia Udumaeze, Abiriba, Mkporo, Abam Onyerubi, and environs breathed some fresh air as our rising star and one of the biggest catch of today's 10th National Assembly, the people's representative, Honorable Ibe Okwara Osonwa begins to drag, grill, disembowel and join issues with the atrocious, mendacious and incompetent Eastern Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC owned by one of Nigeria's untouchable rabid capitalists, Chief Emeka Offor of Chrome Oil. Chief Emeka Offor's EEDC are known unrepentant outlaws since taking over the distribution…

Mar

08

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

ECK Foundation Celebrates Womenfolk On International Women’s Day.

Amos Oge Kalu, Column, Lifestyle, NewsEmeka Kalu, Opinion

The International Women's Day is March 8, the day women are celebrated all over the world for their immense roles in making the world a better place for humanity through love, care, and endless sacrifice they have continued to offer. On this auspicious day of celebrating womanhood, the President and CEO of Emeka Charles Kalu Foundation (ECK Foundation) , Chief Dr. Emeka C. Kalu has buttressed the need to make more room for women's participation in all spheres of human existence, especially in politics and development which are the bedrock of any progressive society. "Consider a future where all genders…

Mar

07

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Reasons Why Ndigbo Didn’t Join Hardship Protests – Ohanaeze Ndigbo Reveals

Column, Economy, Lifestyle, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsBiafra, Dave Umahi, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Politics

... "Tragic Pasts and Umahi's Impact on Southeast Infrastructure" In a time of deep reflection amidst current economic problems, the firm decision of Ndigbo not to join the hardship protests against President Tinubu in the Southeast is based on a moving history of the hardships the people of the region have faced since the start of the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 until 2023. In this terrible time, 670 Igbo people died in protests while the Buhari government was in power. This created a deep-seated fear that state security forces would kill protesters during demonstrations. In this…

Mar

04

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Open Letter To Mben Politicians On Realities Of 2027 Politics – ANYA

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Column, News, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics, Sponsored2027, Abia North Youth Agenda - ANYA, Abia State, Next Level, Opinion, Politics, Udoeze Kalu

I have observed with keen interest and surprise the way politics is managed within our political sphere as a people. Today, I would like to dwell on the attitude of the average Ohafia politician who has continued to see elective position in Abia State as his birthright or a package that should be handed to him on a platter of gold, but the reality is, no matter which prism you view it from, elective position is to be contested, not given. My point here is not to say that Ohafia people do not deserve the lofty positions as governors, senators,…

Feb

27

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

On The Flip Side Of The Geometric Miracle Of 24/7 Light In Aba

Abia State, Business, Column, Economy, Metro, News, OpinionAbia State, Business, Economy, Odo Ijere

By Odo Ijere The commissioning yesterday of the Aba Independent Power Plant project designed and built by Professor Barthlomew Nnaji's Geometric Power Ltd over a 20 years period was indeed a shining armor spotted in a thick cloud. It started as a developing story that was too difficult to imagine to be true. A fairy tale sort of stuff of the Cinderella fame. But turning out to be true that at last, something good came out of the tribe of Benjamin. Thus, Aba, the Enyimba City, the pearl of the Eastern States, the elephant of the Igbo miracle, the engine…