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Jul

06

2023

Sit-At-Home: FG unperturbed as chaos in the South-East worsens

Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsBola Ahmed Tinubu, Mohammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, Politics

The struggles, anxieties, and despair of Southeast residents and Ndigbo are far from ending, if the Nigerian government's present stance toward the call for Nnamdi Kanu's release, the IPOB's founder and leader, is anything to go by. This is due to the administration, which is led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, appearing to have taken a passive and unresponsive attitude in the face of persistent calls for Kanu's release and violent protests in the Southeast. Kanu has been held as a prisoner of conscience since June 2021. After his amazing rendition from Kenya, Kanu was imprisoned. After that, he was placed…

Jul

06

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Abia to join the TSA in September – Otti

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Business, Economy, Lifestyle, PoliticsAbia State, Alex Otti, Business, Comr Amos Kalu, Economy, Lifestyle, Nigeria, Opinion

By Comr Amos Kalu By September of this year, according to Abia State Governor Alex Otti, his Abia state would switch to a treasury single account. The information was released in a statement made on Thursday using his verified Twitter account. Otti noted that the effort will increase openness and efficiency and that it will consolidate all government payments and revenue. Dr Alex Ihuoma Otti - Executive Governor of Abia State Otti urged state stakeholders to accept the change because "it is in the best interest of Abia and its people," adding that it will reduce fraud, streamline tax payments,…

Jul

04

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Court accepts Tinubu’s transcripts from Chicago University, his US visa as exhibits.

Politics2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu officially began his defense in a petition filed against his election by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, on Tuesday evening in Abuja. The court admitted the educational records from Chicago State University as exhibits. The admittance letter that the renowned university sent to Tinubu was one of the academic records submitted to prove his attendance at and graduation from the American University. President Tinubu also presented his US visa credentials, which showed that he had multiple unrestricted trips to the USA between 2011 and 2021, through his lead attorney, Chief…

Jul

01

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Abia ADP Governorship Candidate Jonas Returns to APC: His Decision Revealed

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, PoliticsChibuike Jonas, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

The Governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, in the recent governorship election in Abia State, Mazi Jonas Chibuike, has made known his express decision to return to All Progress Congress from ADP as the best decision at this point in time. In a press statement he signed and made available to OHAFIATV News on Saturday 1st July, after some serious meetings with stakeholders in Abuja, the former Arochukwu Local Government Chairman said that it is imperative that a lot of things need to be put right for Abia State and Nigeria to move forward and all hands must…

Jul

01

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Communities in Imo complain about abandoned roads, economic difficulties

Metro, NewsImo State, Metro, Nigeria

The deteriorating condition of their roads has prompted residents of Obibiezena, Naze, and Agbala communities in Imo State's Owerri North Local Government Area to appeal to the state and federal governments for assistance. They lament the condition of the roads has halted the socioeconomic development of the region. The community members who spoke with OHAFIATV News claimed that the only sin they committed was to give the federal government unfettered use of their ancestral lands to build and create the Anambra, Imo River Basin Development Authority, or AIRBDA. "The roads which connect the federal establishment are death traps, and we…