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Dec

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2022

Abia 2023: APP Guber Candidate Wraps Up Ward-Round Tour In Grand Style, Optimistic Of Victory

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Mascot Uzor Kalu, Nigeria, Politics

The ward-round tour of the Abia state Action Peoples Party (APP) governorship candidate, Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, came to a glamorous end in Isuikwuato yesterday, marking an end to the first phase of his unprecedented grassroots campaign and political mobilization, MUK TV can report. Chief Kalu, who traversed the nooks and crannies of Abia state for the past four months, in the course of the tour, delivered his party's manifesto and ideologies to the people, made over 300 stops, and visited over 200 ABSIEC wards and communities. At Isuikwuato yesterday, the APP governorship candidate, along with his party's candidates for…

Dec

17

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Only Abia Electorates Can Reclaim State Through Their PVC – Ukpai Iro Ukpai

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Comr Amos Kalu, Next Level, Nigeria, NNPP, Politics, Ukpai Iro Ukpai

The New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP Candidate, Dr. Ukpai Iro Ukoai, has called on Abia electorates to take advantage of the ongoing Personal Voters' Card collection from INEC to arm themselves for the civic responsibility of choosing leaders who have the capacity and the requisite experience to change the condition of the state through qualitative and people oriented leadership. He made this call while addressing members of Dr Ukpai Iro Campaign Organization, DUCO at their enlarged strategic meeting on Saturday. "This is what we all are expected to do in all our local government areas for our Governorship and other…

Dec

17

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

IPOB vows to expose Simon Ekpa over sit-at-home, says he’s not their member.

Metro, News, OpinionBiafra, Emma Powerful, Freedom, IPOB, Metro, Nigeria, Simon Ekpa

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed to expose the secrets of a self-acclaimed disciple of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa. IPOB made the remark while stressing that the Finland-based Ekpa was not its member. The Kanu-led group denied Ekpa against the backdrop of the five-day sit-at-home he declared across the South-East. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, said the sit-at-home order declared by Ekpa had exposed him as an enemy of the group. A statement by Powerful said the order was aimed at destroying lives and properties in the South-East. “IPOB will stop at nothing from exposing…

Dec

17

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ohafia Youths pledge support for Ibe Okwara, describe him as most credible for Aro/Ohafia.

Abia State, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Ibe Okwara Osonwa, Labour Party, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics

Youths of Amaekpu Ohafia on Thursday evening drummed support for Labour Party candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in 2023 general election, Chief Ibe Okwara Osonwa. The youths while declaring their support for him insisted that Osonwa is the most credible of the aspirants, noting that the constituency won't vote for incompetent people in 2023. Our correspondent reports that the youths endorsed Osonwa when he met them alongside the Labour Party Deputy Governorship of Abia State, Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu. The Labour Party candidates said they were meeting with the youths to sell their manifestos, programs and policies to them. According to…

Dec

16

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Bandits kill 120-year-old woman, 5 others in Sokoto

Lifestyle, MetroBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, RIP, Security

Gunmen suspected to be bandits attacked Raka village of Tangaza Local Government Area in Sokoto State and burnt down many houses and food items before they made away with an undisclosed number of domestic animals. A 120-year-old woman and five other community members were also killed by the marauders, Daily Post reports. When contacted on phone, the district head of the area, Alhaji Sa’idu Wakili confirmed the attack, saying that although no one was kidnapped, the bandits burnt down two-thirds of the houses and food items and also rustled cattle. He urged the federal and state governments to intensify more…