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Oct

09

2022

Arochukwu: Dr. Samuel urges supporters to double efforts, commitment

Abia State, Lifestyle, Metro, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

Arochukwu: Good morning all and a very beautiful Sunday to you all. I want to thank and appreciate God for making it possible for my name to appear on INEC’s final list as an Aspirant for the Arochukwu Constituency of Abia State House of Assembly. I also want to thank all my teeming fans and followers and supporters. I want to appreciate those who has come inbox to congratulate me. I want to thank those who appreciate me via SMS and Whatsapp. Still, I will tell you that the journey has not stopped. In fact, we have just started. But…

Oct

08

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

IPOB says it has no plans to disrupt election in Igboland

Metro, News, Opinion, Politics2023, Biafra, Freedom, IPOB, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it has no plan to disrupt the election in Igboland in 2023. The media and publicity secretary of the group, Emma Powerful, in a press statement, said there is no truth in any information circulating on alleged plans to disrupt the election in 2023 in Igboland. The group rather accused the federal government of masterminding insecurity in the South East, with the hope of causing fear and accusing IPOB of their deeds. A recent video of a breakaway member of IPOB, Mr. Simon Ekpa recently surfaced on the internet, where he…

Oct

08

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

‘I am Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai’ – Do you know Dr Ukpai Iro Ukpai? Meet Him.

Abia State, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Ukpai Iro Ukpai

I have volunteered myself for the service of HUMANITY and to salvage my State - Abia from the shackles of bad leadership, disjointed governance system and distorted political cum administrative brouhaha. I have been trying to generate answers that I will give to my children and generations yet unborn at the end of time, when they will ask me: Dad, Grand Dad, where were you when our God's Own State was being governed by career politicians without compass and with defective bearing, to the extent that Abia State had been consigned to the gabbage heap of forgotten states? In order…

Oct

08

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

PDP ex-National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor is dead

Abia State, PoliticsAbia State, Metro, Nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics, RIP, Vincent Ogbulafor

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vincent Ogbulafor has passed on. Ogbulafor died on Thursday in Canada at the age of 73 years. Confirming his death, a family member who wished to be anonymous said Ogbulafor died of an undisclosed illness. The deceased was the PDP’s first National Secretary. He hails from Olokoro in Umuahia South Local Government of Abia State. Ogbulafor, who was born on May 24, 1949, was the first PDP’s National Secretary before he later became the party’s National Chairman. The deceased was, however, forced to resign his position after he fell out with…

Oct

08

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Tompolo accuses Nigerian Army, Navy of protecting oil thieves

Economy, Metro, News, PoliticsCrime, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, has accused the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Navy of shielding oil thieves. The Nigeria Delta activist made the incriminating remark against the military in an interview with Channels TV. The President Muhammadu Buhari administration recently awarded Tompolo a pipeline security contract. The deal, which sparked controversy, is to protect oil lines in the six South-South states and is reportedly worth N50billion per year. Tompolo, former commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), has vowed to stop oil theft in the region. “A lot of people are running helter-skelter because they know that…