A civil society organisation, Forum for Accountability and Good Leadership has petitioned the National Judicial Council against a judge of the Imo State High Court, Justice B. C. Iheka and the State Chief Judge (CJ) […]
Osita Izunaso, the senator-elect for Imo West Senatorial District, on Tuesday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari and called for the zoning of the Senate Presidency to the South-east. Mr Izunaso, who is also in the […]
The outgoing Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Bede U. Eke, representing Aboh-Mbaise/Ngor-Okpala Federal Constituency, Imo State, will make his official declaration to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) today Saturday 22nd April, 2023. […]
Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, died on April 11, 2023, after a brief illness at the National Hospital, Abuja. He was aged 78. Born in Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area of […]
A mother and her two-year-old child were feared dead, yesterday, while several others got injured following an exchange of gunfire between some security operatives at Wetheral by Fire Service Junction, Owerri, capital of Imo State. […]
Undoubtedly, the emergence of brilliant, energetic and dynamic young men as governors in the South South States of Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Delta, following the 2019 governorship election is evidence of what God […]
Some people are calling for a decentralized police, but nobody is asking what I think are the right questions: What happened to the Nigeria Police Force? Why is it so weak and inefficient? How can […]
Following the crises bedeviling most of the state chapters of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southeast zone, the party leadership has set up channels to reconcile the warring factions ahead 2019 elections, reports Assistant […]
There are two black birds sitting in the East. One named APGA, one named APC! Permit my introduction this short essay with a parody of the popular ageless nursery rhyme. Indeed, the modus operandi of […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has signed a $10 million equity investment agreement with Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited for the construction of a 5,000 barrels per day modular refinery to […]
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a political party founded by the legendary Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. At the time of its formation, registration and approval in 2006, Dim Ojukwu, Ikemba Nnewi told Ndigbo […]
After much dithering, protests, drama and fisticuffs as members of the party in some states fought for supremacy, it is good that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) finally held its national convention at the […]
America has challenged the Federal Government to ensure that perpetrators of the recent killings in Plateau State are brought to justice. In what Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAM) described as […] America […]
I write this piece today in order to consolidate my conviction on my commitment to emancipate the Imo youths from the political quackmire of politico-economic slavery and servitude occasioned by the greedy nature of the […]
Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, says the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun, ought to land in prison. The governor said this about 24 hours after Oyegun inaugurated Hillary Eke as […]
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, yesterday took over as the secretary of the convention committee of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of its convention slated for the 23 of this month. The erstwhile scribe, Senator […]
APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun My worry is to get successor to continue my good work, says Okorocha, swears in new commissioners The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday […]
Tony Nwulu, a member of the 8th House of Representatives, who represents Oshodi/Isolo II federal constituency of Lagos State, is the sponsor of the #NotTooYoungToRun bill. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, he speaks about […]
The first civilian administration in Nigeria lasted from the 1st of October, 1960 to January 15th, 1966. This was period of Nigerian’s first five years of independence. The government and the destiny of the nation […]
There was pandemonium in Awaka, a suburb in Owerri, the Imo State capital after one of the naval officers on a stop-and-search operation on Owerri/Umuahia expressway allegedly shot dead a pedestrian. The tragedy, which happened […]
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha paid President Muhammadu Buhari a fresh visit on Thursday at Aso Rock villa, this time in company of former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole. The meeting, held behind closed doors, […]
When Celia Osakwe-Hibbert left the shores of Nigeria to the United Kingdom in 2008, all she cared about was to study and help her local community but the journey took a new twist 10 years […]
Phreddy the Walk on water crooner is back with a new single titled Prophesy . This tune is set to keep you on your feet as you begin to speak things that are not as […]
Nigerian govt assures two modular refineries to be ready in 2019 – The Federal Government on Wednesday announced that two modular refineries in the Niger Delta will commence operations in the coming year (2019). It […]
AS controversy continues to trail the ward, local government and state congresses of All Progressives Congress, APC, in many states of the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, had a closed-door meeting with Governor Rochas Okorocha […]
Okorocha, Oshiomhole meet Buhari on tussle in Imo • Court to hear suit on Enugu APC congress June 6 Restrains party from recognising Nwoye, others President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday refuted allegations that he interfered in […]
Two reasons the rancorous ward congresses of the All Peoples Congress (APC) are considered a political disaster for the country are: first, because the ward is the foundation, the origin, the closest to home, of […]
MANY of them are young, bold and brave. They are audacious and inventive, unlike some of their forerunners who were staid, laid back and conservative. Not for them the deep, reflective language of old, aimed […]
The Shell Petroleum Development Company Joint Venture (SPDC JV) has said it is committed to working with the Federal Government and the energy companies to increase gas supply to the domestic market while reducing flared […]
There has been much debate about the judgment delivered on April 30, 2018 by Honourable Justice (Prof.) C.A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in respect of the suit marked FHC/L/CS/1760/16 – Egor Local […]
At least five people were feared killed yesterday while the police arrested more than 500 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) in the […]
Benedict delivering the valedictorian speech at the commencement ceremony inside the expansive Commencement hall of the American University of Nigeria in Yola, the smile on the face of Benedict Egwuchukwu (Snr), an engineer from Imo […]
THE Minister for Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, last weekend inspected Federal Government’s on-going projects in the South-East geopolitical zone, starting from Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi to Anambra states. Arriving the Enugu border […]
Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has closed down indefinitely the newly established REACH FM radio station allegedly owned by Governor Rochas Okorocha for illegally operating without licence we has learnt.[…] Disclosing this to newsmen in Owerri, […]
…after all mispronounced and done, the IGP also partly has himself to blame. Well, maybe his consolation should be that, at least, there is now an epithet to define his reign as super cop. As […]
… nab MASSOB members for marking anniversary The police on Tuesday foiled an attempt by some pro-Biafran agitators to mark ‘Biafran Day’ with a parade in Enugu metropolis. The secessionists, who are members of the […]
The refusal of the police to redeploy the commander of the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad in Rivers State, Mr Akin Fakorede, despite objections raised by the state government and his indictment in a report of the […]
A lady is in pains both physically and emotionally after her husband dumped his wedding vow (‘for better for worse’, ‘in sickness and in health’) and abandoned her at the time she needs him most. […]
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has safeguarded 60,000 bpd of crude oil with 900 community jobs for pipelines surveillance in three clusters in the Land East Hub. The company said it is prepared […]
Okorocha can’t be re-admitted into APGA for betraying party—BoT member .Party denies getting N3bn from Imo gov for readmission O WERRI —DESPITE feelers that Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha may be dumping his party, All […]
TUESDAY WITH REUBEN ABATI Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations […]
A non-governmental organisation has demanded an investigation into the certificate scandal involving a Nigerian senator, Foster Ogola (PDP-Bayelsa West). In a petition to the Commissioner of Police in the Police Special Fraud Unit, Human and […]
ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES There is no longer the slightest doubt in anyone’s mind that a clique of oppressors, not just in Imo State, but from across Nigeria are ready to stake anything in order to […]
Following a codeine-propelled high drug addiction problem, the Federal Government in a swift reaction, banned the production and importation of codeine containing cough syrup. The syrup usually taken by millions of youths who mix it […]
Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha Party to gov: Your comments uncharitable Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has linked the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its congresses to a plot by […]
Atiku…a man to watch out for Bassey Inyang in Calabar Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that if elected president of Nigeria in 2019, he will run a lean government, a policy he […]
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has described the continued disregard and disdain for the National Assembly as a recipe for anarchy. Ekweremadu decried that despite that legislature is an […]
Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel is the national president of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE). In this interview with Michael Oche, he gave an insight into the ongoing struggle for local government autonomy and […]
ALL economic indices attest to a negative trend in the Nigerian economy since the advent of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Direct Foreign Investment decreased by 20%, the stock market dropped by 15%, the Gross Domestic […]
The immediate past governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, will today declare his ambition to run for the national chairmanship of All Progressives Congress, APC. The former governor is favoured to replace the outgoing […]
A poke-nosing Nigerian man who has assumed the position of a de facto brother of Chioma Rowland – the reigning girlfriend of superstar music star, Davido, has given her some strong words of advice. A […]
Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, has disclosed that the military will soon lunch an operation in Northern Borno and Yobe to enable residents return to their various communities. He said that that […]
As part of activities lined up for the 18th year of re-declaration of the New Biafra which took place in Aba, Abia state on May 22, 2,000, founder of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph […]
The All Progressives Congress, APC, said it has identified those who disrupted Saturday’s governorship primary election in Ekiti state, vowing to deal with them and the aspirants they are affiliated to, after deliberating on the […]
George Moghalu No ward congress, members insist National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) George Moghalu, has described the violence that trailed the stakeholders meeting in Awka, the Anambra State capital at the weekend […]
Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State have advised Vice President Yemi Osinbajo not to meddle with the internal affairs of the party in the state, adding that they had credible information […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it may consider wielding the big stick on those responsible for the disruption of its Ekiti State governorship primary held last Saturday. The governorship primary was aborted midway […]
Chiemelie Ezeobi writes on the ordeal of some Nigerians including children, who were illegally brought back by a Gabonese passenger vessel alongside deportees from other African countries When Mrs. Esther Ike’s husband bought valid tickets […]
Last week, Ngozi Muogbo had a rough time with frustration. As early as 5am, she was at the voter registration centre close to her in Lagos. The first problem was that even at that time, […]
Arising from an emergency meeting in Abuja on Monday, All Progressive Congress’ (APC) leaders in Imo State said they had credible information that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was putting pressure on APC national leadership to […]
Having fully commenced the implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), 11 states have kick-started pension remittance into the Retirement Saving Accounts (RSAs) of their workers, LEADERSHIP has learnt. This includes the remittances of both […]
A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who recently completed his service, at the weekend drowned in Nembe River, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the tragic incident […]
A Nigerian lady couldn’t contain her emotions after her birthday party was turned to a marriage proposal in Dubai. The intending groom, Onyeka from Imo state proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Aniekan from Akwa Ibom […]
•Free-for-all in Oyo, Ondo, Imo, Adamawa exercise suspended •Fayemi, Oni, Ojudu fume over poll distruption, postponement •Protests, intrigues in Rivers, parallel congresses in Ebonyi OUR CORRESPONDENTS The All Progressives Congress on Saturday held its nationwide […]
The prospects of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2019 governorship election in Imo State keep looking brighter as more and more citizens of the state bet on the party as the only […]
Big Brother Naija (Double Wahala edition) may have ended but its reverberations are still being felt. The results of the actions of some contestants in the house still manifest after the show. One of the […]
A reliable source has told me what he believes is the reason the National Assembly has yet to pass the 2018 budget. Our lawmakers, he said, have been expecting chunks of money they would use […]
Protest, boycott, and parallel voting marred a number of congresses held countrywide yesterday by the ruling All Progressives Congress to elect new ward executives for the party. APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was conspicuously […]
•As congresses hold today The battle for the control of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC commences today with congresses holding across the country with pitch battles in many states. APC Supporters on the Street […]
A chairmanship aspirant in yesterday’s ward congresses of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State was stabbed to death moment before the exercise got under way. Pockets of violence were also recorded in […]
Amuneke speaks on first league win in Sudan – FCNaija World football governing body, FIFA, have named former Nigeria international Emmanuel Amuneke as a member of their technical study group for the Russia 2018 World […]
Mr Innoson Chukwuma, chairman of Innoson Motors. Related News An Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR On The Abuse Of Court Process By The Economic And Financial Crimes Commission On Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma […]
“We have endorsed Buhari’s re-election because the policies and template of development already laid down by him in the last three years are already yielding fruit and needed to be actualized in his next four […]
Police arrest man who stole and sold child for N75,000 A seven-month-old baby identified as Chinwendu Ekiri , has been rescued after being abducted from her parents’ home in Rivers State by a neighbour. According […]
Jos – Mr Lawrence Kyuka, the National Coordinator, Basic Skills Acquisition and Vocational Training Programme in Nigeria, says training of youths and women on vocational skills remains top priority of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. President […]
Politicians and major stakeholders in Imo State have reportedly accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of trying to extort the 637 autonomous communities by ordering the traditional rulers to raise the sum of N6 million each by […]
The battle over who controls the machinery of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) among the gladiators seems to have been strategically won and lost with the Presidential pronouncement backing the former Governor of Edo […]
The traditional ruler of Ihim Kingdom in Imo State, His Royal Majesty, Eze Dr. Oliver C. Ohanwe, Gburugburu I, has said that monarchs in the South East have no regret endorsing President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election […]
The Imo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria refused to hold protests across the state on Sunday as directed by the secretariat of the Christian body, even as Christians from various churches in […]
The declaration of Sen. Hope Uzodimma (Imo West) for the All Progressive Congress (APC) has set Imo State agog as many stakeholders were rallying round him in solidarity for saying at the declaration ceremony that […]
AHEAD of 2019 presidential election, over 200 Southeast traditional rulers from Imo state, yesterday, backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari The monarchs reached the decision in a meeting, which took […]
Stanley Uzoaru,Owerri A former Head of State and leader of NIGERIA PRAYS, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has said that it is only prayer that can solve the mirage of insecurity challenges confronting the nation presently and […]
The Economic Confidential has released its Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) which shows that 17 states are insolvent as their internally generated revenues (IGR) in 2017 were far below 10 per cent of their receipts […]
BBNaija season 3 winner, Miracle Igbokwe, has revealed who he wants to take on his all expense paid trip. According to him, he will take either Nina or his mother. He said, “When I heard […]
We have less than a year to vote in another regime. It is time to begin to critically examine the performances of PMB & APC especially in there three core areas of Corruption, Security & […]
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in a statement released in Abuja on National Common Entrance Examination by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Priscillia Ihuoma, noted that only 28 candidates from Zamfara State registered […]
Pope Francis on Saturday urged Catholics to not remain paralyzed in the face of the injustices around them as he baptized eight adults, including a Nigerian beggar who became a hero in Italy for having […]
American billionaire and businessman, Bill Gates, has said that his criticism of the Nigerian government’s Economic Recovery & Growth Plan was to stir leaders to wake up to their responsibility and focus on human capital […]
I am first and foremost a Nigerian child. Then I am a depressed Nigerian youths. Depression obviously has its several roots: it is the doubtful protection which comes from not recognizing failure. It is the […]
The very fact that in this day and age in the 21st century when other nations are strategizing to live in outer space and conquer their environment that some political leaders would moot the idea […]
Chairman of Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation’s Advisory Council, Justice Mamman Nasir, has said the North must not dismiss the calls for restructuring, as doing so will be dangerous for the country. He also expressed concern […]
He is no longer hiding it. He is not pretending about it. It is written all over him. President Buhari’s hatred for Ndigbo has become not only legendary, it has become an Institution. It is […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the problem of irregular power supply in Nigeria is caused by inaccurate billing system resulting from insufficient metering machines. Mr. Osinbajo made the remarks on Saturday in Onna […]
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has said Nigerians should not condemn but listen and understand the agitations by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State Chapter and a Pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) have raised the alarm at the growing suppression of media rights in Imo and […]
In the words of Edmund Burke, “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”. Shakespeare enthuses, “His flight was madness; when our actions do not, and […]
The Group Executive Chairman, Eta Zuma West Africa Limited, Dr. Innocent Ezuma, in this interview with EVEREST AMAEFULE, says the continued use firewood to cook in Nigeria is a shame, and unveils plans to replace […]
The UPP has come up with redefined new weapons of theory to take care of the nagging multi-ethnic squabbles embedded in the body politic of our great nation Nigeria. The journey to self-emancipation of a […]
The Igbo World Assembly (IWA) has promised to liaise with appropriate agencies to file a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prevent possible genocide against Igbos residing in the North following the quit […]
A former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, denies media report that he attended a meeting in Saudi Arabia where plan to unseat the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, was hatched. “Look at my hands, they are as […]
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