Ogbu Sunday, Abakaliki Director General of the campaign organization of Governor David Umahi's reelection, Hon. Fidelis Nwankwo yesterday took a swipe at the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. Nwankwo said in an interview with Unity Times in Abakaliki that for the APC to say that Umahi has not achieved
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Ogbu Sunday, Abakaliki Students in federal and state universities in the five States of the South East geopolitical zone have tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently comply with the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU or failure to do so, should resign ahead of the 2019 general election. The
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General Superintendent, Assemblies of God Nigeria, Rev. Chidi Okoroafor, says political parties in Nigeria do not have distinct philosophy.The cleric, who stated this in Abakaliki at the weekend, said what we see are simply platforms, or windows through which people get into office. Okoroafor, who was re-elected as the General Superintendent
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Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Dr. Dan Orbih, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the amended Electoral Act.With less than 82 days to the presidential election holding in February next year, Orbih after the conferment of an honorary doctorate in Political Science on
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Professor ABC Nwosu, former Minister of Health, in this interview, speaks on the state of the polity, the recent summit of Igbo leaders in Enugu as he expresses his doubts on the ability of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to conduct credible General Election next year. By Dennis Agbo What is
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There has recently been a lot of dust raised on account of the call by Ms. Priti Patel, a former UK Secretary of State for International Development to investors to be wary of investing in Nigeria on account of the country’s woeful records of respect for contracts. The Nigerian presidency has
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Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has clarified that he did not defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, but only moved to the party. Akpabio said he was surprised that the same people who founded the ruling party were the ones pulling it down. The former Governor, who
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By Udora Orizu in Abuja A civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting him to urgently set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the defence spending and military budgets between 1999 and 2018 in order to promote transparency and
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The former Nigerian Vice President and the Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has got another praise from his boss, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo. This was when he was been formally turbaned as the 7th Waziri of Adamawa Emirate. The position of Waziri makes the former Vice President next to the
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Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan joined some Peoples Democratic Party governors to visit the palace of Lamido of Adamawa in Yola on Sunday. Those present at the meeting said Mr Obasanjo showered praises on Atiku Abubakar, his previously estranged vice president with whom he had reconciled since becoming the
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