The immediate past Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah has congratulated Abians at the 31st anniversary of the state.
In a congratulatory message on Saturday, Ogah a factional governorship candidate of APC in the state noted that time has come for the installation of the right leadership “based on solid antecedents and proactive proclivities to realign our state and her people with the sure foundation laid for us by our founding fathers such that Abia State must be better and beneficial to all her citizens.”
While expressing gratitude to God for the 31st anniversary Ogah said it’s important to advance and count gains the state has made since it was founded by its founding fathers.
He said, “Abia State is prophetic. This is the only state in the comity of states within Nigeria that is squarely placed in the hands of God, with access to divine assistance but poor kineticism towards achieving our potential and activating the markers of greatness in all sectors of the state’s economy.”
He added, “I offer my felicitations to the great people of Abia State and ask your collaboration so together we will continually uphold our dear State in prayers and commend her into God’s hands and eternal blessings.”
The Nigeria Police Force have issued a strict warning on the misuse of police uniforms on social media, ABN TV reports.
This is coming after the police suspended two supernumerary officers for violation of social media policy.
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, in a statement said the use of uniforms is only restricted to officers of the force.
Part of the statement read; “The incessant, illegal and unwarranted use of Police Uniforms restricted to bonafide serving officers of the Nigeria Police Force.
“This is coming on the heels of the suspension of two Supernumerary Police Officers, with immediate effect, for breach of the provisions of the Police Act, 2020.
“The Nigeria Police Guidelines for Recruitment/Promotion/Discipline of Supernumerary Police (SPY) 2013 by the Inspector-General of Police, as captured in a video posted by one of the officers in a viral video on August 3rd, 2022.”
Police in Bauchi State have found a 17-year-old girl, Mildred Ebuka, who got missing on Thursday while running an errand in Lagos.
Ebuka reportedly left her residence in Victoria Island on Thursday to deliver a wig cap to her Aunty’s friend in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.
The Bauchi Police Command on Friday alerted the public to locate the girl in its custody.
In a statement via its Twitter platform, the police command said, “The bearer Mildred Joshua Ebuka female aged 17yrs-old of Block 19 Ubandale street Victoria Island Lagos State, whose photograph appeared below left home on Thursday 25/08/2022 to deliver a message of a wig cap to her aunty’s friend in Ikorodu, on the way she stopped a taxi bus not far from her home, from thereon she found herself in Bauchi.
“She hails from Lagos and speaks English Language fluently. Wore light blue blouse shirt and trouser, fair in complexion and she has no tribal mark.”
The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, on Friday said that Mildred was found in a park in Bauchi.
Wakil said, “The essence of sharing the information is to find her parent. She could not remember anything when she arrived Bauchi. A lady woke her up in the park, and she did not know where she was.
“So, they contacted the police, and our public relations office called my attention to it. That was why I made it public.”
Our correspondent who ran a check on the address, discovered that the street does not exist.
When contacted, The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, also confirmed that the street did not exist.
He said, “We hope her relatives would reach out when they see her picture.”
The media office of the Obi-Datti 2023 Presidential campaign has debunked speculations that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has entered into a ‘political deal’ to support the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
The campaign office in a statement in Abuja, on Saturday, described the speculations as the handiwork of charitable propagandists who indulge in distorting facts in the pursuit of imaginary relevance for their paymasters.
The statement read in part, “Rather than strive to contend with the hard sell of their candidates, these mischief makers bandy about misleading accounts of the issue-based messages of our candidates just to score cheap political points and thus distract the discerning public.
“While we understand the frustration of dealing in their hard-to-sell, “expired milk” [apologies to BAT] in a competitive market, the FairPlay rule demands that you don’t associate the good with the bad product. We demand honour even among thieves!
“We know the intention of the spin-doctors in selling an utterly false story that the highflying Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, met with his PDP counterpart and reached a deal. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
It further said, “Obi’s foreign trip, its motive, and where and who to meet are already in the public domain; his meeting in the UK with some Nigerian political leaders is visually seen by all.
“But mischievous propagandists prefer to concoct lies in a desperate effort to clean up their candidate.
“We understand why the focus is on the Obi-Datti candidacy; they are easily the front runners in this 2023 race and the tag team has irresistible messages that are resonating with the embattled Nigerian public who are anxious more than ever to reclaim and take back their country.
“The LP candidates are on a divine mission to rescue and rebuild this country and cannot be distracted by any fabrications intended to mislead.
“ If Obi’s mission is to rescue Nigeria from the old order, he ought not be seen working for the changing order.“
The media office noted that stories around the issue expose the writers as having exhausted themselves even before the start of the electioneering campaign and now resort to manufacturing supporters.
It argued that the same people who said that Obi is a social media phantom wave without political structure to win an election are today struggling to ‘photoshop’ the same Obi with their candidate.
The media office equally said, “Obi’s respect for Atiku or any leader in this country has more to do with his sound upbringing and the fact that his style of politics is devoid of hate and bitterness and should not be misconstrued to be cavorting the spent order represented by the competition.
“These propagandists need to know that the movement Obi and Datti-Ahmed are driving is not something in control of one man negotiating it away.
“Nigerian people have taken the steering from Obi and are driving him to the Aso Rock Villa; they will not look sideways for distractions.
“Obi-Datti media office is privy to intelligence that many distorted stories will be dished to the public to create confusion in their minds of the public and notes that such a mission is dead on arrival because the people’s commitment to the Obidient assignment is total.”
A 16-year-old Miss. Ezera Nmesomachi has emerged as the overall winner of the 2022 Teens Essay Competition organized by The National Children and Teens Desk of The Presbyterian Church Of Nigeria, ABN TV reports.
A native of Ebem Ohafia, Ohafia LGA Abia state, Nmesomachi worships at Solid Rock Parish of Presbyterian Church Of Nigeria, Umuahia.
The essay competition which has as the theme, “The Beauty Of The Presbyterian Liturgy” was organized for teenagers between the ages of 13 – 19 years in all the parishes of the church within the country.
Nmesomachi, an ex-student of Intellectual Giant Christian Academy Umuahia sat for the 2022 WAEC.
Speaking on the essay Topic she said it has to do with the uniqueness of the method of worship, making one stand apart from every other method of worship by other churches.
Nmesomachi while speaking said it is her first time writing an essay competition and having the first position motivates her.
She said hard work inspired her to write the essay, In her words ’’actually, when I was writing this essay it wasn’t easy at some point I became frustrated I just felt like I won’t be able to get the first position so it’s of no use writing this I just need to drop my pen because as that time I was still writing my exams so I was actually struggling, reading for my exams and writing an essay to emerge the first position.
‘’I feel very happy and grateful to God, to my parents, and to the church at large for giving me this opportunity to showcase my talent and do what I love most.
‘’For those that wrote this essay competition with me and couldn’t make it I will actually tell them to keep striving they should not give up on anything at all, they should also make hard work and God their priority.‘’
A former chairman of NDDC, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu on Friday played host to the Labour Party governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti at his home in Umule, Umuahia where he made an appeal to the political actors to maintain peaceful and violent-free campaigns ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Otti, a former MD of the defunct Diamond Bank was accompanied by other chieftains of the party, including the House of Representatives Candidate for Ikwuano/Umuahia, Chief Obi Aguocha, and state House of Assembly candidate (Ohuhu), Mr. Smart Iheoma.
Regarding the House of Representatives slot for Ikwuano/Umuahia, the elder statesman aligned with the position of Prince B.B. Apugo on Equity, Fairness, and Justice.
He said the position should be occupied by an Ohuhu person.
“For any Ohuhu person, the project should be titled AHANYIEFULA”, he said.
Chief Ugochukwu also urged for the support of other clans in Ikwuano/Umuahia for an Ohuhu indigene to emerge the next House of Representatives member, saying it is in the interest of fairness and peaceful co-existence.
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has revealed that his administration has commenced and delivered no fewer than 150 roads in the past seven years since it came on board.
The governor also hinted that at the moment, about 48 road projects across the state are at their advance stages which he hopes will be completed before the end of the administration next year.
The governor who spoke in a state-wide broadcast as part of activities marking the 31st anniversary since the creation of the state noted that the projects executed by his administration will serve as monuments to the work his leadership did after the expiration of his tenure.
He said, “We have over 150 roads which our administration has commenced and delivered in the course of our tenure. We are strongly advancing work on another 48 roads and we have a target to finish them before we hand them over to the next administration by May 29, 2023.
“One aspect of these projects I am proud of is their strategic significance and economic importance. A project like the Osisioma Interchange has forever changed the trafficking narrative at that junction.
“Users of that road in recent years will recall how they were often condemned to spend hours in traffic due to the lockdown on the road at peak periods. Today, that episode is in the past as there is now a guaranteed seamless flow of traffic along the axis in addition to the aesthetic uplift of the general environment.
“The adjoining Aba Owerri Road which also hitherto used to be a nightmare has been rebuilt and expanded with relevant road furnishings installed.
“Roads abutting the Aba Owerri road have also been opened up to ventilate the city of Aba.
“We have a solid Abayi Umueze-ABSUTH road built with our signature rigid pavement technology that is a beauty. The perennial swamp along that axis leading to recurrent road failure has been decisively resolved. Kamalu , MCC and Eziukwu roads are all our signature projects. Down Okpu Umuobo road, we are completing and bringing back the old road that leads to Mgboko Obingwa LGA Secretariat from where motorists can join the new Obikabia – Obikabia Road and emerge at the Enugu – Port Harcourt Expressway.
“Our work in other areas of Aba are equally heartwarming for their strategic importance. Osusu, Imaculate, Milverton, Azikiwe, Ukaegbu, Ehere, Umuola, Ebenma, Egege, Opobo, Okigwe, Chima Nwafor Road and other roads we have built around the city are all of immeasurable importance to the continued economic vibrancy of Aba. We have advanced work on the Ngwa Road axis where we have constructed 6 internal roads so far. We are hard at work on Omuma, Obohia, Ohanku, Uratta and Port Harcourt roads which we will complete before we leave office.
“Today, for the first time in over 30 years, our major markets in Aba are now accessible by road. The Eziukwu Cemetery road leading to the popular Cemetery Market which had long been forgotten is now fully rebuilt and back to life and it is easy now to connect that market from Aba-Owerri road seamlessly. Same goes for the Ngwa Road Market and the Ariaria International Market.
“The Osokwa-Aro-Umueje road, Ururuka Road, Umuojima Road, Okpulu Umuobo – Mgboko Road, Agalaba Ring Road, Umuobiakwa Owo-Ahiafor Road, and the Obikabia-Obikabia Road signify our resolve to ventilate rural areas with access to our economic hubs and spread the expansion of our urban areas and reduce pressure on them while stemming rural-urban migration,” he said.
A former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, has disclosed that Lagos Central Senator, Remi Tinubu urged him to campaign for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Momodu said Tinubu’s wife made the appeal during an event in Lagos State.
The veteran journalist said Mrs Tinubu recalled his past relationship with the APC presidential candidate.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the veteran Publisher said he wouldn’t support Tinubu’s ambition, though he loves the APC presidential candidate.
Momodu explained that the “APC has done too much damage to Nigeria.”
He wrote, “Only two people, apart from the photographers, witnessed what happened between me and Senator Mrs Oluremi Tinubu yesterday, at the funeral service of Chief Mrs Kemi Nelson, at Archbishop Vining Memorial Church in Ikeja, Lagos. Before some people add salt and pepper to it, I need to state precisely what happened.
“Senator Tokunbo Abiru and Dr Tunji Olowolafe and I had walked in about the same time, and we went to greet my very dear Sister, Senator Mrs Oluremi Tinubu.
“Immediately she saw me, we exchanged our usual pleasantries, and then she asked me, “so Bob Dee, you’re not going to campaign for my husband,” I smiled and remained very calm before replying: “Your Excellency, I’m in PDP.
“She apparently didn’t find it funny and regaled us with the past I shared with her husband, and I tried to calm her down.”
The Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly and PDP flagbearer for Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has said that he will continue to promote the spirit of brotherhood, unity, and peace among all the clans that make up the Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency and beyond, saying this is the only way people of the area can make true progress and be even more prosperous.
The Speaker stated this yesterday after he was honoured with the chieftaincy title of Akaraka Abia (The Destiny of Abia) by the Ohuhu Traditional Rulers Forum led by its Chairman, HRH Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu, at Ekeokwuru Umule na Umunso community, Ohuhu, Umuahua North LGA during the occasion of the clan’s Iwa Ji Festival.
He stressed that he has never allowed clannish considerations to affect his person and work because of his belief that all people are created equal and that lifting each other must not be based on primordial sentiments but on the fact that humanity is a community of people created by one God.
While conferring the title on the Speaker, Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu on behalf of other traditional rulers of the clan highlighted the Speaker’s numerous achievements which he said made him to be more than qualified for the exalted title. Among such achievements he mentioned are the several mini-stadiums including the one in the land being sponsored by the Speaker; scholarship to indigent students across constituencies, substantial and sustainable empowerment of youths and women across all interests, and electrification projects among others. He prayed God to grant the Speaker long life and the enablement to actualise his immediate and other political ambitions.
Other recipients of chieftaincy titles from the traditional rulers are a former minister of defence (state) and PDP flagbearer for Abia Central Senatorial District, Col Austin Akobundu, rtd (Apu Ukwu), and Dr. Alex Otti (Enyioha).
The Speaker was accompanied to the event by members of his campaign council led by the Director-General, Pastor Emeka Inyama, friends, and well-wishers.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has explained why he met with Peoples Democratic Party presidential (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential (LP) candidate and former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, in London.
Wike said he and his team met with the Nigerian leaders in London on Thursday to discuss how to make Nigeria better than what it is currently, adding that they are consulting widely with those who mean well for the country.
He spoke when he interacted with journalists at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area, shortly after arrival from London on Friday.
Wike was in the company of the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom and his Abia State counterpart, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu.
“I can confirm that this is the first time as a team that we are meeting with presidential candidates,” Wike said.
“We met with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC and we met with our leader, former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
“We met the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. We also met with our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. For whatever it is worth, consultation is ongoing.
“Whatever we’re talking about, is for the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. It’s not parochial and tied to one person or group of persons.
“We believe that with what is going on, it will be for the interest of Nigerians at the end of the day.”
He added, “Consultation is still ongoing. Never mind some people who do not believe in the existence of this country.
“Leadership isn’t about you and your family. Leadership is about everybody. It is unfortunate that we are in a country now where a man finishes eight years as a governor and brings his own son as a governor too and as a member of the National Assembly.
“It is only in this part of the world that you can see that when we are talking about poverty everywhere. These are people who don’t mean well for Nigeria.”
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