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Ebem Ohafia Development Union Set To Hold Road Summit For Landlords, Developers, Others

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Ebem Ohafia Development Union Set To Hold Road Summit For Landlords, Developers, Others

Ebem Ohafia Development Union Set To Hold Road Summit For Landlords, Developers, Others

The leadership of Ebem Ohafia Development Union, EODU has concluded arrangements to hold a road summit for all Landlords/Caretakers, Developers and other Stakeholders within the community.

This it says follows the problems associated with inaccessibility of Roads within Ebem Community especially in the New/ Developing Layouts.

A release by the President General and Secretary of the Union, Chief Emeka Agba Mba and Elder Idika Kalu Uche says the summit which is in collaboration with Ohafia Town Planning Authority, Ohafia is long over due and necessary due to incessant blocking of access roads and its associated environmental threats and challenges to the Ebem community.

The event has been scheduled to hold on Saturday 25th June, 2022 at Inyom Ebem Skills Acquisition Center, Afiaofuru Ebem Ohafia, Ohafia L.G.A Abia State.

The union also advised that all Complaints / Reports on issues of Road blockages within Ebem should be forwarded to the Office of the Secretary General C/O EODU Admin. Secretary, Ebem Ujuruezie Palace, Ekeluogo Ebem Ohafia or E-mailed to [email protected]

Abducted Abia Journalist Regains Freedom (Photos)

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Abducted Abia Journalist Regains Freedom
Chuks Onuoha with family
Abducted Abia Journalist Regains Freedom
Chuks Onuoha with family

The Kidnapped veteran journalist in Abia state, Chuks Onuoha has been released by his abductors.

Abducted Abia Journalist Regains Freedom
Chuks Onuoha

ABN TV gathered that he has reunited with his family at his residence at Umugasi, Ohuhu, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State.

Mr Onuoha, a former Abia State Correspondent of The Sun Newspapers, was kidnapped at his Umungasi Ohuhu family home in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State at about 10 p.m Tuesday night, (14/6/2022), according to family sources.

Recall that Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ the umbrella of journalists has mounted pressure on the abductors of the member to release him unconditionally.

The Abia chapter and South East zone of the union have been at the forefront in calling for the release of Chuks Onuoha.

Okowa A Traitor For Accepting To Be Vice-Presidential Candidate, Ohanaeze Clark, Adebanjo, Others Say

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Adebanjo, Okowa, Clark
Adebanjo, Okowa, Clark

Chief Edwin Clark and Ayo Adebanjo have criticised Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting to run with Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential elections, describing him as “a traitor.”

The elder statesmen made the comment under the aegis of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum.

In a statement on Friday, they said it was “unspeakable and quite disappointing” that Okowa accepted the Vice Presidency nomination after it had been agreed, by Southern Governors, for the position of President to be zoned to the southern region.

Others who signed the statement include President-General, Middle Belt Forum, Pogu Bitrus and President-General, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ambassador (Prof.) George Obiozor.

Clark is the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum while Adebanjo heads the Yoruba group, Afenifere.

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday had announced Okowa as his running mate.

See their full statement below:

ATIKU’S VP NOMINATION: YOU ARE A TRAITOR, SOUTHERN, MIDDLE BELT LEADERS BERATE GOVERNOR OKOWA

STATEMENT BY SOUTHERN & MIDDLE BELT LEADERS’ FORUM, SMBLF (17-06-2022)

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) has berated the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting his nomination as Vice Presidential Candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. It is unspeakable and quite disappointing that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is currently Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum, and a native of Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area (one of the Igbo-speaking areas) of Delta State, would exhibit such barefaced unreliability.

It bears recalling that the 17 Governors of the Southern States of Nigeria, both of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the Chairmanship of the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, met in Asaba, the capital of Delta State on May 11, 2021, and took far-reaching decisions, including that, based on the principles of fairness, equity and justice, the presidency should rotate to the south, at the end of the statutory eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure. And this very Governor Okowa was the host of that historic meeting. The Southern Governors later met again in Lagos, on July 5, where they reaffirmed their decision, and again in Enugu, on September 16, to restate the call that the presidency should rotate to the south in 2023.

It is essential to underline that the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF), applauded the meeting of the governors, given its significant representation and the gravity of the outcome; we followed up and issued a similar statement after our meeting in Abuja on the 30th of May 2021, asking that the presidency should rotate to the south. And went further, on several other occasions, to caution political stakeholders from the South, including serving and former governors, ministers, senators, etcetera, not to, on any account, allow themselves to be appointed or nominated as running mate to any presidential candidate, if the presidency is not zoned to the south and that we will work against such person or persons.

It is, therefore, most unfortunate that the Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa who should know better, accepted his appointment as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. We do not have anything personal against Ifeanyi Okowo but his action is treacherous and tantamount to a despicable pawning of the political future of the people of Southern Nigeria.

Sadly, it is also now common knowledge that he spent resources belonging to the government and people of Delta state, to lobby for the position, extensively. And that explains why he never made any statement when his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), thoughtlessly jettisoned the zoning principle, which has become established as a norm and an intrinsic part of the political trajectory.

It is difficult to fathom how a political party can claim to be on a supposed “rescue mission” with such false footings of unfairness, injustice, duplicity and gross insensitivity to national outlook.

It is regrettable that while most of Governor Okowa’s southern and northern counterparts have maintained gallant, patriotic deference to the unity and peace of the country, above blinkered political considerations, by their resolute stance on the rotation of the presidency to the south in 2023, Governor Ifeanyi Okiwa, the Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum, of all people, would gullibly and slavishly capitulated to the bonbon of absurdity. Thus, acceding to a situation whereby, one person rules for eight years and hands over to another of his stock, in a country of at least 360 ethnic groups. What a shame!

The people of southern Nigeria chimed at Asaba, Lagos, Enugu, Uyo, Port Harcourt, Umuahia, and Abuja, continuously on the zoning of the presidency and that another northern presidency after the eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari would be injurious to the unity and peace of the country.

Governor Okowa has, by his action, betrayed the trust reposed on him by his colleagues; the southern governors, the entire good people of southern Nigeria and all well-meaning Nigerians. He has made himself persona non grata, not only, with SMBLF but all citizens who treasure our oneness and hopes of a more united and peaceful Nigeria.

We, therefore, reject Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and his Vice Presidency, and leave him to his lot, but let the world know that this is a betrayal of the highest order.

And that this is not a matter of loyalty to one’s political party, but rather a greedy, parochial and unpatriotic action, committed against the general interest of his State, Delta state, the Niger Delta region, and Southern Nigeria. It is, certainly, also not in the interest of the nation at large.

We commend the patriotism of all Nigerians who cherish our unity and progress as a country and further urge all such Nigerians; in the North and the South; young and mature, the high and mighty; irrespective of religion and tribe, to remain steadfast on the centrality of the presidency to rotating to the South in 2023, in the national interest.

Signed:

Chief (Dr.) Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, OFR, CON
Leader SMBLF/PANDEF

Chief Ayo Adebanjo
Leader, Afenifere

Pogu Bitrus
President-General, Middle Belt Forum

Ambassador (Prof.) George Obiozor
President-General, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide

 

Segun Oni Denies Withdrawing From Ekiti Governorship Race As Election Holds Today

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Segun Oni
Segun Oni

Segun Oni, Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in Ekiti governorship election, has dismissed the rumour that he has withdrawn from the race.

In a fake letter widely circulated on social media, Oni was said to have withdrawn and endorsed Bisi Kolawole, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent in the election taking place today.

According to the fake letter claimed to have been personally signed by the SDP candidate, Oni pulled out of the exercise on the eve of the election and told his followers that he had been duped.

He was quoted to have said the National Working Committee (NWC) of the SDP was illegal and he did not realise this until recently.

The letter also claimed that some lawyers, including 11 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), advised him not to continue “wasting his time”.

A copy of the purported withdrawal letter sighted by our correspondent was dated June 17, 2022.

But speaking to Daily Trust through Moses Jolayemi, his media aide, Oni said the letter was from his political enemies who have no good intention for the state.

He urged the people of the state to go out en masse and vote.

“I am debunking the statement as madness. This is the last phase of their madness. I am urging the people of the state to go out en masse and vote for Segun Oni. If it is the will of God, Oni will win the election today, but if it is not, those people will go down with their madness. Our people should disregard the statement as the handwork of evil people.”

Catholics Banned From Attending Father Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry

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Finally, Father Mbaka Apologises, Blesses Peter Obi
Rev Father Ejike Mbaka

The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga has imposed a ban on Rev. Fr. Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry.

ABN TV reports that this is coming on the heels of Mbaka’s outburst against a Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party.

In a letter he personally signed, addressed to ‘All the Clery, Religious and Lay Faithful in the Catholic Diocese of Enugu’, Bishop Onaga banned them from having anything to do with the Adoration Ministry.

He said in the letter that Mbaka having refused to heed to the Church’s persistent directives, “and in fulfillment of my pastoral duties as the Chief Shepherd”, “I hereby prohibit all Catholics (clergy, religious and lay faithful) henceforth from attending all religious and liturgical activities of the Catholic Adoration Ministry until the due canonical process initiated by the Diocese is concluded.”

While noting that his decision was based on the fact that Mbaka’s teaching and utterances were not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church, he enjoined “all Christian faithful to keep praying for Fr. Mbaka.”

More to come…

Climate Change: President Buhari Lists Measures As Nigeria Scales Down On Emissions

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President Buhari Tasks World Leaders On Food Security As Nigeria Signs 9 Agreements, MoU With Spain
President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated Nigeria’s commitment for a safer and healthier global climate.

He said measures include the elimination of kerosene lighting by 2030, an increase in use of buses for public transport, and a reduction in the burning of crop residues.

Buhari spoke on Friday during a virtual meeting, hosted by United States President Joe Biden.

The party was the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change (MEF).

The Nigerian leader recalled that the updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was submitted to replace the interim contribution of May 27, 2021.

Buhari said it covers the waste sector which would contribute to the reduction of Nigeria’s Greenhouse Gas emissions. روليت اون لاين

He confirmed that the government lowered the NDC from 45 percent to 47 percent conditionally, and 20 percent unconditionally below business-as-usual.

Buhari said Nigeria is also seeking to deliver 20 percent Greenhouse Gas emission reductions and enhanced removals equivalent to approximately 74.2 Metric tons of Carbon Dioxide by 2030. betfinal بالعربي

The President further mentioned ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out Hydro-fluoro-carbon emissions.

Buhari said his administration approved Nigeria’s Sustainable Energy for All Action Agenda in 2016, which has a target of almost tripling generation capacity in the next decade, to reach a total of 30 Gigawatt by 2030.

Thirty percent is expected to be generated from renewable resources, with almost half of this provided by medium and large hydro. اون لاين بلاك جاك

“The Clean Energy Transport Scheme in major Nigerian cities involves the introduction of compressed natural gas for buses in public transport.

“Nigeria is aware that its heavy dependence on fossil fuel makes the country vulnerable in a world that has a target to reduce or even eliminate fossil fuel”, he added.

2023: I’m Peter Obi’s Running Mate – Doyin Okupe

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2023: I’m Peter Obi’s Running Mate - Doyin Okupe

2023: I’m Peter Obi’s Running Mate - Doyin Okupe

Director-General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has declared he is the running mate of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

The former Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo revealed this on Politics Today of Channels Television.

“I’m standing in as the vice-presidential candidate of the party.

“Labour party has submitted my name as the VP of the party,” Okupe said.

The development follows Obi’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the LP after his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on grounds of irregularities.

Mayor Lucky Igbokwe Greets Amb. Empire Kanu At 80

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Mayor Lucky Igbokwe Greets Amb. Empire Kanu At 80

Mayor Lucky Igbokwe Greets Amb. Empire Kanu At 80

Businessman, philanthropist, politician and United Nations Mayor of Peace, Mayor Lucky Igbokwe (Don Lulu) has felicitated with former Nigerian Diplomat and elder statesman ,Chief Empire Kanu as he clocks 80.

In his goodwill message to the octogenarian,Mayor Igbokwe in a congratulatory message signed by his Special Assistant on New Media, Comr. العاب ربح نقود حقيقية Tochukwu Eluwa described him as an elderstateman who has contributed significantly to the development of Abia and Nigeria at large. موقع 888

The entertainment guru wished him many more years with sound health and mind . العاب وجوائز مالية حقيقية

APGA NWC Releases Full List Of State Assembly Candidates (SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS)

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APGA Raised Alarm Over Plot To Arrest Ebonyi Candidates

APGA NWC Releases Full List Of State Assembly Candidates (SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS)

The National Working Committee, NWC of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA has released the full list of candidates cleared to contest for State Houses of Assembly nationwide ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Among them is Mbonu Ngozi Daniel of Obingwa East, Obilor Chinedu Freeman of Umuahia North, Ifeanyi Ogbonna of Arochukwu and 21 others from Abia State.

See attached list for nationwide candidates..

Finally, Father Mbaka Apologises, Blesses Peter Obi

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Finally, Father Mbaka Apologises, Blesses Peter Obi
Rev Father Ejike Mbaka

Finally, Father Mbaka Apologises, Blesses Peter Obi

The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, Fr Ejike Mbaka, has apologized to the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, whom he called a ‘stingy man’ that would never become the next President of Nigeria.

Mbaka in statement obtained by Vanguard, blessed Obi, praying that he (Obi) would succeed in his political career.

Recall that Mbaka had said that Obi is: “A stingy man, that cannot give people his money, with this hunger ravaging the land, and you are saying he is the one you want. You want to die of hunger? Are you people insane? Where is the Holy Spirit?

“It is now that Atiku is seriously contesting for President; now that he is contesting without Peter Obi; it is now that he is serious? We want somebody that is serious. Unless Peter comes here to kneel, if he becomes President, he will close down this ministry. What we are doing is spiritual,

“Listen, a good old man is better than a young wicked man; Peter Obi is going nowhere as far as God lives. If Igbos want a representative, it is not someone like Peter Obi.

“I should not have talked but I saw my video going round everywhere as if Fr. Mbaka wholeheartedly came out and apologized. No, I didn’t apologize wholeheartedly, it was out of duress. I had to obey my Bishop, in obedience I had to, it is not of my volition. I did it because I am a Catholic Priest, my Bishop said, do it, my own is ‘Yes my Lord’.

“I did not say he is a bad man; I said he is a stingy man. A hungry man wants someone that is generous; the man has so much money, but he is ‘I, me, myself’. But that money will not be useful to him. I am very happy now that I have spoken out. That apology is a poisonous curse against Peter Obi.

“If he is wise he should have come here after that apology to say he is sorry but he waited. Anybody supporting him is wasting his money, he is going nowhere.

“He is my friend. When he was chased out of Government House, he knew the role I played to bring him back, but how did he pay me back? Night meetings we attended to bring him back, ask him, ask Eselu Uga, ask Archbishop Anikwenwa, they know where and how we did it and he was brought back.

“Ask Peter since then what he used to reward Adoration. If you like Peter Obi, tell him to come and ask for forgiveness. Let him come and redo what he did. There is an altar of God he blasphemed; he defiled an altar of God, the Holy Spirit.

“I called Atiku after that apology, he was in Dubai, I told him that there is a revelation on your presidential election; that you are going to be the President of Nigeria on one condition, that Peter Obi is not going to be your running mate. Peter Obi has incurred a curse to himself, which means that he is carrying a curse; if you want to be President, change him.

“Atiku responded that I cannot, Peter must be my running mate, we must win. You saw what happened. Atiku is still alive. That is why I said it is now that Atiku is preparing to be President.

“Just like Jonathan, I called him, God has shown that you are going to win this election but on one condition; Jega should be changed. If you change Jega you will win Buhari, but if you don’t, Buhari will win you. Goodluck told me, ‘Fr. I will not remove Jega, we will still win’. He held on to Jega and failed.”

However, in view of his statement, The Catholic Diocese of Enugu took a swipe on him, condemning his statement.

The church also cautioned him from making provocative prophecies that may heat up the polity.

Apology

Apologizing on Friday, Mbaka said:

“My Dear People Of God,

I am grateful to God for His unquantifiable and favorable blessings, miracles, love and life for the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria.

I assure the people of God and Nigerians that I am praying for Good Governance and Good Leadership in this country and that God will give us leaders after His own Heart.

As it stands right now, it is obvious that Nigeria is passing through indescribable insecurity challenges, an inestimable unemployment crisis, massive corruption, heinous crimes, and unbearable suffering engendered by bad leadership. I bear with my fellow country men and women in whatever we are passing through in this trying time. I call on the adorers and the entire people of God to join hands in praying that God will deliver us from the plans of the devil and its wicked agents.

I am a servant of God and my intention is not to malign His Excellency, Peter Obi’s image, but to pray for him. May God’s will be done in his life. I pray to God whom I serve to give our beloved people good and excellent leaders who will take care of them and lead them to the promised land.

Anyone who God wishes to make our Leader is my choice. In this vein, I give my blessings to His Excellency Peter Obi and his supporters, I also give my blessings to the other candidates and their supporters whose intention is also to give Nigeria good leaders. In any way, the supporters of Mr Peter Obi feel offended by my utterances or however I was misunderstood by them, I ask for their understanding and forgiveness. As a servant of the Most High God, I pray that it shall be well with my people. I am an ardent supporter of Good Governance, Justice, Equity, Love, and Godliness.

At this time our people are passing through the valleys of shadows of death (Ps23.4), I pray for peace, love, and anything that will bring blessings and favour to our people and to our suffering teaming youths. I will always stand

with you in all your ordeals. God will take care of you and bless you miraculously for me.

My intention is not to fight or malign Mr.Peter Obi. He is my friend and remind my friend and brother I love him and I wish him Success May God bless him and his good supporters. God’s will be done in his political endeavors(Mk.14:36).

The followers of Peter Obi are the same youths I am praying for, sacrificing for, fighting for, speaking for, and working for their integral well-being. What the youths are passing through and their conditions give me sleepless nights. It is for this reason that I yearn for good governance and worthy leaders that will take care of them. We are passing through indescribable, unbearable, and undeserved hardship in this country. I pray for Divine intervention.

I am not in any political party but I support good people and good governance. Any good person that God can give us is my choice candidate. I am a servant of God; For the sake of peace, I ask for forgiveness in any way I am misunderstood. And to Peter Obi himself, I ask God to bless him and manifest his will in his life. When God says Yes, who can say No? And when God says No, who can say Yes? I bless Peter Obi and pray for him. I bless my dear fellow Adores and pray for them. I bless the people of God everywhere and I pray that it shall be well with you all.

For the sake of those who were gruesomely killed on Pentecost Sunday at St St. Francis Xavier parish Owo, Ondo State who are being buried today, there will be no all-night Adoration program today,17th June 2022. We join the entire Catholic Church to mourn their demise. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in Perfect Peace. Amen.

Meanwhile, all adorers are asked to convene on Sunday 19th June 2022 for our usual 10 am Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Fellowship. Thank you and God bless you all.”

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