Abia Youths’ Road Maintenance Corps: Ikpeazu’s Youths’ Empowerment Spree And Home Grown Solution
One of the cardinal objectives of Governor Okezie lkpeazu's administration in Abia State has been to find alternatives in tackling challenges utilizing home grown solutions. He has continued to do same since he took the reins of governance six years ago. Among his numerous initiatives, this writer, Ubani Newman Ubani is focusing on the most recent, the Abia Youths' Road...
2023 Presidency: Why IBB, North, Prefer Orji Uzor Kalu
By Issa Ibrahim The coast may not yet be clear, but the stage is gradually taking shape for the race to Aso Rock Villa in 2023 and the push for a Nigerian President of South East extraction is gathering speedy momentum. The 2023 presidential poll is just over 20 months away but there are already permutations on the zone that should...
Agony Of Losing Four Children, 3 Others And Complacency of Abia Government, By Ifeanyi Okali
The recent death of seven Abia citizens in a mysterious manner ought to have by now given the government a serious concern, but like many other things in the state, all we get is a deafening silence, inaction and docility, like the proverbial ostrich, we bury our head in sand pretending that nothing has happened. Life goes on. This again...
‘Who Cancelled Afternoon Food In Nigeria’?
By Alex Enemanna It was the American psychologist, Abraham Maslow who in his 5-step classification system in hierarchy of human needs that placed food and water on the bottom base in what he called physiological needs. In other word, one is expected to attain a reasonable level of internal satisfaction before aspiring for the next level. The goal is to...
[OPINION] Ex-Abia Gov. TA Orji: Model Democrat and Political Leader, By John Okiyi Kalu
Early in 2014, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who was then the Deputy General Manager of Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA), was busy keeping Aba clean when a group of Aba Landlords met with then-Governor T. A. Orji to consult with him on the choice of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Governorship candidate for the 2015 election which was zoned...
[OPINION] Paris Club Refund: Obinna Oriaku and the Hypocritical Magnanimity of an Accuser, By Toby Chuks
Where the hands of an Accuser are clean and his allegations are of pristine intentions, it is the accuser who seeks every means possible to expose the culpable while the culpable does everything possible to frustrate and even stop the process that will expose him/her. But when the Accuser realises midway into his accusations that those he is alleging things...
[OPINION] Much Ado About Okey Ezeala’s Legal Impasse Against Hon Benjamin Kalu, By Iseh Abraham
It is no longer news Hon Benjamin Kalu (MHR) representing the good people of Bende Federal Constituency had been dragged to Court, by one Okey Ezeala, on accusations of Name changed by the former. Now, taking a cursory look at the circumstances surrounding the said case, one begins to wonder the motive and the unnecessary display of arrogance as it...
[Opinion] Ben Kalu’s Certificate Saga: Judgement Day Is Set, Bear Your Cross, Stop Dragging Chima Anyaso To Your Nightmares – Joseph Ejindu
Ordinarily, we would have keep ignoring the different Ben Kalu’s media concoction, especially the one he dished out through his trainee media hireling, Chidozie Aja, tagged “Okey Ezeala and Chima Anyaso, gimmicks of a stooge and his paymaster” but in order not to allow them to keep deceiving the good people of Ndị Bende and general public. Let me categorically...
[OPINION] Kinetic Abia: Understanding The Ndiegoro Flood Control Project In Aba (Part 1), By John Okiyi Kalu [VIDEO]
1. In the 80s, then Governor of Imo State (which includes present day Abia, Imo and parts of Ebonyi States) visited Ndiegoro area of Aba which was wrecked by a flood disaster and wept profusely in public because of the suffering of the people and the inability of the Shagari administration of the then federal government to decisively intervene...
EFCC’s Confession On Influencing Judgment Against Orji Kalu And Way Forward
By Prof. Tony Anyanwu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, July 2 at the Federal High Court Abuja nailed itself by failing to point out to the court where Supreme Court ordered retrial of former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. EFCC through it's Counsel Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) earlier claimed that the Supreme Court of Nigeria in its May...
