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Today, being Thursday, March 28, 2019, a professional colleague, Christian Chukwuemeka Nwannedimma, who is known in the pen profession as Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, turns 42 years. Coincidentally too, Odogwu is marking his 20th year as a professional journalist, having delved into the profession in March, 1999. Born on March 28, 1977, in Amanuke, Anambra State, Odogwu had his early education at the Community Primary School, Amanuke, and New Layout Primary School II, Abakaliki. He attended Urban Secondary School, Abakaliki, as well as Comprehensive Secondary School, Nawfia; 1990-1992 and 1993-1995 respectively.  From inception, Odogwu planned his journey into journalism, and followed his dreams religiously by acquiring requisite educational qualifications and trainings. Odogwu bagged Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mass Communication in 2002, and Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Mass Communication in 2006; both from the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State. He ...

  The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday says it cannot help the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, who has been denied a certificate of return as a senator-elect because he is still on suspension. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Isa-Onilu, said this at a Press conference in Abuja. He said the governor himself was aware of his suspension, hence, “he has not reported his dilemma to the party.” Isa-Onilu said, “We cannot take any position on that now. Governor Okorocha is on suspension. He, too, has not reported the case to us because he knows he is on suspension. “Until that is vacated, we can’t handle his case.”

The Rector, Federal Polytechnic Auchi in Edo State, Dr Momodu Sanusi Jimah has said sex for marks and sorting of lecturers by students in the school has become a thing of the past but that on the contrary, lecturers are now dragging students to management for attempting to compromise them. Speaking to journalists on the school’s coming convocation ceremonies, Jimah said 245 students would be graduating with distinctions in the 2017/2018 session adding that graduates of the school can defend their grades anywhere in the world. He said; “The issues of sex for marks and sorting of lecturers are no longer there because recently, we have four cases on my table where four lecturers have reported students who attempted to influence them and the students on their own expelled themselves because they were invited to appear before a panel. For the first time in the history of this school, four students were reported by lecturers trying to influence them. The issues of sex for marks, higher grad...

His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, the Imo State Governor Elect, receiving His Certificate of Return, today 27th-03- 2019, at the State Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Owerri. His Excellency received His Certificate alongside his Deputy Governor Elect, Engr. Gerald A. Irona.

Imo State Governor-elect, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is due to announce a transition committee to set agenda for his administration which begins on May 29, 2019. Nigerian Notch, authoritatively learnt from a very reliable inner source that a former Deputy Governor, Policy and Corporate Services at the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1999 to 2009, Mr. Ernest Ebi would lead the committee which may be announced later today. Mr. Ebi currently serves as an Independent Director at Coronation Capital Mauritius Limited as well as, Member of the Governing Board of Venture Garden Nigeria. He is a Non-Executive Director of Dangote Cement Plc since January 30, 2014, and had worked in various departments of International Merchant Bank in Lagos before he went to the CBN.

The Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) says it's performance in the just concluded general elections is outstanding. The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr Nnamdi Nwangwu who was speaking with journalists said the performance is attributable to quality of leadership offered by Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu's led executive committee. He pointed out that PDP was always bedeviled by factions and divisional tendencies before any major election which according to him is not so under the watch of Chief Nwobu. The PDP image maker in Anambra State said for the first time since 1998, the party worked together under one umbrella as a family which he noted was a major factor in the impressive outing at the polls. Nwangwu pointed out that PDP under the present dispensation was able to produce two senators and sixty percent of members of House of Representatives as well as improving the membership of PDP lawmakers in the State House of Assembly from meagre...

Idiga also known as JAFAC is the national chairman of GOGAN, the GOOD GOVERNANCE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA and business magnet from Amaifeke in Orlu LGA. Photo Speaks

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered substituted service of the petition challenging the outcome of the February 23 presidential election, on President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari and Atiku The tribunal ordered that copies of all the legal processes should be served on Buhari through any senior officer at the national headquarters of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja. The order followed an ex-parte application that was filed by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. A three-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Abdul Aboki, granted the ex-parte motion the petitioners moved through their lawyers, Mr. Chris Uche, SAN. The petitioners are in the petition marked CA/PEPC/002/2019, praying the tribunal to invalidate the declaration of President Buhari as winner of the presidential contest. Aside INEC, President Buhari and the APC were cited as Respon...

An undergraduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, was on Friday found dead, and her eyes and underwear missing from her corpse found at the Commissioners’ Quarters behind the Anambra State Government House. A resident of the area, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said, “The corpse of the 300 level student of the university was dropped by the roadside around Commissioners’ Quarters by an unknown car.” The source gave the name of the student as Pauline. He added, “The true cause of her death has not been ascertained, but the corpse has been taken away by the police “She was found dead without her underwear and eyes at a junction before Demonstration Primary and Secondary School, Commissioners’ Quarters, Awka, close to GRA Phase 3 Agu Awka, a suburb of the state capital. “This is one in many deaths recorded among students of the university. My advice is for these girls to be mindful of the kind of men they go out with; they should be m...

Prophet TB Joshua has given a “prophetic warning” to the President Muhammadu Buhari government concerning the handling of “inconclusive elections” in the country. “The (Nigerian) government should be cautious of the way they go about inconclusive elections,” Joshua told congregants. “This can be an open door for Satan. You know satan kills, steals and destroys,” he continued, calling for urgent prayers for the nation. “Pray for the nation, Nigeria – for peace and harmony, for understanding and wisdom,” said the cleric, leading his congregation at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in prayer. Supplementary elections are currently being held in Kano, Sokoto, Plateau, Benue, Bauchi and Adamawa – with unfortunate reports of violence and voter intimidation, especially in Kano – corroborating the urgency of the prophet’s warning.

The incoming house member, Anambra State house of assembly for Nnewi North state constituency Hon. Nonso Okafor, has in a grand style thanked all and sundry who participated actively towards his success at the polls. It started with church services at three different churches ie ....... Anglican Church, Living Faith Church, and St Peter's Catholic Church, Odida Nnewichi, where he once more thanked all that made it possible for his emergence as the person to represent them. He promised to implement to the letter all his campaign promises to the people which is the real reason he was elected. He reiterated the fact that the masses contributed 100% to his electoral victory and promised not to fail them. He however thanked all that came around to celebrate with him, saying that he is happy that God gave him the victory, which is s not just for him but for every person that stay in Nnewi. While speaking to newsmen he went further to reaffirmed his earlier stand of making the pe...