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- emerges as Chairman n-PDP ..... direct Supporters to remain calm By Fred Akomas Uneasy Calm,  tension has enveloped the People's Democratic Party, PDP in Imo State following the emergence of a factional leadership of the Party in the State otherwise known as n-PDP. It was gathered that the rebirth of the fresh Political group was unveiled during a Press Conference held at Villa Garden on Monday, 26th November, with a close aide of Sen Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), incumbent member representing Owerri West Senatorial district in the person of Mr Fabian Ihekweme ( aka Omu), who until 25th November, 2018 was the Director Media and Publicity to Samdaddy as acting Chairman of n-PDP. Report have it that the emergence of Ihekweme, a close aide to Samdaddy, a guber aspirant who is currently challenging the outcome of the October 1st, 2018 Imo PDP guber Primaries that produced Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha as Candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Imo State in Court has continued ...

The Nigeria Senate has passed the Electoral Act No. 6 (2010 Amendment) Bill 2017 into law overriding the assent of the president . The amended act are as follows; 1. There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and/or other technological devices, as INEC may introduce for elections from time to time. 2. Presiding Officers must now instantly transmit accreditation data and results from Polling Units to various collation centers. Presiding officer who contravene this shall be imprisoned for at least 5 years (no option of fine). 3. All Presiding Officer must now first record accreditation data and polling results on INEC’s prescribed forms before transmitting them. The data/result recorded must be the same with what they transmitted. 4. INEC now has unfettered powers to conduct elections by electronic voting. 5. Besides manual registers, INEC is now mandated to keep Electronic registers of voters. 6. INEC is now mandated to publish voters...

Medical and Dental Consultants, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, will be holding a free medical outreach at MBAUKWU General Hospital, Anambra state as part of its corporate social responsibility, to their host communities. It will include medical assessments, provision of drugs, surgeries, eye care and provision of medicated glasses. Selection and preparation of patients for surgery will be in the last week of November 2018 @ Mbaukwu General hospital. Date: 5th to 7th December 2018. Time: 10am Daily. Signed: MDCAN Chairman Dr Eric Ihekwoaba,Dr T.U Mbaeri- Outreach Committee Chairman.

  An Imo State High Court, presided over by Hon. Justice Kemakolam A. Ojiako, Wednesday, upheld the prayers of the Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, and quashed the purported gubernatorial primary allegedly held on October 6, 2018, by the Governor Rochas Okorocha faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. This development came as the Governor, his son in-law, Mr. Uche Nwosu and their supporters continue to sulk over the political humiliation they suffered in the hands of the APC Coalition Force, during the October 1, 2018, gubernatorial primary. Okorocha and Madumere Justice Ojiako granted all the prayers sought by Prince Madumere, including the prayer that the October 1, 2018, APC primary election was credible, relevant and meets the parameters for the exercise. Madumere also urged the court to hold that the contestants, except the Governor’s son in-law, have since, accepted that the October 1, 2018, party primary, was the only relevant and vali...

THE organised labour Wednesday hinted that it has the plan to demand for two years areas of the new national minimum wage for workers in the country. President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba dropped the hint when he received the General Secretary of the Public Service International, Mrs Rosa Pavanelli, in his office in Abuja. Wabba who said that the delay by President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit the executive bill to the National Assembly was worrisome, noted that the organided labour had already called on the President to immediately forward the bill to the National Assembly. minimum wage minimum wage He said that workers in the country had made tremendous sacrifice, adding, “I think going forward, we are going to demand for arrears of that two years we have lost. “Because I think with all fairness and justices, going forward as they are going out to campaign we will also go out to campaign for our minimum wage. “I also want to inform you that we have passed the...

The federal government says its revolution in agriculture, especially in the rice sub-sector, has cut down the country’s unemployment rate by 12 million jobs in just two years. In a scorecard he presented yesterday in Abuja, in agriculture alone, President Muhammadu Buhari said that through massive rice production in the last two years, 12 million Nigerians have been gainfully employed. Buhari disclosed this at the 4th Nigeria Rice Investment Forum, in a paper titled: “Effective Linkage of Actor and Effort in the Value Chain for Sustained Self-Sufficiency in Rice Production.” Represented by the minister of agriculture and rural development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, the president said that for Nigeria to attain self-sufficiency in rice production, more people should be encouraged to go into farming. He said that the present administration’s intervention in rice production had led to wealth distribution and a drastic reduction in rural-urban migration. Most of the new en...

......Denies saying ‘stealing isn’t corruption’  …says his statement twisted out of context by critics for political reasons    Former President Goodluck Jonathan as formally responded to the infamous claim that he tended to downplay raging corruption in his administration by boldly claiming that ‘stealing is not corruption’. Jonathan Jonathan But in dispelling the claim, Jonathan claimed that corruption was more prevalent under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration than under him and dismissed the current anti-corruption fight as mere media show. The former president boasted: “It is important to note that despite the many sensational stories, dramatic arrests, seizures and accusations, many of them false, since I left office, the fact remains that Nigeria has not made any improvement on TI Corruption Perception Index since 2014. “In fact, the 2017 CPI released in 2018 by TI places Nigeria as number 148, a retrogression in which the nation w...