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The persistent claim by governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will lose elections in the state and also lose over 5 million votes in the South East because of the failure of the party to give the gubernatorial ticket to his son – in – law, Uche Nwosu, has been dismissed as an empty boast and the wishful thinking of a man who underestimated his unpopularity. A statement in Owerri by the director of Media and Special Duties to the APC governorship candidate in Imo State, Sen. Hope Uzodimma, Declan Emelumba said the only reason APC is back on track in Imo and set to sweep all the elections in 2019 is because of the emergence of Uzodimma as the governorship candidate of the party in the state. The statement said that “Governor Okorocha’s membership of the party was a big minus and that contrary to the empty claim by him, if his son-in-law had won the APC gubernatorial ticket in Imo, it would have been the surest ticke

A suspect, Prosper Peter Akachukwu, yesterday claimed he murdered an Umuahia, Abia State-based pastor, Kelechukwu Iwuanyanwu aka Apostle Blessed of Wind of Glory Ministry, the assistant pastor and the women leader. Akachukwu, who was paraded at the state Police Command Headquarters, said he killed the pastor and two others because Iwuanyanwu reneged on a promise. The suspect, who hails from Mbaise in Imo State, said Iwuanyanwu, who also hailed from Mbano in the same state, was his childhood friend. He added that they both attended the same secondary school and started ministering together as gospel preachers. But he had to kill his friend and ministerial colleague for allegedly failing to keep to an agreement to settle him after helping him to grow the church through the use of charms and mediums. He said: “Iwuanyanwu was my childhood friend and we were also co-pastors. When he was having challenges in growing his church I took him to a native a doctor in Ondo State t

Traditional Rulers under the aegis of Anambra South Senatorial Traditional Rulers Forum, have called on President Muhammad Buhari to intervene in the  rift between the Guarantee Trust Bank Plc and Chairman of Innoson Group, Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma; which they said, has lingered through the courts over the period. In a statement made available to newsmen at the palace of Igwe Nnewi yesterday and presented by the traditional rulers, which was signed by the Grand Patron of the forum, Igwe    PICTURE: Members of the Anambra South Senatorial Traditional Rulers Forum after the press conference.   (Dr.) Kenneth Orizu III of Nnewi with thirty other traditional rulers, the monarchs averred that the intervention of Mr. President has become expedient so as not to allow "the little crisis degenerate into a bigger crisis that will be difficult and costly to resolve." The forum specifically condemned the roles of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commiss

A group of concerned  Christians and Non Christian Citizens of Anambra state led by Ernest Anafonye and Onyedika Nwosu yesterday 06/11/2018, led a peaceful protest march to the office of Anambra state commissioner of police to point out their grievances against Bishop Owen Nwokolo, the Bishop on the Niger, Anglican communion. In a press statement made available to newsmen at Nigeria Police Headquarters  Awka yesterday, they stated that "we have come to bring  to the attention of the commissioner of police Anambra state the activities if Bishop Owen Nwokolo, aimed at misleading the public, casting aspersion, peddling false rumour, blackmailing and engaging in campaign of calumny against the governor of Anambra state" The leader of the group went further to state that, Bishop Owen Nwokolo deliberately, with the intention to incite the public, against the governor has taken to both traditional and social media to spread false rumours, claiming that Governor Willie Ob

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At the end-of-season awards after Leicester's remarkable Premier League title victory in 2016, the players, staff and invited guests were all celebrating. But the room truly erupted when an announcement was made that the club's Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha had just donated £1m to the nearby Royal Leicester Infirmary. "He was a billionaire - a very wealthy and successful man," says BBC Leicester's Ian Stringer, who was at that event. "But also so humble and lovely." The club is now mourning the death of its 61-year-old owner in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium on Saturday. Worth an estimated $3.8bn (£2.9bn), Srivaddhanaprabha was chairman of duty-free company King Power International Group. He bought Leicester in 2010 for £39m, cleared their debts and saw the club win promotion to the top flight four years later. They then beat odds of 5,000-1 to claim the Premier League title in 2015-16 in one of the greatest sp

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Ahead of November 6 nationwide strike to compel government to peg a new minimum wage at N30,000, organized labour will tomorrow hold mass protest across the country as part of sensitization of workers and Nigerians for the planned industrial action. This came as organized labour urged workers not to be deterred by the government’s threat of “no work, no pay” as strike had always complied with legal requirements. Already, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC and United Labour Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have begun massive mobilisation of members nationwide and their civil society allies, ahead of not only tomorrow’s protest, but also for the nationwide strike on November 6. The circular In a circular to its affiliates and state’s councils across the country, ULC, through its Deputy General Secretary, Chris Oyeka, said: “This is to inform you that sequel to the several consultations among the leadership of organised labour in Nigeria over

The dust raised by the Minister for Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on possible ceed of 2023 Presidency to the South West has attracted the ire of Buhari Support Organisation, BOS, in the South East. The group in opposition to Fashola said it wishes to state categorically clear that the 2023 would be the turn of the South East geopolitical zone to produce President of Nigeria. The caucus of the BSO South East Zone which met in Enugu from Saturday to Sunday, after exhaustive and detailed analysis of the zoning and rotation of president convention from Southern to Northern Belt in 1999 to date; came to the inevitable conclusion that it would be the turn of the South East to produce President of Nigeria from Igbo extraction. In a statement endorsed by Rt. Hon Stanley Ohajuruka and Mr. Godwin Onwusi as coordinators of the group said “Our proclamation is hinged on the truism that the rotation convention was introduced in 1999 for equity, justice, peac

The tension is coming against the background of intrigues, as different stakeholders position themselves and hit at one another for ascendancy with the return from holiday today of national party chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. A number of All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are on tenterhooks ahead of a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, to approve the list of its governorship candidates for the 2019 elections. Vanguard gathered at the weekend that the NWC, apparently in a move to cut Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to size, had decided to divide the list of candidates for the State House of Assembly into four, with the governor getting one-quarter of the pie. Meanwhile, despite moves by the party to get itself into play in Zamfara State, the crisis between Senator Kabiru Marafa and Governor Abdulazziz Yari was still unfolding. Marafa, yesterday, listed ten reasons Governor Yari should be expelled from the party, including allegedly b