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By CJ Ubaka and Ima Matthew In Anambra State, the coasts keep getting clearer for Valentine Ozigbo, the frontrunner in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the November 6, 2021 governorship election. By the grace of God, the good people of Anambra State are about to witness, once again, what it means to have a competent governor who takes the mandate of his people with a high sense of responsibility. The leadership black hole created by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) led by Governor Willie Obiano is now unbearable for the citizens. As it stands now, it is either we go for a complete change and elect a competent candidate on a brand new slate or face another cycle of backwardness, darkness, and cruelty from Agu Akwa. One of the common excuses people give for enthroning incompetence is the scarcity of competent hands in the field. This is because, all too often, the real capable people who can bring the needed quality in governance prefer not to come out to seek the se

Senator Hope Uzodinma, the executive govenor of Imo state has set in motion plans to establish an insurance policy that will help boast the moral of police officers serving in Imo State. The Governor disclosed this when he paid a condolence visit to the Command on Tuesday.  Expressing his sadness over the murder of officers on duty by Unknown gunmen, he said  ” Government will not let you do this work alone,we will support and supply all logistics and requirements needed, because we want our people to sleep with their two eyes closed. We will bring up an insurance policy in the State for all police officers in the State which will benefit their relations, this is to boost their moral in service delivery”.   ” if the police is challenged the entire  nation will be challenged” He however thanked President Muhamadu Buhari for his support during the weeks of  crisis, occasioned by Insecurity in the state. Earlier in his address, CP Abutu Yaro,Imo State Police Commissioner, thanked Gov. Uzo

WHY CHUKWUEMEKA NWAJIUBA? At 53,he's a bridge between the young and the old. He has the energy and the strength the office of the Nigerian President demands. He has character,capacity, competence and capability. A lawyer and a politician, Hon.Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has been in active politics for the past thirty years. Elected three times to the Nigerian House of Representatives where he served as Chairman, House Committee on Works and Housing as well as a member of several other committees. He supported President Muhammadu Buhari in his 2003 Presidential bid under ANPP and later emerged the IMO State Governorship Candidate of ANPP. He later joined President Muhammadu Buhari in 2010 to form the Congress for Progressive Change,CPC and later became the IMO State Governorship Candidate of the party(CPC)in 2011. In 2014,he represented CPC in the Constitution Drafting and Merger Committee of  All Progressive Congress, APC. In 2017,he became the first South Easterner to be appointed

The centenarian, Mrs. Margaret Nwuelo, has dragged Dr Cletus Ibeto the billionaire from Nnewi, and 14 others before an Anambra High Court Nnewi, presided over by Justice Denis Maduechesi ,for alleged land grabbing. The 104-year-old woman,in her statement of claim/writ of summons asked the court to cause the defendants to pay about N1.5bn for disturbing her peace over a piece of land she claimed to have bought with her late husband in 1957. She instituted the action on behalf of the representatives of the family except the 12th defendants ( her grandson’s wife) and her offspring. She sought amongst other things from the court an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents, privies or any other person howsoever described from further trespassing on her land at No 136-140 Abel Okoye Road, Egbu, Umuenem, Otolo, Nnewi. She also asked the court for ” a declaration that by the invasion, trespass, demolition and subsequent actions of the defendants on the 1

Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has said that his administration will deal decisively with bandits and their sponsors terrorising the state. Matawalle made his position known in a statewide broadcast he made in Gusau on Saturday following renewed attacks by the hoodlums in the state. Bandits in their hundreds riding on motorcycles had attacked Kadawa village in Zurmi Local Government area of the state on Thursday night where they were said to have killed some people. The governor reaffirmed his commitment to deal ruthlessly with all those behind the killings that took place in the past and now. “In recent weeks, the act of banditry has reverted to the ugly dimensions it had,  prior to the coming of my administration. “The marauders kill without regard for any rules of sanity. “Women, the elderly, and children are not spared. “As a result, a large number of people have been displaced in nearly every town in the state. “You are witnesses to what we have accomplished from the beginning of

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Saturday in Benin described the recent attack on Bendel Insurance Football Club players and officials as barbaric. The Insurance players and officials were allegedly attacked by fans and officials of Remo Stars Football Club of Sagamu during a 2020/2021 Nigeria National League (NNL) match in Ikenne. Obaseki, shortly after visiting the team’s five players and five officials who were hospitalised after the attack on them, said the attack was barbaric and not in the spirit of sportsmanship. “You can not in a game maim the other players like this. I am shocked and disappointed, more than a week after the incident at Ikenne in Ogun. “The managers of the league haven’t come up to spell out the appropriate sanctions with this type of horrific behaviour from the other side. “As far as I am concerned, I don’t think we can continue with the league until the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) brings out those who injured our players. “More importantly, they must also