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Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy and environmental rights group has keenly monitored for five weeks now the Mondays "sit-at-home" order issued by the leadership of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB in the entire Southeast region as a protest measure against the unlawful "interception" and deportation of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is currently detained at DSS facility pending court trial.   It is necessary at this time to point out that the problem is rooted in the earliest crises that rocked the nation barely seven years after independence leading to civil war in 1967. The politics of 1967-70 has sadly remained unaddressed as of yet and still forms part of the Southeast marginalisation question, as FENRAD understands it. This marginalisation, made worse by successive governments since the end of the war in January 1970, is itself the reinforcing factor responsible for secessionist bids in the

WE SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO ALL IT CAN TO RESTORE SANITY The Global Association of Concerned Imo Youths (GACIY) urges the Independent Petroleum Marketers to stop the exploitation of Imo people by their members occasioned by artficial scarcity which has led to hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the State in the last two weeks. As a group we view this development as gross wickedness and insensitivity on the part of oil marketers who are selling the false narrative of fighting the Government when they are actually enriching themselves by criminally selling above the stipulated price of fuel as announced by the Federal Government. One would ask, how does one fight the Government by unleashing hardship on the people and enriching oneself by hoarding fuel?  It is shameful that a group that approached a court seeking favourable justice will turn the table to unleash wickedness and evil to the people simply because the State Government opted to appeal the judgement of th

The President's visit to Imo has been trending online, some for the news and some for the wrong reasons best known to them. The SA on Media to President Muhammad Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina in a press statement released yesterday has clarified some of these issues.  He said "We have observed that President Buhari’s concluding remarks at the meeting with South East Leaders during his one day visit to Imo State is being deliberately contorted and twisted out of context."   The purveyors of disinformation want Nigerians to believe that the President bluntly told Governor Uzodinma, ‘‘I’ll be careful with your future invitations.’’    They have adduced different meanings to the phrase, contrary to the context wherein the President spoke during his successful dialogue with leaders of thought from Igbo land.   When he arrived at the banquet hall of Imo State Government House for his last assignment in Owerri, the President was welcomed by over 50 leaders from the South East who had

Valentine Ozigbo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag-bearer in the 2021 Anambra governorship election, has received a hero's welcome upon his return to Anambra State after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) published his name as the authentic candidate of the party for the November 6 poll.  INEC had on Thursday, September 9, 2021, published Mr Ozigbo and Mrs Azuka Enemo as the PDP governorship and deputy governorship candidates after an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja ruled in his favour in a case brought before it by Senator Ugochukwu Uba, who falsely claimed to be the party's candidate despite failing to participate in the party's primary election held on June 26, 2021.  On his return to Anambra, hundreds of enthusiastic supporters welcomed Ozigbo to the state capital, Awka, singing songs of victory and waving the PDP flag.  In his address to the large crowd, Ozigbo described the Appeal Court judgement as "the beginning of a new era in Anambra St

PTD NUPENG agrees to move Tankers from bridgehead Onitsha. Demands Land for Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Anambra State. For three days now, Hon. Comr. Peter Nwosu, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Nupeng Petroleum and Union Matters has lead the Anambra State Delegation alongside Hon. Afam Mbanefo, The Honourable Commissioner for Transport at the National Headquarters of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Abuja with a view to prevail on the National Leadership of Petroleum Tanker Drivers of Nupeng (PTD NUPENG) to end their sanction meted against the South East zone in general and Anambra State in particular. For days now, the Petroleum Tanker Drivers had down their tools following an imbroglio with the Imo State Government which forced them to embark on strike in Imo State. The National Leadership of PTD NUPENG has however sanctioned all the South East States. The import of the sanction is that no Petroleum Tanker will deliver Petroleum products in

The Chairman of NUPENG Anambra state chapter, Chief Peter Nwosu, who also doubles as the SSA to Governor Willie Obiano on Petroleum matters has called for calm from the general public on the recent increase and scarcity of petroleum products in the state. He made this call on a telephone interview with our correspondent, in Nnewi yesterday while addressing some of the issues that brought about the development.  He said that " the problem is just artificial scarcity based on the problem the Union has with Imo state government, so it now affected Anambra, and the whole South East. We are on top of it now as we have started meeting with the governor in Abuja and we believe it will yeild positive results.  On the artificial hike by some members of the Union, Chief Nwosu said that a taskforce has been set up to fish out those who are cheating on the people by hiking the price of petroleum products. He however pleaded on them to stop the profiteering using there fellow Nigerians. He sai