NIGERIAN NOTCH

Youths under the platform of the Global Association of Concerned Imo Youths (GACIY) are adamant that Chief Emeka Ihedioha, who governed Imo State between May 2019 and January 2020, must give an account of a N3.5bn loan allegedly obtained by his administration without the approval of the State's House of Assembly. The youths had in a statement last week signed by its convener, Collins Ughalaa, said that they uncovered the "top secret" loan which the Ihedioha administration allegedly secured.  In a swift response, the Ihedioha camp through a press release signed by Barr. Uche Onyeagucha, admitted that the Ihedioha administration initiated a move to obtain the loan facility but said that it followed due process. Onyeagucha stated that a committee was set up to source the loan. However, he denied that it was paid before the administration was sacked by the Supreme Court on January 14, 2020. In a counter statement on Monday, October 25th, 2021, GACIY wondered why the Ihedioha

  In the midst of the recent security challenges in the  country, Education has been the greatest casualty, stifling every little progress made post Covid.  It is therefore the duty of the government to provide a safe environment to help children study and learn.  Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba was on ground to get a first hand assessment of the situation, what has happened and what could be done. The Honorable Minister of State Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba continued his tour of the Federal Unity Colleges,flagship secondary schools of the Federal Government.  Yesterday he was at the Federal Science and Technical College, Michika, Adamawa State, early this morning he proceeded to the Federal Government College, Ganye, also in Adamawa and rounded up today at the Federal Government Girls College,Yola. The Honorable Minister reiterated the importance of Education, citing the case of countries like Liberia where civil unrest had created a big gap and lack of manpower as decades of war robb

Recall that His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, during his visit to the Izombe community, promised to set up a bilateral committee for the immediate reconstruction and restoration of the community after the mayhem. Today, the MD/CEO of ISOPADEC, Chief Charles Orie and his team, arrived at the Izombe Community in the early hours of today with a truck-load of assorted food items, household appliances and other necessities for distribution to the affected families. In Chief Charles Orie's address, he expressed the commitment of Governor Hope Uzodimma in ensuring a total fulfillment of the Government’s promise and obligations to the people of Izombe. He also stated that the relief materials were just palliatives to cushion the hardship of the people as the Governor has promised to reconstruct the houses affected. Credits:#HopeNewAndElectronicMediaCenter

  -- another reckless falsehood by the opposition party. For the opposition party (PDP), there is no departing yet from their genetic ideology of falsehood propagation to members of the public just to salvage their dwindling and depleted popularity.  In their quest to actualize this, they malign the personality and office of the Governor of Imo State with reckless abandone and gross negligence to professionalism. Worst of it all is how they feign ignorance to information in public domain and sell out same to the unsuspecting members of the public. In their recent rant through one of their agent, as usual, they manufactured false statistics and unworthy data just to discredit the amazing records of Governor Hope Uzodimma - progressive records they couldn't achieve during their illegitimate reign.  The attached record from Debt Management Office represents the debt profile of Imo State as at 31st December 2019 (when the ousted PDP-led administration was booted out) and then the debt

In governance and leadership, competence alone is no longer enough to bring about real transformation in the society. This is because there are highly competent people in different walks of life who are experts in particular fields and may even have the capacity to acquire new competencies, however when it comes to making use of those competencies to change the lives of people as a public servant, integrity becomes a very crucial requirement! Today in Anambra State, as the November 6 governorship election approaches, you will see a crowded field of candidates jostling to become the next Governor with many flaunting about colourful manifesto documents. It is time for Ndi Anambra to start asking very salient questions, beyond these manifestos, what is really the character of the candidate behind the veil? Is there any iota of integrity in that candidate? What are the antecedents of the candidate before the quest for the Governorship seat? When we ask these questions and analyze the answe

  ... for the restoration of public confidence on government  In Imo State today, the common desire of the people is to see their Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodimma succeed in his works targeted at making Imo State better.  Imo people who have suffered bad leadership accompanied by abuse of power, lust for citizens' lands and properties, diversion and conversion of public funds into private ownership and many more in the past, look up to the leadership of Governor Hope Uzodimma as he has in his actions demonstrated that he has come to change the ugly narratives that militated the growth and development of Imo State. Imo people want their Governor, Hope Uzodimma to succeed in recovering and returning back to the people their lands and properties that were illegally and forcefully taken away in the past by few people who were privileged to be in the corridor of power. For most Imo people, if the Governor succeeds in this, he has earned a pass mark in his service to the State.  It has there

~ PARTY IS IN LOVE WITH HOODLUMS TERRORIZING THE STATE Another string of hate messages seeped from the PDP this Thursday filled with evil projections toward Governor Hope Uzodimma and the general Imo populace. The goal, as with everything the PDP churns out, is to humiliate Uzodimma, but this one inadvertently achieved the opposite. As we know, Imo is sober after unknown gunmen felled three traditional rulers on Tuesday at Njaba LGA. An utter sacrilege. Tragedy of this kind typically calls for rank closing because the enemy is a common one. We saw this in the UK barely a week ago as both Prime Minister, Borris Johnson, and opposition leader, Keir Starmer, rose above political differences not only to condemn the stabbing to death of a sitting member of parliament, Sir David Amess, but also to collaborate to forestall future attacks. In Imo, PDP, the so-called opposition, views insecurity as an arena to politic and promote itself. While its self-acclaimed leader Emeka Ihedioha has his sc

Valentine Ozigbo, the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has secured another victory as the Supreme Court of Nigeria declares him the authentic candidate of the party for the November 6 election.  The apex court, in a judgement delivered at the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja on Thursday, October 21, 2021 threw out all the challenges to Ozigbo's candidacy and awarded a damage of N5 million against "meddlesome interloper" Senator Ugochukwu Uba.  The panel of justices, led by His Lordship, Justice Inyang Okoro affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal Awka Division delivered on September 3, 2021, which declared him the authentic governorship candidate of the PDP.  Mr Ozigbo was present at the Supreme Court along with former Governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi, and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe. The political heavyweight and the team of lawyers who handled this case are currently addressing the press at the court. 

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Imo State chapter, under the leadership of Hon. Macdonald Kelechi Ebere, Ph.D, has unreservedly condemned in strong terms, the barberic and unprovoked attack on Njaba LGA Council of Traditional Rulers while having their routine townhall meeting with the Interim Management Committee chairman of the area on Tuesday October 19, 2021. The sad and mindless attack which led to the untimely death of two prominent and highly revered traditional rulers in the state, Eze E.A Duruebure and Eze Sampson Osunwa of Okwudor and Ihebinowere autonomous communities respectively, and leaving many others severely wounded, will for a long time to come remain an unpardonable assault on the collective psyche of our people. While we join the Executive Governor of Imo State, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma in the condemnation of this heinous and dastardly act, we call on all relevant security agencies in the state to rise up to recent security challenges in the state, pa

  Governor Hope Uzodimma who has represented the interest of South-East and has always taken matters relating to the region personally, remains the Pride of Igbo land. Without mincing words, Governor Hope Uzodimma has shown exemplary capacity as a unifier and the Rising Sun of Igbo nation. It will be recalled that during the working visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State, which on the auspices of Governor Hope Uzodimma, the President tagged Ndi Igbo as industrious and business-oriented people. Like never before, the President rated Igbo Nation excellently and accepted to visit the State despite the security alert. Recently, Governor Hope Uzodimma stood firm to demand for compensation for Ndị Igbo insisting that the region  suffered more during Civil War.  He also made demand for the creation of a sixth State for the Southeast. Few days later, the President approved payment of gratuities of 102 ex-Biafran soldiers. One may wish to ask "who are the enemies of Igbo Nation?&

Unable to reverse it, former PDP governorship candidate, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, has accepted the sole nomination of Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Sam Daddy) for the post of National Secretary in the party's October 30/31 national convention. The former lawmaker also lambasted overzealous supporters for writing against the nomination describing them as "fifth columnists". In a statement, 5 days after the nomination, media aide Chibuike Onyeukwu said Ihedioha had come to accept the decision taken by party stakeholders in the zone and had reached out to Sam Daddy to be carried along. But supporters are not to blame. Ihedioha fell mute soon after Sam Daddy's emergence prompting his loyalists in the state chapter to issue all manner of disclaimers and counter narratives vowing that Ihedioha would upturn the decision. Ahead of the PDP's convention, the crucial post of national secretary was zoned to the South East and subsequently ceded to Imo State. Ihedioha, sources say, had