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Social Insecurity: Abia State Commissioner of Police seeks for synergy, Meets Okey Kanu

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Information is a strong tool; it must be effectively deployed with respect to ethics and professionalism for the benefit of society – Kenechukwu Onwuemelie By Eagle Okoro When I read a post by the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu, on a group platform on Friday about the planned courtesy visit to his office by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, I shuddered for a while. I simply could not easily fathom the reason a Commissioner of Police would want to pay a courtesy call on a…

Bad political leadership not religion is the bane of Africa’s development

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What religious Scriptures (Bible or Quoran) are we busy quoting in Nigerian streets and media platforms to justify or condemn Tinubu’s certificate saga since 1999? Is it not the lacuna in our constitutional and deceptive interpretation that our lawyers and judges have adopted? Rev. Solomon Umazi It is high time we begin to interrogate some self-imposed and baseless propaganda against Africa and Africans. Most of these baseless narratives are gradually taking root in the space of public opinion as if it’s the truth. How come we are being forced to…

South East Nigeria needs emergency rescue, a passionate leader

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Gov Alex Otti is leading a revolution in the territory that appears abandoned for the past 2 decades and he needs all the support from his people and not the kind of uncouth oppositions I come across on the social media By Njoku SaintJerry A. These are dire times and the realities on ground do not require niceties, neither would palliatives suffice, albeit tolerable, therefore I will go straight to business and save us the mystery of folk tales and misery of political correctness South East Nigeria is in dire…

Abia guber: Tribunal shames PDP, dismisses petition against Gov. Otti as lacking in merit

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the petitioners were unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt, their allegations that Otti did not score the majority of the lawful votes cast and that the election was marred by corrupt practices and irregularities. By Sam Okoro The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia on Friday struck out the petition filed by the PDP Candidate, Chief Okechukwu Ahaiwe, challenging the election of Gov. Alex Otti of LP. The three-member panel in its almost four-hour judgment, read by Justice G.T.D Gwada, dismissed the three grounds raised by the petitioner for…