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Last Sunday, 25/8/19, prayer sessions in the  lkeduru Anglican Diocese and the entire Imo State was something else as the  Anglican faithful offered special...

Former lawmaker, Shehu Sani has accused the Nigerian Senate of hurriedly approving President Muhammadu Buhari’s requests without serious interrogation. Sani, in a tweet via his...

Tunji Adedeji The people of Amuzu autonomous community in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area...

  Members of Association of Good Governance Imo State Chapter have brought a law-suit to disqualify the Imo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Hope Uzodinma from vying for and occupying the position of governor of Imo State. In suit number HAM/53/2019 filed in the Imo State High Court Ahiazu Mbaise Judicial Division, the group among other things, is alleging that there is a Warrant of Arrest issued by the Grade 1 Area Court Kubwa Abuja for the arrest of the senator for alleged issuance of a dud cheque to some persons by the senator which the police is yet to execute. Further in the suit, the plaintiffs are alleging that the senator embezzled $12.5 million contract sum meant for a Federal Government dredging contract and was indicted by a Presidential Investigative Panel over the contract. Other are that the senator who is sued as the 1st Defendant, attempted to bribe a judge of an Abuja High Court including other series of allegations of code of conduct and financial crimes. The plaintiffs are claiming that if elected governor, the senator would embezzle resources for the development of Imo State and also that the alleged questionable character of the senator would scare away investors from the state. The group is therefore praying the court to declare that the senator is not a fit-and-proper person to be governor of the state and for an order on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove the name of the senator as a governorship candidate. Other prayers are for an order compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the allegations of financial crimes against the senator and for the police to arrest the senator and arraign him in the said Abuja Area Court as ordered by the Area Court. Recently, when the case came up for hearing, the court ordered that the suit be published in the newspapers as a proper mode of service on the defendants. INEC, the Nigeria Police and EFCC are also defendants in the suit. After the publications, the defendants have limited time to file their defence and then judgment may follow.

  The purported rot in the Owerri Capital Development Authority, OCDA, has been traced to the alleged unethical conduct of some staff of the agency...

  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State and the founder of Rimax Institute, Lagos, Chief Livinus Opara, has expressed confidence...

  Palpable tension and anxiety has gripped residents of New Owerri of the state capital as crisis looms over anticipated brickbats between youths of the area. The...

By Professor Obiaraeri, N.O (Agunaechemba, Owelle Okigwe) It has become imperative to react to the mindless, wicked and capricious treatment meted out to some Nigerian...

By Onyekachi EzeA former woman leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA in Imo State, Hon Ijeoma Obiezu has been nominated...

The United Congress of Mbaise Christians, UCMC - the umbrella body of all Christian churches, groups, associations,...