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ONGOING DEMOLITION AND BALKANIZATION OF OWERRI METROPOLIS BY THE ROCHA OKOROCHA LED GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE: A CALL FOR RESISTANCE The Igbo National Council (INC) having taken time to conduct an inclusive Socioeconomic and Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIP) of the ongoing demolition and balkanization of street roads and make shift business structures of peasants traders in Owerri metropolis by the government of Imo State under the rulership of Gov. Rochas Okoroch, and came up with the following findings positions: 1. The ongoing demolition and balkanization of make shift business places of peasant traders in Owerri metropolis will cause more hardship to the masses of the people and residence of Imo State. 2. That the purported expansion of Wetheral and Douglas roads respectively pose greater danger to the foundations of over seventy percent of the buildings along the two popular roads in Owerri. We also note that the excavation has exposed and putting to risk the ...

Will NANS ever be united? This is not a question; it is a challenge to those presently leading NANS and those that may likely lead it in the future. Will you ever make NANS truly united? After reading that Chinonso Obasi and Aruna Kadiri have agreed to host a unity convention for the upcoming NANS election, I can’t but ponder about similar incident that happened some years back. Just few years ago, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) was factionalized. Comrade Imagwe Jude and Comrade Ini Ememobong both lay claim to the NANS presidency. After their tenure expired, well meaning comrades and stakeholders advocated for the need to have a united NANS and a unity convention was held, that produced Yinka Gbadebo. After Yinka Gbadebo emerged as NANS President, it was assumed that unity has finally returned to NANS and that the unity would be sustained to make NANS a strong and vibrant students body that would be able to defend the right of the Nigerian Students. However, ...

Victim Kwara Must Change has compiled at least, 14 names of victims murdered in the deadly armed robbery attack that took place in Offa Community, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. The names gathered so far include 10 police officers and 4 civilians. However, we shall continue to update the list as we gather more details. It would be recalled that on 5th April 2018, a deadly armed robbery attack took place in Offa Local government Area of Kwara State, in which several innocent lives were lost. While several figures were claimed by police and several media houses, Vigilance Group of Nigeria in Offa said vigilantes in the state counted about 50 dead bodies after armed robbers attacked and robbed five banks. It was on this basis that Kwara Must Change has set out to preserve the memory of the victims, through compiling and documenting their names, not only to ascertain the figure, but to also immortalize them. We believe that only by documenting the names of the victims, wi...

Mention five states in Nigeria that are considered not peaceful based on public perception? That was the question that shaped the private conversation I had with two veteran media personalities and crisis communication experts this past week. It was an unplanned discussion about the role of media in communicating events and shaping perceptions. As we are all aware, media communication in our culture is said to hold an influential place in disseminating information, forming attitudes and motivating behavior. However, according to the conclusion in a Conference of Catholic Churches (CCC, no. 2489), ‘’the more our culture moved away from acceptance of objective truth, the more it has moved toward the culture of opinions’’, which in my view is largely shaped by media reports and perception. On Friday, April 6, 2018, Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP) publicly unveiled the maiden edition of Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) report in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital. Nigeria Peace Index...

The new Controller of the Ogun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Michael Ojobo Agbara, has promised to consolidate on the efforts put in place by his predecessors at the office. The new Controller made the promise on Wednesday at the Idiroko command of the service while receiving the mantle of leadership from his predecessor, Comptroller Sani Madugu. Controller Agbara vowed to study the peculiarities of the command and ensure that better achievement was recorded during his tenure. During his acceptance speech, the new comptroller begged officers and journalists in the state to cooperate with him so as to make his job easy. Agbara also explained that he cannot make any promise until he must have inspected the command, understand the terrine and identified the threats. His words, "Concerning comparison., the customs policy is that no officer should stay long in a particular place because if you stay long, you will begin to have friends and you will not be as ag...

The Ogun State Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said on Tuesday that it has intercepted 1,963 bags of foreign rice allegedly smuggled into the country in the last two weeks. The Area Command Controller, Sanni Madugu, told newsmen at his office in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that information being circulated to officers of the service in the state show that the smugglers now make use of cement trucks to smuggle foreign rice into the country. The Controller said the seizure also include two trucks that were being used to smuggle the seized rice, one motorcycle as well as Cannabis Saliva of a quarter sack, 8 cocoa-nut size and 2/ book size. He put the duty paid value of the seized items at N58,611,000, adding that the seized cannabis would be handed over to the state command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The Controller said information that are being circulated to officers of the service in the state show that the smugglers now make use of ...

Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP), an independent Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) has publicly unveiled the much anticipated Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) research and the index came with some shocking revelation. Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) is the first national peace index in Nigeria focused on measuring peace tendencies through foundational indices. In the Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) publicly unveiled in Abuja on Friday, Osun and Kogi State emerged as the 2 most peaceful states in Nigeria, followed by Ekiti, Kwara and Imo State, which emerged as 3rd, 4th and 5th most peaceful states respectively. The index also revealed that Yobe, Kebbi, Bauchi, Zamfara and Sokoto State are the five least peaceful states in Nigeria. This is apart from Borno State that was not considered in the research due to insufficient data and the Boko Haram red light. The Executive Director of Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP), Ambassador Abdulrazaq O Hamzat explained that, ‘’measuring peace at...

Fourteen years after the practice and phenomenon of Constituency projects began to evolve in the legislative practice and appropriation process of the 4th Republic, the phenomenon has grown to become pervasive across the Federation with both Federal and state legislatures now fully embracing the practice. Yet, nearly a decade and half on, there is still no clarity regarding the practice, with respect to any form of agreed framework guiding its implementation. There is, as of the moment of writing this piece in 2018, no policy, legislative nor institutional framework underlying and providing not only pragmatic, but also scientific criteria and parameter for determining the why, how, and where of constituency projects. And even though there are currently draft bills being considered by both chambers of the National Assembly [NASS] aimed at providing a regulatory framework for the practice, the bills have nevertheless remained stuck within the opaque labyrinth of the legislative proce...

Instead of diverting public attention with its usual deceit and propaganda, the APC government should gear up and deliver on its hundreds of unfulfilled campaign promises, the PDP Caucus in the House of Representatives has said. In a statement issued by the House Minority Leader, Honourable Leo Ogor, the PDP House caucus warned that the APC’s uncharitable use of the Chibok’s girls’ abduction during the 2015 political campaigns along with its current propaganda efforts cannot help APC win re-election in 2019. “Over and over, it has been proven that hands down, the current APC government in Nigeria beats all preceding administration, including the colonial ones, in the sinister art of deceitful lies and propaganda. “With fiendish mercilessness, APC’s 2015 campaign milked the unfortunate abduction of Chibok girls for every available ounce of propaganda and disinformation against the preceding administration; its campaign rhetoric and official hoopla from the lying ministe...

NNAMDI OKONKWO, GMD FIDELITY BANK PLC My nature as a socio-political crusader does not allow me to keep quiet when things are going wrong in my environment, especially when innocent members of the society are unduly being punished; perhaps because they have nobody to speak for them. Few days ago, I gave a hint on my facebook wall that I would be exposing the dirty deals of a new generation bank and the excesses of the Department of State Security (DSS), who has today become a tool in the hands of some so called highly placed Nigerians to dehumanize and torture innocent Citizens of this country. The despicable activities of Operatives of the Department of State Security(DSS) has therefore made me to conclude that the Security outfit is a criminal organization used by highly placed people in this country to intimidate any member/members of the public who is/are perceived as an obstacle to their inglorious quest for questionable wealth, position and power. THE SYNOPSIS OF THE ...

The problem with some Nigerians is not ethnicity or religion, it it out right lack of humanity. We must make concerted efforts to bring back our humanity. A man identified as Chief Joshua Ekpo was allegedly killed by his nephew on Sunday 25th March, 2018, at Eyosio - Osung Village in Udung Uko local government area of Akwa Ibom state. The man was allegedly attacked and beheaded by his nephew after a disagreement. When we hear about killings between two groups of different ethnicity or religion, we are quick to claim one ethnic group is bad, but what do we say when people from the same family are killing each other over none issue? Check the picture below, does it make any sense that a family member beheaded his uncle in such an evil manner? So, what do you expect from a person who could kill his own family over little disagreement to do with people of different ethnic or religious when they have misunderstanding? No tribe or religion is bad on it own, however, there are bad p...

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) is about to conduct election to usher in new leadership for the association. About 14 aspirants from across the federation have indicated interest in running for the number student position in Nigeria. Below is a picture NANS presidential aspirants and NANS senate presidential aspirants

The terrorist insurgency group, Boko Haram is yet to be defeated, degraded or decimated, this is the glaring truth that must be accepted and confronted with all sincerity, so that they can truly be defeated and decimated beyond the rhetoric. While the group is no longer gaining more grounds like it used to do during the previous administration, they are still very much alive and active. It has in our observation, adopted a different mode of operation, which is no longer about sacking communities or gaining territories, but consolidating its achievement and gaining the heart of the people in the area it has significant influence, a method that seems to be silently working in its favor, as seen in their heroic welcome in dapchi Village, when they returned the abducted Dapchi girls on 21st Marhc, 2018. Contrary to popular claims that the people were excited because the abducted girls were returned, Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP) hold the views that, what was seen in Dapch...

Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP) wishes to inform the public that the Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) research project has been rescheduled to launch on Friday, 6th April, 2018 at Symposium II, Merit House, Maitama Abuja. Nigeria Peace Index (NPI) is the first national peace index in Nigeria that is focused on measuring peace tendencies through foundational indices. Nigeria Peace Index results shows the most and least peaceful states in Nigeria, most and least peaceful regions in Nigeria, most peaceful states in each of the 6 geo-political zones of Nigeria, least peaceful states in each of the 6 geo-political zones in Nigeria among other interesting revelations. The index also provides analysis of socio-economic factors associated with peacefulness in states across Nigeria, as well as an estimate of the economic benefits that would flow from increase in peace. Nigeria Peace Index (NPI), which rates the level of peacefulness in the 36 states of the federation, is the produc...

Linda Ikeji and Florence Bodurin Florence Bodurin is the first blogger to meet with Linda Ikeji after the news of her engagement became public. Bodurin shared the picture of her meeting with Linda Ikeji few hours ago. Linda Ikeji reportedly got engaged few days ago and immediately the news of her engagement leaked to the public, several celebrities had taken to their social media accounts to congratulate the celebrity blogger.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)has built a massive edifice along Jabbi and Airport Road, which is going to be used as its new head office. Mr Rights sighted the new structure, which is located directly opposite National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) headquarters, Abuja. Information reaching Mr Rights indicates that, EFCC shall soon be moving to the new head office, as it is almost 100% completed. Check out the building below

Sisterhood Africa has announce the date for its Global Maiden Prayer Conference to transform lives. In a release by the organization, the conference is scheduled to hold at Merry Makers Event Center Wuse 2, Abuja, Nigeria between April 6-7Th 2018. ''This is not a usual Conference, Expect the unusual, as no Prayer request will escape the sword... ''There will be something for everyone. The Married, Single, Divorced, Widow''. The organization said, adding that special Session for those believing God for fruit of the womb among other challenges. To register please visit http://www.nonnieroberson.com/conference/register Those requiring letter of invitation from outside Nigeria or any other assistance kindly email conference@sisterhoodglobal.com For more Inquiries call +234 817 268 2452 +234 814 386 6021 +234 813 533 5891

Emergency Relationship Counselor- by Pius Adesanmi I may have saved her relationship this past January when I was in Ghana. A brilliant Ghanaian millennial. One of my graduate student mentees in Accra. She'll go places in academia. I notice she is sad. In Africa, you can poke your nose and ask personal questions in ways that would get you into a load of cultural and legal trouble in Oyinbo land. So I poke my nose into her business the African way. She breaks into tears. Prof, can I talk to you? I'm all ears. Prof, it's my fiance. What about him? He is misbehaving? Sort of. He is in America. He lives in Los Angeles. He came home for Christmas and promised my parents that he would return later this month for our registry marriage. This is mid-January and he has been dodging my calls. We chat but he is not saying anything about when he is coming for the marriage. How old is your fiance? 29. I see. How long has he been in America? About five years now....

Kwara Must Change wishes to assure all Kwarans that for the first time in recent history, the people will be the sole determinant of their leaders come 2019. This assurance became necessary due to the activities of some political jobbers, who are proving themselves enemy of the people by attempting to sell the future of the state as they have always done by usurping the democratic right of the people to choose their own leaders. A group, which called itself Coalition of Registered Political Parties in Kwara State reportedly called on Senate President Bukola Saraki to intervene in the choice of governorship candidate in the state. The group made the call in a letter written to Saraki which was signed by its coordinator, Alhaji Ahmed Abdullahi and widely reported across the media. Kwara Must Change hereby condemn such an undemocratic call in the strongest term and we are informing the inconsequential group that never again, will Saraki or any individual be allowed to choose gover...

Information has emerged that before the blazing form of Cristiano Ronaldo which saw him netting 21 goals in just 1 matches, the world best player made a bet with teammates that he would overturn Messi's Pichichi lead. Messi's incredible start to the season was characterised b blistering goalscoring, however when the disparity between the two players was 11 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo made a bet with his teammates that he would win the Pichichi award ahead of his rival. This revelation was made by Jose Ramon. As part of Radio MARCA's El Transistor programme, Jose Ramon de la Morena revealed that Ronaldo began this challenge in front of his colleagues in order to kickstart his season after a slow run. Since Ronaldo's supposed bet, Messi has notched 13 goals with Cristiano Ronaldo having scored 21 in the same period, with his sights now firmly set on ending the campaign well and surpassing his rival from the Camp Nou. Do you think Ronaldo can overtake Messi in Lalig...