Andy Uba defends victory, berates challenger
The Senator representing Anambra South in the Senate, Dr. Andy Uba- PDP, has said that he won the just concluded election against his main challenger, Mr Ernest Ndukwe, fair and square.
Venezuela envoy calls Obama to order, says both countries have cut diplomatic ties
The Head of Mission, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Nigeria, Mr. MiguelancelVecchia, has askedthe United States President, Barrack Obama, to make efforts toward retracting the executive order against his country, stressing that both countries have already severed the diplomatic relationship shared.
‘I thought my husband was too handsome to marry me’
Not every man a woman meets is meant to be his wife and not every relationship must end up in marriage because there are husband materials and friend materials, but when people end up marrying those who ought to be just friends, they would end up having all manner of marital problems. But when a man marries his real wife, ordained for him by God and a woman marries a man ordained for her by God, even if they encounter problems along the line, they always overcome because God has purposed them to be together.
No regret over foreign-based players’ absence – Siasia
Dream Team VI Coach Samson Siasia says there are no regrets not having more overseas based players on his team as they get set for this weekend’s All Africa Games qualifier against the Young Chipolopolo of Zambia.
For Alex Otti, The answer is the people
IT does not take the pronouncement of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for anybody to know that it is for Dr Alex Otti, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the 2015 general elections in Abia State, to lose.
Pa J. O. S. Ayomike – an iroko @ 88
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Whoever planted an Iroko tree – the greatest in the forest? You may collect all the Iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there. So it is with the greatness of men — Prof. Chinua Achebe
APC will not fail Ndi Igbo – Onu
Chairman of the defunct Presidential Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has said that the party would not sideline the south east geopolitical zone when the incoming government of Mohammadu Buhari is formed.
Akiolu: Resist intimidation, vote your conscience, Ohanaeze tells Igbo
BY FRANCIS IGATA ENUGU – The umbrella Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has directed Igbo in living in Lagos to resist acts of intimidation and vote their conscience. Condemning the threat by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, Ohanaeze, in a statement by its President General, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey said; “We view this with serious concern […]
What If Oba Akiolu is working for Jimi Agbaje and is counting on our reactions—Don Jazzy tells Igbos
By Abiodun Alade Follow @Biodunpen Ace producer, Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has raised a poser that Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, might be working for the emergence of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jimi Agbaje and was counting on the reactions of the Igbo population in the state to […]
Lagos too important for APC to lose – Buhari
The President-elect, retired Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday said that Lagos State was too important for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to lose to the opposition. Buhari, at the APC rally in Orile area of the state, urged Lagos residents to vote en masse for the party’s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday.
Kenya accelerates repatriation of Somalis refugees after campus attack
Kenya government said on Tuesday in Nairobi, that plans have been concluded to speed up the repatriation of Somalis from the Dadaab, Kenya, refugee camp. This is coming on the heels of Al-Shabaab massacred 147 people on a Kenyan university campus.
