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DTHA bye-election: Delta  APC not known for rigging

DTHA bye-election: Delta APC not known for rigging

Our attention has been drawn to a publication in the Vanguard newspaper of Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 in which the Director of Media and Publicity for Princess Shola Ogbemi-Daibo Campaign Organisation, Mr Ojere Eremosele, alleged that APC plans to rig the Delta State House of Assembly bye-election for the Warri South LGA Constituency I, purporting that a meeting was held somewhere in Abuja where plans were “made to mastermind the rigging of the afore-mentioned election”.

Black Easter Sunday: Slain journalist received multiple threat messages  — Colleagues

Black Easter Sunday: Slain journalist received multiple threat messages — Colleagues

If only he had stayed away from his home that fateful Easter Sunday morning, perhaps he could have evaded the messengers of death that brutally cut him down at his prime,” lamented a close friend of Famous Giobaro, an editor of the Bayelsa State owned broadcasting corporation, the Glory FM, at the funeral procession held in his honour.

‘Dibugwu’ was everything to me

‘Dibugwu’ was everything to me

Dibugwu Elizabeth Eziamaka Obiogbolu passed on to glory on February 15 2017. She was born in 1937 to the prestigious family of Late Akunnia William Chukwuma Iweanya of Iyiawu village of Obankpa clan of Onitsha and Susana Mgbeke Mejuobi of Aluoha village, Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area.

NIA and the Messy $43m: Memo to Buhari

NIA and the Messy $43m: Memo to Buhari

In my view, this is the right time for the current NSA with a doctorate Degree in International Relations, a former Chief of Defence Intelligence and a polyglot should expand the scope of the ONSA beyond the narrow definitions propounded by his successors to avoid a repeat of the ugly scenarios of the $43m NIA cash saga in our nation’s intelligence community.

How Orka’s soldiers said bye

How Orka’s soldiers said bye

Death is no doubt an inevitable end. We shall all go to meet our creator, someday. Some see death coming, many go without any signs. A few face death. September 13, 1990 is one day I will not forget in a hurry.

Anambra Guber: Now the merchandise of evil tales

Anambra Guber: Now the merchandise of evil tales

It is understandable that in the approach to the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State that desperate aspirants and their supporters would want to paint more serious aspirants in the negative. They have resorted to all media including social media to push their desperation.

Our moments of angst

Our moments of angst

OUR nation is now a big theatre where farcical actions and events take place at a pulsating pace. And, keeping up with the tempo of the outlandish dramas that have grotesquely assailed our sensibilities has not been easy. The totality of the bizarre storyline centres on the recoveries by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of monies believed to be part of our looted commonwealth by some former and, possibly, serving government officials.

The legacy of NA7

The legacy of NA7

These were the brief exchange between Colonel Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, (March 9, 1928- March 8, 2017), Military Governor of Western Region and Lt. Col. Udumegwu Ojukwu(1933-2011), Military Governor of Eastern Region during the peace meeting held by Senior Military officers in Aburi, Ghana between January 4 and 5, 1967 to resolve Nigerian crisis.