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Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), yesterday, came down hard on World Igbo Youth Council (WIYC), for ruling out Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, for a second term in office. Few days ago, WIYC had called on Abias not to  re-elect Governor…

Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) has declared 17 candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winners, in the chairmanship position of the local government election held last Saturday. The PDP also won 258 wards,…

President Muhammadu Buhari, the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad; and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, have again been listed among the most powerful Muslims in the world. This is contained in a Muslim publication, The Muslim 500 in its…

Eighty-eight-year-old Mbazulike Amaechi is a First Republic Minister of Aviation and the only surviving member of the pre-independence Zikist Movement. He shares the story of his life with TONY OKAFOR When were you born? I was born on June…

The 2015 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Abia State, Anyim Nyerere, has accused Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of increasing the poverty level in the state. Nyerere, who spoke to journalists in Owerri, Imo State, claimed…

How did your recent tour go? It was a world tour and it went well. I had the opportunity to visit places that I’d never travelled to and I also revisited some places. The essence of the tour was to export our music to other parts of the…

As the debate on whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari should be automatically given the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019 continues, some chieftains of the party have predicted that he would shock…

His aunty, others speak His house in Hong razed by Boko Haram From Abel Billy Graham, Yola Garaha is still smarting from the devastation visited on it at the peak of Boko Haram onslaught in the north-eastern state of Adamawa. Located…

the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared 21 days mourning for its members killed during the military invasion of the home of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu at Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State. This is even as the Biafra agitation group…

Niger Delta militants have declared what they termed ‘Operation show no mercy’ vowing to resume attacks on oil installations in the region. This declaration was made by a Coalition of Niger Delta Militants (NDA), which came barely 24 hours…