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Arochukwu Constituency 2023: Ike Okorafor, our best leg forward

Arochukwu Constituency 2023: Ike Okorafor, our best leg forward

One of the parting gifts of 2023 political dispensation to Nigerians is that it is going to offer us the opportunity to correct any errors in the way players view politics and change the orientation of the average Nigerians who have suddenly felt inclined to political happenstances around them which have heightened the desire to push for a change in status quo from selecting leaders of the people for them to the people voting who will lead them. This awareness has become more obvious as a result of the despondency and epileptic developmental strides of the people entrusted with the…
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Emmanuel Onwubiko: Be Desperate, Orji Uzor Kalu, please!

Emmanuel Onwubiko: Be Desperate, Orji Uzor Kalu, please!

By Emmanuel Onwubiko “Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils” Plato (427- 347BCE). “According to Georg Hegel, political ideas are an abstraction from the political life of a society, state, culture, or political movement. To make sense of those ideas, and the institutions or movements they explain, involves examining their history and development. That history is always a story of how we got to where we are now. What we cannot do is look forward to see where history is going. In Roman mythology, the Owl of Minerva was a symbol of wisdom. For Hegel, the Owl only…
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THE MAN CALLED KALU IJOMAH UKEH PT. 1:  The Lofty Task Of Leadership

THE MAN CALLED KALU IJOMAH UKEH PT. 1:  The Lofty Task Of Leadership

THE MAN CALLED KALU IJOMAH UKEH PT. 1:  The Lofty Task Of Leadership Defining reality is a huge part of leadership. Every citizen would want to follow a leader who is honest about the current situation they face as a people with a purpose to offer lotions to them. Leadership is the potential to influence the behaviour of others. It is also the capacity to influence a group of persons towards the realization of a goal by being involved in shaping and moulding the behaviour of the group towards the accomplishment of the set goals. Max DePree makes it seem…
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Minister of State, FCT, and Satellite Towns infrastructure development, by Gambo Jagindi

Minister of State, FCT, and Satellite Towns infrastructure development, by Gambo Jagindi

By Gambo Jagindi Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria and one of the eight most populous cities in the country. Located in the center of Nigeria, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is a city built in the 1980s based on a Masterplan by a Japanese architect, Kenzo Tange. Abuja replaced Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city as the capital on Dec. 12, 1991. Though development of the city is still in progress after more than three decades, the indigenous communities and the city's poor believe that Abuja was designed for only the rich, insisting that the masterplan has no…
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Ike Okorafor Celebrates Abia Deputy Governor, Oko-Chukwu At 60

Ike Okorafor Celebrates Abia Deputy Governor, Oko-Chukwu At 60

Happy Birthday felicitation to the Deputy Governor of Abia State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Sir Ude Oko Chukwu. He is humble, loyal, a high performer, trusted, reliable and articulated. As he adds one today, May God bless his new age and grant him good health, long life and success in his future life endeavours. On behalf of my family and the entire Management and Members of the IOK Educational Foundation, I wish His Excellency, more fruitful years ahead. Signed: Prince Ike Okorafor, House of Assembly Aspirant and Founder, IOK Educational Foundation.  
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Kalu Idika Greets Abia Deputy Governor, Oko-Chukwu At 60

Kalu Idika Greets Abia Deputy Governor, Oko-Chukwu At 60

Abia state gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Kalu Idika Okwara has felicitated with the Abia State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Ude Oko-Chukwu as he clocks 60. He said Oko-Chukwu’s excellent relationship with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was worthy of emulation. Idika Okwara, in a congratulatory message signed by him on Sunday in Umuahia, described Oko-Chukwu as an accomplished administrator and politician. He described him as a diligent person who had shown humility in the service of the people. According to the governorship hopeful, the deputy governor’s contributions as an accomplished chartered accountant is particularly remarkable. He said: “Rt. Hon. Oko-Chukwu has brought his…
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OPINION: Where are the patriots?

OPINION: Where are the patriots?

Dr. Charles Okhai Something of great importance is missing in our society. Something very significant and high national value is obviously and remarkably missing in our nation. They are like seasonings without which no meal can taste good. In the same way, without Patriots no nation can attain her full developmental potentials. Nigeria is unarguably far backwards socially, economically, and politically. The missing link is the dearth of Patriots in our society. The Lack of Patriots underscores our underdevelopment and stagnation as a nation. Sometimes in the past , we had some vibrant Patriots who fought fearlessly and doggeddly for…
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Senator Orji Uzor Kalu: Another Joseph in Disguise

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu: Another Joseph in Disguise

Dapo Ipool Joseph was a chaste and notable Bible character. In his lifetime, he was busy building the capacity of a nation builder while going through his harrowing wilderness experience. His experiences of being thrown into a well and sold into slavery by his brothers, his puritanical chastity to resist the licentious Potiphar’s wife, Zuleika, the little time he spent in the Egyptian prison, were all his trying periods and preparation for divine greatness. Despite his travails, Joseph’s relationship with God was pristine and without compromise. He chose to go to the prison rather than to infest his Bible trained…
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OPINION: Exploring the finance Act to grow non-oil revenue

OPINION: Exploring the finance Act to grow non-oil revenue

By Sunday Michael Ogwu The expirience of COVID-19 especially on developing nations with dependent oil resource like Nigeria has further heightened the called for the diversification of revenue source. Oil benchmark prices dropped below zero force producers to pay off takers because of the compounding demourage from warehouses. Nigeria has not hidden its desire to diversify its revenue sources especially in the last couple of years with the Finance Act opening up more channels to extract non oil revenue. The 2019 finance Act was described as the most far-reaching tax reform in 20 years, designed to facilitate corporate restructuring and…
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Ike Okorafor : INTERVENING SOCIAL DOCTOR

Ike Okorafor : INTERVENING SOCIAL DOCTOR

The Author of Declaration, Gemma Malley surmised what a call to service should connote when she wrote: “I vow to serve, to pay my dues And train myself for Legal use. I vow to bear the Surplus shame And repay Nature for the same I vow to listen, not to speak; To steel myself when I am weak. I vow to work and most of all To serve the State if it should call.” It is on the aegis of this that an Abam born, Prince Ike Okorafor , from the progeny of the late paramount ruler of Ohafor, Eze…
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