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The people of Uratta Amaugwu in Isialangwa North Local Government Area of Abia State have commended Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for attracting the construction of the road in their community. The community hailed Kalu's magnanimity and astuteness in facilitating a project outside his Constituency. Our correspondent reports that Senator Orji Uzor Kalu is the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, while Isialangwa North is in Abia Central Senatorial District. Chief Emmanuel Afone, the President General, Urratta Progressive Union in a statement signed by him on behalf of the community appreciated Kalu for the gesture and promised to always support him…

The people of Alayi in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State have commended the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, for the ongoing rural transformation of the community through the opening of access roads. The community commended Kalu during his ward-to-ward tour to the area. Amongst the roads mentioned include the already completed Amankalu road which has been fully completed and Amaoku Amakpu road which has reached 90 percent completion. Thanking Senator Kalu on behalf of the community, Mr. Onuoha Chukwueke Nnanna also appealed to the Senator to pay attention to Umuenyere -Amakwu-Amaeke Agbakoli road.…

Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has jokingly threatened to arrest and detain the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over an incident that took place in Anambra while the latter was governor of the state. In a now viral video on social media, El-Rufai told a group of northerners during an interactive session with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Monday that Obi allegedly got him arrested and detained when he visited Anambra to monitor the state’s governorship election in 2013. Obi, who is the Labour Party presidential candidate, is currently in Kaduna to meet with the Arewa Joint Committee which…

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Monday, paid a courtesy visit to Ahmad Gumi, the Islamic cleric. Obi and Baba-Ahmed, his running mate, visited the cleric in his official residence in Kaduna state. The LP standard bearer announced the meeting on his Twitter handle, sharing photos from the visit. See photos below.

Suspected political thugs have attacked supporters of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar at the ongoing campaign rally in Kaduna State. The former vice president confirmed this in a post on his verified social media handles on Monday. This is coming a few days after thugs attacked supporters of the party in Zamfara State leading to the death of at least one person, while several others were injured. Atiku in the post, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call supporters of all political parties to order in a bid to tackle reoccurrence of such incident.…

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has called on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to apologise to Nigerians following a divisive and controversial remarks. Atiku had said: “I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. I think what the average northerner needs is somebody who is from the north, who also understands the other parts of Nigeria, and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country. “This is what the northerner needs. He (the northerner) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate.…

The Ebonyi South Senatorial candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Linus Okorie, has been abducted by unknown persons in Abakaliki, the capital city of Ebonyi state. Okorie, a former House of Representatives member representing Onicha, Ohaozara, and Ivo federal constituency of Ebonyi state at the green chambers, between 2007 and 2015 was on Sunday said to have been kidnapped. According to a statement signed by one David Ogbonna on behalf of Linus Okorie CaringHeart Foundation, Okorie was alleged to have been abducted by an Ebubeagu security outfit in the state. The statement reads, “Hon. Linus Abaa…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that his statement asking northerners to reject Igbo and Yoruba candidates in the 2023 presidential election was ‘a joke’. According to Atiku, the statement which he made during an interactive session with northern groups under the aegis of the Arewa Joint Committee, was taken out of context and propagated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The ruling party had knocked Atiku, saying his request to the northern people exposed his “mindless desperation” for power. The former vice president during the townhall…

FOR many years, security personnel deployed in the Niger Delta to guard oil installations and stop crude oil bunkering had turned themselves into oil bandits in collusion with some International Oil Companies, IOCs, government officials and oil bunkers. They all blamed community folks and minor bunkers for illegally refining crude with amateur technology in the creeks. There was nobody to speak out for the endangered communities until the Minister of State for Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, and Group Managing Director of NNPCL, Dr. Mele Kyari, under immense pressure from President Muhammadu Buhari, to stop the increasing oil theft, thought out…

The Police Command in Gusau, Zamfara State on Sunday confirmed the killing of one man, with 18 others sustaining injuries during a clash by political thugs. The police said the groups were suspected to be members of APC and PDP in the state. The spokesman for the command, Muhammad Shehu, gave the confirmation in an SMS message to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Sunday. Mr Shehu, who confirmed that the command had received a report of the killing, said: “discreet investigation into the case has commenced aimed at ensuring that the perpetrators face the full wrath of…