By Omocho Kalu Industry stakeholders have urged government regulatory agencies to de-emphasise revenue generation but rather focus more on enterprise facilitation.This they agree would guarantee a bid to ensure industrial and national development for society. The call was made by a panel of discussants at the recently concluded Nigeria Employers Summit 2020 themed ‘The Private Sector as Engine for National Development’. The summit, which was organized by the Nigeria Employer Consultative Association (NECA), held in Abuja, on June 20 and 21, 2022. Setting the tone for the panel discussion on…
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V Pship: ANYIM HAILS OKOWA,
…Says he is a brilliant, focused, cool-headed leader
By Omocho Kalu Former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has congratulated the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa on his emergence as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 presidential election. Anyim, who eulogised the choice of Okowa, described him as a cool-headed gentleman, a brilliant and focused leader. In a statement Anyim personally signed, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), stated: “I heartily congratulate His Excellency Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State on…
Read MoreMadam Esther Omoche Onuh for Burial
By Mandy Park Family of the Late Benue State-born businesswoman, Madam Esther Omoche Onuh has announced her burial arrangements.Madam Esther had passed earlier on May 15th in Lagos after a brief illness. She was aged 77. In a statement signed by one of her children, Betty Abah, activist and media entrepreneur, the funeral activities would hold on the 3rd, 7th, 8th and 10th July in Lagos and Benue States. According to Abah “The burial arrangement of our dear mother who went to be with the Lord after a brief illness…
Read MoreYour days are numbered – IPOB tells criminal gangs in South
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday warned the rampaging criminal gangs in the South East region that their days are numbered, just as IPOB vowed to apprehend the hoodlums. IPOB’s lead counsel Ifeanyi Ejiofor while speaking with newsmen in Owerri gave this warning after they visited Nnamdi Kanu at the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, in Abuja, last Thursday. They described the action of the hoodlums as sacrilegious and an attempt to label IPOB a bad group. Also, the group urged the residents to…
Read MorePeter Obi: Enugu Catholic Diocese shuts down Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry
By NAN The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga has banned Catholics including the clergy from attending Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry over his recent utterances in the ministry. This is contained in a letter personally signed by the Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Callitus Onaga and addressed to ‘All the Clery, Religious and Lay Faithful in the Catholic Diocese of Enugu’ on Saturday in Enugu. Onaga banned them from having anything to do with the Adoration Ministry. The letter said, “In the light of the happenings…
Read MoreDemocracy Day: Obi tasks leaders on good governance, preaches hope to Nigerians
By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has tasked leaders at all levels in the country to see the Democracy Day as an opportunity to reflect and recommit themselves to their constitutional responsibility of providing good governance to the people. Obi made the remark in his Democracy Day message, just as he decried the rising insecurity, poverty and unemployment, calling on leaders to take urgent decisive action to stop total failure of our country. He noted with pains that even with her abundant human and material resources,…
Read More2023: Labour Party will win the presidency with 100m Nigerians as its structure—- Peter Obi
By Omocho Kalu Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, who is among the top three presidential contenders, said the elderly, our mothers, fathers, as well as the old ones dying of being owed gratuity/pension will be the structure to facilitate his victory. Obi, is confident in winning the presidential election with the over 100 million human structure on which the party stands. . The former Anambra State governor, via his Twitter handle today, Sunday, June 12, noted that his structure would be about human beings United on one purpose……
Read MoreOwo massacre despicable, callous, assault on humanity and desecration of the church of God – Anyim
By Omocho Kalu Former President of the Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim has condemned in strongest term the massacre of Christians by gunmen at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State on Sunday, 5 June, describing it as despicable and callous. In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Anyim said the killing of the worshippers during Sunday service was despicable, callous, as well as an assault on humanity and desecration of the Church of God.He wondered why the evil men could enter into…
Read MoreOndo Catholic Church attack, cowardly, inhuman says Peter Obi
By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has outrightly condemned the attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on Sunday, by gunmen, describing it as cowardly and inhuman. Obi who made the remark in reaction to the early morning attack on the church, condemned the unwarranted assault on innocent worshippers, adding that the action by the gunmen represented the worst form of bestiality against the society. “There is no part of Nigeria that deserves to be attacked. But choosing a…
Read MorePresidency 2023: P-Square’s Peter Tackles Dele Momodu Over Take On Peter Obi, LP
2023 Presidential candidate
By Mandy Park Peter Okoye, Nigerian musician of P-Square fame, has taken a swipe at Dele Momodu, Ovation Magazine publisher and presidential aspirant, over claims that Peter Obi, a presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), cannot win the 2023 presidency. Reacting to Momodu’s assertion, Okoye, in a series of tweets on Twitter, averred that Obi might not have money and structure but he has the youths and masses behind him, stressing that the 2023 election was beyond delegates as the masses would control the outcome of the election. Tweeted…
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