28 Past, Present Governors Who May Be Senators In 2023

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Although no law in the Nigerian Constitution precludes them from contesting to be senators, the National Assembly now seems to be a retirement home for outgoing and former governors. In the current National Assembly, whose life will expire on June 11, 2023, there are 14 former governors serving as senators representing districts from the north and south of the country. While some of the serving senators who are ex-governors lost out in the recently concluded primary elections of their political parties, some who are about to finish their tenure as…

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Stakeholders Seek Collaborative Regulatory Environment for Industrial Development

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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

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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…

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Madam Esther Omoche Onuh for Burial

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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…

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Your days are numbered – IPOB tells criminal gangs in South

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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…

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Peter Obi: Enugu Catholic Diocese shuts down Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry

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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…

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Peter Obi takes a trip to Cairo to study Egypt’s power, education, finance sectors

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By Omocho Kalu Former governor of Anambra State and Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, left Nigeria today, Tuesday, June 14 for a three-day visit to Egypt. The former governor of Anambra state announced the trip through his verified twitter page, @PeterObi, explaining that the idea of the trip was to enable him study how other countries are making giant progress when Nigeria, his country is wallowing in anguish. While in Egypt, he said he will, among other things, study the Egyptian power…

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Peter Obi is a movement.

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From what I am seeing and have seen, the man is the biggest phenomenon in Nigeria since MKO Abiola (for those too young to understand who MKO was in the political space thirty years ago) What is happening around the country right now especially in the South of Nigeria with the Obi Hurricane is something unprecedented. I have looked at my political map again today and I have been poring at strategies, permutations and possibilities all day. Peter Obi, RIGHT NOW, will overwhelmingly win 14 states in Nigeria, if the…

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Democracy Day: Obi tasks leaders on good governance, preaches hope to Nigerians

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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,…

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2023: Labour Party will win the presidency with 100m Nigerians as its structure—- Peter Obi

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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……

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