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Group asks PDP to pick Obi as Presidential Candidate. Insists Presidency should be zoned to South East

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Alphonsus Nweze A Non- Governmental Organization (NGO), the Nigerian Consultative Forum (NCF), has asked the main opposition party in the country, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to adopt former Governor of Anambra State as its Presidential Candidate in 2023 presidential election. The group in a communique released to newsmen after their meeting in Abuja last Friday said the call for PDP to adopt Obi was based on his track-record when he was the Governor of Anambra State.In the communique issued by the group after their meeting in Abuja, they said…

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Peace and security in Africa not negotiable, says Osinbajo

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that peace and security in Africa is not negotiable. Osinbajo stated this when the Board of African Peace Magazine (APM) led by its Chairman, Hon Justice Suleiman Galadima (Rtd), paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The statement was made available on Thursday by the magazine’s Managing Editor, Barakat Yakubu, in Abuja. The vice president stressed that there was an urgent need to end wars and conflicts in Africa. He noted that every generation has its own challenge and that the…

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Release Nnamdi Kanu to douse tension in S/East, S/South – NUF Tells Buhari

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Ndigbo Unity Forum ( NUF), has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to jettison his latest hard stance on the Leader of Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and grant him unconditional release. In a statement in Onitsha, Anambra State, the Igbo group expressed sadness over President Buhari’s comment that Kanu’s fate would be decided by the court and not through political solution.President Buhari during an interview with the Channels Television had bluntly said that the IPOB leader would face his charges at the law court.Kanu, who was kidnapped…

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Nov. 6 Governorship Election: Provide adequate security as promised, Archbishop Okeke tells FG

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Alphonsus Nweze The Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev.(Dr.) Valerian Okeke, has asked the Federal Government to provide adequate security as promised for the November 6 , 2021 Governorship election. The Archbishop spoke weekend when he had an interaction with newsmen as part of his 68 years birthday, which he as usual celebrated with the inmates of Onitsha prison .He said : The Federal Government promised adequate security. I think government will fulfill their promise”.The Metropolitan, appealed to those who felt they have been aggrieved to resist the temptation…

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Manipulate Nov.6 election, face people’s wrath – Anigbata tells INEC, Security Operatives

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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC staff conducting the Nov.6 Anambra State governorship election and the security operatives have been warned to resist the temptation to manipulate or compromise the electionA former Governorship candidate in the state, Chief Ikechukwu Anigbata, who gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Onitsha said anybody who came to the state to manipulate or compromise the election is looking for the trouble of the people of the state.He said the primary duty of INEC staff, whether Adhoc and security agencies is to make…

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NOA organised voters’ education, stakeholders’ engagement for successful Anambra 2021 election

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It was a clement day on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 when National Orientation Agency (NOA), Anambra State Directorate organised a voters’ education and stakeholders’ engagement programme in Aguleri, Anambra-East Local Government Area Headquarters.The programme stared with an opening prayer from Rev. Father Fidelis Chife who is the President General of Nando community.Immediately afterwards, the NOA State Director, Barr. Charles Nwoji in his welcome address spoke on Why Votes Should Count. The presentation pointed out some of the challenges that have foreclosed elections being counted in Nigeria.The discrepancies in the voters’…

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Stakeholders link security challenge in Nigeria to socioeconomic problems, bad leadership

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Col. Nelson Hambolu (rtd.) says the current security challenges in Nigeria cannot be unconnected to some socioeconomic problems the nation is faced with. He stated this, Saturday night, during a zoom meeting organised by the Nigeria Diaspora Network (NDN), the United State (US) chapter, and monitored by newsmen in Abuja. Hambolu, who retired in 1997 after 24 years in the Nigerian Army, said the genesis of banditry in the country needed to be unravelled before the best approach to end the menace could be activated. The expert in forensic science…

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