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 Buhari is not the problem. Infact, the only thing stopping Biafra is the Igbo man's mentality. If such change, then Buhari won't even be vexed as he will see reasons to let the Igbo go their way. If he let's you go now,how can you survive with the level of acrimony in Igbo man's heart for another! 

 If the Economy is perfect, the rich doesn't need to know the poor. The poor will take care of himself from wherever he is and be comfortable and happy. 

 Politics is a mobile entity. One is not expected to remain constant at all times. It is also a game of number,hence, when majority move,you move. (Otuu Obinna,2021).

Federal Polytechnic, Oko Of the 17 candidates vying for the position of Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, three candidates have been shortlisted for the Federal Government to choose a substantive head soon. The interview for the Rector position conducted by Rector Selection Committee of the Governing Council of the institution was led by Lasberry Amadi. A competent source said that one Francisca Uloma Nwafulugo placed first in the interview, Christian Ezeudu was second while Chikadibia Michael Eni came third. 

Polytechnics are second to Universities and many people attend Polytechnics in Nigeria because of the frustration of not Gaining admission in a Nigerian University . Because of that, Many of those who wish to attend after not getting admission a University tend to search for the Best Polytechnic in Nigeria to study the course they wish to. Top 10 Best Polytechnic In Nigeria in 2018 by Otuu Obinna Ogbonnia. 1. Federal Polytechnic Auchi (Auchi Poly) Description: This was initially a Technical College Founded in 1963 and was offered to the Midwestern Region as a Gift by the British. Location: Located at Auchi in Edo State The Federal Polytechnic Auchi specializes mostly in the areas of engineering, applied sciences and technology, environmental studies, management studies, and art and industrial design. 2. Federal Polytechnic Oko (Oko Poly) Location: Oko, Anambra State, located in the South Eastern region of Nigeria. Description: It was previously kn...

There may be fresh trouble for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state as candidates have indicated interest to boycott the primary election of the party or step down over candidate imposition. The Anambra PDP primary election was earlier scheduled to hold on today, August 28 with growing concerns over the conduct of the delegates’ conference and an alleged imposition of candidate by the PDP governors’ forum. A source who spoke to our correspondent said that he and many other aspirants in the election already plan to boycott the election over the imposition of a candidate Oseloka Obaze blessed by former governor Peter Obi. The source alleged that Wike left the conference with the original result sheets and only left behind a photocopy. “The process was defective, the process was wrong because, the chief returning Officer Wike left the delegates conference at 2PM with the originals of the result sheets and left only photocopies behind. “With the photocopi...

 It is no longer news that Charles Otu, the Editor of Ebonyi-based Conscience Newspaper was iron-stroked and manhandled beyond recognition by unscrupulous and recalcitrant blood-wastage enthusiasts under the guise of Ekubaroha Youth Assembly. In fact, all and sundry saw from the pictorial elements harvested from diverse online sources that Charles Otu went through the torture reminiscence of that of a newly undergraduate cult initiate; a Spartan treatment only deserved by an Army recruit undergoing some rigorous military trainings. This is why I doubt if it was really a common write-up of criticism against the Government of the day which should have served as propellant to development, that steered such echelon of annihilation.   I don’t know who or what is Ekubaroha. However, it sounds “Igbotic” and has a meaning which scrambles to explain a wealth which can accommodate all. So, if this group really knows what their name stands for, they should rather use it to toe g...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday justified the 45 per cent increment in electricity tariff, which took effect on Monday, stressing that the action remained the only way to enhance stable power supply in the country. Fashola, who stated this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, explained that an Act of the National Assembly actually empowered the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to increase tariff, hence it would not be able to stop the implementation of the new tariff regime at this stage. He explained that the rise in the cost of procuring raw materials to generate electricity was one of the reasons for increasing the tariff and that the best way to sustain the current stable power supply in the country. He said, “Electricity is a product; it is made from raw materials; some of the raw materials are gas, power plants; they are also related. So, the issue of tariff is the single issue of price; when the ...

 Lionel Messi will not chase a second Olympic gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in August, Argentina coach Gerardo Martino said on Monday. Martino added he did not want the Barcelona forward, who will captain Argentina at the Centennial Copa America in the United States in June, to suffer burnout after a demanding season. He can take three over-age players in his U23 squad to the Rio Games but Messi, who helped Argentina win their second Ol ympic title in Beijing in 2008, will not be one of them. “Messi won’t go to the Olympic Games because there is a lot of competition for the national team this year,” Martino said with World Cup qualifiers also in mind. “We have the Copa America, the Olympic Games and after that four rounds of the qualifiers,” he told Radio La Red. “The reality at Barcelona shows the season will be long. I want to win very much but not at any price, nor for throwing the players on to the pitch for them to die there.” Messi led Argentina t...

 The Police in Nasarawa State on Tuesday apprehended a former councillor of the Otukpo Local Government Area, Mr. Sunday Aboh, for allegedly buying stolen cars from armed robbers in the state. Parading the suspect and 14 others in Lafia for committing various offences in different locations in the state, the Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ismail Numan, stated that the former councillor of the Otukpo LG A was particularly arrested in connection with a stolen vehicle which he received from suspected criminals. According to him, four suspected robbers had on November 22, 2015, snatched a Toyota RAV 4 from a woman in Masaka, in the Karu LGA. He said investigations by the police led to the arrest of the suspects in a hotel on December 3, 2015, adding that an Acura saloon car and two locally-made pistols were recovered from them. The PPRO said before their arrest, the group had on November 11, 2015, robbed one Rev. Father Christopher Omaku in Mara...

Elder statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former maximum ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, made corruption attractive to state governors in the country. Braithwaite said the former helmsmen’s policies and actions elevated corruption in governance, adding that many state governors were merely emulating them. The human rights activist said this during a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday. He was reacting to a statement credited to Obasanjo in which the former president slammed state governors for living like emperors – to the detriment of the masses. Obasanjo, who spoke at the inaugural conference of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Ibadan, on Monday, said, “Nigeria is a country where some governors have become sole administrators, acting like emperors. These governors have rendered public institutions irrelevant and useless.” But Braithwaite said, “Obasanjo is not sa...

  The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, appeared before an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and said he had no information on the contracts for the rehabilitation and modernisation of railway in the country. The railway contracts reportedly gulped over N1tn between 2010 and 2015, with additional funding from the rested Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme. But Amaechi told the committee, which is chaired by a lawmaker from Edo State, Mr. Johnson Agbonayinma, that he would not be useful to the investigation because he was not in the office when the contracts were awarded and could not speak authoritatively about them. “I don’t know about the past contracts but I can talk more on our progress and what we are doing now,” the minister said. He said on resumption of office as minister, he ordered an audit of projects being carried out in the ministry to establish their status. Amaechi added that a full report of the a...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission has shifted the State and National Assembly rerun elections in Rivers State to March 19, 2016. INEC had initially fixed both rerun elections tentatively for February 6, 2016 through the outgoing Resident Electoral Commissioner of the state, Dame Gesila Khan. But the state INEC Public Relations Officer, Antonia Nwobo, said signals about the change in the date for the exercise came after a stakeholders’ meeting at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. Though no reason was given for the postponement of the rerun elections, INEC’s decision may not be unconnected with the position of most political parties that the time given to them to prepare for the exercise was too short. Nwobo said through a text message sent to our correspondent on Tuesday, “Please, be informed that the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters at a meeting with stakeholders on February 1, 2016, has approved that rerun elections in Riv...

There were indications on Tuesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interrogation of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), had reached a dead end. It was learnt that the commission had asked Amosu and others, who are still being detained over the $2.1bn arms deal, to refund some money or contract sums traced to them. Findings showed that the former Chief of Air Staff was be ing interrogated in connection with 10 contracts awarded by the Nigeria Air Force between 2014 and 2015, totalling $930.5m. It was gathered that the EFCC’s operatives met a brick wall when the former NAF chief refused to make any commitment to return any money or contract sums, which had been allegedly traced to him. A source, who confided in one of our correspondents on Tuesday, said as part of moves to recover the funds, the commission was making the signing of an undertaking to refund money as a precondition for granting the suspects administrative b...

The Defence Headquarters on Tuesday vowed that some suspected Pro-Biafran militants, who hijacked a merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria on Friday would be treated as criminals and saboteurs. The ship, believed to be an oil tanker, was said to have been hijacked by some militants, who issued a 31-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. While some maritime industry sources claimed that the vessel was an oil tanker seized about 160 kilometres off the Bakassi Peninsula near the border with Cameroon, the Defence Headquarters revealed on Tuesday that the ship was seized about 7.5 nautical miles off the Port of Cotonou. The suspected pro-Biafran militants had hijacked the foreign merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its crew if the Federal Government failed to release Kanu. It was learnt that the 31-day ultimatum by the militants was given at the weekend by one ‘Gene...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has amended the bribery charges it preferred against a former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, dropping his co-accused, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, from the case, and turning him into a prosecution witness. Rather than continue to put Emenalo on trial along with Lawan, the prosecution led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), on Tuesday presented him before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Lugbe, Abuja, as its first witness. Emenalo, who remains an official of the House of Representatives, served as secretary to the Lawan-led committee in 2012. Lawan and Emenalo were initially in February 2013, arraigned on seven counts of corruptly accepting sums of money up to $620,000 from a business mogul and Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, Mr. Femi Otedola, in the course of performing their committee’s duty in 2012. Both men were ac...

President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the declining fortunes of the nation’s oil sector. He expressed his sadness at the ugly turn in the nation’s oil sector at the luncheon organised in his honour on Tuesday by the Ogun State Government. The luncheon held at the proposed site of President Muhammadu Buhari Estate, along Abeokuta-Siun-Kobape-Sagamu Expressway, in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the Ogun State. Buhari was on a two-day visit to the state in commemoration of the state’s 40th anniversary. Buhari, who appreciated former President Olusegun Obasanjo for appointing him then as the Minister of Petroleum, said during his three and half years tenure, both the Warri and Kaduna refineries were built. He said, “I want to appreciate the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for appointing me as the Minister of Petroleum. For three years he tolerated me; I really thank him for that. Within those years, we built the Warri and Kaduna refineries....

The immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), has filed a fresh application asking a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama to discharge him for the alleged crime of diversion of funds said to be meant for the procurement of arms. The ex-NSA, through his lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), filed the application dated January 11, 2016, before Justice Peter Affen, urging the court to bar the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from prosecuting him. The ex-NSA contended that the EFCC which is prosecuting him and other co-accused persons in the name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria could not continue to prosecute him after a “brazen disobedience” of orders of the court granting him bail on December 21, 2015. He filed the application before Justice Affen with respect to the 22 counts of fraud filed against him and others including a former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and...