How Senator Uche Chukwumerije died — Family

   

The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Uche Chukwumerije, is dead.
He was 75.
According to a statement by a family representative, Chidi, the Senator died on Sunday after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer.
“On the evening of Sunday, the 19th of April, 2015, surrounded by his family, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije passed into the open arms of history, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer,” the statement said.
“His life is many volumes, which can only be told with care and time, of dedication and focus, integrity and discipline, and an unbroken love for the highest ideals of our shared humanity.
“Details of burial arrangements will be announced in due course. We ask only for your prayers and good wishes.”
Condolences have already started pouring in for the former Information Minister.
His party, the Peoples Democratic Party, said it was “deeply saddened by the loss of this great Nigerian, a highly respected statesman who has made immense contributions to the development of our dear nation.”

Joe Martins: A Reply to A Ranting Elder

                            

Who is this Joe martin Uzodike from Awka-Etiti who has never in his entire political life won any election!!!

Ordinarily some of us with ever busy weekends should not have bothered to respond to the display of absolute stupidity by always the same very loud mouth, Chief Joe Martin Uzodike.Chief Joe martin Uzodike from Awka-Etiti who has never in his entire political life won any election, not even a ward election in his native Awka-Etiti except always grandstanding was made a commissioner simply because he was a secondary school mate of former governor Peter Obi can now open his elastic mouth to insult the person of the most popular Governor since the creation of Anambra state.

More Kidnapers' Dens Demolished in Anambra as Obiano Re-enforces Security

Encouraged by the massive endorsement of the programmes of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) led government in the State House of Assembly elections last Saturday, the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has re-enforced security measures  across the state and approved the demolition of two more kidnap dens. The two buildings were demolished Thursday in Umuikwelle village Eziowelle Idemili North and Umugbom village Azigbo, Nnewi South Local Government Areas respectively.

OBASANJO, SECURITY AGENCIES PLOTTING TO EXTRADITE ME TO US, KASHAMU CRIES



Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Senator-elect for the Ogun East Senatorial District, Alhaji Buruji Kashamu, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of instigating foreign security agencies to apprehend him in Nigeria and extradite him to the United States of America, USA, to answer to drug related charges.
Consequently, he has sent a Save-My-Soul, SMS, letter to the Na...tional Human Rights Commission, NHRC, insisting that the subterranean plot to ‘capture’ him has thickened.

Kashamu begged the Commission not to stand by and watch his fundamental human rights trampled upon at the behest of former President Obasanjo.
It will be recalled that it was Kashamu that persuaded Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Apo to order security agencies in Nigeria to confiscate Obasanjo’s autobiography entitled “My Watch”.
It took the former President to get the high court to vacate that confiscation order which had even prohibited both Vendors and Libraries in the country from as much as touching the autobiography.
Kashamu had insisted that portions of the book dwelt on his alleged involvement in drug pushing and an allegation that he is a wanted fugitive in America, a subject matter he said had already been surrendered to a competent court of jurisdiction.
Meantime, in his petition to the NHRC, Kashamu urged the commission to investigate the alleged move to abduct him and forcibly take him to the US to answer to charges bothering on drug related offences.

APGA Rejects Re-Run Election Results in Anaocha

APGA Rejects Re-Run Election Result in Anaocha

BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA

The Leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anaocha Council area yesterday rejected the re-run election declared by  the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anaocha constituency one and two, saying it does not reflect the wishes of the people

The party also condemned in strong terms, the activities of the security agents and INEC, who they alleged collaborated with PDP in aiding and abetting election malpractice in the area.

INEC had declared PDP candidates for Anaocha constituency one and two, Francis Okoye and Chalce Ezeani respectively winners of the re-run election held yesterday in Anaocha state constituencies.

I Owe My NASS Victory to Obiano -Madubueze



BY ABUCHI  IFESINACHI, AWKA

APGA Winner of Anambra East/ West federal constituency, Chief Peter Obiano Madubueze, Okaka Anam, has said he owed his March 28 national assembly election victory in the State to the executive governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano.

Chief Madubueze who stated this in Awka during a media chat said he would forever remain grateful to Obiano for believing in his undoubted capabilities noting that his victory at the poll was not in any way a mean feat.

He also thanked the people of Anambra East/West for their support assuring them that he would do everything humanly possible to repay them even as he vowed never to betray the trust and confidence reposed in him.

When asked what kind of legislative influence he intend to bring to bare for his people, he said, 'I know about Federal Character Commission I know how to get my people jobs.
I will  ensure that all the ecology funds are used for their purpose.

APC REJECTS MAY 28 HANDOVER DATE

There are indications that the All Progressives Congress is uncomfortable with the May 28 handover date proposed by the out-going administration.
Investigation by Saturday PUNCHrevealed that the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan and the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) are set to clash over a proposal by the Jonathan team to hand over the mantle of leadership to Buhari on May the 28th, instead of the 29th.
Saturday PUNCH gathered that the Buhari team was already over what they considered as an act of ill-will laced with sinister motives.
This is sequel to an announcement by the Minister of Information, Senator Patricia Akwashiki, that President Jonathan would perform the handover ceremony at a dinner on May 28.
Akwashiki made the announcement after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting.
She told journalists, “By May 28, the President intends to have the formal handover done at a dinner so that we can reserve May 29 for the incoming government.”

How Anambra Oracles, Deities Behind APGA’s Victory - Chief Priest

Report has it that strange information is coming out from Ire-Inwelle Ogidi community, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra state.

The chief priest of all the shrines and oracles in Inwelle Ogidi community, Chief Felix Obika hinted that Governor Obiano is a traditionalist who respects the ancestors and believes in the efficacy of the spirits, oracles and deities which earned him victory for All Progressive Grand Alliance, in the state House of Assembly.

He said the spirit world did it for Governor Obiano as a way to enable him relax and continue in his infrastructural development of the state.

Obika said: “On assumption of office the Governor vowed to sack kidnappers and armed robbers who have been terrorizing the state and he had the support of the gods that helped him to clear them.

HEARTBREAKING PHOTOS: PEOPLE STOOD BY WHILE THIS MAN WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN SA

People stood by while a Mozambican man, Emmanuel Sithole, was cornered, stabbed in the heart and left to die. This happened yesterday in Johannesburg and yes, he died from his wounds. Killed just for being from another African country.. and the story told by the journalist who witnessed this brutal stabbing is heartbreaking! See more photos and read the full story from Times Live.
The brutal death of Emmanuel Sithole
As told by Beauregard Tromp and James Oatway for Timeslive.co.za:
Shortly before 7am yesterday April 18th, Sunday Times journalists were in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had their businesses looted overnight. Children played, people walked the streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then this happened ...
In a gutter in Alexandra a Mozambican man stopped and lay down. The gash to his chest meant he could go no further.

2015 Election fund fraud Exposed: Jonathan demands for N2trillion election funds refund from PDP campaign managers

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked the party and government officials who handled campaign funds to refund monies not spent, or those not judiciously expended

Jonathan, credible sources said, has also set up a committee of five to get those with the funds to return them.

Sources within the party and government told our correspondents that President Jonathan was disturbed that despite giving campaign coordinators, ministers, special advisers, close aides and friends, support groups and traditional rulers over N2trn in cash, most of them could not deliver their polling booths and local governments.

The President was said to have been further irked by the results of an investigation he ordered. The probe showed that some coordinators used campaign funds to buy very expensive properties, especially in Abuja, and luxury cars. Some of the funds have also been traced to the bank accounts of senior party and government officials who were charged with the disbursement of funds to voters and groups.