Category: POLITICS

…Assessing the contenders and the case for competence, unity, and results in a defining political moment By Barbara Njemanze The brightness of the day and the influence of tomorrow raise an enduring question for Imo State: who will preserve its gains and lift it to greater heights? As the political drums grow louder ahead of 2027, several prominent names continue to surface, each representing different strengths, experiences, and possibilities for the state’s future. The contest is shaping up to be one of strategy, structure, and public trust. Among those frequently mentioned…

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda promised sweeping reforms aimed at reviving the economy, curbing inflation, unifying the foreign exchange market, boosting GDP growth, addressing insecurity, expanding electricity access, and combating corruption. However, these ambitious pledges appear to overlook Nigeria’s entrenched challenges, including mounting public debt, weak infrastructure, unreliable power supply, widespread poverty, and systemic governance failures, raising serious doubts about whether the agenda represents a realistic roadmap for national recovery or merely aspirational rhetoric. Nigeria is approaching another crucial election cycle, one that many citizens view not merely as…

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By Uwadiegwu Ahumaraeze When the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerged in 2013 as Nigeria’s new political powerhouse, expectations were high across the country. Those expectations were even greater in Imo State, which proudly stood as the only APC-controlled state in the South-East, when the party won the historic 2015 Nigerian presidential election that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power. At the center of that optimism was Rochas Okorocha, then governor of Imo State and the lone APC governor in the region. By political calculation, Okorocha was widely regarded as the de…

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By Sam. Onwuemeodo Nyesom Wike, the current  Minister of the Federal Capital Territory had  withered the turbulent or violent political  storm in Rivers State in  2023 to make  Simi Fubara Governor. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso  equally went through the crucibles to make Abba Kabir  Yusuf  the Governor of Kano State in 2023. Today, it’s Fubara versus Wike. Yusuf versus Kwankwaso.  And  such  other similar cases. And you think it’s ordinary?  No. It’s not ordinary. Not cases of happenstance or accidental discharges or developments. They’re all in fulfilment of existing or subsisting …

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By John Egbeazien Oshodi A Nation Watching in Psychological Silence Nigeria has entered a strange psychological space. People are not merely listening to political speeches; they are studying body language, tone, and authority. They watch a sitting minister, Nyesom Wike, speak with a level of confidence that does not resemble submission to higher authority. They see him warning party officials, lecturing senior political figures, and behaving as though his voice carries immunity. What shocks people most is not that a politician is bold. Nigerian politics has always had bold personalities.…

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By Ori Martins The Ihiagwa community in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State is not strategically located but it is a town strewn with variegated historical as well as historic symbols and significance. The grand and impressive Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) is built on Ihiagwa land. It clearly dramatises and showcases the people of the area as lovers and promoters of modernity nay civilization. Remember, there have been communities that vehemently fought against the establishment of such massive structure in their respective areas. Culturally, Ihiagwa produced…

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By VitaLis Unachukwu  Our nation’s coastline, is no longer navigable . We’ve no government in the actual democratic sense . We have a  band of crooks lording their will over all of us, and for the fact that, they could extend their political tentacles to the Armed Forces and Security Agencies, they thought that they could call the shots at our detriment . We’re in the dawn of the era of separation, division and balkanization at God’s direction, beyond human imagination, comprehension and expectations . By the immortal words of…

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By Steve OsuJi Imo And The Paradox Of Federal Mighty: If your governor is among the decampees to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ostensibly to plug into the benefits that accrues from the centre, show him the zero benefits Imo state is getting from APC. Imo seems to represent both the metaphor for and paradox of a state being a part of the ruling government and getting no dividends whosoever. We thought the era of former Governor Rochas Anayo Okorocha was arid, but from hindsight, those were jolly good…

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By Barr. Aja Peter Obiora. Enugu State. In recent months, the National Assembly’s renewed push toward creating a new state, Anioma State or Etiti State, for the Southeast geopolitical zone has reignited conversations about justice, equity, and the structure of Nigeria’s federalism. To many, this development is both commendable and long overdue. For decades, the Southeast has remained the only zone with five states, while others enjoy six or even seven. That singular shortfall has had deep and wide-ranging implications, from political representation and federal appointments to infrastructural distribution and…

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By ViTus OzoKe  When the news broke that Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu had crossed over to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a chill, a sigh — or was it a groan? — swept through the Igboland. Enugu, the coal city, the historic capital of the Eastern Region, the symbolic heart of Igbo political memory, and the citadel of Igbo pride, had fallen once again. The flags that once stood defiant over the hills of Nsukka and the coal city were lowered not to cannon fire or the thunder…

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