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‘No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent’ – Abraham Lincoln The above comment made by Abraham Lincoln a long time ago holds true today as it did at the time it was made. So it is with the out -going governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who never had the consent of the people by the plurality of their votes to govern them and, like all things acquired by dubious means , they never last. As we celebrate the appellate court victory restoring Dr Alex Otti’s stolen mandate, we must not fail to give credit to this Lion of Abia politics. Like his namesake, “Alexander The Great”, he came, he saw and he conquered the PDP juggernaut that had dominated Abia politics for more than a decade. With this victory, Otti deserves most of the credit for his efforts and fight for justice. His victory has shown that he is a man of exceptional determination with great reserves of personal courage and wisdom. For many of us here in diaspora, Thursday December 31, 2015 w...

‘No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent’ – Abraham Lincoln The above comment made by Abraham Lincoln a long time ago holds true today as it did at the time it was made. So it is with the out -going governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who never had the consent of the people by the plurality of their votes to govern them and, like all things acquired by dubious means , they never last. As we celebrate the appellate court victory restoring Dr Alex Otti’s stolen mandate, we must not fail to give credit to this Lion of Abia politics. Like his namesake, “Alexander The Great”, he came, he saw and he conquered the PDP juggernaut that had dominated Abia politics for more than a decade. With this victory, Otti deserves most of the credit for his efforts and fight for justice. His victory has shown that he is a man of exceptional determination with great reserves of personal courage and wisdom. For many of us here in diaspora, Thursday December 31, 2015 w...

Uneasy calm pervades the political landscape of Kogi today as James Abiodun Faleke and Mr. Mohammed Audu were invited by operatives of the Directorate of State Security in Abuja. Supporters of the two politicians were apprehensive on the fate of their principals. James Abiodun Faleke, a second-term House of Representatives member was the running mate to the late Prince Abubakar Audu. The late Prince Audu died before the governorship election was concluded in the state. In view of the legal vacuity of the scenario, Faleke has been consistently affirming that he was the right owner of the mandate given to him and the late Prince Abubakar Audu. He argued that the election of November 21, 2015 was concluded and that a winner had emerged. But contrary to Faleke’s position, the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress presented Alh. Yahaya Adoza Bello to INEC as replacement to the late Prince Abubakar Audu on the strength that the Agassa-born business mogul came second...

A transgender man in Australia was humiliated after he was ordered to remove his manhood at an airport. The unidentified man told reporters that the body scan alerted security personnel to the prosthesis that he was wearing. He tried explaining he was a transgender but he was asked to undergo a body search. He said: “I explained to the officer that I am transgender and that I was wearing a prosthesis.” The airport security personnel said that he needed to get his supervisor. The man was then taken into a room, where he was forced to remove his manhood.

The ‘Contract Verification Committee’ of the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) has released a newspaper advertorial with a list of 241 companies which were awarded contracts from the office between 2011 and 2015. The ONSA committee has requested the companies to appear before it on stipulated dates (details below) or risk being embarrassed. 12 JANUARY 2016 2020 Nigeria Limited, 313 BDC Limited, A & Hatman Limited, A A Master Nigeria Limited, A and B Associate, Abbatare Inc., Abraham Telecommunication Limited, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Abusarhard Nigeria Limited, Acacia Holdings Limited, Ace of Wood Working Nigeria Limited and Africair Inc. Also on the list of those expected on January 12 are: Afro-Arab Investment Limited, Agabea Securities Limited, Agbede A. Adesina and Co, AGI Nigeria Limited, Ahjuwa Nigeria Enterprises, Air USA, AI Noor Travels and Tours, Albani Associates, Allaje Motors Limited, Almond Project Limited, AMAC Aerospace, APC Axial, A...

Nearly six months after his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, has been arrested by the Mexican authorities, according to the Twitter feed of the country’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto. An investigator inspected the exit of the tunnel that the authorities said had been used by the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera to escape from a Mexican prison.U.S. Sought ‘El Chapo’ Extradition Before Escape. The tunnel had a motorcycle on rails to transport displaced to transport displaced earth. The arrest came after an intense gun battle this morning in the city of Los Mochis, a seaside area in Mr. Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa. “Mission Accomplished: We have him,” read the announcement from Mr. Peña Nieto. “I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been detained.” The mission began shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, after an anonymous tip came in from a citizen concerned about armed men i...

Not fewer than 4 persons including the former Speaker of Bayelsa State, Boyelayefa Debekeme, the Special Assistant to the governor of Bayelsa State, Tam Alari and chairman Ekeremor LGA Hon, Billy Tobiyei, sustained matchete wounds during a fight that broke out between APC and PDP supporters at the governor’s lodge in Ekeremor LGA of the state. How many more must loose thier lives for Beyelsa?