All APC Governors has failed but Ikpeazu makes the difference.

Ikpeazu has done what APC Governors couldn't do - Ope Banwo

An Internet Business Consultant Dr. Ope Banwo has expressed his gratitude to the Governor of Abia state, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for the approval of a Netprenuer incubation centre in Abia state. He said that Gov. Ikpeazu, who is a PDP Governor has done what his counterparts in the APC could not do.

Dr. Banwo while speaking at a 3-day Netprenuer workshop held at the Abia state digital library complex, noted that Abia state is the first state in Nigeria to embrace such idea.

According to Banwo, several attempts to get other states approve such innovative idea proved abortive. He added that copies of his proposal were sent to the president and his wife, but none responded.

“For over a year I’ve been sending quotations. I am a Buhari supporter without any apologies. I have personal friends that we went to school together in government; I have access to government at the centre. I’ve sent to Buhari in Abuja at least four times, I’ve sent to Aisha Buhari. They have it;

four-paged proposal. I am saying it so you know that when we say APC, it’s just very ironic that the first state to take up the challenge is Abia state. Baba that I almost died for will not even respond. Even my home state, Ogun, is far behind Abia in terms of the structures I have seen here in Umuahia." he said

Speaking further, Dr. Banwo said his state government, Ogun, where he presumed he could organize a free training for citizens, could not approve such proposal.

I threw away the green card, I have relocated, says Wole Soyinka.

Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.

“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg.

“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria. The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale. At the same time he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. “It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said. Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria’s civil war. He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

"I steal out of hunger.."Man jailed for stealing cat fish in Benin

Evbouriaria Magistrates’ Court in Benin City, on Thursday sentenced one Sylvester Livinus, 22, to four months imprisonment for stealing 10 cat fish.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs C.E. Oghuma, however, gave the convict N 5, 000 option of fine.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Olatoye Oluwaseun, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Sept. 18, at about 2:45p.m. at No. 1, Toronto St. Benin.

Oluwaseun said that the cat fish which belonged to one Noma Okunbor, was valued at N10, 000.

He said the offence contravened Section 309 (9) of the Criminal Code.

Ikpeazu Strengthens security in Abia

Abia State Police Command Apprehends Isialangwa Arsonists

The Abia State Police Command has apprehended and paraded those behind the burning down of Local Government Headquarters in Isiala Ngwa North at the People’s Democratic Party’s primaries that led to the death of two persons. This follows its determination to rid the state of hoodlums.

The Commissioner of Police, Adeleye Oyebade while briefing newsmen at the police headquarters in Umuahia, the Abia State capital said the arrest followed a painstaking and intelligence led investigation.

According to him, the suspects would be charged to court

He warned politicians in the state to stop seeing elections as a do or die affair, while noting that the police in the state is poised to partner the state government in its quest to have a free, fair and credible local government elections come December 17.

CP Oyebade revealed that some of the measures put in place to ensure that politicians in the state play according to the rules is the signing of peace accord and stakeholders meeting in the three geo political zones.

He emphasized that the police would provide a conducive and level playing grounds for all political parties in the state.

On the preparation of the command to ensure a peaceful festive season, the Commissioner of Police says his men are ready and urged all Abians and visitors to partner with the police to build on the existing peace in the state.

He decried the rising cases of cultism in the nation’s institutions of higher learning and called on parents and guardians to be responsible for their wards.

The command also paraded some suspects

Buhari has declared war on Igbo land – MASSOB

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, described the military’s declaration of Operation Python Dance on Igbo land as another dimension of war by the Buhari-led administration against Ndigbo. According to the group, the action of the military also amounted to political declaration of state of emergency in South-East geopolitical zone. In a statement issued in Abakaliki by the National Director of Information of MASSOB, Comrade Samuel Edeson, the group claimed that the action of the military was intended to maim the people of Biafra and prevent them from returning home for the Christmas celebration.

Edeson said, “The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, after our National Executive meeting today at MASSOB headquarters, Okwe, Onuimo Local Government Area, which also coincided with first anniversary of the new leadership of MASSOB under our amiable leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu condemned in totality the recent declaration by Nigerian Army of Operation Python Dance in Biafra land.
“The meeting which was presided over by our leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu at Okwe resolved as follows: ‘That Operation Python Dance is another dimension of prosecution of war by Buhari-led administration against Ndigbo. It also amounts to political declaration of state of emergency in South-East states.

“That Army headquarters, with their ulterior negative motives, started this annihilating operation on November 27, without any public enlightenment and orientation in order to maim the people of Biafra.

“That the primary target and reason of this operation is not against pro Biafra groups, as we have no public functions in this Christmas season. It is against the people of Biafra, mostly the Igbo during this Christmas period through intensive pressurized monetary extortion, harassment, mesmerization and secret/extra judicial killings of Ndigbo because of current Biafranization of Igboland and Ndigbo.

“That Christmas season is a period of Igbo gathering with much concentration in Igboland, so to the military, it’s a fertile land and opportunity for creating fears/tensions among our people which they thought will derail the love, confidence and consciousness of Biafra.

“That this is an extension of Buhari-led administration’s forceful islamisation of Igboland through military fears and religious intimidation. This operation is also designed to demoralize the people of Biafra from returning home for Christmas celebration.‎”