Author: Saint Augustine

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has expressed shock and sadness over the death of Senator Uche Chukwumerije. Senator Ekweremadu while reacting to the passing on of the ranking Senator who died in Abuja on Sunday, described him as a fearless politician who fought for the interest of the common man and his people. . He also described him as “a patriot who gave his best towards the peace, unity, and development of Nigeria”. The Statement read in part: “I am most saddened by the news of the passing on of Distinguished Senator Chukwumerije. It is the…

Nigeria will be able to provide about 50 per cent of seafarers needed in Africa by 2020, the Director of Administration and Personnel, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Felix Bobnabena has said. According to the global maritime watchdog, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), seafarers are in high demand across the globe. This is due to the widening gap in age between the current seafarers and the upcoming ones worldwide. According to the United Nations (UN) specialised agency, the shipping world is in dire need of seafarers. This has prompted many member nations of IMO to step up efforts…

For two weeks now, business activities at the biggest terminal in Nigeria, AP Moller Terminal (APMT) Apapa has been slowed down just as agents showed their frustrations as they could not transact their usual businesses with the terminal as a result of system downtime. A visit at the terminal on Monday revealed a large number of agents waiting endlessly to be attended to by the officials of the terminal who seemed helpless in the whole situation. Even the manual option adopted by the management of the terminal to enable it serve its teeming clients seemed not be helping as there…

A reply to Uzodike’s first Public Complaints about his Dismissal from Office Joe Martins Uzodike better known as Buzuzu in his student days at CKC Onitsha, found his voice a few days ago for the first time since his inglorious dismissal as Political Adviser to Governor Willlie Obiano in January 2015. It was not to offer explanations for the stigma of being removed from office after just ten months of his appointment; an appointment that had seen him demoted from the previous cabinet rank of Commissioner to that of Adviser. No, Mr. Uzodike’s recent media outing was in defence of…

By Ejim Ofor I am very surprised that this issue is raging! For Christ sake, Anambra state accounts were published when Peter Obi handed over and nearly ALL the 75b were invested in shares and stocks! All the companies where investments were made were listed for all to see. If Peter said he left 75b, he couldn’t have said CASH or he’ll be shooting himself in the leg. Obiano came in and saw peanuts left with the banks. That’s why he conducted an audit of State income and found out that Peter had left him absolutely nothing to work with.…

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano paid tribute Monday to the departed Senator Uche Chukwumerije, saying he was a presidential material that could have been harnessed but for the age factor. Obiano however said the Abia State born political leader acquitted himself creditably at the Senate where he served for three terms, describing him as a first class senator. Governor Obiano said the death of Chukwumerije at this time would deny the country of his reservoir of statesmanship. “His was a life of public service. He was preoccupied with the fate of his nation and worked tirelessly to see it…

By Mokwugo Okolo Joe-Martins Uzodike and Valentine Obienyem are two of a kind. They are similar, yet different. One is a stripling and the other a full grown man, maybe at the wrong side of fifty. Both are lawyers, but did not get to their present position, plying the litigation trade. As a matter of fact, they make up the number of unwieldy lawyers who may never see any court room till the end of time. Both of them worked in Peter Obi’s government in different capacities as information managers. Neither was exceptional in that work. Their achievement, at best,…

The Managing Director, Gold Link Investment Services Limited, Sir Tony Anakebe has called on the Federal Government to revisit the practice where the Management of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) auction people’s consignment considered as overtime cargo describing it as outdated. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently, Sir Anakebe pointed out that round the world, goods were not auctioned in the manner it was done in the country arguing that it was wrong for the service to collect a 20 feet container and sell to one man at a paltry sum of N200, 000 (Two Hundred Thousand…

Val Obienyem, a man who owes his name recognition merely to his association with Mr. Peter Obi has become very irritable lately and for reasons best known to him, has been threading on the “obscene and contemptible.” The vituperations he has been directing at the Anambra seat of power and the person of the governor have brought to the fore the disdain Mr. Obienyem has for either the office left by his boss barely a year ago, or the current occupant. Prior to the recent rant, Mr. Obienyem had applied every gimmick possible in the social media, using all manner…

On the heels of the impressive showing of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) led by her husband, the Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman and Governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano in the just concluded general elections, and as she gets set to distribute the second phase of prosthetic limbs to about 200 physically challenged beneficiaries on Tuesday April 2015, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano has come under another malicious attack aimed at damaging her credibility. Purveyors of falsehood on social media have once again concocted another lie that she slapped someone even as she is in faraway United States…