OKOROCHA And IHEDIOHA Feud Thickens

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has warned the former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Emeka Ihedioha, to respect his office and stop insulting him on the pages of newspapers.
This was just as he admonished the former federal legislator to concentrate his energies on his petition at the governorship election tribunal.
Okorocha, who was reacting to a media report credited to Ihedioha, alleging that the governor had been stealing the funds of the state since he assumed office in 2011, advised the former lawmaker to face his case at the election tribunal and stop what he described as ‘unnecessary distraction’.
The governor, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said Ihedioha in the said report, accused the governor of acquiring multi-billion-naira property since he assumed office.

Journalist Pummel By Smugglers For Reporting Criminals Activities In Border Town Lagos

A Badagry, Lagos State based journalist and Executive publisher of Prime Magazine, a community magazine serving that area, Mr. Yomi Olomofe, tasted the bile of criminal gangs who descended on him and pummeled him to a pulp because of his constant reportage of their illicit activities in the border town.
Olomofe who has been described as fearless pen pusher, narrates that the smugglers sent hoodlums who waylaid him and battered him mercilessly.
Hear him:
“I was with another colleague of mine on a visit to the command, when some smugglers, who claimed that journalists have been writing negative stories about them, pounced on me. While beating me, they threatened to kill me so as to serve as deterrent to journalists writing stories about them.
I was there with the correspondent of Tide Newspaper, thank God a friend from Rotary Club came to take me away, I would have been dead, because I was left there almost lifeless.

Registrar Radiographers Registration Board Kidnapped In Anambra

The  Registrar Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria, Chief hat Mr Okpalaeke  Sunday Michael, has been kidnapped.
He was kidnapped 8 pm at Ubo Bridge Ndiokpalaeke , his home town on his way back to his residence in Ekwulobia, Aguata local government area.
He is not staying in the village as he built at Ekwulobia sequel to lack of access road to his community and lack of basic amenities , so www.odogwublog.com was told. He has not returned home in the last 16 years. That visit was his first to his village since 1999.
The 38 years old Radiographers Registrar in Nigeria came home on Thursday to bury his late wife and yesterday was his final stay though he does not sleep at his community as he returns to Ekwulobia everyday and returns the next day. The wife died during child delivery.
But yesterday, he was returning late only to be ambushed by a Highlander Jeep and a Hilux Escort, they blocked his way at the Bridge locked in a massive wet land without any building in sight up to 4 kilometers or so.

Buhari Orders Arrest Of In-Law For Defrauding People To Gain Access To Presidency & Contract Award

Alhaji Musa Yola

Charity as its literarity said begins at home, this gave rise to the sudden rise in demand for increase access to President Muhammadu Buhari been created by one Alhaji Musa  Yola, an In-Law to the president taken to the mechanism of defrauding people in the means of granting access to the president.
Online media has been a washed with comments and reaction that led to the arrest of the wife of the president brother.
In a directive issued to the men of the Department f the Security Service, DSS, President Muhammadu Buhari felt disappointed with the shocking news of a close relative of theirs to have engaged in such dastardly act and did not spear the rod to caution any willing suspects to refrain from such activities.
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Nigeria’s security agents to arrest his brother-in-law for allegedly extorting money from an unnamed businessman, a close confidante of the Nigerian leader . He said the suspect, named Musa Yola, was the immediate younger brother of Mr. Buhari’s wife.
Our source disclosed that the suspect, also addressed as “Alhaji Yola,” reportedly received N300 million from a businessman after promising to provide his dupe with political access to secure an oil block from the Buhari administration. According to our source, Mr. Buhari personally ordered last Monday night that Mr. Yola be produced before him in handcuffs in the company of the businessman he duped.

POLICE RECOVER DECOMPOSED BODY OF EX-FUTA VC FROM STORE

The decomposed body of the former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof. Albert Ilemobade who was reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen last week was on Sunday found hidden in a store in his Ijapo Estate residence in Akure, Ondo state capital. 
He was reportedly abducted last Monday along with his gateman and was said to be taken to an unknown destination until his body was found by security operatives.
Sources said the Octogenarian’s decomposed body was found after the arrest of two of his domestic staff by security agents in Ogun state while trying to sell the Toyota RAV4 Jeep stolen from the late Ilemobade’s residence.
The two suspects confessed to killing Ilemobade, hiding his corpse in a store which housed the generating set before running away with his Vehicle which they planned to sell.
Following the arrest of the two suspects in Ogun state, the police in Ondo state went to the deceased house in ijapo estate, Akure for a raid and investigation but found the late VC’s corpse in the store.
When journalist visited the scene on Sunday, the body had been removed by detectives to the mortuary for autopsy. 

PRESS RELEASE : THE PLANNED RELOCATION OF BOKO HARAM CONVICTS TO ANAMBRA PRISONS

The attention of the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has been drawn to the mischievous speculations on the social media that the planned relocation of some Boko Haram convicts to some prisons in Anambra State was done with his tacit approval and endorsement. I wish to categorically dismiss these speculations, hearsay and beer parlour banters as fundamentally untrue and should be disregarded by Nigerians.
Hard Facts
The fact is that when governor Obiano got wind of the planned relocation of these high risk prisoners to Anambra State, he quickly swung into action and contacted the relevant authorities to seek clarifications on the matter after which he raised several objections to the plan.
Among Governor Obiano’s many objections are -

Concession Of Nnamdi Eze of PDP To Dozie Nwankwo of APGA What It Potent To Senator Ekwunife Chances--- Guest Writer

The sojourn of Iyom Uche Ekwunife in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District may be short-lived following the sudden turn of events at the Anambra Election Petition Tribunal holding in Awka. In a surprise move, the man who was initially returned by INEC as winner in the House of Representatives for Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia Federal Constituency, Dr. Nnamdi Eze of PDP conceded defeat to Mr. Dozie nwankwo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Dr Eze and his party PDP accepted that Mr. Nwankwo is the real winner in the election based on the computation of total results collated at the respective Polling Booths in the constituency and should have been declared winner. The dramatic turn of event was said to have surprised the Head of the Tribunal, Justice Nayal Aganaba who reportedly expressed shock at the development.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: Ebele Obiano Sets To Empower People With Dissability

In continuation of the free provision of artificial hands through her pet-project, Caring Family Enhancement Initiatives (CAFE), the wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano, shall commence the 3rd phase of the project to put a smile on the faces of persons with disabilities in the State.
Ndi-Anambra who have need for artificial hands are hereby directed to submit their personal  data to the office of the wife of the Governor of Anambra State Government House, Awka immediately.
The details include:

Social Media Award : Bishop Ezeokafor Congratulates Aide Charges Journalists to Discharge Their Duty Without Fear Or Favour

   

BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Paulinus Ezeokafor has charged journalists to discharge their responsibilities effectively without fear or favour.

Bishop Ezeokafor who gave the charge at St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, Awka while congratulating his media Aide, Mr. Abuchi Onwumelu who was recently honoured by social media journalists for his creative ingenuity and also for creating a Social media forum where media Practitioners interact and socialise, said journalists as purveyors of information occupy an important position in society and held the key to projecting rightful information that would enable the people to see things in the right perspective.

He said the Church would continue to support media practitioners with prayers stressing that the job of the media was to disseminate accurate information while calling on government at all levels to allow the media to practice their profession without any form of molestation, inducement or even threat to life. 

According to Bishop Ezeokafor, ' Media practitioners should be given a free hand to operate; people should stop harassing them. They  should be encouraged. Truly, journalists are endangered species. I want those in political positions to understand that they cannot do without the media. Even the Church cannot function properly without the media, that's why we are here praying for them,' Bishop Ezeokafor said.

ANAMBRA’s ROADS, POLITICS AND STATESMANSHIP

By Ifeanyi Afuba

The shrill claim by Mr Valentine Obienyem in several weekend newspapers [June 13 – 14, 2015] that the Nkpor – Amawbia old road recently commissioned by Governor Willie Obiano was started and completed by Mr Peter Obi is incorrect and an unnecessary venture in controversy.  Obi’s credentials as a former governor of Anambra State are not under any danger of assault. His report card is out in the public domain and as a public figure, no one individual or institution has copyright on his record of service.  On the basis of verifiable accounts of his stewardship, leadership, social and philosophical leanings, varying perceptions of his reputation have [naturally] emerged.