The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Recall that Edeoga had met with the leadership of Enugu State PDP behind closed doors on January 31, fueling speculations about his possible return to his former party.
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Festus Adedayo
"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above.
In Nigeria of a little more than a week ago, they all came in quick successions: A National Assembly where libido ran riot; a son who said his father was Nigeria’s best president; a corps member who condemned that same father as terrible and that president, when he wakes up and looks at the mirror, like Banda, sees himself as “the law”. In the hands of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria appears to have become one complex, complicated web of mess and intrigues. When a people suffer such plague of multiple, endless afflictions, my people deploy a phrasal description to denote it. So, they compare such situation to an “egbinrin òtè”. Egbinrin òtè is a situation that defies solution. It scorns the biblical exhortation that affliction would not rise a second time. Under Tinubu’s egbinrin òtè Nigeria, afflictions come in multiple folds. Literally, egbinrin òtè is leaves of conspiracy. In usage, however, it is a scary, endless tale of repetitive sorrow. The affliction is sustained by a coldblooded-ness or bloodlessness. When you cut a leaf out of the branch of this tree, another sprouts immediately. In manifestation, you can compare an egbinrin òtè situation to the biblical cursed fig tree, doomed to bring out a sap of sorrow.
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By Ejike Anyaduba
Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, a.k.a Ebube Muonso of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra state, does not need introduction. He is a household name with an Adoration Ministry that is venerated for years as solution ground by Catholics and non-Catholics in search of spiritual and physical needs. The number of worshippers that throng the Uke Adoration ground every Friday from across the states, excluding virtual participants, bespeaks of the priest as a man of unusual charisma.
By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
Following Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s efforts geared towards reclaiming major parts of Anambra State lands ravaged by gully erosion, a team of experts from the European Investment Bank (EIB) assisted Nigeria Climate Adaptation Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP-EIB), led by the National Project Coordinator, Engr. Anda Ayuba Yalaks, on Tuesday, 11th March 2025, visited some designated sites in the state to ascertain the level of the environmental degradation caused by the menace.
RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Wife of the President-General of Umueri community Anambra-East Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Linda John Metchie has described women as very strong pillars of the families and the society at large.
Mrs. Metchie who made the description during a special programme she organized to celebrate women in this year's International Women's Day Celebration, stressed the need for women to always see themselves as change agents, character molders, role models and pillars of support to their husbands and families.
As November 8, 2025 governorship election draws closer, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state has reportedly approved five hundred million naira for propaganda and coordinated media attack against his attackers and the opposition elements.
Top targets, according to the information, are the Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra state, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma (Fr. Ebube Muonso) and a number of other opposition elements, especially within the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP), who the governor is said to have perceived as his top attackers.
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Ubaka Okwusogu
While scanning through the internet I chanced upon an article titled: Ebube Muonso and the tragedy of ego written by a certain Henry Chigozie Duru of the Mass Communication Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. It was an overly presumptuous piece.
Prominent Pentecostal cleric, Dr. Jerry Nwachukwu, has challenged one Mathias Ezeaku, a native doctor, to supremacy contest in Anambra state.
Dr. Nwachukwu, Senior Pastor of the Bible Base Miracle Assembly, Nkpor-Agu, said he was upset that Mathias Ezeaku, a native doctor, took to the social media to say that Jesus Christ has no power to heal the sick, make the lame walk or make the barren to conceive, among other claims.
OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SOLUDO
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Ubaka Okwusogu
Dear Governor,
I write to convey my worries which are not totally different from the concerns of the silent majority who are shy of communicating same to you. You may never get to know your public rating because of your brand of politics that forbids feedback and encourages echo chamber. You have since assumption of office fought every real and imaginary enemy and seem determined to carry on with the offensive as long as you remain the governor of Anambra state. It does appear there is no restraining you.
Festus Adedayo
Since Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national attention. The autobiography reminds me of James Hadley Chase’s Make the Corpse Walk. It is the story of eccentric millionaire, Kester Weidmann, who in his weirdest best, believed money could buy everything, life and death inclusive. So, one day, Weidmann woke up with the crazy idea that his dead brother could be brought back to life. He then enlisted the services of a voodoo specialist to perform this crazed task. Rollo, crooked nightclub, owner was his perfect find to act out this massive con artistry of a lifetime. Things however went awry with the cast of this weird task who soon told themselves that Weidmann’s wealth was more attractive a pie than his absurd voodoo fabrication.
