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Is Gov. Orji Intending Reconciliation with the Probe of Kalu? -By Odimegwu Onwumere

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News Monday, May 20th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / NNP / May 20, 2013 – It was Hubert H. Humphrey (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978), who said that the essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for [...]

Kalu’s certificate: ABSU shot itself in the foot –Nzelu

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Thursday, March 7th, 2013

Via Sun… Says Gov Orji’s act worse than Judas’s From IKENNA EMEWU, Abuja Abuja activist lawyer, Chief Amobi Nzelu who earned prominence in championing the cause of the Apo Six victims has blasted the Abia State University (ABSU) over the withdrawal of the certificate of former state governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu. Nzelu in reaction [...]

Letter: Kudos to Abia varsity for withdrawing Kalu’s certificate

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, Letters, State News Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

The editor, I would like to thank the senate of Abia State University for withdrawing the certificate formerly granted our admirable one-time governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. If I have the power to grant national honors, the members of the Senate of the university who who voted for the withdrawal of the [...]

Abia varsity withdraws Kalu’s certificate

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

The Abia State University has withdrawn the degree certificate it awarded to a former governor of the state, Uzor Orji Kalu. An online news portal, Premium Times, reports that the university in a statement by its Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after an emergency meeting of the university senate [...]

‘I apologise to Abians for installing T.A. Orji their governor’ (so democratic installing leaders)

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Thursday, February 7th, 2013

•I Support Igbo to produce President …the same way we supported you on Abiola, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan Former Governor of Abia State, founder and former presidential candidate of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who recently rejoined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke to LEO SOBECHI (in Kalu’s Camp Neya country home, [...]

Abia: Posterity May Find It Very Hard to Forgive Gov. Orji – by Odimegwu Onwumere

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / Aba, Imo State / Jan. 15, 2013 – The latest ranting by Governor Theodore Orji’s aides in the media is dishonourable. They have thrown decorum to the dust bin just as their principal has thrown a gemstone such as the position of a governor away and chose to be a gainsayer. [...]

In Abia, the war against crime rages on

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Bank gives five Toyota double -cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets to the state THE fight against insecurity in Abia State was boosted at the weekend with a donation of five security Toyota double-cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets by First Bank of Nigeria Plc. to the state. The Managing Director of the [...]

Abia and Gov. Orji’s Incessant Affront – By Odimegwu Onwumere

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

By Odimegwu Onwumere / Rivers, Nigeria / Dec. 23, 2012 – Some persons have the ability to learn from experience while others do not have. The later does not make human existence unique. It is not remarkable. Such makes the world to retrogress. And this is what has been playing on in Abia State. But [...]

Sambo’s aide heartbroken over actress Nkiru Sylvanus

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, Imo, Raw Politics, State News Thursday, December 20th, 2012

His name is Alhaji Umar and he works in the presidential villa. His love (some will say obsession) for star actress, Nkiru Sylvanus is an open secret in the Federal Capital Territoty and his home state, Kaduna. This guy, who is one of the trusted aides of Vice President Namadi Sambo, loves Nkiru and is [...]

Man forces wife to drink petrol, sets her ablaze ‘…No, she killed herself’

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Sunday, November 25th, 2012

Pandemonium broke out in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State at the weekend when a man set his wife ablaze for complaining to her sister-in-law on phone about the husband’s alleged maltreatment . The suspect later reported himself to the police. The man, whose name was given as Ndubuisi Okafor, a trailer driver, who [...]

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Is Gov. Orji Intending Reconciliation with the Probe of Kalu? -By Odimegwu Onwumere

Kalu’s certificate: ABSU shot itself in the foot –Nzelu

Letter: Kudos to Abia varsity for withdrawing Kalu’s certificate

Abia varsity withdraws Kalu’s certificate

‘I apologise to Abians for installing T.A. Orji their governor’ (so democratic installing leaders)

Abia: Posterity May Find It Very Hard to Forgive Gov. Orji – by Odimegwu Onwumere

In Abia, the war against crime rages on

Abia and Gov. Orji’s Incessant Affront – By Odimegwu Onwumere

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Man forces wife to drink petrol, sets her ablaze ‘…No, she killed herself’

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