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Real Reason Soludo Is Panicking - Labour Party Forum
Governor Charles Soludo is in a panic over his unsteady position ahead of the 2025 governorship election and hence the resort to throwing aspersions on Labour Party and some of its leading lights in Anambra State, the Forum of Labour Party 2023 House of Assembly Candidates has said.
Ex-Governor Who Was ‘Disgraced’ On Last Day In Office To Be Arraigned Over Alleged Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will on Wednesday, January 24 arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, over alleged money laundering to the tune of N4,008,573,350. The former Anambra governor will be arraigned on nine count charges.
Peter Obi, Anambra State And Conversations About Democracy
Chima Christian initiates arguments on the relevance of democracy citing the progression or otherwise in Anambra State after the handover from Peter Obi to Willie Obiano. For some reasons I was thinking of my home state of Anambra this morning. My focus was on what the state has become just nine years after Peter Obi left it. In my usual manner, I allowed my mind to wander into realms many find unthinkable.
Soludo confronts burden of change in Anambra
Anambra State in the past seven months of Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s watch has witnessed measures of tugging between his government and various sects in organised crime, including some sub-sects in the informal sector whose operations diminish the quality of life of the people and the state’s revenue receipts.
SOLUDO’S BURDEN OF IMPRESSING DISRUPTIVE CHANGE ON ANAMBRA
Anambra State in the past seven months of PROFESSOR CHUKWUMA SOLUDO’S watch has witnessed measures of tugging between his government and various sects in organized crime, including some sub-sects in the informal sector, whose operations diminish the quality of life of the people and the state’s revenue receipts.
Soludo's Burden of Impressing Disruptive Change on Anambra
4 Share Anambra State in the past seven months of Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s watch has witnessed measures of tugging between his government and various sects in organised crime, including some sub-sects in the informal sector, whose operations diminish the quality of life of the people and the state’s revenue receipts.
Soludo's Burden Of Impressing Disruptive Change On Anambra
Anambra State in the past seven months of Professor Chukwuma Soludos watch has witnessed measures of tugging between his government and various sects in organised crime, including some sub-sects in the informal sector, whose operations diminish the quality of life of the people and the states revenue receipts.
A glimpse of Soludo’s Anambra, four months after
After observing the administration of Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo for about four months, the people of Anambra State may have begun to feel the effects of their governor’s effort to make a mark in governance. OKECHUKWU ANARADO provides a summary of the journey so far Anambra State may have entered a new chapter in its journey to become a viable entity.
GOVERNOR SOLUDO’S ANAMBRA STATE
On the 17th of March, 2022, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Dr. Onyeka Ibezim took oaths of office and were sworn in as democratically elected Governor and Deputy Governor of Anambra State.
Governor Soludo’s Anambra State
Anambra State might just have begun a marathon march to a higher plane of civilization. On the 17th of March, 2022, the globally acclaimed economics scholar and technocrat, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, and Dr. Onyeka Ibezim took the Oath of Office and were respectively sworn in as democratically elected Governor and Deputy Governor of the state.
Soludo’s Transition Scheme, A Foretaste Of His Governance Mode
If anyone ever wondered how Professor Chukwuma Soludo would drive his conviction for his envisioned Anambra State or the veracity of his avowals to clinically pursue his pact with ndi-Anambra, which is very well captured in The Soludo Solution: A People’s Manifesto for a Greater Anambra (a document he presented to the people of Anambra – largely upon which they gave him the mandate to govern); the size and quality of his Transition Committee, their terms of reference and other things he has...
Anambra State Politics: Why Obiano Remains Condemned In Obi’s Court
After about seven years of superficial veiling of the strained relationship between Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State and his immediate predecessor, Chief Peter Obi, the veneer restraints and pretexts appear to have fallen overboard; the recent decoys deployed by Obi’s media handlers in seeking to grimly smear the image of Governor Obiano in the consciousness of the public so suggests.
Anambra 2021: APGA defections are lessons in tragedy | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
Sir: The spate of defections from APGA to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the advance of Anambra gubernatorial election of November 6, 2021, provides a peculiar theatre for keen watchers of Anambra politics. It was first the rattle of a few State House of Assembly APGA members jumping camp to APC, then a vibrant APGA ex-Federal House of Representatives member followed, and yet the Deputy Governor of the state and one or two APGA serving Federal House of Representatives members.
Anambra 2021 Election and APGA Defections: Lessons in Tragedy
Amid vestiges of disgruntlement, manoeuvres and outright somersaults by some persons of influence in the household of the All Progressives’ Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State, the worries expressed by William Shakespeare in Macbeth: ‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’ re-echo. Arts imitate life eternally.
You Can't Pardon the Innocent
Advertisement Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to state its position on President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on Friday, October 22, 2021 in which the president amongst others muted a presidential amnesty for Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis who were murdered by the Nigerian State on November 10, 1995.
I’m sorry for giving you Obiano - Obi begs Anambra people
Advertisement By Favour Goodness Former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi, has apologised to the people for the role he played in the emergence of Gov. Willie Obiano. Advertisement Who will win Anambra Guber Election? Soludo [APGA] Ozigbo [PDP] Andy Uba [APC] Ifeanyi Uba [YPP] View Results Obi, who was twice elected on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) but later defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was significant to the victory of Obiano in 2014.
Anambra 2021 Governorship Election, The Ruffles Before The Victory
Politics is largely local; its democracy brand more so. The dominant political traits of a people are reflections of the common political idiosyncrasies of the constituent persons. These determine the characterization the people’s politics bears.
The truth about Anambra 2021 gubernatorial race | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
By Okechukwu Anarado 14 October 2021 | 1:23 am The temper of the contest for Anambra November 6, 2021 gubernatorial poll took new turn and culminated in cloudy impetus on the courts of the land. Unfortunately, the manoeuvre ended up bruising the esteemed demeanour of the judiciary... SIR: The temper of the contest for Anambra November 6, 2021 gubernatorial poll took new turn and culminated in cloudy impetus on the courts of the land.
Anambra 2021 Gubernatorial Race: If Not Soludo, Who Else?
The temper of the contest for Anambra November 6, 2021 gubernatorial poll took new turns the moment Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives’ Grand Alliance, APGA. The subsequent conspiracies to undermine his candidature culminated in cloudy impetus on the courts of the land. Unfortunately, the manoeuvers ended up bruising the esteemed demeanor of the judiciary.
Anambra 2021: Spare President Buhari The Lies And The Consequences
The mounting frenzy of political events in Anambra State over the past three months leaves no one in doubt of the esteemed value of the office of a governor - Anambra State governor at that. All interest parties within and outside Anambra State have been observed to be exerting enormous energies towards producing the next governor of the state. This is consequent upon the steady approach of November 6, 2021 date for Anambra State gubernatorial election.
Anambra 2021 and APGA’s headstart | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
Charles Soludo. PHOTO: Gettyimages Sir: It is a popular conclusion in political discourses that the Wednesday, June 23, 2021 result of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) party primary election which produced Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s candidate for the November 6, 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial poll positioned the party for a resounding victory in the election.
Anambra International Cargo Airport, Umueri and Local Conspiracies
Written By Okechukwu Anarado The Anambra International Cargo Airport, Umueri stands out as the most auspicious (cynics would prefer ambitious) singular physical infrastructure capable of significantly enhancing the face of commerce and the entire economy of Anambra State embarked on by the Governor Willie Obiano administration. It will equally propel the international trade interests of the South East to Olympian heights.
Commentary: Strategic Thrus Of Obiano’s Road Infrastructures
Written By: Okechukwu Anarado Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has creditably demonstrated responsiveness to the people’s yearnings for good roads. A close look at Obiano’s pattern of intervention on roads shows a strategic deployment of energies in the different sections of the road and ecological needs of the state.
Gov Obiano’s Road Infrastructures as Civilizing Agents
Listen to article Although the primary responsibility of every government is the safeguard of people and property within the geopolitical enclave under its authority, the top prominence of road infrastructure in the indices for measuring good governance is undebatable. This is more so in our politico-economic clime where the heavy clamour for roads as civilizing agents makes a huge demand on the government.
Federal Court of Appeal Domiciles in Awka
Listen to article It is yet an additional notch in the preponderant feats that underpin the remarkable and memorable years of Chief Willie Obiano’s government.
Nigeria: Igbo's Vent On Nigeria's Restructuring
opinion By Okechukwu AnaradoPerhaps, excepting the imprints of the unruly events that started happening and later snowballed into the Nigeria's Civil War in the late 1960's, the portraiture of Nigeria today as a drifting democracy in black Africa has not been more appropriate and worrisome.
Igbo’s vent on Nigeria’s restructuring
Though the times and details of the conflicts might vary, the commonalities in the settings derive largely from the wanton destruction of lives and property by felons who first appear faceless, but whose identification soon exposes the troubling ineptitude of the nation’s authorities to either apprehend them or stem the raging tides of waste of lives, property and values which the culprits willfully unleash on their hapless victims.
APGA’s headstart in Anambra November 18 governorship poll
By Okechukwu Anarado The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, is off to a flying start in Anambra November 18, 2017 gubernatorial race. The throbbing ambience of camaraderie that marked the peaceful conduct of the party’s primary election on Tuesday, 15 August, 2017 at Prof Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka, signified unbound commitment to pending vigorous electioneering, pursuant to the return of Chief Willie Obiano, who freely received reelection mandate in the exercise.
Ozubulu church attack and Governor Obiano’s assurances
By Okechukwu Anarado It is correct to conclude that, in the 25 years of Anambra State, no singular act of impunity has jolted the sensibilities of the residents of the state as much as the shocking reality of the Ozubulu early-morning killing and maiming of Christian worshippers on Sunday, August 6, 2017. The heartrending incident occurred at St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Amakwa-Ozubulu, a suburban town in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state.
Anambra Airport City and Osita Chidoka’s tales
A consortium of Chinese and Nigerian firms bears the cost of constructing and managing the facility which, on completion, will comprise an international airport with two runways, shopping malls, industrial and business parks, a five-star hotel and a well-appointed Chinese neighbourhood. Apart from its function as an international airport capable of landing any size of airplane, Umueri would provide refueling facilities for international aircraft on transit.
Airport City : Understanding the promise of Anambra Airport City Project | 4-Traders
It goes beyond rational doubts that one of the biggest stories of Governor Willie Obianos administration in the past three years is the Anambra Airport City project at Umueri in Anambra East Local Government Area. The first basic thing to note about this landmark project is that besides the 1,500 hectares of land on which the is designed to sit, the project is being domiciled in the state at no other cost to either Ndi-Anambra or the state government.
Understanding the promise of Anambra Airport City Project
By Okechukwu Anarado It goes beyond rational doubts that one of the biggest stories of Governor Willie Obianos administration in the past three years is the Anambra Airport City project at Umueri in Anambra East Local Government Area. The first basic thing to note about this landmark project is that besides the 1,500 hectares of land on which the Airport City is designed to sit, the $2 billion project is being domiciled in the state at no other cost to either Ndi-Anambra or the state government.
Soludo and Obiano’s second term bid - Nigeria Today
THE ethno-economic content of Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s ‘Anambra: An Emerging Start-Up State and Our Collective Challenge’ and the eloquence of its delivery are deserving of prime recognition and honour. The piece was the erudite economist’s Public Lecture on March 17, at the 3rd Anniversary celebration of Governor Willie Obiano’s administration in Anambra State.
Soludo and Obiano’s second term bid
Soludo and Obiano’s second term bid — 7th April 2017 By Okechukwu Anarado THE ethno-economic content of Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s ‘Anambra: An Emerging Start-Up State and Our Collective Challenge’ and the eloquence of its delivery are deserving of prime recognition and honour. The piece was the erudite economist’s Public Lecture on March 17, at the 3rd Anniversary celebration of Governor Willie Obiano’s administration in Anambra State.
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