The lawmaker representing Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has told the family of late Chief Onyema Olujie, that it is possible they may not receive any response from the Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as experience has shown that the ministry does not protect the interests of Nigerians.
Onyema Olujie from Abia State in the South Eastern region of Nigeria died on October 14, 2022 after the Mexican Immigration Authorities humiliated, manhandled and denied him and his wife, Uloma, entry to access stage four colon cancer medical treatment at Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6 Division, Port-Harcourt, Major-General Olubunmi Irefin, is dead. He passed away after contracting COVID-19 while attending the annual Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference in Abuja.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday snubbed the invitation of the House of Representatives. Commenting on Buhari’s absence, Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila said the House would wait for official communication from the President.
3. A former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, collapsed during the resumed hearing in his N2bn money laundering trial on Thursday, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The defence lawyer, Anayo Adibe, was briefing the judge, Justice Okon Abang, that his team was yet to receive the records of proceedings requested from the court’s registry when Maina’s collapse attracted attenti
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A High Court in Abia State, Thursday, vacated the order restraining the Abia State Independent National Electoral Commission, ABSIEC, from conducting December 18th local government election across the wards in the seventeen LGA of the state.
Recall that Justice Agwu Umah Kalu-led High Court in Aba division had issued a a restraining order against the Abia State Independent Electoral Commission, ABSIEC, from continuing to demand N480,000 from all Chairmanship candidates and N145,000 from all Councillorship candidates for forms pending the determination of the motion on notice.
The court also restrained ABSIEC from excluding candidates of the All Progressive Congress, APC, from participating in the forthcoming Local Government election on the ground of non-payment of the fees it imposed or any other ground not supported by law whatsoever pending the determination of the motion on notice.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has urged residents to look at the records of his administration and vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming Local Government Area elections.
Ikpeazu said this while presenting the PDP flag to candidates at the forthcoming December 18 Local Government election.
He said PDP candidates have been working and are hopeful of victory come that day.
”Let me state that this is the 2nd LG elections my administration will be organising in just 5 years. This is unprecedented in the history of our dear State. It is obvious that with the level of work our Party and the candidates have put in so far, from the beginning of the process till now, our opponents are already anticipating their defeat shivering, taking knee-jerk actions to save face from their impending defeat.