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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Onitsha Community in Anambra has commenced the training of no fewer than 100 men and women as members of the Neighborhood Security Watch.
The training which began on Thursday at the Ime Obi (Palace) was sponsored by the Chairman of Onitsha North Local Government (LGA).
Declaring the event open, Mba explained that the training was aimed at enabling the participants to acquire basic skills needed to combat crime within their neighborhood.
He said it would create an active security network in the various communities of the metropolitan city.
“It is also aimed at providing job opportunities to the youth.
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Four days to the National Election of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the exercise has taken a different dimension.
This is as the Secretary-General of the Igbo organization, Barr. Uche Okwukwu has dragged the President-General, Chief John Nnia Nwodo to court, seeking to stop him from conducting the exercise.
The tenure of the current Ohanaeze Executive is expected to elapse this January.
Nwodo is the sole defendant in the suit, in his capacity as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
Okwukwu has been at loggerheads with Nwodo, leading recently to the inauguration of parallel Ohanaeze Election Committee.
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
FEW days to the 2021 elections of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, some leaders and members of the apex Igbo group are divided over the venue, and emergence of Professor George Obiozor as consensus president-general candidate.
At issue is Ohanaeze Ime-Obi’s approval of the application of Imo State to host the election and adoption of Obiozor as consensus candidate by some Imo State stakeholders.
As the state producing the president-general, some leaders said Imo State should not host the election more so as the state government was part of Obiozor’s endorsement.
Speaking on the issues, former presidential candidate and a member of Ohanaeze Ime-Obi, Chief Chekwas Okorie, said Imo could host the election.
OHANAEZE ELECTION: Igbo Leaders divided over venue, consensus candidate
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By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
FEW days to the 2021 elections of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, some leaders and members of the apex Igbo group are divided over the venue, and emergence of Professor George Obiozor as consensus president-general candidate.
At issue is Ohanaeze Ime-Obi’s approval of the application of Imo State to host the election and adoption of Obiozor as consensus candidate by some Imo State stakeholders.
As the state producing the president-general, some leaders said Imo State should not host the election more so as the state government was part of Obiozor’s endorsement.