(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – knight of St. John International (KSJI), a United States-based international organisation of the Catholic Church, has declared war against consumption of methamphetamine popularly known as (MKPURU MMIRI) in Igbo parlance and other forms of psycho-substances by youths in Nigeria. President of (KSJI) in Nigeria, Major General (Prof) Remy Uche stated this when […]
FLASHBACK: 5th February, 2015:
Within the last one week, I have been to Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State twice. Last Friday, when I left Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, I drove straight to Amafor-Imerienwe to spend a few moments with my friend, Dr. Sam Amadi, chair of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) who was burying his late mother that day. Then on Sunday evening, I was back to Owerri to join the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign train of Hon Emeka Ihedioha that was to hit his Aboh-Mbaise-Ngor Okpala Federal Constituency the next day.
Now, I need to state quickly that I am neither a PDP member nor member of any other party. I simply went to identify with the aspiration of my friend. With the exception of the 2011 general election when I was not in the country, I have since 2003âwhen he made his first foray into the House of Representativesâalways spent at least a day on Ihediohaâs campaign train as a show of s