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His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, the Imo State Governor Elect, receiving His Certificate of Return, today 27th-03- 2019, at the State Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Owerri.

It was an excruciating dry season in 1904. The only source of water being the few ponds which were equally drying up. Nnanyere was a noble from Obia kindred in Nnarambia. In the dry seasons, he used to allow people fetch water from his pond. That year, it wasn't possible as he had to conserve the little remaining water by locking up the entrance with palm fronds and keeping his servant on the lookout.  When people from Umunloghocha Lude came to fetch water, the servant refused them. A scuffle ensued. An object thrown by the Lude people landed on his head, killing him instantly. The death of the servant snowballed into 'ogu Ibe ama' between the two communities. The casualty figures rose by the day on both sides. My maternal ancestor, Nwanjoku Nwagwu was one of the mighty men from Umuofor  Nnarambia. He built a watchtower (nkoro) at the location of the entrance of the new Ahiara polytechnic from where he took out soft targets. This earned him the name 'Onyike'(mighty ...

By Dr. Myles Munroe. 1.  The Greatest Act Of Leadership Is Mentoring. 2.  If what you learn, achieve, accumulate or accomplish dies with you then you are a generational failure. 3.  Mentoring is the manifestation of the highest level of personal maturity, security and self confidence. 4.  An insecure person will never Train People, they will oppress people. 5.  Mature people create people greater than themselves. 6.  Your assignment has a shelf life. 7.  You will die one day; so train your replacement. 8.  Your Greatest Gift to the world is your mentee. 9.  True leaders do not seek followers, followers are attracted to true leaders. 10.  The Greatest obligation of true leadership is to transfer your deposit to the next generation. 11.  Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor. 12.  No matter how great you may have been, if you didn't produce a successor, you are a failure. 13....

EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR-ELECT, IMO PRESS RELEASE IHEDIOHA: I WILL DEDICATE MY TENURE TO SERVING GOD AND HUMANITY – …SET TO ANNOUNCE TRANSITION COMMITTEE, …WE WILL STEP ON SOME TOES IN THE REBUILDING PROCESS …I WILL BE A LISTENING GOVERNOR. Governor-elect, Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha CON has pledged to dedicate his tenure to serving God and humanity, as according to him, “only God can protect and guide us towards achieving the rebuilding of our state.” This is as he disclosed plans to announce members of his Transition Committee. Rt. Hon. Ihedioha who stated this at St. Peter’s Anglican Church Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise LGA, during a thanksgiving service to mark his 54th birthday, maintained that only a state that is entrusted in the hands of God, can realize the desire of the people of Imo StaY “It is a thing of great joy that God has led me through the years past. I am indeed humbled by the grace of God and his Mercies in my life. He has shown me so much kindness and I must confess th...

 GENERAL THEME: NIGERIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM: HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS. REVOLUTION OR RESTRUCTURING ~The credible alternatives to Nigerian Political quagmire A SPEECH PRESENTED BY ENGR. COLUMBUS AKALONU AT THE 2019 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS (NAPS) WEEKEND SYMPOSIUM AT SEAT OF WISDOM SEMINARY UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE, NIGERIA ON 23RD MARCH 2019. The Rector, Seminar Organizers, Erudite Teachers/Instructors, Distinguished Guests The President of NAPS. All protocols observed. Preamble: I have the honour of standing before you at this hour to deliver this lecture as part of the activities marking the 2019 edition of your NAPS weekend. It is a thing of joy seeing you young men thinking politically and suggesting the road map for the nation's sociopolitical system. With your general theme of "NIGERIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM: HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS" am not left with doubts that you people have been following up Nigerias' system and would perhaps be joyed to hav...

When we talk of moral decay, our focus is normally on alcohol, drug abuse, pornography and other vices that the society terms abominable.  But these are just results of the moral decay not really the cause. While it is an individual’s task to develop and maintain a good character, still our role cannot be overlooked in the character development of others. We can either build or break. The unbridled moral decay and moral uprightness are somehow rooted in the way we treat one another. Perhaps our contribution is the most immoral than the moral decay that we see in most individuals. It once popped out in Lusaka times on 21st March, 2018; a 30 year old man of Lusaka committed suicide by poisoning himself and two children in a lodge in Matero Township. It was a story which caught the eyes of most Zambians. But sadly, most of us focused on the brutality side of a poor man. Did someone close take time to find out the background of that man? Perhaps few did; but to my knowledge, Lus...

                           *~Inonge abandons Imasiku~* Finally Inonge delivered; it was a big bouncing baby girl; suffice to say, she was happy.  “Why is he here?” Inonge mumbled! It was Sitali! He had come to see her newly born daughter. “When I was pregnant this man abandoned me! He chose Sibeso over me, what is he here for?” Inonge wondered. “You can see it,” Inonge handed the child to Sitali.  He surveyed its face, “Oh it’s beautiful! It looks like my mother,” he giggled. Inonge grinned as if she was happy, yet her inner being boiled up at a hundred degrees Celsius. They exchanged some few words, and Sitali was gone. Three years later, Inonge’s daughter had grown; she was now called Imasiku. Whenever Inonge looked at her, she felt sad because soon she was to leave her under the care of Sitali and Sibeso her step mother.  This plan was not new! ‘...