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Great move my the Abia House. Iust because the governor is visionless doesn't mean others can't be innovative. This style is a practice within our culture.Glad they are embarrassing it. Kudos Abia!

[size=15pt]Abia Assembly to allow public participation in Bills![/size]

By Ugochukwu Eke 4 hours 1 minute ago




SPEAKER Ude Okochukwu of Abia State House of Assembly has disclosed that the public would soon be allowed to make an input in every bill brought before the House before such billa are passed into law.

Okochukwu said it is an innovation introduced by the House to ensure that all strata of the society participate in the law making process.

He spoke in Umuahia when the executive members of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists [NUJ], led by its chairman, Hyacinth Okoli, visited him.

He said: “We have found out that law making should involve everybody and we are the people directly involved in making good laws that will affect everyone. This made us to decide that every Bill must pass through public hearing.”

This will also enable those who will be affected by such Bills when passed into law to make meaningful contribution, as it will affect them directly as well as those of us making the laws.”

The Speaker thanked journalists for the coverage of the activities of the House.

Okochukwu promised to commence a quarterly news conference, different from the one conducted monthly by the Deputy Speaker and House Chairman on Information, Asiforo Okere.

He urged other stakeholders to contribute to the development of the state.

Earlier in his speech, Okoli urged the lawmakers to make good laws that would expedite the development of the state. “Do not allow undue pressure to make you do what you are not supposed to do,” he warned the lawmakers.

He invited the lawmakers to this year’s NUJ week and solicited the sponsorship of the games billed for the week.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/15405-abia-assembly-to-allow-public-participation-in-bills.html

I don't really see what this has to do with 2015.

[size=15pt]Sambo, Mark rift deepens[/size]

Published on 10 August 2011


COSMAS EKPUNOBI (ASSIST. POL. EDITOR)





The alleged battle between Senate President Senator David Mark and Vice president Alhaji Namadi Sambo over the soul of northern politics may have deepened ahead of 2015 presidential election.

But Mark reacting yesterday denied there was any rift between them, insisting that he had no reason to fight the vice president.

Sources yesterday told Daily Champion that Mark’s alleged interest in the number one seat in 2015 may have unsettled the vice president. Our sources said the vice president is no longer comfortable with the growing political romance between Mark and President Goodluck Jonathan. Both leaders were alleged to have raised a tact team to sensitize the major power blocs in the north ahead on the 2015.

Mark is alleged to be at war with the vice president over the renewed plan to sale the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL).

The vice president who is the chairman of the National Council on Privatization (NCP) was reported to be working for a foreign investor to buy NITEL at $968 million, as against the alleged preference of the senate president for Globacom for $450million. The duo is alleged to be flexing muscle over who determines the NITEL buyer.

However, Mark in a statement yesterday and signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Kola Ologbodiyan insisted that there was’ no conflict of interest with Vice President Namadi Sambo over any business transactions.

Part of the statement read: "Mark and Sambo are mutually working together for the success of the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan and have no frosty relationship of any kind between them.

"It is also a huge lie to impute that Vice President Sambo is interested in selling NITEL to a nameless "foreign investor that is prepared to pay $968 million while Senator Mark has a preference to sell NITEL to an indigenous operator, Globacom, for $450 million.

"It is important to stress that the President of the Senate, Senator is neither a member of the National Council of Privatization (NCP) nor the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). He therefore has no input whatsoever in the day-to-day activities of these privatization agencies.

"Also, contrary to the report in a national newspaper, Mark did not order a probe of the BPE. The motion to investigate the collapse of some privatized federal government companies was moved by Senator Ahmed Lawan (ANPP, Yobe) and carried by the whole house.

"The investigation of the sale of these privatized companies is therefore to further the economic interest of our nation just as it is in tandem with the pledge of Mark to engender legislations that will benefit the ordinary Nigerian.

"There is no tussle between Mark and Vice President Sambo over the sale of NITEL or any other matter," the statement noted.


http://www.champion.com.ng/displaycontent.asp?pid=11609

DarkFuture:
LOL cant believe u guys were at it with this LOSER CHYZ[color=#990000][/color].

Guys stop arguing with him plz. Chk out this site which the loser mentioned himself: -

http://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/books/qhi/qhi.html

Now check out for yourself who Rashid Khalifa(plus search for him in the net) is: -

http://www.answering-christianity.com/rk_cult_exposed.htm

http://www.islamicweb.com/beliefs/cults/submitters.htm

I hope I was able to help you guys. Don't bother to PM me. I came across this site coz a cousin of mine got distracted by the LOSER who opened this thread to misguide all of u. Wonder how many other forums and threads he has opened and had people misguided. I pray to Allah, if HE doesn't give Hedayat to this LOSER, then let the LOSER, Mr. CHYZ rot in worst of Hell. 

Thank you all. :-)

The Holy Qur'an survived before and after the hadiths. The Quran represents peace, the hadith represents pain. The Qur'an is the medicine, the hadith is the placebo. Go educate yourself.

Diezani Alison-Madueke is not Igbo, she is Ijaw. She married an Igbo man. Her father's name was Frederick Abiye Agama.

henry101:
Is Okiro from Imo or Rivers? I know He's from Egbema but got reasons to believe He's from Imo state.

Okiro is a Rivers man.

Calculia:
No River State should remain in the south south region. There are other opportunity to create an additional state in the south east region with out river state. Definantely, we need at least two more south east states cut out from the North Central. Delta and Rivers should be left for now.

North Central?? wtf!

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=548902.msg8595702#msg8595702 date=1309115806]If it wasn't so, relative to the source looking out to the world, it was made so when Abagworo facilitated it, relatively as a world looking in to the source.

This pool you now have is forever a new awareness in consciousness.

You can tell this from the various responses, "It is a new knowledge".

The new knowledge provides details from which to draw a total "Igbo" map on the terrain.

Nothing wrong if that terrain is not also claimed by someone else.  If it is, then one of the sides is not truthful about their claims.

What if a contending side just choose not to challenge the Igbo claim?  By default that's an Igbo land. 

Given the challenges already raised and some of the recalls in the story, it raises suspicion and discredits the position that this is an isolated and uncoordinated effort, albeit, this is a calculated move. . . . an Imperial grab![/quote]A case of crying more than the so-called bereaved. Lol

Abagworo:
It is quite wrong to assume than study.I suggested something and rather than do that you came out to assume that I am against your recently manufactured tradition of origin.Ekpeye traditionally worships thesame God with Abiriba and Arochukwu.Obini Ukpabi.That suggests early interaction.

I am of the school of thought that Ekpeye is the only Igbo related language that can stand on its own as separate but similar in every respect.I live with a lot of them and hear the language.They are distinct just like Itsekiri is to Yoruba.

My own belief on Ekpeye is that it consists of three group of people viz Igbo,Ijaw and Edo with Igbo and Ijaw being majority.Edo is the least significant.It is highly probable that the only Edo blood is in the kingship lineage.Note that I am not an authority in Ekpeye history so I just gave an analysis based on association with Ekpeyes,

Ekpeye dialect/language:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxYanBnUJ0&feature=player_embedded#at=111[/flash]