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President Buhari, the Nigerian federal government, Department of State Service, Nigerian Army and some Lagos State government officials and politicians are responsible for the lawlessness, draconian killing of unarmed protesters and looting.

The Below Requests of Nigerian Youths would be FULLY ANSWERED BY THE MOST HIGH GOD ELOHIM YHWH I AM THAT I AM in the MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST EMMANUEL. AMEN.

Nigerian government together with African Union, United Nations, United State of America, The Britain and The International Community must ensure the below requests of the Nigerian Youths are granted in full immediately.

#End Sars

#End Police and Army Brutality, Extortion and Extrajudicial Killings

#Restructure Nigeria Back To Autonomous Self Governing Regional System With Justice

#Nigeria Economy Reform

#Constitutional And Institutional Reforms

#End To Bad Governance in Nigeria

Nice one but justice must be given to the victims and punishment to the evil sars officers.

Thanks to Runtown for the courage in starting this protest when other artist were afraid or indecisive. He has done well. Falz also did well.

It is a shame that while Nigerian youths stand and protest together in unity against police brutality and bad governance regardless of ethnicity and religious beliefs, you have chosen to be the bad egg and devil advocate by promoting division and stup1dity.

#End Police Brutality and Check points
#End Bad Governance
#Restructure Nigeria

peckhamboi:
They are calling for Yorubas to come and rescue them again.

Yoruba sneezes, Nigeria catch cold.

This is just the beginning.

This protest was started by an Igbo musician known as Runtown while Naira Marley disappointed his fans.

peckhamboi:
They are calling for Yorubas to come and rescue them again.

Yoruba sneezes, Nigeria catch cold.

This is just the beginning.

The police rascality and intimidation in South East and South South is very much. Too many check points.

May their souls rest in peace.

Nawa ooo

Your comments are always useless, null and void.

elampiro:
Shut your gutter mouth

History would be kind to Supreme Court Justice Chima Centus Nweze, JSC.......PhD, LLM, LLB. He has by this judgement immortalized himself as a fair, just and upright justice with unshakable integrity.


"Wonders shall never end! That means there were 159,340 votes in excess of the total number of accredited votes. “In the circumstance, I think that the humble view, that this court has inherent jurisdiction of redeeming its image by setting aside the said judgement, is not out of place.”

Eight, “Even then, this court declared the first appellant the winner in the said election when there was no evidence that he satisfied the true requirement of highest number of votes cast in the election and a position of not less than one-quarter of all the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of all the local government areas in the State, Section 179 (2) (a) and (b) of the Constitution. If left, the said judgement of the Supreme Court will continue to haunt our electoral jurisprudence now and in the future.”

May Their Souls Rest in Peace. Amen.

You are not an Igbo man. We don't want stup1d contributions on this thread. You are obviously a depressed person who is senselessly fixated on Igbo affairs.

MelesZenawi:
Don't waste your time on pazienza. He is passing through so many depression over non achievable dreams and future fictions.

Same way he wanted to challenge a simple tongue yesterday with ITK but ran away when beaten.


Don't stress yourself on him.

Nawa for this ridiculously unjust judgement by the Supreme Court. This judicial rascality must stop.

Still on the Supreme Court ruling on Imo Guber Election: (Why the Supreme Court must reverse itself)

The law is settled as decided by the same Supreme Court in Buhari v. INEC (2008); that "weight can hardly be attached to a document tendered in evidence by a witness who cannot or is not in a position to answer questions on the document. One of such persons the law identifies is the one who did not make the document. Such a person is adjudged in the eyes of the law as ignorant of the content of the document”.

Questions for the CJN, Justice Tanko and other Supreme Court Justices:

1. Does the Supreme Court have powers to formulate and allocate votes as election results?

2. Were the said results certified by INEC as required by law?

3. Did Hope Uzodinma call 388 witnesses from the 388 polling units to speak to the results to obviate the principle of dumping which the Supreme Court used against the PDP and her candidate, Atiku Abubarka, in the last Presidential Appeal.

4. Were the presiding officers and or party agents of the 388 polling units called to testify by Uzodinma/APC, who were the Petitioners?

5. What are the figures from each of the various 388 polling units generated and allocated to Hope Uzodinma/APC by the Supreme Court?

6. Is the Supreme Court saying that all the votes from the alleged 388 polling units were for the APC alone in an election that was contested by over 70 candidates?

Supreme Court ruling: Ihedioha can still be governor
ON JANUARY 19, 202
By Tonnie Iredia

It is no longer news that in line with last week’s decision of the Supreme Court, Senator Hope Uzodinma is now the Imo State governor. Having decided that the exclusion of certain votes in his favour during the collation of votes at the last governorship election in the state was illegal, the Apex Court went ahead to add the said votes which saw to the victory of the new governor.


Uzodinma was promptly sworn in. His immediate predecessor, Emeka Ihedioha who had earlier been declared as the duly elected governor by the electoral body had to step down. Before doing so, Ihedioha did not forget to make the point that although he did not agree with what he described as an unfair and unjust ruling, he had “no option but to respect the outcome of the judgment.”

A cursory look at various media platforms shows that Ihedioha’s viewpoint is generally shared by a cross-section of Nigerians.

Bearing in mind that the ruling was made by the nation’s highest judicial authority – the Supreme Court, everyone appears to believe that there is really nothing left for Ihedioha to rely upon for some hope.

There are grounds for this position, the most prominent is that the Supreme Court is the last court of the land; meaning that after it, no other court is available to a party for further action. In other words, the situation is not like what happens in the lower courts when a party can proceed on appeal to a higher court where he is dissatisfied with a judgment.


Again, there is the understanding that in order to avoid a situation where a case may never end, the same court is not expected to review its rulings after delivering its judgment. Put differently, a Court cannot sit as an appellate court over its decision. It is this idea, that a Court has no business returning to a case it has already concluded that makes many people think the end of Ihedioha’s case has come.

For this reason, some analysts have condemned the call by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Supreme Court to reverse itself in the Imo case. The only thing in our view that is wrong with the position of the PDP is the intemperate diction employed at the press conference where the call was made.

Otherwise, the rule that a court cannot reverse itself is not absolute. To revisit a case already settled has happened many times before.

Almost 50 years ago, we had the case of Johnson v Lawanson (1971) 7 NSCC 82 where the Supreme Court found cause to overrule itself. In that case, Justice G.B.A Coker of the Apex Court made the point that “when the court is faced with the alternative of perpetuating what it is satisfied is an erroneous decision which was reached per incuriam and will, if followed, inflict hardship and injustice upon the generations in the future or of causing temporary disturbances of rights acquired under such a decision, I do not think we shall hesitate to declare the law as we find it.”

What the above implies is that the convention that Courts do not reverse themselves has exceptions; one of which is that a party is allowed to seek a revisit of a decided case if the decision was arrived at by fraud or deceit or in earnest when there are clerical errors in the judgment.

From the little that has been made public about the Imo judgment, it is obvious that the election has been accorded more votes than the number of voters accredited to vote – an anomaly that is made more visible by the current arrangement in which accreditation and voting are merged.

However, the number of votes scored in an election can be lower than the number accredited where some ballots are found to be invalid.

The decision of the Supreme Court in the Imo governorship case that the exclusion of certain votes was illegal because it was done by unauthorized officials cannot be faulted; it is in actual fact a point to be saluted if we must put an end to our history of rancorous elections.

But if the addition of the controversial votes creates mathematical errors as we now have, the court ought to correct such clerical error, accidental slip or omission. That is probably what any person would regard as the ordinary meaning of Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules which creates an exception to the rule that a court cannot revisit its own ruling. Thus, nothing in our view stops Emeka Ihedioha from pointing out the apparent error occasioned by the addition of the voting figures approved by the court.

All he needs to do is to present an application to the court for the correction of the error in computing the votes and not to seek an appeal. In other words, Ihedioha must not go to Court to seek a reversal of his case as Andy Uba was wrongly persuaded to do in the Anambra governorship election in 2007. Ihedioha should stop at correcting errors.

In truth, if the Supreme Court had averted her mind to the absurdity of the figures we are now seeing, she would have seen with relative ease, some wisdom in the earlier rejection by the electoral body of obviously concocted figures which Nigerian politicians are expert of. She would have realized that allowing the figures would do incalculable damage to our electoral and democratic system.

This is why we call on the Supreme Court to, on its own, without the prompting of a party correct the obvious error which would not derogate from its credibility because although the court is final, its members are not infallible; they are human.

This is our own understanding of what the late legend, Chukwudifu Oputa meant when he said many years back while referring to those of them in the Supreme Court that “we are final not because we are infallible, rather we are infallible because we are final.”

What would make the finality of our Apex Court to be greatly cherished is where the Court is not only fair and just but where it also adopts an approach which allows errors to be corrected. If the truth must be told, such respect for the Court or what may be better described as public perception of our Supreme Court at this point in time is rather low.

One way of reversing the trend is for the Court to embrace substantial rather than technical justice as its priority and to revisit a case whose judgment is laced with errors. Otherwise, a judgment that no one would comfortably follow in future would be a great attack on the doctrine of judicial precedent.

The judgment in the Imo governorship case, which has approved more votes than voters has all the potentials of serving as a bad case. It should be promptly corrected.

www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/supreme-court-ruling-ihedioha-can-still-be-governor-2/amp/

The supreme court judgement on Imo State governorship election is unjust and a shame.

Please mind the kind of rubbish you comment on this thread. Let me remind you that you are not from Imo State and therefore not in a better position to say what is right for Ndi Imo. Keep your unintelligent analysis to yourself.

The 2019 election was won fair and square by Ihedioha of PDP. The APC failed to win a seat out of 27 seats in the Imo State house of assembly. The will of God would be done in Imo State despite the glaring injustice of the supreme court. By far, Ihedioha is better than Rochas Okorocha administration and judging from the pedigree of Hope Uzodimma may be better Hope Uzodimma.

B2mario:
Who is Abagworo, is like you are sick?

Go and find a job too. Ihedioha entered through the window and he was thrown out through the window.

Did Ihedioha truly win the election at the first place. He was there for close to 7 months but nothing to show for.

There is no need for baseless argument, Omumu people are Igbos.

Omuma is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Eberi. Its people are of Igbo extraction.[1]

Omuma
LGA
Motto(s): The Promise Land
Country
Nigeria
State
Rivers State
Date created
October 1, 1996
Seat
Eberi
Area
• Total
70 sq mi (170 km2)
Time zone
UTC+1 (WAT)
It has an area of 170 km² and a population of 100,366 at the 2006 census.

Shut up your dirty mouth as your comment is useless. I am from Imo State and I don't work for Okezie Ikpeazu. I want him to better his govt performance.

You are a shameless m0ron for posting such insultive comment. What response have you offered to the many very old irritating pictures of Aba that litter the cyber space due to repetitive uploading of such false pictures ? Nothing! You don't care the negative effects this would have on prospective investors in Abia State. But you are quick to display your dislike for Abia State when I try to change the false narrative.

You are a dumb cockroach full of sh1t and a nonsense person

ChimaAdeoye:
All the pictures you have posted are Aba picture from 10 years ago from skyscraper website

HERE: . www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=927188&page=2


Why do you guys love to lie and play childish deceitful games?
You post pictures from the internet that are more than 10 years old and say Aba is improving? Why are you afraid of posting the picture of Aba today?

These silly Okezie village rats being smart by half.

ANALYZING IHEDIOHA'S REBUILD IMO BUDGET 2020

By Collins Opurozor

There still exists among Nigerians a limited understanding of what the annual governmental ritual known as budget means to their lives. Of all the subjects in politics, budget seems to be the least discussed in the streets of Nigeria. In the mass media as well, budget is scarcely given the attention it deserves. It is the instrument for collective wellbeing. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that embodies the hopes and aspirations of the people and espouses a readiness to meet them if not the budget.

In advanced democracies, civil society groups take it upon themselves to influence the budgetary processes so as to realize their vision for the society. They track budget implementation and evaluate the outcomes. This is a practical way of ensuring that service delivery gets to the target group, and at the same time diminishing the possibilities for abuse of public trust.

The Governor of Imo State, the Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, has presented his very first appropriation bill (budget) to the Imo State House of Assembly. He has proposed a total sum of N197.6 billion as the Rebuild Imo Budget One - 2020. It is important we dissect the various components of that budget and understand the possibilities it holds for Imo and her people.

MACRO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AND THE FEASIBILITY OF A VIABLE IMO

One very significant leap which the Ihedioha administration has made is in the area of restoring investor confidence in the Imo economy. Beyond the fact that Imo's shares of the FAAC, JAAC, Derivation and VAT are shaped by external conditions, it is exhilarating to note that the IGR profile of the state has moved from N25.6 billion of 2019 to N36.5 billion. This is an index of economic recovery, sound policy framework and increased viability. The implementation of the TSA has plugged revenue leakages and reduced the incidence of double taxation to zero, so that while the public coffers are not marginalized, businesses at the same time find a favourable climate in Imo state.

PERSONNEL COSTS AND EFFICIENCY OF IMO BUREAUCRACY

Another crucial area in the budget that requires attention is the reduction of the personnel costs from the humongous N15.3 billion of 2019 to N8.9 billion. What this means is that the civil service in Imo has been sanitized and gotten rid of the menace of ghost workers that had been a millstone around the neck of Imo state. It also reveals the looting that had festered in Imo under Okorocha in the name of wage bills. The Government therefore should be commended on this. Essentially, the biometric verification system of clock-in, clock-out that has been implemented in the local government system should also be extended to all ministries, departments, agencies and parastatals.

GRAPPLING WITH IMO'S STAGGERING DEBT PROFILE

In the last fiscal year, Imo's internal loans stood at a total of N50 billion. This has been lowered to N18.9 billion. With revenues accounting for about 71% of the budget, Imo has increased its generative capacity and instituted a regime of fiscal discipline.

ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE

With the lowering of the cost for the admin services sector from N58 billion to N21 billion, more resources have been funnelled into providing infrastructure that will rev up the growth of the economy. This is in line with the vision of the Ihedioha administration to make Imo one of the top three state economies in Nigeria. This is why the Ministry of Works gets N41 billion. To be sure, the summary of the economic backwardness of Imo state is the absence of associated infrastructure. The budget has revealed the commitment of the Government to rebuild Imo infrastructurally so as to accentuate economic development.

EXPENDITURE PATTERN AND IMPLICATIONS

With N106 billion proposed for capital projects and N91 billion for recurrent expenditure, it is evident that the Government has a deep-rooted passion for building enduring legacies. For one thing, the lowering of the recurrent expenditure implies a deliberate policy of curtailing waste through the right-sizing of the bureaucracy, a fight against corruption, slashing of over-bloated overheads and zero tolerance for a plethora of idle appointees.

In conclusion, the 2020 budget is obviously in sync with the expectations Imo people who were bruised by the immediate past administration and who yearn in unison for a better life. The priorities of the budget will drive development and lift the vast majority of the people off poverty.

Culled from Imo State New Media

ANAMMCO Bounces back with Rugged Dongfeng Trucks

By Charles lwuoha, Enugu on 22/10/2019

The ANAMMCO Ltd, a leading vehicle manufacturing company in Nigeria, has started the manufacture and sale of Dongfeng Trucks meant to stand rugged roads and work-load in Nigeria and entire West Africa.

The Sales Manager of the company, Mr Olalekan Sanyaolu, said this during a road show to showcase Dongfeng Trucks within Enugu metropolis and its environs on Monday.

Sanyaolu noted that the new partnership between ANAMMCO and Dongfeng had made it possible for the production lines of ANAMMCO to bounce back, adding that it had created more jobs within Enugu and helped to conserve the nation’s foreign exchange earnings.

He said: “Dongfeng is one of the world leading truck manufacturers and number one in vehicle manufacturing in Asia for over 55 years dominance.

“With the partnership, ANAMMCO is manufacturing Dongfeng trucks in it truck plant manufacturing lines presently, since Mercedes pulled out of Nigeria; Dongfeng remains the only company that has a product (truck) that could fit-in in the manufacturing lines initially built on Mercedes rugged specifications.

“Dongfeng truck is very low emission vehicles and the tracks have high efficiency, strength and durability rate as well as availability and guaranty of genuine spare parts with Dongfeng logos.

“The trucks are low fuel consumption rate of 20 litres for every 100 kilometres (for normal truck) and 25 litres for every 100 kilometres for the long trucks.

“It has a strong shock absorbing and spring system meant to carry loads and withstand rugged road comfortably; while the interior of the trucks are well-designed and air conditioned to provide maximum comfort.

“The spare parts and after-sales support services for the trucks can be gotten within major metropolis of major cities in West Africa.”

The sales manager noted that the partnership with the Chinese company, Dongfeng, was a fallout of the renewed synergy and co-operation between Nigeria and China.

“The recent direct current swap agreement between Nigeria and China as well as ease of getting Chinese currency further made the partnership possible.

“However, the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure that businessmen and women get enough of the exchange to be able to complete business deals on time.

“Placing limit or making genuine investors have the Chinese currency in trenches slows down business. The CBN have to really work on this since the Nigeria-China relationship had started yielding positive fruits,” he said.

On the road show, the ANAMMCO-Dongfeng trucks train passed through Enugu-Onitsha road, Enugu-Abakaliki road, Enugu-Port Harcourt road, Chime Avenge, Bisalla Road, Okpara Avenue, Ogui road – among others – within and at the outskirt of Enugu metropolis

https://newsexpressngr.com/news/84979-ANAMMCO-bounces-back-with-rugged-Dongfeng-trucks-56

It is you that would remain stagnant not South East. South East would develop and progress quickly according to God plan unhindered.

CrimeKsmart:
Wow. South South is moving to the next level.

This is really victory for democracy and the masses.

SE will remain stagnant forever until they embrace change

I thank God for your life. Happy Birthday.

I am more educated than you and your entire family.
You are bitter because I always put holes on your fallacious notion that Orlu should get almost all Imo government projects and programmes to the disadvantage of other senatorial zones. Okorocha did a lot for Orlu zone and did little for Okigwe zone.
It is high time you stopped making mor0nic comments.

mandax:
This RareDiamond. Ever insulting, nearly in all your posts on this thread, with your half education grammatical blunders everywhere.
Did you attend one of those backyard community secondary schools in Ahiara?
And there you learnt to be highly opinionated, fight and insult anyone not agreeing with you?

Shut up your dirty mouth. Good things always comes out of Imo State.

SoNature:
I have never believed that anything good will ever come out of Imo PDP.

However, I just hope that Ihedioha will disppoint me.

With that said, I still insist that it's too early to criticize.

Let's wait until 100 days in office

Until then, I will keep observing the man in the hopes that he will impress us.

Ihedioha Demands Report On IMSUTH For Govt Intervention
Chinenye Iwu

Imo State Governor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha has made a demand from Management of Imo State University to furnishes him with the exact Report of the state of the Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH) for immediate intervention of Government.
He was speaking when the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Adaobi Obasi led the Management Team of the Institution to call on him at the Government House Owerri.
According to him, Government sees all interventions that would be needed to improve the Teaching Hospital as urgent, especially the state of Imo State University Teaching Hospital, it's main growth and other infrastructure that makes it the pride of Imo.
He commended the Management of Institution for the Academic Records they have maintained in recent times but expressed reservation over their effort
in keeping the Institution afloat.
Chief Ihedioha emphasised that though the Management of the Institution has not done badly considering their presentation on the state of the University, it is important that Government acknowledges that there are Areas that need urgent attention.
Responding, Prof. Adaobi Obasi who led the Institutions Management to the Governor, expressed delight over the new decisions taken by the Governor.
She urged the Governor to keep it up and outlined the major problems facing the Institution.
The Vice Chancellor suggested ways the Government can come in to help solve the problems if the Institution, particularly the most pressing ones, pointing out that the immediate intervention of Government in solving these problems would help in straightening teaching and learning in the University
According to her, the Management of Imo State University appreciates the ceding of the remaining part of Okigwe Road Secretariat to Imo State University, which will go a long way in solving Accommodation problem of Class Room and Office Spaces for both Staff and Students.
She stressed that their present challenge is the implementation or enforcement of the ceding via Government Agency, and appealed for Governments intervention.

Abia State is God Own State which is blessed and CAN NEVER BE A SHIT HOLE !!! All right thinking Igbos who wish Imo State well are welcomed to make meaningful contribution and constructive criticism in this thread. After all, you are not from Imo State, i even doubt if you are Igbo.

B2mario is welcomed to this thread but i want him to make sensible contributions.

Stop abusing Ndi Abia; Stop attempting to distract this Imo State thread, and Stop disturbing B2mario.

BeijinDossier:
Abia state is a shithole but you are more concerned with other states. Vagabond

Pic: Aba


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Ownership of Eastern Palm University Ogboko Re-Opens As Okorocha’s New Varsities Get Probe Committee

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With the constitution of a Committee to investigate the status of the newly established tertiary institutions in Imo State, by Governor Emeka Ihedioha, the coast is now clear to the look into the cloud surrounding the Eastern Palm University located at Ogboko, the home of the immediate past governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.

The Committee to look into the newly created Universities in Imo State is headed by a former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, and one time Commissioner in Imo State, Prof Jude Njoku, with Dr Mrs Uche Moneke as Secretary.

Others in the Committee are Prof Fr Phillip Ogbonna, Prof NA Okereke, Prof I. C Ogbonna, Prof INS Dozie and Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie.

The Committee which would be inaugurated today at Government House, Owerri, has the task to investigate the status of all the seven Universities established by the past administration at its twilight, especially the Eastern Palm University that has genered controversy since its establishment.

The Eastern Palm University, which the former Governor cited in his village at Ogboko, in Ideato South LGA, was established as the permanent site of Imo University that has its campus in Owerri.

Okorocha then told Imo people that immediately the University was completed, IMSU would be relocated from Owerri to Ogboko, which led to uproar in the entire State as the people of Owerri zone revolted against such plan by Okorocha.

While this argument dominated the air waves and landscape of Imo State, Okorocha went on with the project morning and night.

However, as the project was nearing compeleting Okorocha one day announced to a surprised Imo populace, that IMSU would remain at its site in Owerri, while the gigantic University site completed in Ogboko has been renamed European University.

While a majority of Owerri people felt good that at last IMSU remained in Owerri, but many asked what the Ogboko site would be used for since it was built with Imo State money.

As Okorocha’s regime lasted from four years to eight, he kept changing the name of the structures in Ogboko until he suddenly named it Eastern Palm University, owned 90% by a Non-Governmental Organization NGO, with Imo State owning 10%, according to reports.

This was the situation, until Okorocha vacated office a few months ago, and Imo House of Assembly proposed to Okorocha’s successor, Governor Emeka Ihedioha to investigate the true story of the Eastern Palm University.

Therefore, with the Prof Jude Njoku Committee coming to life today, there is joy in the air that at last Imo people will know who truly own Eastern Palm University, and whose money was used to build the gigantic first class structures in Ogboko village early called Imo State University, changed to European University until it finally became Eastern Palm University.

http://www.imotrumpeta.com/?p=25224

Communities protest exclusion of Anambra from oil-producing states On June 18, 2019

Newsby Urowayino WaramiComments By Nwabueze Okonkwo ONITSHA—

Aggrieved oil-producing communities in Anambra State, on the platform of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSCON, yesterday, embarked on a peaceful demonstration against what they termed “continued exclusion of Anambra from the oil-producing states in Nigeria, despite its declaration as an oil-producing state by former President Goodluck Jonathan on August 30, 2012.” They said it was ridiculous that in spite of the commercial quantity of oil and gas being explored in the state and sold outside the state, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, are yet to put Anambra in the gazette of oil-producing states to enable it benefit from the 13 percent oil derivation formula. The demonstrators carried placards with inscriptions as “We are Anambra, we are oil-producing state’; ‘DPR declare us so,” “Anambra is qualified and deserved to be included among oil-producing states;” “Stop oil bunkering in Anambra State;” “Give us our 13 percent derivation;” “Elf Oil, what is happening at OPL 817 upgrade?” “Sterling Global is stealing Anambra silly” and “DPR confirms the activities of oil prospecting companies in Anambra,” among others. They commenced their protest march from NNPC Mega Station, Awka and ended at the Government House, Awka, led by state chairman of HOSCON, Anthony Chiokwe. Despoliation By Oil Companies: We dwell in river but have no potable water, Bayelsa community cries(Opens in a new browser tab) adding that the NNPC and DPR should confirm the presence of Sterling Oil Global on Anambra oil fields. Flanked by some other notable personalities in the state, including Mrs Joy Igboka, founding member of HOSCON and Dr Emeka Ilouno, Chairman, Elders Advisory Council, HOSCON, Anambra, among others. Chiokwe further declared: “all these oil firms had operated in the state for seven years, adding, such a period was sufficient to have earned the state full recognition as an oil producing state with full benefits”. He contended that since that August 30 declaration, Orient Petroleum had been prospecting oil in Enugu-Agulu Otu, just as other oil companies have entered into the terrain prospecting oil in the state. “While OPL 815, 816 and 817 are allocated to two main companies, Sterling Global has since 2013 been exploring oil in Ogwu-Ikpele and Ogwu-Aniocha communities of Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state, adding, the company at Ogwu-Ikpele not only prospect oil, but flares gas, which are seriously degrading the environment”. “Most disturbing in the activities of these oil firms is that they drill in Anambra and pipe the crude to Delta and Imo States, from where it is barged and exported, making it look as if the oil is prospected from Delta or Oguta in imo state”. Chiokwe said that the oil rig/platform of Sterling Global is still standing in Ogwu-Ikpele, even as DPR had continued to deny the activities of Sterling Global in the state.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/06/communities-protest-exclusion-of-anambra-from-oil-producing-states-2/

Shut up your dirty mouth. Majority of towns in Delta north have Igbo origin.

Also Oyigbo (Obigbo) LGA, Egbema LGA, Etche LGA, Omumma LGA, and parts Ikwerre LGA in Rivers State have Igbo origin and are proud of it.

Any attempt to enmasculate or belittle their significant population in the Niger Delta would be resisted by every just person.

Amanismone:
inferiority complex on part of south east igbos

Many clans/towns in Ika North East LGA of Delta State including the clan/town hosting the local government headquarters are proud of their Igbo Origins.

Below are some of them:

Owa clan (The Clan hosting the Ika North East Local Government Headquarter)

Geographically, Owa clan shares borders with Agbor clan in the west by the Orogodo River and Abavo clan, in the north Orogodo (Agbor metropolis), in the east by Umunede, Otolokpo and Ute-Okpu clans. Owa clan is made up of the seven villages and a metropolis:

1.Oyibu
2. Alizomor
3.Owa Alidinma
4.Ufie
5. Aliro
6.Owanta
7. Owa-Eke
8. Boji-Boji Owa (a metropolis)

Owa has its origin in Nri, Northern Igbo (Forde and Jones 1967 and Isichei 1983). The founder of Oyibu village (also know as Owa Oyibu) was Odogwu son of Ijie of Ute-Okpu (another Ika clan) who is from Nri (Northern Igbo). Oyibu village is the political centre of the Owa clan.

According to Whiting (1936), Owa oral tradition has it that Odogwu angrily left Ute-Okpu and settled near the present site of Oyibu village because his brother, Okpu, inherited everything after his fathers death, while Odogwu was away serving the Oba of Benin in wars. However Ufie, the founder of Ufie village presently in the Owa clan, had already settled in the present site of Ufie village on the directive of the Oba of Benin who had bestowed on him the Obi title. After Odogwu settled in Oyibu, it was claimed that Ufie invited Odogwu to his Ikenga festival. Odogwu, impressed by the festival, decided to celebrate it himself at Oyibu. He then invited Ufie. According to the legend, Odogwu deceived Ufie into taking a subservient role during a ritual sacrifice thereby serving him. This action was observed by Odogwu's subjects then proclaimed Odogwu as greater than Ufie. Odogwu then took the Obi title from Ufie. This, it is claimed, accounts for why Ufie is today a village in the Owa clan. Ozomo, Odogwu's brother who followed him from Ute-Okpu founded Alizomo village while Omi and his wife Iro who came from Benin founded Aliro village. Okue who came from Benin founded Owanta village. Later, Adie later arrived from Ute-Okpu to found Idumu Adie (Whiting 1936).

According to oral tradition, Ekei and his wife Abor who migrated from Benin when Ise was the Obi of Owa founded Owa-Eke village (Whiting's 1936). Ugbebo from Oyibu, who was sent there by Obi Gbenoba of Owa to protect Owa traders buying guns and gunpowder from the Kwales founded Alidinma village (Whiting 1936).

Concerning Boji-Boji, Whiting (1936) stated that "when the troops that came to Agbor station in 1906 the usual camp followers settled on the other bank of the Orogodo River where the settlement is known by the delightful name BOJI-BOJI. They were originally allotted their land by the District Commissioner and later came under the control of the Obi of Agbor. In 1926 there was a dispute as a result of which the portion south of the main Agbor-Asaba road came under the Owa and is recognised as being part of the Owa. (1936: 7).


Ute-Okpu Clan

Ute Okpu shares common borders with Agbor and Otolokpo clans in the north, Ekuku Agbor in the south, Idumuesa and Owa clans in the west and Ute-Ogbeje clan in the east. Ute-Okpu is made up of eight villages (Marshall 1936):

1. Ibi-Agware
2. Owele
3. Ogbe
4. Idumu Eze Aje
5. Odah
6. Alihe
7. Alumu
8. Enugu

Ute-Okpu people claim origin from the Igbo side of the Niger. In his account of the origin of the Ute-Okpu clan, Marshall (1936) stated that the original founder of Ute-Okpu was called Ute who migrated from Nri near the present Onitsha in Anambra State, Eastern Nigeria, after a quarrel with the Eze of Nshi (Nri). He settled near the present location of the village of Ibi-Agware. He had two sons Okpu and Odogwu, Okpu later became the Obi of Ute-Okpu while Odogwu later founded Owa (1936: 3-4).

The dual claim in the origin of Owa clan appears to indicate the presence of an original Igbo group before there was contact with other groups of Benin origin. Isichei (1976) hypothesised that the present Ika region may have been inhabited by a group of people of Igbo origin. Isichei (1976) also hypothesised that there was a possibility that they existed in the location of Owa clan before Odogwu became their leader their leader. It is not unusual for most Nigerian clans to trace the origin of their clan to their king's origin. The first King is always considered the founding father of the clan even if some of these kings emerged or were imposed on them long after the founding of the clan.