₦airaland Forum

...unveil Soludo Smart Anambra Mega City Plan

By O'star Eze

In the light of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State come 2021, academic dons, experts in various fields of endeavour and political office holders in Anambra State converged at Nkpologwu, Aguata LGA, Saturday August 22, to inaugurate Aguata Soludo Promoters Forum and unveil the Soludo Smart Anambra Mega City Plan.

Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, while speaking to the attendees via phone call, expressed his appreciation to them and the conveyner for the initiative. He stated that though he was yet to declare officially for the race, he had been approached by more than 15 different groups rooting for his candidacy.

"This day August 22, 2020, will be treasured in my heart as it was the day my colleagues in my local government threw their weight behind me to go ahead and vie for governorship of Anambra State.

"My only desire is to see an Anambra State that is self sufficient, whose potential are fully tapped and whose citizens and inhabitants are gainfully employed with easy access to basis amenities of top notch standard. It is not a vision I can achieve alone as I need all of us who are well trained in various fields of endeavour to passionately and selflessly work towards actualising this vision," he said.

In his welcome address, the chief convener of the event, Professor Romanus Ezeokonkwo noted that "the days of political experimentation and godfatherism are over in Anambra State."

Professor Ezeokonkwo charged fellow professionals to ensure they play active role that would help Soludo clench the gubernatorial ticket and ultimately win the election.

"As professionals, how we behave during the forthcoming elections will either make or mar the next administration. If we sit on the fence, the wrong people will continue the trend but if we rise to the occasion we will get better result.

"The most qualified and most exposed individual has been found in Isuofia, Aguata LGA. A first class brain, a renown economist, an astute administrator, Mr Bank Reformer; Professor Chukwuma Soludo has the potential to make Anambra the Dubai Taiwan of Africa.

"He is in touch with his roots from when he occupied elevated positions. He plays vital role in brokering peace in Isuofia. He gave a face lift to the community primary school, Isuofia. Most astounding alumnus of the UNN, Soludo is a solution to our problems in Anambra State.

"We are here to make sure that Ndi Anambra do not make mistake in electing the next governor. We strongly believe you have very vital roles to play. Use your personality and influence to get the people conscious of Soludo's qualification. Help in identifying influencers and make effort to convert them to become followers of soludo vision."

One of the facilitators of the programme, Joe Anatune stated that, given the revolutionary effect of the Global Corona Virus pandemic, elites of the Nigerian society could not afford to remain apathetic towards politics.

He said the forum, which would be replicated in all the local government areas of the state, would be charged with stirring the professionals in the society to get fully involved in the political activities of the state and ensuring that the most qualified candidate, namely, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, takes over the reins of power in Anambra State come 2021 election.

In his words, "One of the low points of Nigerian politics is the apathy of elites. But now, the stakes are too high not to be involved. Our destinies, your destiny and that of our children can no longer be gambled away. No more. But we have to work for it.

"We charge us. We charge you to take this message of a glorious future to heart. To take it to your households. Take it to your communities. And to take it to your associations, and to all and sundry."

Anatune observed that among all Anambra indigenes, no one else was as qualified and exposed as Professor Chukwuma Soludo, a first class economist, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and an economic consultant in various capacities.


Highpoints of the event were the unveiling of Soludo Model for a Smart Anambra Mega City and the constitution of leadership for the Soludo Promoters Forum, which was on volunteer basis. It comprised of academic teachers, barristers and former leaders in various capacities.

Among the attendees were Honourable Titus Anagbogu, former Transition Chairman of Aguata Local Government Area and APGA chieftain; Member representing Aguata 2 constituency at the Anambra State House of Assembly, Honourable Okechukwu Okoye and the traditional ruler of Nkpologwu, Igwe Moses Obijikwe Okpalanwaka.

Source:
https://www.orienttabloid.com/anambra-2021-elites-inaugurate-soludo-promoters-forum-in-aguata/

Greenleaf Biotech International, a multinational pro-organic manufacturing and distribution company, will on Sunday, August 23, 2020 share cars and other gift prizes to some of its top performing partners in Onitsha, Anambra State.

OrientTabloid.com gathered that the business meeting which would hold at All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha from 10am, would see an unveiling of business opportunities designed by the Greenleaf Biotech International to empower residents of the business hub of Anambra State and its environs.

According to a Senior Manager of the company in Nigeria and one of the organisers of the event, Mrs Loveth Egbo, Greenleaf Biotech International has over 2400 range of organic products ranging from beauty care, edibles to healthcare and household products.

In her words, "Since I started partnering with Greenleaf Biotech International, my general life wellbeing has so improved. Greenleaf Biotech International is a production company with a difference and this business meeting is geared towards rewarding her esteemed partners as well as enlightening members of the public on how they could be their own boss and achieve the level of comfort they desire with the help of a team of like minds. Our team in the company, De Elevated Team, comprise very serious minded and organised business men and women who are poised to make the most of the wonderful opportunities provided by Greenleaf Biotech International to live a comfortable and healthy life...to read more click here:

https://www.orienttabloid.com/greenleaf-biotech-to-gift-partners-with-cars-august-23/

Anambra Airport; host community accuses govt of land grabbing

... we have stuck to Obi's coordinates - state government

By O'star Eze

Over eight months after the host community of the proposed Anambra State Cargo Airport had written the state government complaining of encroachment by state government officials on their land beyond the area allowed for the airport, this reporter gathered that nothing has been done by the government to remedy the situation, save for a rebuttal of the allegation by the state commissioner for information, Mr C.Don Adinuba published on Vanguard newspaper, Monday, July 27, 2020. There, Mr Adinuba maintained that the said portions of land were only gazetted during Peter Obi's administration. That the Obiano government had not gone beyond the coordinates provided by the said notice of revocation of right of occupancy.

It would be recalled that on November 28, 2019, Honourable Barrister S. O Chukwukelu (JP) of Eze-di-Ebube Chambers, Nkpor had written a detailed letter to Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, on behalf of the affected families in Umueri alleging that government beacons had been "planted just few feets from the residential buildings and primary school of the community."

Also that eight days before the date of the letter, heavy earth moving machines were seen by the community members "maliciously destroying all their crops/cash crops, economic trees and farm huts for no reason but justification. The most heart aching aspect of the madness being that no prior notice was even given to them in order to enable them harvest their crops and remove all other valuables of theirs on the land assuming without conceding that the action was proper and genuine", read the letter from Barrister Chukwukelu.

The solicitor's argument in the letter was that the space of land already provided by the community for the government to build estimated at 729 hectares was " big enough to accommodate any government's project including the proposed refinery and cargo airport put together." He therefore fingered "some self-centred greedy and selfish fraudsters and sycophants in the corridor of power of Anambra State government with some government officials" as masterminds of the alleged land grabbing.

Quoting the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the barrister noted that the government had not acquired the extra parcels of land legally as section 44 (1) (a) and (b) of the aforementioned constitution stated that "no moveable property or any interest in an immovable property of anybody shall be taken possession of compulsorily and no right over or interest in any such property shall be acquired compulsorily in any part of Nigeria except in the manner and for the purpose prescribed by a law that among other things requires the prompt payment of compensation therefore, e.t.c"

Investigation by this reporter revealed that while the present administration was claiming 4 parcels of land labelled A, B, C and D totalling about 1,868 hectares of land, a notice from Anambra State government to Umueri community on December 18, 2008, revoking the right of occupancy of the people to three parcels of land labelled parcel A, B and C had described the area as totalling 1665.901 hectares of land.

The notice which was signed by the former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi described the parcels of land thus: Parcel A of site for Cargo Airport for Anambra State government of Ivite Umueri Anambra East Local Government Area containing an area of approximately 756.801 hectares...Parcel B of site of Cargo Airport containing an area of approximately 462.872 hectares...Parcel C measuring 446.228 hectares. The notice also indicated that the state government would "pay compensation for all the economic trees, crops and unexhaustible improvements there on."

Comparing this description with that allegedly being claimed by the present administration totalling about 1,868 hectares of land, the reporter noticed that an extra 206 hectares beyond that already gazetted was being claimed by the present administration.

The solicitor also alleged in his letter that for parcel B, C and D, "no compensation has been paid to the owners of the lands and no notice of such acquisition has been served on them as prescribed by law."

He therefore enjoined the state governor to "consider putting the people first in the implementation of any government policy," adding that the letter was a pre-action notice as they might be forced to take legal action after three months of the notice if nothing was done to address the situation.

However, explaining why the Obiano administration has appeared unconcerned over the allegations, Anambra State Commissioner for Lands, Physical Planning and Rural Development, Honourable Bonaventure Enemali presented another government notice signed by Peter Obi and dated July 27, 2010.

Hon. Enemali, in a chat with the reporter via WhatsApp, stated that Peter Obi's administration had written the community again after the first document and that the community members had their own copy of the notice. He added that they were duly compensated as stipulated by the law.

"Attached here is the approval of the revocation notice. It was duly served and the community stakeholders has a copy they signed off. The land was properly acquired.

"You can see that what is here is parcel A, B, C and D. I am not the one that made it up." Enemali stated.

The figures in the said July 27, 2010 notice corresponded with the ones of the state government which the community was agitating against.

However responding to this state government's claim, Umueri's solicitor on this matter stated that of the three portions mentioned in the notice, it was only portion 'A' (729.6 hectares) that state government paid compensation for.

Barrister Chukwukelu also informed that Umueri community's kick for impact assessment of the projects on the people by the state government has not been attended to, nor has any Memorandum of Understanding drafted between the two parties over the said projects.

In his words, "What was given was the one they refer to as 'A', a total of 729.6 hectares .
The one that is been referred to as 'B'' was when the abracadabra started. I could remember that a team was sent by Willie to see Igwe and Ivite Umueri stakeholders at the palace one time, to request for extra land for 'Airport village/community'. Igwe told them to conclude the payment of the 729.6 hectares they already have before seeking for extra, though he welcomed the idea of the project. They later got the 'B' with the connivance of some persons anyway, but did not complete the payment for it till this agitation started.

"The 'C' they are talking about has never been given nor compensation paid for it.

"No impact assessment that has to do with pollution (noise, air, others) have been made nor has there been any Memorandum of Understanding discussed or entered between the government and the host community, as is normal in any place such project is being cited."

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/anambra-airport-host-community-accuses-govt-of-land-grabbing/

We are security committed - Southeast governors assure Igbo Union

By O'star Eze

South East Governors Forum has assured Igbos in diaspora of its commitment to secure the lives of their counterparts at home.

This assurance, articulated in a press release titled 'Igbo Union in US hits US governors: a rejoinder', and signed by Michael Ike Udah,
Director, Media and Communication
South East Governors’ Forum Secretariat, was in response to a publication allegedly made by Igbo Union on Daily Sun recently.

In the said publication, Igbo Union, an organization of citizens and residents of Igbo extraction registered in the State of California, United States of America accused Southeast governors of “insensitivity to the threat and terrorisation of Igbo by suspected Fulani herdsmen roaming (Igbo) villages with their cattle and Ak-47 rifles.”

However, in response, the Southeast Governors Forum disclosed that a regional security outfit was in the pipeline and that on the interim, individual states have security outfits; "Forest Guards in Enugu, Neighbourhood watch in Ebonyi and Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) in Anambra. The scenario is the same in Imo and Abia States."

The forum also cited that in response to the killings attributed to herdsmen, it had sat with the Inspector General of Police to express its "displeasure with the procedure adopted by the Inspector-General of Police on Community Policing.

"This made the Police boss to quickly convene a meeting with them where both parties amicably resolved their grievances and agreed to work together for the good of the South East region and Nigeria," the statement read in part. The forum stressed that it was also in dialogue with the federal government and other stakeholders in security matters in the country to ensure that no southeasterner was shortchanged in the country.

The Southeast Governors Forum further noted that security matters are delicate matters and that some security questions are better answered in private while making available its website
www.southeastgovforum.org and e-mail address: southeastgovsforum@gmail.com.

The statement concluded thus; "The South East Governors’ Forum is pained each time Ndigbo are killed, raped, manhandled or appear to have been short-changed.

"In this particular instance, their hearts go out to the family of Mazi Ozoemena Iriaka, Umuekpu-Agwa community, Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State Government and Ndigbo in general. May his soul find solace in the bosom of our Lord, Amen!

"One can re-assure South Easterners that our governors constantly engage appropriate Ministries, Agencies and Departments with a view to ensuring that the Igbo man and woman are not deliberately shortchanged in the Nigerian Federation.

"In doing this, they adopt due process and observe all necessary protocols. They are as Igbo as any other Igbo anywhere in the world. However, it is important to note that security matters are delicate matters, and should be treated as such. Not all security questions are answered publicly."

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/we-are-security-committed-southeast-governors-assure-igbo-union/

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Obiano accused of diverting LG funds

Allegation contemptible - Adinuba

By O'star Eze


Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has been accused by some high profile Citizens of diverting funds meant for Local Government Administration to private accounts to use at his own discretion.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/obiano-accused-of-diverting-lg-funds/

This reporter gathered from a credible source that the Anambra State Government has devised "an illegal way of siphoning Local Governments’ funds.

"The State Government has provided several bank accounts to the 21 Local Governments where they are forced to transfer all funds coming to the third tier of Government from the Federal Government."

The written confessional which was made available to this reporter titled "As Obiano Arm Twists Anambra LG System" claimed that "as soon as the Federal Government releases funds into the Local Government Accounts, the top officials of the Local Government, using some templates provided by the Anambra State Government swiftly transfer all funds to designated bank accounts."

The write up added,
"To make matters worse, all Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) windows formerly managed by Local Governments have been hijacked by the State Government.

"The result of this anomaly is that there is no fund left for projects implementation at the local Government level. The Local Governments cannot even pay their official electricity bills."

The write up claimed that this was the reason the state government had refused to conduct local government elections till date.

"Because the Obiano Administration hijacks Local Government funds, it has refused to conduct LG election. A properly constituted Local Government emanating from an election will not allow the State Government to take its funds."


Efforts to reach the Anambra State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Matters, Mr Greg Obi or the chairman of Joint Account Allocation Committee ( JAAC), Mr Confidence Azodo proved abortive.

However, reacting to the allegations, the Anambra State commissioner for information, CDon Adinuba described the accusation as "baseless and highly contemptible."

He called on those making the claim to provide evidence of their claims. In his words during a phone interview, Adinuba said, "This allegation is highly contemptible. Those saying this should as well state which of the local governments the funds are being diverted and to which accounts. Where, why and how such is being carried out."

A Peter Obi apologist (speaking on the basis of anonymity) who was also confronted with how Peter Obi's administration which preceded the present fared with the local government account stated that each of the 21 local governments got 30 million naira monthly and as well provided with some revenue windows for operation.

He said, "Administration of Mr. Peter Obi, CON, over Thirty Million (N30m) Naira was given to each local government every month for projects. In addition, certain IGR windows were left in the hands of Local Governments. With such funding arrangement, Local Governments could repair roads, culverts, etc. The opposite is the case today. The Local Governments are stripped of all their finances."

Nigerian Police, Arthur Eze have abducted our son - Abba cries

...alleges police thuggery


By O'star Eze

Abba Community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State has cried foul over the alleged abduction of one of her respected sons, Chief Pius Nweke, by men suspected to be from the Nigeria Police Force.

According to a press release signed by the community's president general, Engr.B. C Anaekwe, Chief Nweke, Chief Executive Officer of Best Aluminium Manufacturing Company, Onitsha was on his way to his office, Thursday, June 5, 2020 when he was intercepted and taken away to a yet to be identified location.

The community linked this incident and the following picture of Chief Nweke brandishing a pistol while in handcuffs which had been making rounds on social media to a land dispute between her and Ukpo community adding that since the dispute ensued, her citizens had been "subjected to police intimidation, harassment and victimisation with not less than 19 citizens of the Abba Community charged to courts for offences ranging from obstruction to armed robbery."

The release read thus: "At about 12 noon today, 5th June, 2020 information filtered in of the abduction of Chief Pius Nweke on his way to his office by of (sic) the Nigeria Police Force. Chief Nweke is the CEO of the Best Aluminium Manufacturing Company, Onitsha. It was confirmed that Chief Nweke was abducted by the men of the Nigerian Police when his pictures in handcuffs with a gun in a background of a police station started circulating online. As at the time of this release, the whereabouts of Chief Nweke is still unknown.

"It is recalled the Abba community has been in dispute over ownership of a large expanse of land commonly called "Agu-Abba" with her neighbouring Ukpo community by Prince Arthur Eze. Since June, 2019 citizens of the Abba community have been subjected to police intimidation, harassment and victimization with not less than 19 citizens of the Abba community charged to courts for offences ranging from obstruction to armed robbery. At present, two out of the five persons arrested on 18th December, 2019 in the margistrate court, Umudioka are still in the facility of the Nigerian Correctional Service.

"The Abba community hereby places the world on notice that should anything happen to Chief Pius Nweke, the Nigerian Police under IGP Mohammed Adamu and Prince Arthur Eze are to be held responsible. The Nigerian police should not reduce itself to a private thug. President Mohammed Buhari is called upon to safe the community from the Nigerian police."

However responding to the allegations, the Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer stated that the command did not order "the arrest" of Chief Nweke nor the alleged circulating of his pictures on social media. He also said the command had no knowledge of who gave the order or carried out the operation.

In his words, "All these are mere allegations, in fact his arrest was not even carried out by tbe Command operatives."

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/nigerian-police-arthur-eze-have-abducted-our-son-abba-cries/

Umueze Anam rejects caretaker committee

...demands probe of Agunakwa-Nkiliko age grade

By O'star Eze

Members of Umueze Anam community, Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State have written the executive governor of Anambra State, Chief Dr Willie Obiano, stating reasons they feel the setting up of a caretaker committee for the community by his commissioner was ill informed and should be reversed.

It would be recalled that a circular allegedly from the Anambra State Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Matters dated May 22, 2020 and signed by Greg I. Obi, the honourable commissioner, had declared " government approval for constitution of caretaker committee for Umueze Anam".

The government memo had directed the 8 man committee to "bring lasting peace to the committee as well as resolve all issues thereby paving the way for the establishment of a constitutionally elected President General of the town union and town union Executives".

However, writing the executive governor, May 27, 2020, the community represented by four signatories from Umuava, Umuezumezu, Umuaneke and Umuebendu villages that comprise it, alleged that six names out of the eight in the list of the caretaker committee were principal officers of the "indicted and disgraced Agunakwa-Nkiliko ruling age grade" for mismanagement of the 20 million naira community choose your project fund.

The letter titled "Re-establishment of caretaker committee in Umueze Anam: A Panacea to Anarchy" and made available to the reporter read thus in part:

"Your Excellency, our attention has been drawn to a letter purportedly signed by the Hon. Commissioner for Local Government and Town Union matters setting up an 8-man Caretaker Committee for the administration of Umueze Anam Community. We view this letter and the intended action (appointment of Caretaker Committee) as an invitation to anarchy in Umueze Anam Community which presently enjoys peaceful co-existence...

"...we make the above submission premised on the following reasons:

"1. Between 2013 to 30th December 2019, the administration of Umueze Anam was under the leadership of Agunakwa-Nkiliko Ruling age grades which in our culture and tradition represent the town union.

"2. On 30th December, 2019, the general assembly of Umueze Anam Community presided over by the Council of Elders, removed Agunakwa-Nkiliko Ruling age grade and replaced them with Oganiru-Akwuloto age grade to continue the administration of the community as the new ruling age grade.

"3. The removal of the Agunakwa-Nkiliko age grade was largely due to their mismanagement of the Twenty Million naira choose your project fund given to the community by the Anambra State government.

"4. Of interest is the fact that principal officers of the indicted and disgraced Agunakwa-Nkiliko ruling age grade (six of them) have their names listed as members of the purported Caretaker committee. One then begins to wonder if the intent for setting up this caretaker committee is not all about concealing the mismanagement of the 20 million naira given to Umueze Anam and other misappropriated funds from sales of community land..."

The letter therefore prayed the commissioner to "withdraw the letter setting up the caretaker committee", "probe the utilisation of the second 20 million naira given to the community" and "always consult major stakeholders of Umueze Anam before any decision affecting the community is taken."

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Covid 19: Group remembers Sickle Cell Patients, Orphans in Anambra
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By O'star Eze

Since the war against COVID 19 pandemic ensued in Nigeria, Okolo Cajetan Foundation for the Orphans and Less Privileged has been on its toes to ensure that the orphans and vulnerable members of the society are protected and provided for.

These are the ones who are worst hit by the ongoing economic, information and health crisis caused by the Corona Virus pandemic.

However, May 2, 2020, Okolo Cajetan Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with Anambra State Ministry of Women and Children Affairs took some palliatives and health experts to Glorious Mercy Orphanage, Obosi, Anambra State.

While the health experts disabused the minds of the orphans and their attendants alike from all anxiety occasioned by the onslaught of fake news making rounds on the social media, the Foundation provided sanitizers and food items for them.

The same feat was replicated at the Secretariat of Association of People Living with Sickle Cell Disorder, Udoka Estate, Awka, same day, for the sickle cell patients led by Mrs Aisha Edward.

Fast forward to May 17, 2020, the group with the full support of the Mrs Ndidi Mezue led Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, stormed Blessed Nise Community Children's Orphanage Home, Nise. It would be recalled that in the previous months, the group had paid such visits to Tender Love Orphanage as well as Model Orphanage, Awka, Anambra State.

At all these places the message remained the same; for the keepers of these children to religiously stick to WHO/Nigerian government directives in the fight against COVID 19, to ensure they verify all information about the virus from NCDC website before accepting them as true and acting on them and to protect the children from being exposed to visitors.

All the benefactors of the gesture were ecstatic and kept invoking God's blessings on the foundation and the ministry.

Speaking with this reporter, the Director of the foundation, Engr Cajetan Okolo, stated that his group was propelled by the passion to ensure that all the orphans and vulnerable in the society are given a sense of belonging in the society.

"Okolo Cajetan Foundation is simply a non-governmental organisation that advocates for intervention in the lives of the orphans and other vulnerable members of the society. We have also embarked on developmental projects at some of these homes to give the children opportunity to grow in conducive environment. Our activities are mostly sponsored by ourselves as well as our friends who key into our vision and have seen that we are sincere and transparent in our dealings. I also wish to appreciate the Anambra State Ministry of Women and Children's Affair for their support so far in our activities and enjoin all well meaning members of the society to look out for those orphans and vulnerable in their neighbourhood and donate palliatives to them, especially during this trying times."

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/covid-19-group-remembers-sickle-cell-patients-orphans-in-anambra/

COVID 19: Again ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NIGER WEST remembers her needy

By O'star Eze


The Anglican Diocese of Niger West, Saturday May 2, 2020, again remembered her needy by gifting them with food items ranging from bags of rice to cartons of noodles.

The reporter gathered that this was the second time the diocese was providing palliatives to cushion the harsh effects of economic crunch occasioned by Coronavirus induced lockdown in Anambra State and beyond on the vulnerable.

Handing out these items for distribution, the Bishop of the Diocese, Rt. Revd Johnson Ekwe, PhD., who had just concluded the diocesan first Saturday programme (Mount Zion) stated that the palliatives were the diocese’s second intervention to cushion the sufferings of those who have been severely affected by the hardship resulting from the pandemic.

He expressed his "most profound gratitude" to the many individuals, families, friends of the diocese and men of goodwill whose generous donations made the palliative intervention possible.

Bishop Ekwe also charged the archdeacons and priests in charge of special Churches, saddled with the responsibility of getting the items to the grass roots of their Archdeaconries and churches to express the highest level of diligence in ensuring that the palliatives got to the individuals and families that need them most.

Calling down special benedictions on the donors, the Diocesan prayed for God’s mercy to cleanse the world of “this ravaging monster” in no distant time.

According to Ven Emmanuel ik Onovo, the Diocesan Protocol/Publicity Officer, this gesture was "in line with the general injunction requiring Christians to care for the needy in their midst especially those who were badly affected by the ongoing lockdown put in place to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic."

By O'star Eze


Over 1000 private secondary, primary and pre-primary schools in Anambra State have been operating illegally and may soon be proscribed, Anambra State government reveals.

This revelation came on the heels of the three day warning strike by Coalition of Private Schools in Anambra State who had been agitating against what they described as high, multiple and unfair taxation by the state government.

However, responding to the strike action, the state government, in a press briefing held Tuesday, at Revenue House, Awka, described the action as "uncalled for and disrespectful to a government which had been treating these private schools with kid gloves."

The Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha alleged that the leadership of Coalition of Private Schools do not have the best interest of their pupils at heart and charged parents of affected schools to ask for their money back for the three days their ward was not offered the educational service they paid for.

Prof Omenugha stated that the state government had been giving support to the private schools but that the private schools had continue to prevent the government from accessing their records or play their own role in development of education in the state. She alleged that they had rather been aiding and abetting tax evasion, examination malpractices and extortion of parents as well as sexual abuse of students.

The commissioner said that the state government had decided to close down schools that are found wanting while their pupils/students would be moved to credible schools. She added that while 10 schools have already been marked for close down, names of the other over 1000 schools found operating illegally would be published on the media and marked for total closure if they failed to make amends promptly.

"Among all the states in the country, Anambra State government has been the only government that gives support to private schools. During the past administration, some of these schools were given buses and money by the government and in this administration, we have shared computer sets to them as well as 1 million naira each to develop their sports equipment and sick bay. Most of these schools did not utilise the money they were given for the purposes.

"Yes, these private schools have been raising their voice against things they perceive as multiple taxation because they tell themselves they render social services. While the state government recognises that these schools render social service, we are also aware that they do businesses.

"The gains they make should be ploughed back in the development of the school. This is where I have problem with the private schools because most of them fail to develop their schools with the money they make and these schools remain the way they are year in year out.

"They have continued to hide their data from the government even when they are the greatest employers of labour. They have refused to allow us to grade their schools from star 1 to star 5 in order to know how to treat them fairly.

"Every worker is supposed to pay PAYE but they have refused to let us know how many teachers they have in order for us to know what they should be realising from their teachers for the government.

"We have also discovered that a lot these schools run miracle centres. We had wanted to run reaccreditation of the schools for WAEC and NECO examinations but they refused to comply.

"Obiano government wants credible and valuable education and that is why we have decided to clamp down on schools that have been running illegally (evading tax, without statutory records, running without government approval or marked by external examination boards as miracle centres)."

Responding to the claim by the Coalition of Private Schools in Anambra State that their buses are usually held with pupils jn them, the commissioner said that she had given instruction that any bus that has pupils in them should not be touched by the enforcement agents. She added that the state house of assembly has agreed to look into amending the law to give them 20 per cent discount for business premises charges.

On his part, the Chairman of Anambra State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Dr David Nzekwu citing from some documents, explained that what the striking group referred to as multiple taxation were levies, charges and tax. He stated that many of the private schools failed to register with the state authorities; business premises, ministry of education and board of internal revenue.

Dr Nzekwu said that when the group complained that they were being disturbed by illegal revenue collectors, he told them to pay into government account using their ANSSID number.

"But the leadership of the Coalition of Private Schools refused insisting that they would want to be collecting the money on behalf of the government and remitting to the government. This is the source of the crisis they are fomenting because we insisted they must register and pay to government account to avoid illegal revenue collection."

"Every business in Anambra State is an agent of goevrnment for the purpose of deduction of PAYE taxes from salaries paid to their staff and they have an obligation to remit this to government within 10 days of deducting the money.

"Many of these people are not paying their taxes and do not have tax clearance certificate.

"When government provides services for people to government levy charges for these services like waste management. The ASWAMA law has prescribed that school are supposed to pay for waste management. When the schools put up sign posts to advertise their school, the ANSAA law says they are supposed to pay for signage. Where the school vehicle contravenes traffic law and are impounded, they are expected to pay a fee, that cannot be called multiple taxation," Dr Nzekwu said.

He reaffirmed the board's resolution to continue to ensure that every person in Anambra State complied with the tax provisions of the state according to the law.

IPOB accuses Nigerian Army of conniving with terrorists

By O'star Eze

The proscribed Indigenuous People of Biafra has congratulated Governor Okowa of Delta State for condemning Nigeria Army who are allegedly in connivance with terrorist group killing Nigerians.


Speaking via a press release signed by IPOB's media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, the group charged the US lawmakers to, in the light of Okowa's recent outburst, pay more attention to submissions made by the IPOB.

It stated, "The US government and her law makers will now pay more attention to all IPOB submissions following this confirmation by Gov. Okowa. Nigeria military personnel have the temerity to openly accompanied and encourage terrorists to slaughter Biafran citizens in our very eyes whereas laying siege to Afaraukwu and discouraging mourners from attending a burial ceremony. If anything encapsulates the idiocy, double standards and duplicity of rulers of Nigeria in ongoing lawlessness in the British contraption, it is the behaviour of Buratai and his supporter of APC army."


IPOB alleged that recent happenings in the country have confirmed it's leader, Nnamdi Kanu's prophecies that "Fulani herdsmen would be armed and encouraged to slaughter us with impunity and their masters will protect them."

The statement read thus in part, "What is unfolding before our very eyes today in Nigeria with soldiers working hand in hand with known terrorists and Miyetti Allah bandits to broaden the theater of endless cycle of slaughter and mayhem especially in Biafraland, particularly with recent killings in Delta State of Biafraland as confirmation that only the divine words of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and actions of IPOB can save the people.

"Governor Okowa's brave condemnation of Nigerian Army's involvement in the orgy of violence unleashed by 5 different Fulani terror groups against innocent populations should drive home the importance of survivors of these premeditated slaughter of the defenseless to coalesce around IPOB's message of freedom as the only way out of the present impasse in the fight against state sponsored Fulani terrorism in Nigeria. It is now as clear as broad daylight that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been right along and those that mischievously accused him of hate speech are themselves the beneficiaries of the booming terror industry in Nigeria.

"The mind boggling accuracy of the prophetic predictions of our leader should cause every right minded person to ponder over the words and prophecies of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in depth to appreciate its magnitude and force. In 2014, before the murderous tendencies of Miyetti Allah was unleashed on hapless Nigerians, way before Fulani herdsmen, bandits, foreign fighters, ISWAP, Ansaru, Al-Qaeda in the Mahgreb descended on innocent citizens with the fury of a Biblical plague; way before the energence of the roundly hopeless and despotic regime of late Major Gen. Buhari, our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said it live on air during his prophetic message of 6th February, 2014 on Radio Biafra that:

"Fulani herdsmen will be armed and encouraged to slaughter us with impunity and their masters will protect them." Our leader went on to prophesy that "they are coming to ensure that my people are enslaved forever, those who do not believe me, will soon see it happen before their eyes. They are coming to elevate Fulani supremacy, to reposition the security agencies by sacking all competent hands and replace them with their kinsmen to drive ethnic domination of the Biafrans and other tribes in Nigeria."

The group therefore encouraged all the survivors to rally round its goal as that was the only way to escape the impending doom.

Source:
https://www.orienttabloid.com/ipob-accuses-nigerian-army-of-conniving-with-terrorists/

A spade: This violence against husband should stop

By O'star Eze

So, i just read what seemingly looked like a screenshot of the Facebook message between someone who reported the 'remove the cheat's car breaks' lady to her husband and the husband was like, 'it was only a joke, get a life!' Well, only God knows but this mankilling business that has started trending lately should stop. Many have blamed the syncretic acceptance of Christianity from the western world, whereby we grudgingly took the practice and discarded the principles of that white man's religion. We pay lipservice to being Christians and yet we are more barbaric than the heathens.

How can I be arguing about having a side chick not being right with a fellow 'christian' who would rather insist polygamy of our ancestors is our nature...not our forefathers' religious practice alongside o? At least not fully. because I know that you can find men and women with scapulars round their necks in a shrine this sunday morning. If you bet with me on this, you will lose disgracefully.

Which way Nigerians? If we want to be traditional, we should go all the way and if we want to be Christians let us be Christians totally...

Though, I have also noticed that Church of Jesus Christ of the Later Day Saints has started pitching tents in our localities. You know those Christians that encourage polygamy. The new conscious in the society has made the environment favourable for its growth. Shrines too. And more religious leaders of the conventional Christian churchs are getting caught in sexual scandals and perversions. These ones get disillusioned too.

And I tell you, these women are getting more disillusioned by the day. But no level of disillusioned should make you kill another woman's son. Not even your own. I thank Crown Queen Nenelicious for supporting the above. She said and I quote, "If you feel you cannot take it anymore, take a walk. You don't gain anything from revenging on him or killing him. Or if you feel you want your husband back, go to your God in prayers. There is nothing God cannot do. Miracles happen. You don't need to keep checking his phone. That High BP is not necessary. Trust your man and he will be forced to be faithful."

So, please, bikonu, you have heard it from your fellow woman, beware of ndi Ife n'eme n'isi feminists on facebook. Those daughters of Jezebel seeking for whom to devour. Dey your dey and seek out for the joys and love of life. Uwa ezu oke. Be contented. No more husband snuffing.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/a-spade-a-spade-this-violence-against-husbands-should-stop/

Umuleri in Anambra East Local Government Area was thrown into disarray last week as about 5000 women of the community took to the streets to protest what they termed forceful entrance and usurp of their land and intimation of villagers by the Nigerian Police.


Orient Tabloid gathered that two weeks earlier, officers and men of the Police Force allegedly stormed the Agu-Akor land in the community demolishing buildings and chasing away villagers who resisted them from entering the land and three persons sustained various degrees of injuries in the process.

The women alleged that the police have contributed to intimidate harass and molest innocent villagers adding that for fear of being shot their husbands and sons have fled the community.

When Orient Tabloid visited the town hall the women were seen chanting songs demanding that the police should withdraw from their land.

Investigations reveal that the police are currently building a Police Institute of Finance and Administration complex on the contended piece of land which they claim was given to them by the Anambra State government.

A petition addressed to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and signed by Chief Pius Okonkwo, Chief Mike Aniegboka Chance Umuleri Land Recovery Committee and four others read thus in part, “Recently a vast area of our Aguakor land was invaded and taken over by your men a part of Aguakor land in a Gestapo like manner reminiscent of a raid carried out to capture and subjugate a people conquered in a war.

“It has been brought to our knowledge that the police force is in cohort with some agencies of the state government to further encroach into and take over unlawfully other parts of our Aguakor land and our investigations show that the police have no title document over the portion of our land they have trespassed into.”

The petition further recalled that the then Justice Nnemeka Agu had in a matter between Umuleri and Aguleri ruled that the said land which Aguleri had claimed should not be reinstituted against the community. They further recalled that Governor Willie Obiano who had provided the sum of N73 million as compensation to Aguleri and Umuleri had to withdraw the sum when the community embarked on the protest. They therefore called on the IGP to intervene in the situation before it degenerated to loss of lives.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/umuleri-police-clash-with-women-over-land-dispute/

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A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed.

A Nigerian Pentecostal Christian, director of a nongovernmental organization that works for mutual understanding between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, alerted me to it. “Have you heard of the Fulani?” he asked at our first meeting, in Paris, speaking the flawless, melodious English of the Nigerian elite. The Fulani are an ethnic group, generally described as shepherds from mostly Muslim Northern Nigeria, forced by climate change to move with their herds toward the more temperate Christian South. They number 14 million to 15 million in a nation of 191 million.

Among them is a violent element. “They are Islamic extremists of a new stripe,” the NGO director said, “more or less linked with Boko Haram,” the sect that became infamous for the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Christian girls in the state of Borno. “I beg you,” he said, “come and see for yourself.” Knowing of Boko Haram but nothing of the Fulani, I accept.

The 2019 Global Terrorism Index estimates that Fulani extremists have become deadlier than Boko Haram and accounted for the majority of the country’s 2,040 documented terrorist fatalities in 2018. To learn more about them, I travel to Godogodo, in the center of the country, where I meet a beautiful woman named Jumai Victor, 28. On July 15, she says, Fulani extremists stormed into her village on long-saddle motorcycles, three to a bike, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” They torched houses and killed her four children before her eyes.

When her turn came and they noticed she was pregnant, a discussion ensued. Some didn’t want to see her belly slit, so they compromised by cutting up and amputating her left arm with a machete. She speaks quickly and emotionlessly, staring into space as if she lost her face along with her arm. The village chief, translating for her, chokes up. Tears stream down his cheeks when she finishes her account.

I venture north to Adnan, where Lyndia David, 34, tells her story of survival. On the morning of March 15, rumors reached her village that Fulani raiders were nearby. She was dressing for church as her husband prepared to join a group of men who’d stand watch. He urged her to take refuge at her sister’s home in another village.

Her first night there, sentinels woke her with a whistle. She left the house to find flames spreading around her. Fulani surrounded her. Then she heard a voice: “Come this way, you can get through!” She did, and her putative savior leapt out of the underbrush, cut three fingers off her right hand, carved the nape of her neck with his machete, shot her, doused her body with gasoline, and lit it. She somehow survived. A few weeks later she returned to her village and learned that the raiders had leveled it the same night. Her husband was among the 72 they murdered.

The Christian Middle Belt is a land of blooming prairies that once delighted English colonizers. On the outskirts of Jos, capital of Plateau state, I visit the ruins of a burned-down church. I spot another, intact. A man emerges to yell at me in English that I don’t belong there. Stalling, I learn that he is Turkish, a member of a “religious mutual assistance group” that is opening madrassas for the daughters of Fulani.

That day I crisscross the Middle Belt. Roads are crumbled, bridges collapsed; destroyed houses cast broken shadows over tree stumps and trails of black ash and blood. Maize rots in the abandoned fields. The local Christians have been killed or are too terrorized to come out and harvest it. In the distance are clusters of white smudges—the Fulani herds grazing on the lush grass. When we approach, the armed shepherds wave us off.

The Anglican bishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi, has had his livestock stolen three times. During the third raid he was dragged into his room, a gun to his head. He dropped to his knees and prayed at the top of his voice until the thrumming of a helicopter drove his assailants off.

Bishop Kwashi describes the Fulani extremists’ pattern: They usually arrive at night. They are barefoot, so you can’t hear them coming unless they’re on motorcycle. Sometimes a dog sounds the alert, sometimes a sentinel. Then a terrifying stampede, whirling clouds of dust, cries of encouragement from the invaders. Before villagers can take shelter or flee, the invaders are upon them in their houses, swinging machetes, burning, pillaging, raping. They don’t kill everyone. At some point they stop, recite a verse from the Quran, round up the livestock and retreat. They need survivors to spread fear from village to village, to bear witness that the Fulani raiders fear nothing but Allah and are capable of anything.

The heads of 17 Christian communities have come to the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, to meet me in a nondescript compound. Some have traveled for days in packed buses or minivans. Each arrives accompanied by a victim or two.

Here they are, an exhausted yet earnestly hopeful group of some 40 women and men, keenly aware of the moment’s gravity. One carries a USB key, another a handwritten account, a third a folder full of photos, captioned and dated. I accept these records, overwhelmed by the weight of the bearers’ hope that the world will recognize the horrors they experienced.


Taking the floor in turn, the survivors confirm the modus operandi Bishop Kwashi described, each adding an awful detail. The mutilated cadavers of women. A mute man commanded to deny his faith, then cut up with a machete until he screams. A girl strangled with the chain of her crucifix.

Westerners here depict the Fulani extremists as an extended, rampant Boko Haram. An American humanitarian says the Fulani recruit volunteers to serve internships in Borno State, where Boko Haram is active. Another says Boko Haram “instructors” have been spotted in Bauchi, another northeastern state, where they are teaching elite Fulani militants to handle more-sophisticated weapons that will replace their machetes. Yet whereas Boko Haram are confined to perhaps 5% of Nigerian territory, the Fulani terrorists operate across the country.

Villagers west of Jos show the weapons they use to defend themselves: bows, slings, daggers, sticks, leather whips, spears. Even these meager arms have to be concealed. When the army comes through after the attacks, soldiers tell the villagers their paltry weapons are illegal and confiscate them.

Several times I note the proximity of a military base that might have been expected to protect civilians. But the soldiers didn’t come; or, if they did, it was only after the battle; or they claimed not to have received the texted SOS calls in time, or not to have had orders to respond, or to have been delayed on an impassable road.

“What do you expect?” our driver asks as we take off in a convoy for his burned-down church. “The army is in league with the Fulani. They go hand in hand.” After one attack, “we even found a dog tag and a uniform.”

“It’s hardly surprising,” says Dalyop Salomon Mwantiri, one of the few lawyers in the region who dare to represent victims. “The general staff of the Nigerian army is a Fulani. The whole bureaucracy is Fulani.”

So is President Muhammadu Buhari. In April 2016 Mr. Buhari ordered security forces to “secure all communities under attack by herdsmen.” In July 2019 a spokesman for the president said in a statement: “No one has the right to ask anyone or group to depart from any part of the country, whether North, South, East or West.”


Most Christians I meet express disgust at the vague language suggesting culpability on both sides. Their stories tend to validate claims of the government’s complicity. In Riyom district, three displaced Nigerians and a soldier were gunned down this June as they attempted to return home. The villagers know the assailants. Police identified them. Everyone knows they took refuge in a nearby village. But there they are under the protection of the ardos, a local emir. No arrests occurred.

Village chief Sunday Abdu recounts another example, a 2017 attack on Nkiedonwhro. This time the military came to warn villagers of a threat. They ordered the women and children to take shelter in a school. But after the civilians complied, a soldier fired a shot in the air. A second shot sounded in the distance, seemingly in response. Minutes later, after the soldiers had departed, the assailants appeared, went directly to the classroom, and fired into the cowering group, killing 27.

I also meet some Fulani—the first time by chance. Traveling by road near a river bed, we come on a checkpoint consisting of a rope stretched across the road, a hut and two armed men. “No passage,” says one, wearing a jacket on which are sewn badges in Arabic and Turkish. “This is Fulani land, the holy land of Usman dan Fodio, our king—and you whites can’t come in.” The conquests of dan Fodio (1754-1817) led to the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate over the Fula and Hausa lands.

The second encounter is on the outskirts of Abuja. Driving toward the countryside, we reach a village unlike the others we’ve seen in the Christian zone. There’s a ditch, and behind it a hedge of bushes and pilings. The place seems closed off from the world. From huts emerge a swarm of children and their mothers, the women covered from head to foot.

It’s a village of Fulani nomads who carried out a tiny, localized Fulanization after the Christians cleared out. “What are you doing here?” demands an adolescent boy wearing a T-shirt adorned with a swastika. “Are you taking advantage of the fact that it’s Friday, and we’re in the mosque, to come spy on our women? The Quran forbids that!” When I ask if wearing a swastika isn’t also contrary to the Quran, he looks puzzled, then launches into a feverish tirade. He says he knows he’s wearing “a German insignia,” but he believes that “all men are brothers,” except for the “bad souls” who “hate Muslims.”

Later I encounter Fulani near Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, which is in the south on the Gulf of Guinea. North of the city is an open-air market where Fulani sell their livestock. I am with three young Christians, survivors of a Middle Belt massacre who live in a camp for displaced persons. They pretend to be cousins buying an animal for a family feast. As they negotiate over a white-horned pygmy goat, I look for Fulani willing to talk.

Most have come from Jigawa state, on the border with Niger, crossing the country south in trucks to bring their stock here. Although I learn little about their trip, they eagerly express their joy in being here, on the border of this contemptible promised land, where they expect to “dip the Quran in the sea.”

There are “too many Christians in Lagos,” says Abadallah, who looks to be in his 40s. “The Christians are dogs and children of dogs. You say Christians. To us they are traitors. They adopted the religion of the whites. There is no place here for friends of the whites, who are impure.” A postcard vendor joins the group and offers me portraits of Osama bin Laden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He agrees the Christians will eventually leave and Nigeria will be “free.”

Some professional disinformers will try to reduce the violence here to one of the “interethnic wars” that inflame Africa. They’ll likely find, here and there, acts of reprisal against the Fula and Hausa. But as my trip concludes, I have the terrible feeling of being carried back to Rwanda in the 1990s, to Darfur and South Sudan in the 2000s.

Will the West let history repeat itself in Nigeria? Will we wait, as usual, until the disaster is done before taking notice? Will we stand by as international Islamic extremism opens a new front across this vast land, where the children of Abraham have coexisted for so long?

Mr. Lévy is author of “The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World” (Henry Holt, 2019). This article was translated from French by Steven B. Kennedy.

By O'star Eze


The Nigerian Medical Association is presently under fire as several of her members have at intervals in recent times challenged its policies and its mode of electing national officers.

OrientTabloid.com gathered that so far, the NMA activities is not transparent and many medical practitioners are beginning to ask questions especially with the recent policy mandating members to pay fourty thousand naira as building levy.

In an exclusive interview with one of NMA senior member, Dr Kenenna Obiatuegwu, it was alleged that a pertitioner had won a case against NMA with over two hundred million to be paid to him as damages perhaps due to leadership failure.

Dr Obiatuegwu poked several holes in the constitution of the NMA asking the leadership to call for an emergency national executive council (NEC) meeting and the unsavoury aspects of the NMA constitution reconstructed and restructured.

Prominent among Obiatuegwu's reservations over the constitution was that it only allowed the 37 state chairmen of the NMA to participate in the election of the national officers. That amounts to less than 0.05% of members.

He disclosed how this portion of the constitution contravened the Nigerian constitutional provision that allows every person above 18 years of age to vote and be voted for in the country.

In his words, "For the fact that I pay my annual dues, i deserve a chance to exercise my franchise in determining my national officers.

"It is like my governor saying because I elected him, he has the right to elect the Nigeria president for me.

"No, I elected my governor and my president as well. "

He said that he was being forced to seek legal redress on the matter adding that it was also an anomaly that the NMA constitution allows for the suspension of a member that seeks legal intervention in an issue he has with the organisation. This he said amounts to an attack on our fundamental human right and constitutional liberty.

"How can you suspend me because I sued for a redress on a matter I am not satisfied with? It is like President Buhari sacking me from Nigeria because I sued him," Obiatuegwu said.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/nma-leadership-under-fire-as-members-sue-for-constitutional-review/

We write this message to Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu concerning all
The prophecies and revelations towards the will of God for this country and the crucial role he has to play for God's cause and His will for Nigeria. In spite of all the whole letters we wrote to him some of which was duly acknowledged he refused and or neglected to heed to God's words and purpose for a better Nigeria. He went ahead to expose the prophecies to the enemies of God in Aso rock who are only after their own selfish and personal interests.It is very glaring to everyone's naked eye now that they care not about the interest of the poor masses nor the citizens they are governing. Ahmed Tinubu remember that you are not greater than the king of Babylon who God Almighty disciplined for seven (7)years and in the end he proclaimed in Daniel 4 that he will honour the king of heaven whose works are the works of truth,and His ways justice and God's ways are justice, He is able to put down those who walk in pride. The king of heaven rules in the kingdom men and gives it to whoever he chooses. Now you have betrayed God, you betrayed the Yoruba kingdom and you betrayed Nigeria because of your greed for money,power and fame and it's happening all over the country now, be informed that those enemies of God who you exposed this messages, prophecies, revelations to will come after you shortly and they are now using the information against the south easterners who doesn't know their God but it is written in Daniel 11:32"that those who know their God shall achieve great exploits "Furthermore, Bola Ahmed Tinubu remember that the man in Aso Rock is distinguished gentleman, a professor,a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a pastor, he was on his own doing his own thing and you went and brought him out and put him under this crossfire be informed that it is written in Psalm 105 :15"Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm"Tinubu as a prophet to the nation I see you crying in tears for you will be betrayed as well, God said I should inform you that HE the I AM WHOM I AM in Exodus 14 that what he did to pharaoh over the Israelites of old He will do it again to all the pharaohs of this country. That His battle is destructive and in the end he will make a name for Himself The ELOHI will make a name for Himself The blessed Trinity of The Father, The Son the Holy spirit! .Prophet Louis Nwamulobi Jesus
Spiritual director
Light of God Healing Ministry Anambra Nigeria.


Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/alhaji-ahmed-bola-tinubu-betrayed-god-almighty-prophet-louis/

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By O'star Eze

Members of Old Aguata Union (OAU), led by the first governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife have enjoined political parties in the state to take a cue from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and zone the next governorship candidacy to Anambra South.

Rising from a summit which held, Sunday, December 1, 2019, in Ezeife's cottage home, Igboukwu, the group comprising traditional rulers, PGs of the 45 communities in the union, political office holders past and present, insisted that in the spirit of equity, Anambra South deserved to be given a chance in the next political dispensation in Anambra State.

Their communique, which was signed by the aforementioned read thus in part, "That the OAU wholly supports the governor and the government of Anambra State in their effort to develop the 45 communities in OAU through the 20 million naira community choose your project initiative.

"That the OAU wholly supports the governorship zoning arrangement in place among the three zones of Anambra State. That it is the turn of South Senatorial zone to produce the next governor that would succeed Governor Willie Obiano (Agunechemba Aguata).

"That all the political parties are enjoined in the interest of equity and fairness to zone the next governorship to Anambra South."

The chairman of OAU steering committee, Chief Titus Anagbogu, in his opening remark stated that contrary to speculations, OAU remained one body. He disclosed that the meeting was apolitical as all the political parties were invited and enjoined all citizens of the OAU to cast aside their personal interests and political affiliations and ensure that the common goal of producing the next governor was achieved.

"The essence of this meeting is to re-enact our unity of purpose as a people regardless of our individual interests and political affiliations. We are working towards summoning a larger house of the OAU soon to prove that we are indeed a people with one voice."

A large delegation from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Young Peoples Party (YPP) were also present at the summit.

Speaking on behalf of the PDP, Chief Kenneth Arinze, a director of operations, Senator Iyom Uche Ekwunife shared Ekwunife's Goodwill for the OAU. He regretted her absence from the summit explaining that she had a last minute change of plans to attend to oversight functions in Enugu State.

"Iyom is from Igboukwu and therefore would not have wanted to miss this honourable event. She had to change her movement to attend to some oversight functions in Enugu and therefore sent us to represent her. She sent her message of Goodwill and blessings towards the summit and the organization," Arinze said.

Other prominent attendees of the summit were the state commissioner for health, Dr Vincent Ogochukwu Okpala; the commissioner for utilities, Engr Emeka Ezenwanne; the members representing Aguata 1 and 2 at the state house of assembly; Hon. Cater Umeh and Hon Okechukwu Okpala.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/anambra-guber-oau-advises-parties-to-zone-to-anambra-south/

By Our Health Correspondent
A 21 year old woman, Mrs Nzube Okolie from Anambra State, has shared with orienttabloid.com health correspondent how the use of a non drug surgical plastic saved her from what could have made her spend billions of Naira on surgical operation due to severe pile.
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“It was not until i came across a plastic they sold in a pharmacy. I was in excruciating pain as a result of the pile which was already hanging out of my anus and made eating, siting and every other life activity very painful for me. i was suffering and a friend had already suggested surgery. As I was describing my experience to a nurse in a final attempt to find remedy, a man with a funny looking bag walked into the pharmacy stall. He waited patiently for me to get done with the nurse but the nurse asked me to hang on in a bid to quickly attend to the man and then get back to me. The man who gave his name as Osita Eze (08065824475), a representative for a pharmaceutical company, Award Global Healthcare Ltd. He started introducing some of his products to her. As luck would have it, this young man brought out a plastic device which he called Anurex and claimed that it was a quick remedy using cold therapy or cryotherapy to pile which was inserted into the anus and that it could be reused. I was ready to to try anything.
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By O'star Eze

The Spiritual Director of The Light of God Healing Ministry, Abagana, Njikoka LGA of Anambra State, Prophet Louis Nwamulun’obi Jesus has alleged that Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State was indeed under spiritual attack adding that he was the only man of God given the grace to pray him out of an impending onslaught.

Responding to the recent media buzz that the governor had allegedly said there were evil spirits in the government house, the prophet maintained that even though there were attempts to refute the report as false, there was indeed a serious attack launched against the governor which was about getting to a staggering climax.

In the Light of God Healing Ministry founder’s words, “Our governor is under attack and as a prophet to this nation, God revealed this ongoing attack and that I am the only man that will pray and God will answer and the calamity that is coming upon him will be averted because many priests and pastors are attacking him. The reason people are not seeing the good works this young man is doing in this state is because of the wicked people surrounding him. He is being attacked by some so-called men of God. People surrounding our governor are the ones misleading him.

“Our governor knows truly that it is God who gave him that seat. He could not have made it in his second tenure but for God. The bible said in the book of Daniel 11:32; “Those who know their God shall do exploit.” He needs a serious prayer from a genuine man of god which I am the one God has revealed that will pray him out of his situation. Prophet Louis Ezejiegu nwamurun’obi Jesus. The one who wrote him before the election who told him how he was going to win the elections and all these things going on right, four months before the election. People surrounding him do not want him to recognize the source of his victory.

“It is like he eating the grace with a man God he does not know about which he needs to identify with that God and that God will fight the battle coming for him. Battle is coming, enemies are coming and people that he won are scheming evil against him. There are some ingrates who have vowed to tarnish the image of the governor out of envy and jealousy and because they are no longer getting what they were getting before from him. But the Bible said in Psalm 46:9; “God make war to cease from the river to the end of the earth.” People around him are wicked and care only about their stomach they do not care about the poor that is why I am giving this message that he may come and identify with the prophet and God will fight this battle for him.

Continuing, the prophet said that God had made Nigeria and Anambra State his burden for a long time now and has been speaking to him and through him repeatedly about his home state and its governance.

“I have a correspondence of mails I had been sending to Governor Willie Obiano even before he assumed his seat in this second tenure. None has been responded to snd my prophecies keep coming true. Time will tell.”



Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/i-am-the-only-prophet-that-can-save-obiano-nwamulunobi-jesus/

By Prophet Louis Nwamulun’obi Jesus of Light of God Healing Ministry, Anambra State, Nigeria

Meanwhile the word of the LORD came to me while i was sleeping on the 20th day of November 2019.Go and speak to the leaders of this country Nigeria for the cry of my children has reached my ears,the blood of those been killed and shed unnecessarily the famine and hunger punishment hardship, humiliation which this present government has brought upon my people the chosen ones, the elect those i have chosen to lead this country to promise land.”Thus says the LORD of Hosts,the GOD of Isreal.I am coming in glory to take over Aso rock .All u satanic leaders the cabals, President Mohamadu Buhari and every wicked politcians who has hijacked,imprisoned my people their destinies and blessings. I will Judge u with my wrath. Nahum Chapter 1:2″A jealous and avenging GOD is the LORD.The LORD is avenging and wrathful.The LORD takes vengeance on His adverseries And He reserves wrath for His Enemies.All u wicked men in Aso rock get ready to vomit all monies which you embezzled from the government scoffers, some of you that are sick is suffering from the nemesis of your evil deeds to the people of GOD.All the secret battles you people are planning against the children of GOD in this.country will come to naught.The LORD GOD of Hosts is coming with a great supernatural power that you all will see and fear him,all you evil and wicked leaders shall be flushed away, for you have falling into the hands of the ALMIGHTY GOD.Heb.10:29.I AM WHOM I AM of Exodus 3:14.I must reign over you until I the LORD will put all my Enemies under.my feet.I speak to you wicked leaders who will hear this message and will try to attack it,that the word of GOD will b against you.Romans 12:19.Beloved,do not avenge yourselves,but rather give place to wrath:For it is written”vengeance is Mine.I will repay”says the Lord.Non of you can stop the will of GOD and his good plans for this nation.Every of your evil plots to keep this county to a perpetual state of suffering will be taken care of by the power of GOD of Hosts.Isaiah .7:7.’Thus says the Lord GOD”it shall not stand,nor shall it come to pass”Amen



Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/prophesy-a-message-from-god-to-the-federal-republic-of-nigeria/

'From Certificate to Success' unveils in Awka

The who is who in the policy making business of Nigeria met at Cosmila Hotel, Awka, Friday, November 22, 2019 to grace the epoch-making unveiling of CHINEME OGUEGBE's masterpiece, 'From Certificate to Success'.

The book explored the ingredients that bouy one from bearing a certificate craver to a value adder and thereby an achiever of true success.

Some of the dignitaries included former SA to the former president of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Nze Akachukwu Nwamkpo; a retired administrative secretary to INEC and now a consultant , Sir Guild Okorocha; Ichie Iwegbuna (Agbalanze of Umuchu); Sir Chuka Nnabuife, MD/CEO of Anambra Newspaper and Printing Corporation; Chairman of APC in Aguata, Honourable Paul Umenduka; Dr Peter Ogbuka, the former commissioner during Dr Chris Ngige's time as governor and Frank Udeonu, an Anti-piracy advocate; Comrade Obiadi Toochukwu, Executive Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State
on economic planning and budget and Chief Johnbosco Onunkwo (Onwa Umuchu).

The chairman noted that the author captured the pitch of constructive living. "Most young Nigerians believe there is a shortcut to life. But we are here because the author believe that life should be lived step by step.

"Chinemerem I am happy that while we were working together, you were proven to be a young man that one could be trusted. I kept pointing out to you that the path to success required connecting with your inner self. It took character, focus and being able to connect with your inner self for me to have achieved moving from being the son of a headmaster to being the special adviser to the president.

"Today is significant because a young man has gone into his inner self and is sharing with you the value that has brought him thus far in life. God has deposited gold in all of us. If we are able to tap into what we have to offer, we would share the gold on the side of good."

The author, Oguegbe, described the book as a personal journey to self realisation for him. "I wanted to change the narrative of youth development in Nigeria through our philosophy of self realisation.

"Our schools don't tell us there are inward passions we need to develop to self realisation and self actualisation so that the next generation would not be lost to the old mindset. The book is a product of Geoserve Rennaisance Academy a platform for young people to develop and propagate this philosophy," he said.

The book reviewer was Rev. Fr. Dr Emmanuel Umezinwa, a musicologist and educationist. In his review, Rev. Umezinwa stated that the book made a good impression on him. He noted conscious decision making and consciousness as key points in the entire book, adding that such distinguishes man from other animals.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/from-certificate-to-success-unveils-in-awka/

Early morning explosion has rocked the parish house of St Peter Cleaver’s Catholic Church, Nnewi, Anambra state, leaving the Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Edmond Nwagbala, dead; while a resident priest, identified as Fr. John Okosa, was critically injured.
It was gathered that the explosion occurred in the early hours of Saturday, November 16, inside Fr. Nwagbala’s room.
Source from the parish told our reporters that the explosion sparked fire inside the priest’s room, and burned him beyond recognition; while another priest, Fr. Okosa, who managed to jump out from a window, sustained life threatening injuries, and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital.
The source, who did not want his name in print, also said there was neither a gas cylinder nor fuel container in the cleric’s room, which could ignite fire.
Our reporters were not allowed to gain access into the parish house; even as parishioners were all over the place, wailing and mourning.
Contacted, the Director of Communication in the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi, Rev. Fr. Martin Nweze, confirmed the development, but told our reporters that he would not say much as he was not in Anambra presently.
Efforts to get the reaction of the diocesan bishop, Rt. Rev. Hilary-Paul Odili Okeke, proved abortive, as the prelate would not pick calls put across to him.
Meanwhile, police authorities in Anambra state have also confirmed the development.
A release by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, said the inferno, which cause is yet to be ascertained, affected part of the Church’s residential building.
According to the release, “The parish priest, Rv. Fr. Edmond Nwagbala ‘m’ aged about 60 years, was burnt beyond recognition inside his room at same premises.
“Police patrol team attached to Otolo Division led by the DPO, visited the scene and fire service department was equally alerted. They responded promptly and put off the fire.”
It added that the body of the priests has been deposited at the mortuary for postmortem examination; adding that the commissioner of police in the state, CP John Bassey Abang, has ordered for a discreet investigation to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident.

Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/catholic-church-explodes-in-anambra/

By Our Reporter

The leader of the Indigenuous People of Biafra, IPOB, would be giving a special broadcast at 7pm on Saturday, November 16, 2019. Disclosing this in a press statement made available to www.orienttabloid.com, the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Emma Powerful stated that the broadcast would have Kanu revealing how the group intends to achieve its goal of seceding from Nigeria in collaboration with other ethnic groups who were on the old Biafra map. The release read thus,

“The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to announce the upcoming special broadcast by our indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Radio Biafra London at 7 pm Biafraland Time on Saturday 16 November 2019.

“As part of this broadcast, our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will educate and enlighten listeners on the diplomatic steps being taken by IPOB to bring about Biafra restoration and collaborative efforts with other ethnic nationalities to bring about the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria as the only viable means of stopping the perpetual reign of Fulani terrorism, feudal conquest and enthronement Alimajiri reign of mediocrity, primitive repression and mindless government brutality.

“IPOB’s International diplomatic onslaught is shaking the fraudulent foundation of Nigeria and the proposed bill to kill innocent and peaceful human beings in Nigeria for free speech will finally put the miserable and damnable existence of Nigeria to a well deserved miserable end.

The poorly educated and totalitarian Fulani Caliphate cabal led by the true President of Nigeria Abba Kyari along with their henchmen Junaid Mohammed and Ango Abdullahi must know that their parasitic existence in Nigeria is finally coming to an end.

Our leader’s broadcast on Radio Biafra on Saturday will enlighten, educate and reinforce the inevitability of the collapse of the artificial British colonial experiment called Nigeria.

Almighty God Chukwu Okike Abiama in heaven has ordained that Biafra must come, there is nothing anybody can do about it.

We advise everyone to join our leader live via the following platforms:

*Radio: 102.1 FM (Biafraland only)

*On Satellite

*Radio Biafra App

*Radio Biafra on Tunein:
tun.in/sffJa,

*Website: radio radiobiafra.co

*Facebook live: Facebook.com/radiobiafra

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.”


Source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/biafra-restoration-kanu-to-disclose-secret-plans/

By O'star Eze

The President General of Amiyi Community, Ogbaru LGA, Prince Afubera Nwanze has refuted the allegation by a publication on Sunday Telegraph, dated October 27, 2019, that he had bribed the special adviser to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, Barrister Mrs Veraqueen Okonkwo with N1 million to conduct the town union’s election in his favour.
Speaking via a press statement which he signed alongside the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Mbanefo, Nwanze insisted that the publication was authored by one Chike Ugboma, a dismissed PHCN staff who had allegedly been embezzling the community’s money for years.
The PG stated that contrary to the claims of the said publication, he and his executive members were duly elected in a free and fair election conducted June 24, 2019, at Amiyi Town Hall, and that the youths of the community were at peace with one another and that there was no parallel town union government in the town.
He said that his re-election was borne out of the Amiyi people’s confidence in his ability to deliver on his mandate judging from his achievements in the town during his first tenure. He therefore challenged the source of the allegation to provide proof that he carried out the said bribe and enjoined Amiyi people and indeed the general public to disregard the publication given that it was “false, malicious and calculated to mislead the public.”
The press statement read thus in part, “It is my humble submission that the false allegation against the special adviser to governor on town union and chieftaincy matters (Barr Mrs Veraqueen Okonkwo) and me by Mr Chike Ugboma is false, malicious, baseless and meant to tarnish our image.
“I therefore challenge Mr Chike Ugboma to bring a proof of N1 million inducement bribe level (sic) against hon special adviser and my person.
“It should be noted that it is the sole responsibility of the office of the special adviser to governor on chieftaincy and town union matters to monitor/observe any town union election. The office of the special adviser came to monitor Amiyi town union election sequel to my official invitation letter for the election on 24th June, 2019. My re-election for second tenure is because of the developmental projects I have executed in Amiyi eg, Town Hall, 30 open market shops, 42 lock-up shops decked with toilet and borehole with two overhead tanks.
“The general public is hereby warned to discountenance the publication as same is false, malicious and calculated to mislead the public.”

source: https://www.orienttabloid.com/%ef%bb%bfi-did-not-bribe-my-way-to-second-tenure-amiyi-pg/

People have been complaining about the lack of wholesome content in the ongoing Big Brother Nigeria reality TV show. Because of this DSTV decided to host this forthcoming musical reality TV show tagged #thenextrated. See picture for details of how you can be one of the 40 housemates that will contest for N30 million naira for 11 weeks.

Ezesinachi. He is just 39 yet he has touched more lives than many in their 90s. He has this innate knack for benevolence. Little wonder he was born on August 17, the very date given to benevolent weather condition the world over and through history. The Dunga himself. Nwoke bu nwoke bu nwoke. I hail thee on your birthday and always. More life abundant.

The very Heart of Valentine _(Part 2)


*Aguata two of a kind; Ezeemo, Ezeuchegbu*


Mr Godwin C. Ezeemo of Umuchu might have a kindred spirit in Honourable Valentine Ezeuchegbu of Akpo. One thing this duo have in common, nay, two of the things they have in common include their seemingly endless source of income and their seemingly endless passion for community development.

Just today, Mr Godwin Ezeemo broke record again as the first in PDP Anambra State record especially in the present tenure, that any man gave a vehicle to the party.

Hon Ezeuchegbu also marvelled many when he said he would intervene in the decadent state of an Akpo school. Book clubs, synergy meet-ups, community of inquiries are some other Educational interventions he has up his sleeves. Bringing solution driven Education system informally.
(O'star Eze silently musing...)

Source: http://www.factreporters.com/2019/08/the-very-heart-of-valentine-part-2.html?m=1

Comrade Emmanuel Ezeokafor is a budding politician who contested for House of Assembly seat to represent Aguata 2 constituency in the 2019 general elections in Anambra State under the platform of Young Progressive Party, YPP. In this exclusive interview with O’STAR EZE, Comrade Ezeokafor shares his experience during the elections and his thoughts on how to make the electoral process transparent and credible while harping on the need to revive the local government system.

During the last elections, you made your first outing as a secular politician and contested for a seat. Do you think one can keep one’s integrity after vying for elective position in Nigeria?

I think it was Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who once said that the best hardly wins elections in Nigeria. Yes, we can keep our integrity. Even though it is very difficult but it is achievable. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a footstep. If you want to change a society, it is not something you can just jump into; it takes some time and I believe that is what we are trying to achieve. I believe that if you want to keep your integrity as a politician, you should be conscious of the fact that there is a tendency that you might not win in your first trial vying for a position. The experience you gather while failing is what will guide you. A philosopher said that if you want to succeed, you have to be ready to fail. It is from your failure that you will know who are your real friends. So, with that I believe that people can still maintain their integrity if they want. And if you have to do that, you have to be ready to sacrifice a lot of things.

What inspired you to go into secular politics and are you still inspired after your experience?
The zeal to make the society a better place. That inspired us. And also for the fact that if we shy away from politics, we will leave it to those who are in politics just to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. I started to venture into politics to make a mark. To see how people of like minds can unite to change the society. I knew it was not going to be easy but at least we have made our mark. We have gone round and shared our idea with our people. It is just that that monster, vote buying truncated the process. But we are certain that when we come back with the same message during the next round of elections, people must have seen reasons why they should vote their conscience. So, I still believe that the society will be better if we continue. So, we are still trudging on.

In what ways do you think Anambra politics can be improved upon?
First of all, I would like to enjoin Mr President to continue his fight against corruption while advising that he gives it a wholistic approach and eschew being political about it. If we begin this fight holistically, I think we can get it right. If we focus our beam light on the institutions like the police, the INEC, the educational institutions, we will get it right. For instance, if a professor knows that when he involves himself in election malpractice, he may be sacked wherever he is working, he would be forced to maintain his integrity because he would not want to compromise his hard-earned position in the academic environment. Having said this, I think this is the first step we need to take; reorientation. Let the INEC have their own staff, train their own staff to know the integrity they need to protect. In a football match, you discover that the police usually back the match and face the spectators but in a situation whereby the one who is supposed to be maintaining law and order becomes the spectator as we find in our elections, then I do not know what you would expect him to do. Then the police needs to do the same, not the recent trend of giving protection to the highest bidder. Secondly, there is need to build a more confined cubicle for casting the votes. This will help people to vote their conscience. The one we are using now is a half-shielded cubicle whereby when one is casting his vote, the party agents would know when he is voting at the beginning of the ballot paper, at the middle or at the end.

How would you advise someone who is just entering into politics for the first time?
The beginners should learn from the mistakes of those who were there before them. Also, they should not make the process a do or die affair. They should remember that just as it is said that the social media does not forget, the society does not forget. What you do today can be revisited in years to come. It is good to be ambitious but do not make it do or die.
YPP was the platform with which you vied for a position. Do you think YPP has a chance in Anambra politics?

The word impossible does not exist in Nigerian politics especially at the state level. You can recall that PPA once made exploit it in Imo and Abia states, APGA also did it in Anambra and Imo states, Labour party also did it once in Ogun state. So, I believe it all boils down to the people. If YPP, a party that had no office in Anambra state, could win a senate seat in Anambra state within three months, it shows you the potential of such a party. YPP is all about the youths and I think the youths made a statement in the last elections. So, I still expect similar surprises in the forthcoming elections. If you see all the executive members of YPP, you will see that they are all youths and youths at heart. So, I believe that Anambra State is yet to see the best of YPP. 2021 is coming and YPP is going to stage another surprise in Anambra State. YPP is coming to take over because from the look of things, I think everybody is tired with what is going on in Nigeria. Even journalists know. That is why we are clamouring for investigative journalism so as to help show the people the facts of what wrongs are ongoing in the society. Our interest is to build YPP into a formidable movement where the youths can have a say.

What is the next step for you?
We have contested an election. There were winners and there were losers. After the elections, we released a statement congratulating the winners and enjoining everyone to move forward. If you were not chosen by the people today, you could be chosen tomorrow.

Your last words to young people in politics?

I will just tell my fellow youths to become more conscious of what is happening. Since 1983, young people have been told that they are the leaders of tomorrow. Yet, the same man that told them so then is still at the helm of affairs today. So, the pertinent question is, ‘when will our own time come?’ If you look at the recently released ministerial list, you will see someone who had served as house pf assembly member for years, state governor for 8 years, minister for four years and yet he is still there. If the EFCC wants to catch them, they will gather the youths, give them N1000 each and they would carry placard for them. They will send their own children abroad to get the best education preparing them to take over reins of power from them. So, it is high time we youths need to have a rethink. We youths need another kind of orientation. When Late Emeka Ojukwu and Gowon were in power, they were in their thirties. Today, if a 40 years old man wants to contest for counsellorship, people will be agitating that he is still young. If Peter Obi was not given a chance, we would not have known he is a good manager. Finally, I would like to say that it was since the local government system was pocketed by the state government that the youths stopped growing politically because I believe that if the local government system was independently operating, youths would have ample opportunity to learn the ropes of politics starting from the scratch instead of the present practice where they are forced to jump to start from House of Assembly. It is like someone who is trying to climb a tree starting from the middle instead of the bottom. So, there is a need to revive the LG system because it is from there that you groom the future politician and you know who is who.


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