Ehirim Files News & Views, Sunday, June 10, 2007

Ohakim Under Pressure To Dump PPA

Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, as leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started mounting pressure on him to fulfil his pre-election promise of joining the PDP together with his deputy. MORE>>

Crack In Police Hierarchy Over N4b Election Fund

There is crack in the police hierarchy caused by doubt over the real amount voted by the Federal Government to the authorities for the April general election. By the development, the N22 million recovered from some aides to a serving Commissioner of Police on Thursday may be a child’s play by the time the real story regarding the actual amount released is made known. MORE>>

Fresh Facts On Why Imo Govt House Was Razed

There are strong indications that the incessant complaints by the new Imo State governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, that his predecessor, Chief Achike Udenwa, left an empty treasury may have led to why Douglas House, the temporary home of Ohakim, was razed by a mysterious fire on Thursday. MORE>>

Meet Our Demands Or Face The Consequences, NLC Tells Yar'Adua

At the twilight of its administration, former President Olusegun Obasanjo took certain decisions which most Nigerians took umbrage at. It sold off the Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries; hiked Value Added Tax (VAT) by 100 per cent and reneged on his government’s promise to increase workers’ salaries by 15 per cent. MORE>>

'How Imo Built Nigeria's First E-Hospital'

Following the emergence of the first clinical students of Imo State University College of Medicine, the then government of Imo State under Achike Udenwa established the Imo State University Teaching Hospital as an e- tertiary hospital to provide advanced medical health care delivery for the people. MORE>>

Letter To The Governor

DEAR Ikedi. I address this letter to you as the governor in Owerri, until it pleases the courts to decide one way or the other. I am compelled to this line of action, principally from reading your lips. I refer particularly to your early statements in the aftermath of the elections, to the effect that you’d run a government with a systematic welfare programme. MORE>>

What Soyinka Told U.S. Congress

I assume that it is universally agreed that what passed for elections in Nigeria in May 2007 was an abuse of the word ‘democracy’. Assessment of the scale of abuse may differ – for instance, the Jimmy Carter Centre monitoring group reported that there were just two states – Kano and Lagos - that could be credited with having held free and fair elections, while I would perhaps be a little more generous and concede five – Abia, Bauchi and Zamfara - as having also reflected, fairly accurately, the electoral will of the people. MORE>>

Yar'Adua Presidency Not Legitimate - NBA

As legal fireworks commence at the electoral tribunals, national president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has submitted that President Umar Musa Yar’Adua’s occupation of Aso Rock is illegitimate. MORE>>

Bandits Kill Yar'Adua's US Based Supporter

HE chose his candidate from far away United States backed him with organisation, which toiled for victory, and when the candidate emerged victorious, he came to Nigeria to witness the inauguration. But that has proved to be costly for Tunde Olamiju, Secretary of the Yar'Adua Campaign Organisation in diaspora, who was fatally shot last Thursday on his way back to his base in the U.S. MORE>>

Forces Behind Mark's Plot - IBB, Buhari's Camp Fingered - Ex-Governors Budget N5 Billion For Fresh Plot

The fresh plot to impeach the newly elected President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has been linked to the camp of General Ibrahim Babangida and the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who are working in tandem with the former governors who are now elected Senators. MORE>>

Ndigbo: Coping With Post Third Term

The fresh plot to impeach the newly elected President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has been linked to the camp of General Ibrahim Babangida and the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who are working in tandem with the former governors who are now elected Senators. MORE>>

The Hidden Behind Nigeria's 250 million pounds Fight For Commonwealth Games

THE race to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games enters the last lap this week as the five-man judging panel arrives in Scotland. Their verdicts will be key when the 71 members vote between Glasgow and Nigeria's Abuja. Almost twomillion Scots back our bid on the internet but most Nigerians living on a dollar a day do not share that same enthusiasm. MORE>>