March 18th gubernatorial election: Pressure on Ugwuanyi and Ikpeazu Outgoing Governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State are under pressure. The pressure is how to produce their successors after the defeat they personally suffered, as well as their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the February 25 elections. Outgoing Governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State are under pressure. The pressure is how to produce their successors after the defeat they personally suffered, as well as their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the February 25 elections. Indeed, these governors, whose tenure ends in May 29, 2023, had wanted to go to the senate afterwards. This was not to be as they lost woefully in their senatorial zones. While Ugwuanyi lost to Okey Ezea of the Labour Party (LP); Ikpeazu lost to Enyinnaya Abarib...

Claims that Labour Party’s (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour forged his certificate from Massachusetts Institute Technology Rhodes-Vivour has been at the centre of a certificate forgery allegation after an email that purportedly came from the office of MIT’s registrar appeared on social media claiming he was never a student of the institution. Claims that Labour Party’s (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour forged his certificate from Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT) in the United States has been dismissed. This comes after Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT) confirmed his certificate. Rhodes-Vivour has been at the centre of a certificate forgery allegation after an email that purportedly came from the office of MIT’s registrar appeared on social media claiming he was never a student of the institution.  However, MIT has refuted the claim and confirmed that Rhodes-Vivour attended MIT between 2005 a...

EBONYI 2023 WHO REPLACES DAVE UMAHI COME MAY 29TH? A charter of Equity stipulating rotation of power among the blocs in Ebonyi is expected to have a big say in who succeeds outgoing Governor David Umahi The struggle for the creation of Ebonyi State from Abịa and Enugu states brought the people of Afikpo and Abakaliki together on a common mission of what they called political emancipation. The Afikpo bloc consists of five local government areas in their new state today, namely Afikpo North, Afikpo South, Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo. They now constitute Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone. The Abakaliki bloc now has eight local government areas spread across two senatorial zones. They are Ebonyi North comprising of Izzi, Abakaliki, Ebonyi and Ọhaukwu local government areas; and Ebonyi Central which has Ezza North, Ezza South, Ikwo and Ishielu local government areas. However, two power blocs have formed in Ebonyi South, namely Afikpo and Ohanivo. The Afikpo bloc is made up of Afikpo Nor...

Kogi Govt To Arrest Residents Rejecting Old Naira The Kogi State Government has said it will arrest residents of the state who reject the old naira notes. In a statement signed by the State Commissioner of Information Kingsley Fanwo on Friday, the Kogi State government said the old naira currency remains a legal tender, warning that residents found rejecting it should be punished according to the law. The statement shared on the Kogi State Government Twitter page partly read, "The reason the Kogi State Government joined other state governments in the country to pursue the case was to ease the hardship occasioned by the unavailability of the new naira notes, which the court fully granted. "It is therefore unacceptable that some persons and businesses will continue to reject the use of the old naira notes, even after the court judgment validating their use. Rejecting the old naira notes is a clear disobedience of the Supreme Court ruling. "Anyone who rejects th...

JUST IN: Supreme Court sacks Shekarau as senator-elect The Supreme Court on Friday sacked Senator Ibrahim Shekarau as the candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party and recognised Senator Rufa’i Hanga as the party’s candidate for the 2023 general election. The PUNCH reports that Shekarau was declared the winner of the 2023 Kano Central Senatorial District election under NNPP. Shekarau, a sitting senator was in the NNPP and was nominated to vie for the senatorial position under its platform. However, before the elections, he announced his defection from the NNPP and abandoned his senatorial ambition to join the Peoples Democratic Party. But the Independent National Electoral Commission later insisted that it still recognised him as the legitimate NNPP candidate, even though the party replaced him with Hanga. Shekarau, who is going to the red chamber for the second time, was declared by the returning officer of the senatorial district, Professor Tijjani Darma. According to I...

As a Facebook affidavit Lawyer, let me say this on the Supreme Court Verdict between Victor Nwite Chukwu and Barr Leonard Igboke We are aware that APC had factional primary election in Ebonyi State which produced Rt Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru with those under him and Engr Elias Nwelem Mbam with those under him too. After the long tussle, the Party recognized the Primary Election that produced Rt Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru with House of Assembly and National Assembly Candidates who featured under it as authenticity. Those who participated in Elias Mbam faction were invalidated, hence not in anywhere a Candidate. Leveraging on the alleged Court Affidavit sworn by the 16 Members of House of Assembly which I don't have privy evidence, some dissatisfied Candidates went to court to challenge the candidature of some candidates in some of the Constituency. This is aside the case filed by the then strong and united PDP. In the primary election that produced Victor Chukwu Nwite...

FALL OF NYESOM WIKE, HIS DESPERADO IGBO STAKEHOLDERS MEETING AND THE IMMINENT GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION TSUNAMI Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD Odogwu of Ibusa, Research Fellow@Exile, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka By a letter dated 1st March, 2023 and signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Protocol to the Governor of Rivers State Ambassador Harold A. Koko, and titled “Restricted” Governor’s Engagement, we were informed that Governor Nyesom Wike invited “Stakeholders of Igbo Ethnic Nationality Residents in Rivers State” to meeting at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Port Harcourt, on 2nd March, 2023 at 1700 Hours. The meeting which was connected with the coming March 11 Governorship election was laden with humble plea for support painted with subtle threats of ejection of all Igbo of Southeast origin from Rivers State and re-enactment of the abandoned property saga if they fail to convince their people to vote for his PDP candidate. The questio...

UK DOESN'T NEED A COURT ORDER TO RETRIEVE HER RENDITIONED CITIZEN FROM NIGERIA  UK doesn’t need a Court order to retrieve her renditioned citizen from Nigeria. I figured out the subtle hint of racism from United Kingdom. Declassified files show Britain’s Labour government secretly armed and backed the government in Nigeria as it massacred Biafrans seeking to secede from the country – in order to protect Shell/BP oil interests. ICYMI A time is coming when those who seek to hide the truth will come face to face with the truth they thought they hid. That truth is Biafra and the 3.5 million children murdered by Nigeria and Britain "Dear UK: In May 2021, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu landed Kenya as a Briton, not a Nigerian. By law, this created a tripartite immigration relationship between UK, Kenya & Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nigeria was not a party. So, UK doesn’t need a Court order to retrieve her renditioned citizen from Nigeria"…....Barr.Aloy Ejimakor    I figured out the su...

The INEC  attempted to modify the BIVAS machine, which is the other application and is of the utmost importance. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, Peter obi's principal attorney, has described what will happen if the Independent Nigerian Election Commission, INEC, is allowed to seek that the BIVAS be reconfigured. It should be remembered that the Electoral body stormed the court to demand that the BIVAS be altered in front of the Saturday governorship poll. Ikpeazu said that the reconfiguration operation means that the electoral authority needs permission to remove all presidential details from the computer during a Tuesday interview with a journalist. He claimed that if the request is approved, the accreditation—the most important piece of evidence—will be lost, putting the petition at risk. He spoke "The INEC is attempting to modify the BIVAS machine, which is the other application and is of the utmost importance. This indicates that they want to delete the accreditation inf...

Senior Nigerian Lawyer, Pius Akubo, Rejects Appointment Into APC Legal Team To Defend Tinubu's Election. Meanwhile another SAN has pulled out of Tinubu's Legal Team. Barrister Pius Akubo SAN has pulled out of the the fraudulently selected President-elect Bola Tinubu:s Legal Team that will be defending his stolen mandate in court. Chief Pius Akubo SAN who is a highly rated lawyer and Senior advocate with unparalleled wealth of experience in advocacy and election matters is the No 10 on Tinubu's list. He frowned at his inclusion on the list and questioned why his consent was never sought and obtained before publishing his name as a member of the legal team. He therefore declined the appointment.

THE SUDDEN MISSING OUT OF THE APC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE IN EBONYI STATE FROM THEIR POLITICAL FUNCTIONS IS WORRISOME? Why the sudden missing out of the APC Gubernatorial Candidate from their Political functions? For a whole one week now that falsified endorsements have been going on, he, FON hasn't appeared in person to any of those functions. Something is really fishy here! In Ikwo LG yesterday, he didn't attend, In Ohaukwu LG yesterday, he didn't attend, At People club a day before yesterday where Hon. Awo Chinedu hosted the Ezza Effium, he didn't attend, etc. I hope his health condition is not getting worse? He (The Emperor) should make sure that nothing happens to him because we're not going to take it. EVERYBODY MUST BE ALIVE AND SEE ENGR. FIDELIS NWANKWO become the 4th Elected Executive Governor of Ebonyi State.

Please let us tread with serious caution. The news flying every where is that Court has passed Judgement that the old Naira notes remains Legal tender till the end of this Year. CBN is yet to consent with the decision of the Court. Some Banks has started issuing out the old Naira notes which triggered an exchange of blows in one of the Access Bank today at Ogoja road today. A man was issued N20,000 Naira old notes in N500 naira denomination, He went out and returned few hours later today to redeposit it, reason been that he couldn't spend it, as anyone he gives it rejected it. In my very presence, the cashiers refused collecting back the money on the ground that a call came from wherever that they should suspend giving and collecting old notes. This Man raised alarm pointing at the same cashier who gave him the money, infact the argument led to a serious fight which to me, such drama still remains unreasonable. Why would a Cashier issue money to a bank customer, and the...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: GOVERNOR UMAHI FELICITATES EBONYI WOMEN The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, has felicitated Ebonyi women on this year's international Women's Day celebration. He also felicitated Nigeria women and the global women for their achievements in development and gender equity in general. Umahi described women of Ebonyi State as unique, and congratulated them for the feat they have achieved not only in the area of politics, but in all spheres of life. He noted that the choice of a woman as the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the State is a testimony of the level of inclusiveness they have so far achieved. He called on the women of the State to throw their weight behind the APC governorship candidate, Francis Nwifuru and his running mate, Princess Patricia Obila as a mark of solidarity to their fellow woman. "I urge the women of Ebonyi State and Nigeria to use the opportunity of the celebrati...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Peter Mbah has been reportedly spotted on his knees begging youths in Enugu State to vote for him in Saturday's governorship election. This comes after Labour Party (LP) supporters, popularly known as ‘Obidients’, had disgraced Mbah when he visited Ugwu Di Nso Annual Youth Lenten Retreat to solicit support ahead of the state gubernatorial election on Saturday 11, March, according to Naija News. According to the report, the youths refused to listen to him nor allow him to address the church as they repeatedly chanted “Obi! Obi!! Obi!!!.” Enugu Governorship Candidate Kneels To Beg Residents For Votes. The PDP candidate also shared drinks during the visit but the youths threw away the drinks, shouting they do not need them.

End Period Poverty! Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, remove taxes on menstrual products. SHARE THIS POST now with a clicking Subscribe. Let’s get to over 5,000 Subscribers who read 3BONES NEWS Daily  In 2021, the Minister of Women Affairs in Nigeria, Pauline Tallen revealed that over 37 million Nigerian women and girls lack access to menstrual hygiene products due to financial constraints, especially disabled women and women in rural areas. This means that menstrual hygiene is a luxury that over 37 million Nigerian women and girls lack access to and personally, I didn’t realize what this meant until my cousin missed her JAMB exam because she couldn’t afford a pad.   Her exam was scheduled to hold in Oyo state even though she lived in Ogun state and by the time she arrived at her JAMB center, she had already exhausted the little cash her mother gave her due to the high cost of transportation. While her mates were in the exam hall, she was walking on the lonel...

TRIBAL BIGOTS, KNOW THIS AND KNOW PEACE Prof. Femi Olufunmilade writes: 'Tinubu and his minions like the Elegushis sold the better part of Lekki, Ajah etc to whoever had money. That was how Igbos came to own lots of property there. They paid to the jeunsoke former governor and his front estate companies. What Tinubu wouldn't share is power. It must be in his hands. But he can sell Lagos to anybody at the right price. Go to Eko Atlantic City. You must be a millionaire in dollars to own a plot there. Again, the Yoruba who own properties there are mainly in the Tinubu circle. The rest are the Chagourys, the Vaswanis, and the much-loathed Igbo. If Tinubu is indeed that Yoruba iconic defender of our homeland, why didn't he create low-cost housing estates in half of those areas like Jakande did and sell deliberately to only Yoruba on low-repayment, affordable mortgage through name-check at sales point or by other means? Oun to wa lehin ofa ju oje! Tinubu-Sanwoolu'...

I have no alliance with PDP - Mr. Peter Obi  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25th election, Peter Obi, said on Thursday that he would meet the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the court in the next few days to reclaim his mandate. Obi said this during a press conference today, days after APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, was declared the winner of the just concluded election. However, the Labour Party presidential candidate argued on Thursday that he won the election, and he and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, will press further to the court as demanded by the APC. “They have asked me to go to court, and I want to go to court. Remember, I am Obidient,” Obi said. He insisted that he is challenging the process that was truly wrong and is not under pressure to do so as speculated in some quarters. Obi, however, dismissed reports in some quarters about an alliance with his opposition after losing to Tinubu. He declared that ...

Dear Mr.Peter Obi, When you threw your hat into the election ring, even I did not give you a chance. But quickly and steadily you seeped into the consciousness of Nigerians in their millions. You communicated in the language of the people, felt their pain, and came across as different from the fakeness in politicians that we are accustomed to. Which other candidate dared to claim that they never stole a kobo of state funds, never used state resources for personal benefit and left a huge sum in savings rather than debt at the end of their tenure? As an opposition candidate and a potent threat to the current ruling class, the anti-corruption agencies could easily have proven you wrong if you had lied on that – as they did with your erstwhile campaign DG. Your opponents tried hard to paste dirt on you. How feeble their strong efforts turned out to be because compared to the other major contenders, you are clean, I daresay. You are not a saint. But politics in Nigeria is not ye...

One of the things I want to be remembered for is the one who would always fight hard in defence of innocent Ebonyi people hounded for no guilt of theirs. I'll not defend anyone I don't know their level of innocence or guilt. I won't defend culpable ones. A bad person is not anyone's favourite. The backlash I always get from our people is capable of dissuading me, but I don't care. Implausible homefront antagonism is always a painful experience.  But some people can be very despicable in this life. Someone was blackmailed, Nkeiru and majority of people bought the blackmail as truth without first analysing the possibility of committing the crime alleged. Many who benefited from her scholarship grants, social media giveaways, goodwill and sisterhood with a speed of light denied her. Some immediately removed her pictures from their profiles. Some joined the talk of bringing her to book, while others maintained indifference. Some people can be bad. Shocking i...

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CHASE POTENTIAL SUITORS AWAY. MAKING FINANCIAL DEMANDS TOO EARLY  When a Man starts getting close to you, and he's interested in you, the wise and responsible ones will treat you special so you get the message, but don't be fooled, they are observing you to know what type of a lady you are. So he tells you let's go shopping, and he tells you pick anything you want, aunty use your head, don't go and pick something that even your 6 months salary cannot afford. Use you head! Tell him to pick for you. You don't even know how much he earns yet. Many ladies have lost good husband materials because of their "opportunity comes but once" mentality. He takes you out on a date, and you order for the most expensive dish on the menu, and then order for take away for you and 99others and the one you wlll warm and eat the next day... I raise my two hands for you. He asked to take you out, and you came along with your two friends, and al...