By Ben AHANONU Of late, there had been boisterous noise or rather bombastic postulations and imputations that are more like emotional outpouring than factual attestations from some quarters and by some notable individuals about why Chief Ikedi Ohakim (whose emergence as the Governor of Imo State under the banner of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), a party founded and funded by former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, was like an act of providence due to the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to produce a candidate for the election) lost the 2011 gubernatorial election despite the advantage of incumbency - yet I know that such subjective claims are smartly pointless and to no avail. You may recall that the then ruling PDP expelled Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, who won the party’s primaries after which the PDP, in obedience to the Supreme Court ruling affirming Ararume’s candidacy, withdrew from the election thus paving the way for the realignment of forces that eventually bro...
by Nairametrics The naira broke below the N2,000 barrier for the first time in five months amid ongoing reforms in Nigeria’s currency market. The naira began the week at N2,225/£1 against the British pound and ended the week at N1,980, showing a price gain of N245/£1 over the week. The British pound exchanged for N1,980/£1 in the black market on Saturday morning, amid improved market conditions in Nigeria’s foreign exchange market. The country’s foreign exchange market has been in a precarious state due to several factors, such as weak oil production, fiscal irresponsibility, low export capacity, increased foreign exchange hoarding, and speculative activity. However, the Nigerian naira clawed back a significant degree of losses against the British pound this week in the unofficial market, as inflows by the CBN, a successful Eurobond issuance, and a more robust FX trading platform improved confidence in the Nigerian currency. The naira’s recent bullish run follows the CBN’s directi...
... QUEST FOR ORLU STATE UNDERMINES OWERRI ZONE, IMO STATE By Ben AHANONU For quite some time, the so-called Orlu Political Consultative Assembly, OPOCA, has been displaying much unfounded arrogance, unspeakable and reprehensible zonal primacy, by constantly harassing with impunity, Imo people especially indigenous people of Owerri Zone, who hold contrary view to what it thinks is "Orlu interest" and which must be protected at all costs even when such interests only expand the Imo political fault line. One prominent son of Owerri Zone, who has often been targeted and lampooned in a manner that is quite provocative by OPOCA, for exercising his freedom of speech and expression as guaranteed by the Constitution is Chief Willie Amadi. As OPOCA continues to showcase much nuisance value in the Imo political terrain, it becomes pertinent to remind the body that it has zero political relevance and the claim is not far-fetched. OPOCA, is a loose assemblage of self-s...
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