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BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI - Governor Rochas Okorocha Tuesdday, bowed to he superior fire power of the fiery Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, over the obnoxious abortion law. The Governor, who retraced his locus when he addressed members of the State House of Assembly, appealed to he lawmakers to immediately commence the processes of expunging the offending sections of the obnoxious law. "I have always loved children. I fell for this law as soon as I saw the safeguards it contained for the protection of our women", Okorocha explained. According to the Governor, a law is as good as the acceptability by the people for which it was made and used the opportunity to appeal to the lawmakers to repeal the offending sections of the law. [caption id="attachment_412098" align="alignnone" width="412"] Owelle Rochas Okorocha OON addressing members of the Imo House of Assembly and cross sections of the...

BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the first civilian governor of Edo State, is one man who craved, long ago, for an alternative national political party that can check the seeming arrogance of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the federal level. Today, he is one of the Action Congress of Nigeria, CAN, leaders working for the registration of the All Progressive Congress (APC). In this interview, he discloses how the leaders of the opposition have been able to bury their personal interests to ensure that the APC merger becomes a reality. He describes the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP as a failure, just as he notes that the activities of the First Lady of the nation, Dame Patience Jonathan, are making the President more unpopular. He speaks on other national issues including Edo State politics. Excerpts: S ome of the leaders of the opposition have been busy trying to register the APC. What impact do you think the party will ma...

By CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI— GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha, Wednesday, sacked members of Imo State Executive Council mid-way into their weekly meeting. Others who suffered the same fate included special advisers, special assistants and political appointees of the state government. Vanguard investigations revealed that the sacked members of the state executive council were shocked because, according to one of them, they least expected it would come so soon. One of the sacked commissioners told Vanguard under anonymity that: "The governor’s decision and announcement took all of us by storm. We least expected it. We were in high spirits for the week’s executive council meeting, when the governor threw the bombshell”. [caption id="attachment_274973" align="alignnone" width="412"] *Imo state Governor, Okorocha[/caption] The ex-commissioner said he agreed there was the need to inject new blood into the system, but quickly stressed that “we least expected that our ...