Browsing: Senator Ike Ekweremadu

While engaging in regional advocacy activities in the South Eastern States not too long ago, two major human rights issues confronted us and these are the sudden unprecedented re-emergence of illegal police check-points and the rapidly declining and shrinking democratic space in the run up to next year’s elections which is only few months away.

Granted that there are provisions introduced by the Senate Constitution amendment committee like the controversial single six year tenure provision which are debatable, one fact is that the current social engineering of amending Nigeria’s extant constitution if properly anchored, will positively change the tempo of delivery of democracy dividends and will embolden key institutions to make independent decisions and policies to serve the public good without let or hindrance by the emperor-like powers that the governors enjoy under the constitution being amended

The third edition of the Ike-Oha U-18 Unity Football championship ended on Friday in Enugu with Udi Local Government Area emerging champions, with an emphatic 2-0 win over their Aninri counterparts