Author: Okechukwu Ukegbu

Gov. Ikpeazu As A Good Brand Ambasador

Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Brand ambassadors, also known as Corporate Ambassadors, are hired by organisations to represent brands positively as well assisting comapanies to increase the awareness of brands to promote sales. Few characteristics mark out brand ambassadors. One is that they should have an appreciable k ...

PMB, Aisha And The Ecology Of Public Administration

Friday, October 21, 2016
This piece is substantially provoked by a recent debate on the social media. The debate is initiated by one Mr. Tobias Chukwukerue Amara, a Public Administration and Management expert and senior lecturer, Abia State Polytechnic, Aba. In his argument, Amara is of the opinion that the recen ...

The Tasks Before Abia Consumers Protection Council

Friday, October 14, 2016
One of the cardinal functions of the Consumers Protection Council (CPC) is to seek ways and means of removing or eliminating from the market hazardous products and causing offenders to replace such products with safer and more appropriate alternatives. The newly- constituted Abia Consumer ...

Recession: Nigerians Should Adjust Their Spending Mentality—APC Chieftain

Monday, October 3, 2016
Chieftain of the All Peoples Congress, APC in Abia State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Okwuonu has urged Nigerians to adjust their spending mentality in the face of the current economic recession. Okwuonu told newsmen in Aba that the times call for adjustment of the people 39;s spending mentality. quo ...

The Imperatives Of Local Government Elections In Abia State

Saturday, September 17, 2016
The local government, which is referred as the third tier of government in Nigeria, may be defined lowest level of government in a country established by law to ensure the effective and efficient administration of the localities or rural areas. The United Nations Department of Public Admi ...

Herdsmen Killings: One Menace, Multiple Solution

Wednesday, August 31, 2016
If urgent and committed steps are not taken by the federal government to check the killings by the herdsmen which are ravaging most parts of the country, we have a serious emergency in our hands. In the days to come, the menace of the herdsmen who have turned some locations in the country ...

Abia: Protecting Our Common Heritage

Monday, August 22, 2016
Politicians are expected to exhibit the spirit of sportsmen. Sportsmen after losing games embrace their opponents. Their consolation is anchored on the fact that games come and go and that if they do not win today, another sporting event provides a window for them to win tomorrow. Unfortun ...

Notes from Nduaguibe's Tragedy of Illusion

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
quot;We are all born for love....It is the principle of existence and its only end.- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Sybil. Several themes can be explored in Dr. Max Nduaguibe 39;s quot;Tragedy of Illusion quot;. The themes cut across subjects of love, religious and cultural barriers, ...

Appraising Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu's Humanitarian Services

Tuesday, August 16, 2016
quot;Service quot;, according to Eldon Tanner, quot; is the rent we pay for living on earth quot;. Some scriptures emphasise the need for us to render humanitarian services: rdquo; Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, ...

Exploring Aliche's Orphan

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
The word quot; orphan quot; is metaphoric with despondency, and that is the theme Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu Aliche explores in his book quot; Orphan quot;.Nothing prepares people for greatness more than harsh conditions and that is why Aliche dedicates the book to all who were not deterred by lif ...

The Need To Fix Aba- Ikot-Ekpene Road

Monday, August 1, 2016
Aba- Ikot-Ekpene Road is unarguably strategic to the economy of Abia State. The road links Aba, the economic heartbeat of the state to Akwa Ibom ancd Cross Rivers State and extends to the neighbouring Central African country, Cameroon . Traders from these neighbouring states form buck of t ...

Abia Governorship Crisis And The Proliferation Of Certificates Of Return

Friday, July 29, 2016
Since the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC issued the controversial Certificate of Return to Uche Ogah, the document has become an object of ridicule. Every now and then, people , especially on the social media, are flaunting one manner of certificate or the other and lay claims to ...

Checking Religious Intolerance In Nigeria

Thursday, July 21, 2016
Several legal instruments promote the sanctity of human life and right to freedom of religion. Section 33 (1) of the Nigeria Constitution stipulates that quot;every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in the execution of of the sentence of a c ...
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