Author: Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu is based in the eastern region of Nigeria. She covers politics, news writing, feature stories, among others. She has multitasking skills and can easily adapt to any working condition. She enjoys reading and writing.
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has jettisoned the claims that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, is planning to dump the party. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, described Wike is an important and loyal member of the party. Ologunagba said the Governor Wike had invested so much in PDP to think of dumping the party. Wike has been aggrieved since the PDP’s presidential primary that produced Atiku Abubakar as its flagbearer. Wike is believed to be aggrieved that Atiku ignored him and picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate.…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has sued the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the party and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal. This is following the party’s presidential primary election held on 29 May, 2022, which had Atiku poll 371 votes as winner, while Wike and Bukola Saraki garnered 237 and 70 votes, respectively. During the primary election held in Abuja, Governor Tambuwal, while addressing delegates, asked them to vote for him but later declared that he stepped down for the former Vice President, Atiku. Since the conclusion of the PDP’s…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, a strong member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has refuted the reports of her purported resignation as member of the party in Abia State. Nwaogu, a former federal lawmaker maintained that she has not left the APC for another political party. The Senator who was also the immediate past Pro-chancellor and Chairman of the Board Council of the Federal University of Calabar, Cross-River State, refuted this in a statement by her media aide, Kelechi Onyendi, on Thursday. She noted that she had no intention under whatever guise to dump the APC…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor has described the Biafran agitator as the Biblical rock of Gibraltar. According to Ejimakor, Kanu remained strong despite being locked up by the Department of State Services, (DSS). He said also that Mazi Kanu is happy with the support from his followers and the United Nations, (UN). The lawyer disclosed this after a routine meeting of IPOB’s legal team with Kanu at the DSS headquarters in Abuja. In a tweet, Ejimakor wrote: “UPDATE: My visitation with Onyendu #MNK just concluded.…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Some suspected killer-herders have allegedly murdered a man identified simply as Energy, a native of Umunya, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The victim was in need of a cow, and had been connected to a herder, who directed him to come to their camp to purchase the cow. It was learnt that the deceased and some other people, who were yet to be identified, were said to have been lured into a forest in Aguleri forest in the state on Thursday, by three acclaimed herders on the pretence that they were going to…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Enugu State chapter of National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), in collaboration with with Reals Pharmaceuticals Ltd., on Thursday took its campaign on exclusive breastfeeding to nursing mothers and pregnant women at Uwani General Hospital, Enugu. The exercise was part of its activities to mark the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week. Speaking at the event, the State Chairperson of NAWOJ, Mrs. Ngozi Ngene noted that the awareness was aimed at promoting exclusive breastfeeding in the state. She added that it was part of the contributions of the association for a healthy society. Mrs Ngene urged nursing…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Chris Finebone, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has joined the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). The news of his defection broke Thursday night after his meeting behind closed doors with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Finebone also confirmed his defection to newsmen in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Finebone’s defection to the PDP came just two days after he criticized the Rivers State government for alleged outbreak of measles in some Rivers communities in Abua Odual Local Government Area of the State. He is from Opobo Local Government where the governorship…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has cautioned the youths in the South-East to stop inciting ethnic tension, as anyone is free to campaign and solicit for votes in any part of the country. The group stated this while reacting to a statement by Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL), who had asked promoters of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Presidency to keep off the zone. But in reaction, the OYC said that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu is free to come and solicit for votes in the South-East. The youth…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has pleaded with the Federal Government to consider paying the striking lecturers some months of salaries to enable them feed. He made the plea following inundating calls from students and other stakeholders in education. Fielding questions from newsmen on Wednesday evening on the welfare of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, Kalu pleaded with the federal government and ASUU to reconsider their stands on the persisting strike. “A lot of students from my constituency have been calling me over the matter and I feel it is…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) says he will return power to the Nigerian citizens if elected as President in 2023. Obi said in 2023, Nigerians will no longer allow “drivers that don’t know where we are going” to lead the country, adding that nobody knows where the country is heading. The former Anambra State Governor spoke at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi leadership summit in Abuja on Thursday. The summit had in attendance, coalition groups working for the presidential bid of the former PDP member. Obi said…