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Ihedioha’s Vindictiveness, My Late Mother’s Murder And My Eternal Problem With Ihedioha. By: Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, April 23, 2024.

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I think this is the right time for me to tell my own side of the story as Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, the former Director General of Imo PDP New Media and whom some of you ignorantly refer to the boy whom Ihedioha made.

For over three (3) years now, I deliberately refused to tell my own side of the stories as I left many of the commentators to keep guessing.

Like I have always told close people around me that I will tell my own part of the story in my unpublished book which is yet to be published but I will I leave that to tell this stories in this piece while more elaborate details would be provided in the said unpublished book.

I feel very emotional right now as I type down this piece because of today’s events where Ihedioha himself has abandoned the same PDP like I did and all the venons of this world was unleashed on me.

Some time in February 2021, I dumped the PDP and joined the ruling party APC and that was the beginning of my problems.

Before I did, my then honorable member representing my state Constituency of Aboh Mbaise at Imo State House of Assembly Hon. Eddy Edward Obinna was the very first set of people who dumped the PDP in 2020 as the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma was sworn in on January 14, 2020.

We dumped the PDP just like Ihedioha just did because the party could no longer protect our interests.

I told people close to me that I was never going to attack the PDP or Ihedioha for anything but what did I get in return?

Ihedioha thru his media hirelings unleashed a worst media campaigns never seen before against our reputation and persons.

Ihedioha sowed hate against me and had a well funded malicious indoctrination of our people of Mbaise and sold a dummy to our people that our political decisions were made against the entire Mbaise nation.

Few hours after I released my first post on Ihedioha today, the first person to call me was Hon. Eddy Obinna and as we dissected the recent political happenings regarding Ihedioha dumping of the PDP, we were both moved to tears as we recalled that this was exactly what we did that our brother sold a dummy to our people where they called for our heads.

Since after that call was the determination to put up this article to at least tell my own part of the story.

I had no personal problem with Ihedioha whatsoever but only because I dumped the PDP, he raised malicious campaigns against me rallying up the Mbaise sentiments that my personal political decision was against the Mbaise nation.

Ihedioha and his people made it to look like we commited a sacrilege against our people.

They made it look like we commited an unpardonable sin against the Mbaise nation just because we left the PDP to seek for better political opportunities elsewhere.

The hate campaigns was roundly funded as the only thing remaining was for the entire Mbaise Nation to come out and banish us for life only because we dumped PDP.

For many years, Ihedioha indoctrinated our people to see anything outside the PDP as a taboo.

They made it look like any one who is not of the PDP persuasion is seen as an outcast thereby denying our people the privileges of dividends of the ruling party.

For 8 uninterrupted years of Governor Rochas Okorocha, Ihedioha had Mbaise nation on locked down with the PDP against the ruling party as at then and for the whole 8 years, Mbaise nation suffered untold deprivation and that was why some of us said no, we have suffered for too long playing opposition with nothing to show for it, now is the time we must play politics of the centre and reunite with the ruling party but we were marked out by Ihedioha and his goons for hate and diabolic destruction.

I have received uncountable tags and mentions from different people on the social media proposing that I deserve apologies from Ihedioha and his goons if at the end of the day, they could dump PDP this way.

For over three years, I have been fighting a war of attrition against the lies sold to our people by Ihedioha.

And I have become emotionally down because I can no longer hold back my tears reading all these letters of resignation flying everywhere.

So if Ihedioha of all people could dump PDP like this, why were we persecuted by Ihedioha by sowing seeds of discords with our people?

For more than three years, Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me before my brothers and sisters in Mbaise have deprived me of so many things, including some marital relationships because I have been out casted by Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me before our people.

Those hate campaigns was spread consciously everywhere, among every facet of our Mbaise nationhood that pitched people who ordinarily I have done nothing against picking quarrells against me thus marking me out to be ostracised and done worst things against including the hate campaigns that extended to my family which caused the death of my mother. (I will provide full details of this in my book; and by then, the litigation would have been concluded by the court).

Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me set me up for destruction and caused to be seen as public enemy of my own people only because I dumped the PDP.

Then tell me why I should be happy with such a man?

Some people are even insinuating that he may be coming to APC to join us and I have commented elsewhere that nothing will ever make me to be in the same political position with Ihedioha; should Ihedioha join APC today, I will promptly resign my membership of the party and go where I will oppose him.

This is beyond politics for me.

Ihedioha took the games of politics to a diabolical dimension and sort of occutism that those who were not of the same party with him were considered actual enemies, and not just that it would be his own personal enemies but he sold the hatred on a community scale and commercial level where he caused the entire community to hate you and see you as their enemy whilst it was only Ihedioha’s personal battles.

Ihedioha’s political life wire deserves extinction, as we pray that may such a malady ever befall Mbaise again.

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Afghan’s claim he is 140 years old is investigated by the Taliban

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The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim that he is 140 years old – which would make him the oldest person ever to have lived.

Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s eastern Khost province, says he was born in the 1880s.

He claims to remember celebrating the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 alongside King Amanullah Khan, the Afghan leader who launched a campaign against the British, while in his thirties.

Nazir, who lives in the picturesque hills in Khost, said: ‘I was in the palace with King Amanullah Khan.

‘I was over 30 at the time and I remember saying that the British had fled and knelt down.

‘Everyone was happy and thanked King Amanullah Khan for chasing the British away.

‘Many leaders accompanied us to the Arg [presidential palace], but now all of them have passed away.’

The great-great grandfather does not have any documents to support his claim, but his family are also on board with gaining official recognition of his status.

Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s eastern Khost province, says he was born in the 1880s

 

The ruling Taliban administration has dispatched a a special civil registration team to assess his true age

 

Khyal Wazir, his 50-year-old grandson, said: ‘He is my grandfather, and I have my grandchildren as well.’

Another grandson, Abdul Hakim Sabari, said: ‘We request the government confirm our grandfather’s age using an ID or any other scientific method or documents, to prove he is 140 years old.’

In an attempt to solve the mystery, the ruling Taliban administration has dispatched a a special civil registration team to assess his true age.

Mustaghfar Gurbaz, a Taliban spokesman for the province, said: ‘If confirmed by documents or assessments, we will work to register him as the oldest person in the world.’

If verified, he would comfortably take the title of the oldest person to have ever lived.

That record is held by Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1875 and passed away in 1997, 122 years later.

The world’s current verified oldest living person is Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian nun who turned 116 last June.

Another Brazilian woman,  Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, is hoping to have her own claim to be 120 years of age verified by Guinness World Records.

But experts have already cast doubt on Nazir’s claims.

The world’s current verified oldest living person is Inah Canabarro Lucas

 

The Brazilian nun turned 116 last June

 

Valery Novoselov, a geriatrician at Moscow State University, told Russian outlet AIF: ‘There are no reliably registered men on the planet older than 114 to 115 years [of age].

‘In the Caucasus in the 60s, they also recorded “long-livers” – shepherds who allegedly lived to 168 years.

‘These are so-called games with age. There are no documents, no reliable data – which means this is an unrealistic picture.’

In 2015, a man claiming to be 100 years old applied for asylum in Germany after an extraordinary eight-month journey from Afghanistan.

Like Nazir, Abdul Qadir Azizi did not have any identity papers, but his family claimed his year of birth was 1905.

Azizi, who is deaf and blind, spent one month travelling across two continents from his home in the Afghan town of Baghlan to reach Germany.

His family fled after three of Azizi’s sons were killed by the Taliban.

The plight of the elderly in Afghanistan has worsened since the Taliban takeover.

In 2024, they effectively abolished the pension system, leaving many older Afghans struggling to meet basic needs.

Previously, anyone over the age of 65 received a monthly payment of around $100 from the state.

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Tourists lament cancellation of 2025 Eid-el-Fitr Durbar in Kano

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Several tourists have expressed disappointment over the abrupt cancellation of the 2025 Eid-el-Fitr Durbar, a popular traditional horse-riding festival, in Kano State.

More than 160 tourists had traveled to Kano to witness the annual Sallah Durbar, which is renowned for its grandeur and cultural significance. The cancellation, announced shortly before the event, left many visitors disheartened.

Speaking at a press briefing in Kano, Mr. Virgil Taylor, a tourist from the United States who spent a year planning his trip, described the experience as disheartening. He arrived in Nigeria on March 28, 2025, only to learn of the Durbar’s cancellation.

“Kano Durbar, as I understood from my research, was the biggest Durbar to visit. I only learned that the Durbar was canceled when I arrived in Kano. I was terribly disappointed because I had made significant financial commitments to the trip, arranging everything in advance,” Taylor said.

The first-time visitor to Nigeria noted that the Durbar represented a unique and historic opportunity for him, one he had long anticipated. Despite the setback, he appreciated the efforts of the Executive Secretary of the Kano State History and Culture Bureau, Mr. Ahmad Yusuf, and Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, for providing alternative experiences for tourists.

Taylor, however, urged the Federal Government to minimize the issuance of security threats that could deter investors and tourists from visiting Nigeria. “Despite the financial cost, I consider my visit a blessing and would consider returning, hoping not to be disappointed again,” he added.

Similarly, Lekan Yusha’u, a UK-based Nigerian and polo agent, expressed frustration over the cancellation. He noted that his visit, along with the invitation extended to his friends, was largely inspired by UNESCO’s recognition of the Durbar as part of its heritage program.

“They have never ridden a horse in such a long procession. My goal, along with a couple of friends, was to ensure that within the next year, we put the Kano Durbar procession in the Guinness World Records. Kano Durbar has the largest gathering of horses in the world, with over 4,000 horses participating in a single procession,” Yusha’u said.

He revealed that he had spent over £6,000 on his flight alone, excluding other expenses, and had met over 160 foreign tourists who had come for the same event.

Yusha’u urged the Kano State Government to capitalize on the event’s global appeal, emphasizing that the Kano Durbar is unique to northern Nigeria.

“Both the state and federal government should not disappoint us again by canceling the Kano Durbar,” he said.

The annual Durbar festival in Kano is a cultural showcase that attracts visitors from around the world, featuring colorful horse parades, traditional dances, and displays of local heritage.

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I got married to man who wasn’t financially sound – Michelle Obama admits

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Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama has admitted that Barack Obama was “not financially sound” when she met him.

The couple met in 1988 when Barack took a job at a law firm in Chicago where Michelle was already working.

Speaking on the podcast she hosts with her brother, Craig, Michelle spent much of their most recent episode discussing the importance of having a partner with financial stability.

Talking with British author Jay Shetty, Craig put the question directly to his famous sister.

He asked, “Would you be attracted to a guy who’s not financially sound when you meet him?”

Michelle immediately responded, “Uh, I married one.”

Craig then laughed and admitted to his sister that he’d set her up.

“Don’t you like that alley-oop I just threw you? In basketball, you just point—you don’t even have to say it,” he said.

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