The Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction  Coalition (PANPIEC) 2023 Igbo Presidency Strategy Team has condemned the beheading of Chief Chizu, the Sole Administrator of Ideato North Local Government Area on the 22^nd of January, 2023 by Secessionists bent on frustrating the 2023 elections.

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PANPIEC sees the murder as gruesome, despicable, and abominable, and `does not in any way represent the Igbo race .

PANPIEC warns that Igbo commit atrocities and blame the Fulani, Hausa and Yoruba will not help the security situation in the South East.

PANPIEC warns that if the culprits and their sponsors are not contained and deradicalized, soon South East will be turned to a huge killing field, and politicians will relocate to Abuja and Lagos.

PANPIEC warns Ndigbo that the murder of the Local Government boss and the silence of Igbo elites are being misunderstood as signs of support for secession, and the negative reactions to it will manifest during the elections.

PANPIEC asks Ndigbo to condemn acts of barbarism and warns that a repeat of such will send wrong signals, threaten and demarket the Igbo Presidency project.

The Prof. Pat Utomi-led Big Tent Coalition of political parties and civil society groups for Obi-Datti has appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the Jan. 29 deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the group is rooting for the Presidential ambition of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti.

Utomi made this clarion call on Saturday at the Big Tent’s grassroots engagement for the ObiDatti movement with another round of the ‘Clean-Up Nigeria Project’ in Lagos to promote a culture of cleanliness of mind, body and environment.

In a statement by Mr Charles Odibo, Director of Media and Communications for the Big Tent, Utomi said that there was no “justification for ending the PVC collection exercise when a lot of people have not collected theirs, despite making good efforts.”

The renowned professor of political economy said: “INEC must rise up to the full meaning of its name by ensuring that its staff do not collude with political bandits to disenfranchise millions of Nigerians indirectly.

“We have information that millions of Nigerians are being disenfranchised through deliberate non-release of their PVCs. INEC must ensure that every registered voter is given the opportunity to collect his/her PVC.

“For three days now the INEC staff operating from Falomo Primary School, Ikoyi, Lagos, did not show up on their duty post and this is the recurring story everywhere.”

He, therefore, recommended that private sector led organisations like chambers of commerce, the economic summit group and civil society organisations could help INEC with the work of distribution of the PVCs.

According to him, this has become necessary “since it appears that INEC staff are stretched”.

Utomi also enjoined the international community to ensure that INEC did not compromise its independence through the pressures coming from political elites “who now know that their time is up.”

The chairman, who noted that Nigeria could not survive another day of bad leadership, said that most Nigerians had “decided to back the more credible, competent, young, energetic and trusted candidate of the Labour Party, Obi.”

Utomi, at the Clean Up Nigeria event which also held simultaneously across the country, said that it was time to invite everyone to look at where the country was and, to look at how much it needed cleaning.

Utomi said: “That cleaning begins from the physical, we need to clean up our environment because climate change is real.

“We need to clean up our consciences, because to serve the people is a central demand of our citizenship, we need to clean up our ways so that our country can prosper.”

He encouraged Nigerians to sustain clean up of the environment.

Utomi said that in cleaning the environment, “we set our minds to clean up corruption, to clean up nepotism, to clean up state capture, to clean up the desire to dominate others because truly it is fascism and it is creeping into our politics.”

Utomi also observed that Africa remained host to significant forest belts that played critical roles in absorbing carbon emissions and thereby putting the country in better steads as part of the planet.

“If our young people commit to this saving of the planet, it can be an outlet for a variety of things, an outlet for truly saving the advance of the dessert into our country which has direct bearing on poverty.

” Our concern is to stop the desert, to build a green army from which we can receive enormous credit for our country,” Utomi said.

The professor, therefore, said that he expected young people to learn what late President Kennedy said to the youth of America.

“Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,” Utomi quoted Kennedy as saying.

He said: “With the youth of Nigeria going around, cleaning up our rural areas as we are cleaning the urban areas, we will be able to generate an economic machine that will move our economy forward.

“But more importantly, we will be able to get young people to bond, to engage the problems of now, and learn how to change their country, take their country over, cleaning up the environment, they will clean up consciousness and give us a new country that we can all be proud of.”

NAN recalls that INEC had fixed Dec.12, 2022 to Jan. 22 for the collection of PVCs before the commission extended the deadline to Jan. 29.

The deliberate efforts towards up scaling and enhancing the skills of its Training Staff by the Petroleum Training Institute’s (PTI) Management recently recorded a boost with the recent training on Subsea Overview.

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The training which was anchored by TechnipFMC was aimed at exploring all the major aspects of processes, technologies and systems overview involved in subsea oil and gas production.

Subsea engineering is a multidisciplinary field that is broadly responsible for the design, construction, installation and operation of offshore oil and gas fields and offshore wind farms which the Institute is greatly involved.

Declaring the training open, the Institute’s Principal and Chief, Dr. Henry A. Adimula said the training was aimed at improving and upscalling the staff skills to enable them participate in offshore business activities of the oil and gas industry.

“As you are aware, most activities in the upstream section of the oil sector are now moving offshore and as service provider, you need to understand the technicalities and identify opportunities for the sector.

Represented by the Director of Science, Dr. Bamidele S. Oyetunde, Dr. Adimula reiterated that the Institute will broker new fronts by continuously retraining its workforce on the latest technologies needed for the sector. He added that though PTI is new in Subsea activities but assured that soon, the Institute will be a hub for training in Subsea and its related activities.

He commended TechnipFMC for offering the training stating that PTI Management is highly delighted in working with the company. Dr. Adimula also praised the efforts of the Institute’s Head of Linkages, Exchange & Partnerships Unit, Dr. (Mrs.) Sarah Nwinee for ensuring the success of the training.

On his part, the General Manager, Capacity Building Division of Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Dr. Ama Ikuru, charged the PTI staff to take the training seriously and make the best use of the programme to improve their skills and that of the Institute.

In his words, “PTI is embarking on a very important journey. I am happy that this training is coming at this time. The world is going into subsea activities, hence the importance of this training. I want to appeal to the Training staff of PTI to pay rapt attention on this programme as we hope to send trainees to be trained by the Institute”.

Also speaking, Mr. Tayo Akinkunmi, Country Manager TechnipFMC disclosed that the TechnipFMC’s global training program is developed specially for everyone who is new to the subsea industry, or wants to have a deeper basic knowledge about the offshore operations and equipment used in the global subsea industry.

While commending PTI Management for embarking on the training for its Training Staff, Mr. Akinkunmi stated that TechnipFMC being a global leader in energy, projects, technologies; systems and services, also provides clients with deep expertise across subsea and surface projects.

He assured the Institute’s Management  that the trained staff will emerge with innovative ideas, smarter designs and seamless ways of working”.