The Federal Government of Nigeria is in advanced negotiations to secure a $5.7 billion strategic investment package from China’s GCL Group. The Ministry of Finance announced on Monday, February 23, 2026, that the deal aims to revitalize critical sectors, including power, mining, and industrial manufacturing, as part of a broader effort to boost domestic production […]
By Haruna Salami The Senate has announced Senator Orji Uzor Kalu APC, Abia-North as the substantive pioneer Chairman of the newly created South East Development Committee. The Committee was created as a result of the signing into law the South East Development Commission (SEDC), one of the regional development commissions affirmed by President Bola Tinubu. […]
By Haruna Salami The senator representing Abia-North, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that the economic reform embarked upon by the administration of President Tinubu will yield positive results. The lawmaker explained that the revamping of the nation’s laws, some of which are over 100 years old is imperative and inevitable considering its obsoleteness and ineffectiveness […]
By Tunde Opalana Akwa Ibom group under the aegis of Coalition for Better Nigeria Under Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Akwa Ibom Chapter has thrown its weight behind the Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for the office of the 10th Senate President In a letter addressed to […]
The Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, has dismissed claims that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is sick. Kalu said contrary to claims, Tinubu is not on a sick bed. He spoke at the celebration of Mass to mark his 63rd birthday in Abuja. Kalu said, “Our President-elect is not sick. It is not true that […]
By Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Abia State, Dr. Isaac Nkole, has warned the party against re-admitting Senator Orji Uzor Kalu into the ‘big umbrella’. Nkole, who gave the warning in a media chat in Umuahia, claimed that the former Governor “is in a desperate move to return […]
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has urged the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to consider the consequences of his action and utterances for the sake of his followers. Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, said this on Monday during his visit to the IPOB […]
*Says he has different ideology with Kanu Tunde Opalana & Haruna Salami, Abuja Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday paid a visit to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, where he said the latter was in good health. In […]
Former Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, has named the lawmaker representing Abia North district, Orji Uzor Kalu as a possible successor for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The former military president stated this in a documentary aired on AIT on Sunday. This is coming after Babangida spoke on the kind of character a politician […]
Senator Orji Kalu has stated that he is not interested in running for president of the country, but that if given the opportunity to lead the West African nation, he will not hesitate. In an interview with Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, the former governor of Abia State said, “I don’t have that kind of ambition.” […]
Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu insists he is not ashamed of his six-month prison sentence. Mascot Uzor Kalu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Aba north/south constituency in the House of Representatives, spoke at a campaign rally for Kalu. The senator was reacting to remarks attributed to Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and […]
The Chief Whip of the Senate, former Governor of Abia State, Uzor Kanu has said that there is no reason to negotiate with bandits rather should be smoke out if he is in charge. The Senator further assured Nigerians that within the next three months bandits will be shocked at what will happen to them […]
ANDREW OROLUA, ABUJA Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, granted leave to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Abia North Senatorial District to challenge the legality of his retrial on N7.1Billion money laundering charge for which he was once convicted. The leave followed an ex-parte application brought by Senator Kalu that […]
Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia governor and current Chief Whip of the Senate on Tuesday, asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to prohibit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying him. Kalu wants the court to prohibit the anti-graft agency from retrying him on the same alleged money laundering charges the agency […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will today arraign Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The senator will be docked before Justice Inyang Ekwo on N7.1 billion money launderingrelated charges. Chief Kalu, who governed Abia State from 1999 to 2007, was earlier found guilty and sentenced to a […]
The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said that the Founder and President of LoveWorld Incorporated, also known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, saw his imprisonment coming, Daily Times gathered. Senator Orji Kalu was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in December 2019 on corruption charges but was released from Kuje Correctional Centre, […]
The former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, has expressed his interest to meet with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu to discuss issues concerning Biafra’s agitation. Kalu said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, September 8. Daily […]
A former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that his vision is to build a 20th-century economy for the country if he becomes Nigeria’s next president in 2023. Speaking to newsmen in Umuahia, Kalu said, “Yes, if you give me the presidency, why not, I will take. I am capable of doing […]
The Senate’s chief whip, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has been attacked by a group advocating for extraction of Igbo president in 2023 over comments attributed to him that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is yet to put the presidency of 2023 in any region. Kalu was also quoted as saying that zoning does not […]
Orji Uzor Kalu, senate chief whip, says he would not hesitate to serve as Nigeria’s president if given the opportunity by the electorate. As gathered by Daily Times, Kalu made the statement in Minna during a private visit to two former leaders of the country — Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar. The former governor […]