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VOL.2 No. 18. N200

Ezeibe petitions Senate to investigate his HIV/AIDS cure claim

• Says his invention is divine revelation • Ekweremadu refers petition to Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions

From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia

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OLLOWING the apparent refusal of Nigeria’s health authorities to interface with him, Prof. Maduike Ezibe, who early this year disclosed that he has invented a cure for HIV/AIDS, has asked the Senate to investigate his claim with a view to finally resolving the controversy surrounding the announcement of his invention. Ezeibe, a professor of Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Virology at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Umudike, lamented that if nothing is done by the federal government to assist him in completing the clinical trial process of his invention, “the country stands to lose benefits that should come from such a great invention.” In a seven-page petition, dated March 6, 2017and addressed to the President of the Senate Senator Olubukola Saraki and submitted to the Senate on March 21, Ezeibe described his invention as “divine revelation,”

Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha, His Grace Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Okeke, receiving a gift from Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria as •Continued on Page 2 “The Philanthropist of Our Time” when the Archbishop celebrated Mass at Onitsha Prison on Easter Sunday. Photo: MODESTUS IGUDOBI.

Biafra: Nnadi, Okorie disagree on how to achieve nascent republic • Igbo presidency won’t solve problem –Nnadi •Political participation is path to self-determination –Okorie From COLLINS UGHALAA, Owerri

Tony Nnadi, and Chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okories ECRETARY of the Lower have disagreed on the approNiger Congress (LNC), priate modus operandi to be ada pro-Biafra group, Barr opted towards achieving inde-

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pendence for the nascent state of Biafra. While the two agree on the imperative of carving an independent state of Biafra out Nigeria, they disagree on whether that

should be done through participation in Nigeria’s political processes or not. Left for Nnadi, all those with•Continued on Page 2

We’re setting new standards with model schools –Abia Commissioner

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$43m: Money not for any covert operation –NIA top official –Page 3

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