Author: Ikenga Online
Who is in charge of the southeast? The Governors should be. But they are not. They lost that power through their lack of leadership. Their failure to respond to the agitation of their people and to communicate compassion, resolve and courage has led to a situation where a non-state actor now determines when to stay at home and when to go to work. This is terrible. I understand that our children are supposed to take a national examination today. Parents will be petrified to send their children to school to take the exam because of the possibility that some…
Major markets, shops, motor parks and other public places were early hours of Monday shut in Enugu in compliance with the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Ikengaonline reports. Recall that IPOB had announced a sit-at-home directive to be observed every Monday across the South-East region in protest of the rearrest and detention of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The organisation said that the directive will continue until Kanu who is facing alleged treasonable felony and terrorism charges is released from custody. A correspondent of Ikengaonline who monitored development in parts of the city reports that the…
This year’s Eid-el-Kabir came at a time Nigerians, especially those living in the North, were at their wits’ end over incessant kidnappings. Less than ten-year-old Islamiya pupils from Tegina in Niger State are still with their bandit abductors. Same with girls from Federal Government College, Birnin Yawuri and College of Forestry Students from Kaduna, too. These are more known because they are students. Hundreds are in the hands of kidnappers all over the North minus a few states. It is amid this national malaise that Muslims celebrated Sallah. Kidnappers negotiate openly with relations, and friends of victims, collecting ransoms…
Despite persistent calls by authentic advocates of good governance for a conducive atmosphere for a thriving democracy and freedom in Nigeria, the reactionary wing of the ruling class and its agents are not giving any chance for that to happen. The more they are caught red-handed—with self-incriminating evidence—and exposed in the very act of a crime, the more they grow the liver to deflect and seek revenge. Abdullahi Ganduje, the 72-year-old governor of Kano State, occupies the top rung of state officials who seem hellbent on punishing journalists for doing nothing other than acting in accordance with the demands of…
No fewer than 13 academic programmes in Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu have received full accreditation ahead of the 2021/2022 academic session, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Christian Anieke has said. Anieke disclosed this on Friday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the outcome of a recent visit by a team of inspectors from the National Universities Commission (NUC). Godfrey Okoye University is a relatively young institution of higher learning owned and managed by the Catholic Diocese of Enugu. The programmes that received full accreditation are Banking and Finance, Management, Marketing, Public Administration, Education Economics and Education English and Literature Studies. The…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo says the governors of the South-East are not doing enough to protect their people against killer Fulani herdsmen. The factional President General of the organisation, Chief Chidi Ibeh disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the recent killing of eight people in Enugu State. Recall that suspected armed herdsmen had on Aug. 1, 2021 invaded Mgbuji community, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the state during which eight persons were reportedly killed. The assailants were also said to have injured and kidnapped many people and destroyed farmlands in the area. Ikengaonline…
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo on Thursday in Enugu elected new executive members to run its affairs for the next four years. The election is coming barely seven months after the emergence of Prof. George Obiozor as the president general of the association. The election which had delegates from Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo in the South-East and Delta and Rivers in the South-South region produced Mr Damian Okafor from Ebonyi as national youth leader. Other members of the new executive include Mr Jones Onwuasoanya (deputy national youth leader), Mr Ezechukwu Okpala…
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis A good number of kids have dreams about what they would like to be when they grow up, except if you are from my generation. Growing up in Eastern Nigeria in the early seventies, our parents did most of the dreaming for us. That was how Chuks who loved to take things apart and fix all kinds of fixable ended up becoming a lawyer and not the engineer he always wanted. The problem most often is less about who originated those dreams, than it is…
By Our Reporter The Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Ngozi Emehelu has called on corps members in the state to shun involvement in local politics. Emehelu made the call on Monday during the swearing-in of the 2021 Batch ‘B’, Stream ‘I’ corps members at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Enugu. The chief judge was represented by Justice O. C. Ajah, who administered the oath of allegiance to the 1,590 corps members on parade.She said that the call for the corps members not to be partisan in their respective areas of primary assignments was for them not to get into trouble. She urged them to contribute to the development of…
By Our Reporter Members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Peace, Reconciliation and Outreach Committee on Saturday in Enugu held a closed door meeting with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu. Mrs Ojukwu is the wife of late national leader of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. The delegation which included the Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr Victor Okafor was led by a former chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh. Briefing newsmen after the meeting that lasted for over four hours, Umeh said that the essence of the visit was for the party to reconcile with the wife and their…