Author: Ikenga Online

By Our Reporter Don wants upgrade of dental The acting Dean, Dental Faculty, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Dr. Nneka Onyejiaka has called for the upgrade of dental facilities in the institution.Onyejiaka made the call on Saturday in Enugu during the First Annual Scientific Conference of the faculty with the theme, ‘Research Challenges in Dental Practice’.The acting dean said that the call had become necessary following the dearth of facilities in the faculty which had limited the number of their new intakes and graduates.Onyejiaka said that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria had limited the number of graduates to…

By Our Reporter No fewer than seven persons have died early hours of Friday and eight others in critical condition over a yet to be confirmed illness at the New Artisan Market, Enugu. The Chairman of the Livestocks Market, Alhaji Danladi Abubarkar disclosed this on Friday in an interview with newsmen in Enugu. Abubarkar said that residents of the market woke up to discover the dead bodies which included four men and three women. He said that all the affected persons which included tricycle riders, artisans and others from different households were stooling and vomiting. “The corpses are still in…

By Edwin Madunagu  Several times in the last ten years, I have compelled myself to discontinue public exploration, and application to Nigeria, of the concepts of “power bloc” and “popular-democratic restructuring”. These are concepts in which another concept – “the national question” or “ethnic nationality question” – plays an important, though neither dominant nor decisive role. I was, in fact, at a point, considering classifying these concepts and closely related ones as “unpopular” in a spirit that reminds me of Bertrand Russell’s “Unpopular Essays”. However, whereas Bertrand Russell, in labeling his 1950 collection of essays “unpopular”, was condescending, abusive and…

By Our Reporter Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday inaugurated the state-of-the-art Muse Boutique Hotel located at Dunamis Ave., off Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway by New Artisan Market. The Three Star Hotel with 36 exquisite rooms, located in a serene and secure environment was built by Canadian based couple, Chief Godwin Anigozie and Mrs Joanna Anigozie from Nara Unateze, Nkanu East Local Government Area of the state. Addressing newsmen shortly after the inauguration, the Managing Director of the hotel, Mrs Joanna Anigozie, said that the essence of the investment was to promote tourism and create jobs in the state.…

By Our Reporter The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) says its aim is to export cashew nuts directly from the South-East in line with the diversification policy of the Federal Government. The Executive Director of the council, Mr Olusegun Awolowo disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu during a workshop organised by the council for stakeholders in the cashew value chain. Olusegun was represented at the event by the South-East Regional Coordinator of NEPC, Mr Arnold Jackson. The executive director said that the council had developed what it called ‘Zero-Oil Plan’, an initiative for boosting foreign exchange earnings through the non-oil…

By Our Reporter The Association of Effium Indigenes International (ASSEI) has called on Ebonyi government to make public the report of the commission of inquiry set up to investigate the Effium-Ezza crisis in the state. The President of the group, Mr Emmanuel Acha made the call on Wednesday in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu. Recall that Gov. Dave Umuahi had following the Effium-Ezza communal crisis that led to the loss of lives and destruction of property worth billions of naira, set up a judicial commission of inquiry in February 2021. The commission was mandated to determine the extent of the…

When in 1960, the Pulitzer-winning American Author, Harper Lee, published her all times classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, she had no idea that people in my clime could use the wisdom embedded in her deeply epistemic narrative. Nigeria, like her American south of the Jim Crow years, is a place where young dreams get killed and evil continues to destroy the innocent. On the 15th day of January, 1966, a group of mutinous soldiers led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna, both Officers of Igbo extraction and their men, attacked the commercial cities of Lagos, Kaduna and Ibadan while…

By Our Reporter Enugu State government recorded an inflow of N20.1 billion within the first quarter of 2021, a report by the State Ministry of Budget and Planning has stated. According to the report obtained on Monday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, the figure represents 13 per cent performance against the 2021 budgeted inflows of N154. 8billion. It stated that out of the total inflow, revenues from Federal Account and Value Added Tax (VAT) amounted to N13billion, representing 19.7 per cent against N65.7billion projection for the 2021 fiscal year. It stated that N7.1billion, representing 24. 4…

By Our Reporter The Director General, Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI, Enugu, Prof. Samuel Ndubuisi was on Wednesday evening shot dead in Enugu by unknown gunmen. Ikengaonline reports that Ndubuisi along with his police orderly was killed along the Centenary City Junction axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway . The driver of the vehicle reportedly sustained injuries and had been taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention. Unconfirmed reports have it that the daughter of Ndubuisi, who was in the car when the incident happened, was abducted by the assailants. Ndubuisi hailed from Mgbowo in Awgu Local Government Area…

Curled from Infobytes News The Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) will on Wednesday debate on the alleged role of Kenya in the arrest of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Ikengaonline gathered that the UK Parliament will also enquire into Kanu’s subsequent extradition to Nigeria against his wish. Recall that Kanu, who holds British citizenship was on June 27 extradited from Kenya to Nigeria by the Federal Government in order to continue his court trial. Kanu is facing about 10 count charges bothering on treason, treasonable felony, illegal possession of firearms among…