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By Ben Okri All around you missiles Are falling. Churches You once knew won’t Be there any more. The streets you walked Will be changed by Blood and shelling And bombs. It seems The world’s gone mad. As the Earth shakes, Not because of the rage Of the gods, but that One man wants to Win back a lost empire, You will think that Your world is being Shattered for ever. It is. But out of the destruction, Out of all this thunder, Something new will Come. Whatever happens Your land will know The courage of its soul, Its people;…
By Osmund Agbo When in 2014, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman got the blessing of his friend, President Vladimir Putin, to form a network of military mercenaries to help Russia effect the annexation of Crimea, he was intentional about naming the private army and called it the Wagner Group. Wagner is the nom de guerre of the group leader, Dmitry Utkin, but most importantly, is the name of Hitler’s favorite composer during the Third Reich. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, prior to finding commercial success in music, was a little known composer who lived a troubled life, neck deep in debt and…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the main opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, have been described as different faces of the same coin. Abia State Chairman of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, Mr. Joseph Ulu, who made the description accused both parties of strangulating Abia State and milking its economy dry. He said that members of both parties who had at different times occupied positions of authority in the state, acted like locusts and caterpillars, and ate up the state’s economy. The NRM Chairman, vowed that both parties would be chased out of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A Southwark Crown Court in London, has sentenced the convener of the Young Yorubas for Freedom, YYF, Adeyinka Grandson, to four and half years in prison for promoting racial hatred. The Yoruba separatist fundamentalist, was in August 2019, arrested in London over his social media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria. He had, in the offensive posts, made uncomplimentary remarks against Ndigbo as well as the Hausa-Fulani nations. Grandson had also in a viral video in October, 2020, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Igbo to leave Yorubaland, or blame themselves for whatever happened to them…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Deputy Governor of Abia State, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, has said he had garnered enough experience to fix the state having been around the corridors of power for some time. He stated this on Friday at Abia Hotels Umuahia where he formally declared interest in the 2023 governorship race. Oko Chukwu was the former Speaker, Abia House of Assembly, until 2015 when he was elected the Deputy Governor to Okezie Ikpeazu. The Nkporo-born chartered accountant said he had full understanding of the challenges of the state, and was better prepared to tackle them. Oko Chukwu promised…
By Crispin O. Dah! If you’ve never impregnated a weird human being that is disguising as a regular human being you don’t know how lucky you are. The kain wahala you will see ehn! It will be following you like MTN everywhere you go. I was just on my own o. Deputy Editor that year just minding my life. That’s how some students from a university in Nasarawa came to ask me to come and give them career talk at one event like that. Of course they were not paying but I sha agreed to go. Give back to society…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Heavy rains have wrecked residential houses, shops and marketplaces in some parts of the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo state. Ikengaonline gathered that the incident occurred Friday evening in the different locations of the Okigwe axis of the state. Some of the affected residents who spoke to Ikengaonline mentioned some of the locations that were affected are Ihugbe, Umuchima, Ubahu road, and Owerri road among others. They said the it started at about 03:30 pm with a wind storm, followed by heavy rains later with thunder and lightning. According to Madam Uchechi Ibeh, “it became worse…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Unknown gunmen attacked the house of the Imo State Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Ford Ozumba, in his hometown Umuhu, Okabia community in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State, with Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, early hours of Friday. The commissioner confirmed this to Ikengaonline in Owerri, adding that no life was lost but his house was damaged by the explosives. The commissioner stated: “I am in Owerri, they called me this morning and told me that my house was attacked this morning. They threw explosives on it and it was burnt. Nobody died. But the house…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri. The Imo State Police Command has confirmed that hoodlums in large numbers came and attacked Mbieri Police station in Mbaitoli Local Government Area in the early hours of Friday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri. According to him, the hoodlums attacked the police station with Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, adding that the explosives caused damage to the station. He, however, said no life was lost and no ammunition was carted away. Abattam said the hoodlums were repelled. Ikengaonline reports that last month, hoodlums had attacked police stations in …
Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki Four hotels have been sealed in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, South-East Nigeria, for allegedly refusing to pay ground rent. The action was carried out on Tuesday by the State Government, with a threat to seal more. Emmanuel Igwe, the Special Assistant to Governor David Umahi on Lands and Survey, said the enforcement of payment of ground rent had commenced in the state and any hotel or property owner who fails to comply with the government directives would have its premises sealed without delay. “We are in the process of enforcing the payment of ground rate by…