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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Professor Madubuike Ezeibe who invented an HIV/ AIDS therapy known as Medicinal Synthetic Aluminium Magnesium Silicate (MSAMS), has boasted that King Charles of England recently diagnosed of prostrate cancer, could be cured of the terminal disease if only he would be willing to take his therapy. The Abia State-born Professor of Virology who said the therapy also had proven efficacy to cure cancer, said the King of England would join the retinue of testifiers of the efficacy of his innovation if he would present himself for treatment. Professor Madubuike who currently lectures at the College of Veterinary…

…To hold int’l conference April 12 – 13 Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), in partnership with the Council of Igbo States in Americas (CISA); Igbo World Assembly (IWA); American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID); Respelling Obeah & Unuchi Foundation; has put a machinery in motion to revive, preserve and promote Igbo language and culture. Consequently, they have scheduled a World Igbo Conference, scheduled to take place virtually from Friday, April 12 to Saturday, April 13, 2024 by 10:30 am West Africa Time. The theme of the conference according to a statement by…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the rescue of six children from their kidnappers. The police also arrested the leader of the notorious kidnap syndicate, who specialised in the abduction of little children from their parents in the state. Police spokesperson, Joshua Ukandu, confirmed the rescue of the victims in a statement. According to the statement, on January 21, 2024, one Nkwuda Francis reported to the command that a woman, identified as Mercy Francis, parading herself as a youth corps member, had kidnapped two young children from his house in Nwezenyi Igbeagu, Izzi LGA of Ebonyi…

Anwulu Utulu   Women in Okpokrika-Ogbesu Community in Ndokwa East Local Government have cried out to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to give them a sense of belonging by directing development projects to their community. The women who, spoke during a capacity-building programme organised there by a non-governmental organisation, Center for Rural Integration and Development, lamented in absence of facilities to make life livable. They said, though they are an oil rich community, there is no power supply, no water despite a heavy contamination of their water sources, no road, no jetty. Even as the state is a top rate education state, the…

Constance Meju Journalists have been challenged to project Niger Delta reality to attract needed attention at national and international levels. The charge was made by the head of programme, Search For Common Ground, Mr Yacante Agbagadjan, at the opening of a one-week training of journalists by SFCG in Warri, Delta State, March 18-22. Mr. Agbagadjan told the journalists selected from traditional and social media, that they occupy a special position in society to be able to help bring about positive changes to the region currently facing a myriad of challenges. Said he, “There are a lot of issues in the…

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) must have been taken aback by the outpouring of condemnations and criticisms over their proposed “improvement and efficiency” accompanied by 231 percent electricity tariff hike even from unlikely quarters. Neither the Band A customers who will “enjoy” 20 hours of electricity and pay more, nor Band E customers to be supplied only fours of electricity, is excited about the social divides, new status and classification. As a matter of fact, what binds them (electricity) is perpetually in a state of flux, uncertainty, unavailability lately, and now unaffordable. The Minister of…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Popular Nigerian actor, Junior Pope Odonwodo, a.k.a Jnr Pope, has reportedly been revived after being involved in a boat mishap in Anambra river. The accident occurred when the actor, alongside three other actors were returning from a movie location somewhere in Asaba, Delta State. A filmmaker, Sam Olatunji, had earlier broken the news that the 39-year-old actor died alongside three others after their boat capsized, with a trending video showing moments bodies of the victims were recovered. However, reports reaching Ikengaonline and which are now trending online have it that Junior Pope has been revived, alive and undergoing…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Abia State Governor,  Alex Otti, has pleaded to the United Nations Habitat, to assist in fast-tracking the delivery of the Aba and Umuahia Master Plans to help  transform both cities. Otti made the plea  when he received in audience the UN Habitat, West Africa Portfolio Manager, Matthias Spaliviero who visited him. He said his Government was committed to transforming Umuahia, the state capital to give it a befitting status. The Governor announced that Government had  awarded  contract for the establishment of a bus terminal in Umuahia to enhance the beauty of the city and ensure sanity, adding…

The chief executive of the Africa Investment and Trade Summit and Exhibition (AITE), Tunde MacAlabi, has lauded the Air Peace chairman, Allen Onyema, for his unwavering patriotism, noting that the resumption of the Lagos-London flights by his airline on March 30 has crashed fares on the lucrative route by about 50% for the benefit of the Nigerian people. In a statement in Lagos signed by himself, the AITE chairman said that the significant reduction in fares “owes to Onyema’s love of Nigeria. “He could have gone into a furtive deal with the only two foreign air carriers operating Lagos-London direct…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu A distinguished Nigerian, Professor Obijiofor Aginam, has upped the ante of the country by leading the world at the United Nations. The Director General of the United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization (UNESCO) has just announced the appointment of Prof Aginam as the Director of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, a UNESCO specialized education Institute located in New Delhi, India. The Institute promotes the development of regional, sub-regional, and national institutional capacities in education for peace and sustainable development to meet the research and capacity-building needs of developing countries…