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Our Reporter, Abuja  In what looks like a bolt from the blue, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stepped down from his position, with immediate effect. Dr Ganduje, the immediate past Governor  of Kano State, said he resigned on health grounds to focus on his well-being. Ganduje has been enmeshed in several political controversies with the latest being the riotous North-East stakeholders meeting of the APC recently in Gombe, which ended in fiasco over the non-announcement of the endorsement of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, as President Tinubu’s running mate in 2027. Meanwhile…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has disclosed ongoing plans to institutionalize physical register for sex offenders to help combat sexual and gender-based violence in the state. The State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof Sylvia Ifemeje, gave the hint at a one-day stakeholders meeting organised by the Ministry of Justice with support from the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption, RoLAC program 2, in Awka, the state capital. Ifemeje, represented by the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Justice, Barr Ngozi Iwuno, said the state is in the process of institutionalizing physical register at the Ministry to complement the digital…

Our Reporter, Abuja The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Dr. Sam Amadi, has decried the lack of effective leadership in South-East, citing a pattern where the leadership is often missing in national conversations, and the governors’ unresponsiveness to critical issues like security, economic development, and human rights abuses. Speaking on the topic, “South-East Governors, JAMB and Tertiary Education in Igboland,” at the June Ikenga monthly townhall, Dr. Amadi attributed this problem to a leadership recruitment process that often results in imposing governors who are not deeply connected to South-East issues.  He said: “Many of the…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki  A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant for the 2023 election in Ebonyi State, Prof Augustine Nwazunku, is dead.  Nwazunku’s death came as a shock to the people of the state who have expressed sadness at his passing.  He was also a former caretaker Chairman of the State chapter of the party. The governorship candidate of the party in the said election, Ifeanyi Odii,  in a statement on Friday, described his death as devastating and a sad one for the state. He hailed the impact of the late Nwazunku in the party describing him as a man…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State High Court of Otuocha Judicial Division holding at Onitsha has sentenced two brothers to death by hanging or by firing squad until life completely goes out of them. The two brothers, Hyacinth Onwurah and Jerry Onwurah, were convicted of murdering their cousin, Mr Nnalue Onwurah. They were also convicted of attempted murder of the son of the said Nnalue, and setting the house of the said Nnalue on fire. Delivering judgment in a 4-count charge brought against the defendants which bordered on conspiracy to commit murder, murder, attempted murder and arson, the court presided…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A High Court sitting in Milimani, Nairobi, has ordered the Kenyan Government to pay 10 million Kenyan shillings to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The Court, which indicted Kenyan Government for its complicity in Kanu’s extraordinary rendition to Nigeria, declared the action illegal. Hon. Justice E. C Mwita, who presided over the matter, declared that “the abduction, incommunicado detention, torture, and illegal transfer of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021 was unlawful, unconstitutional, and a gross violation of his fundamental human rights under Kenyan and international…

A two-day International Conference on “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: Management Strategies and Practices for Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability and Entrepreneurship has ended in Enugu with a call for collaboration among stakeholders to address peculiar challenges facing Africa.  The conference was organized by the faculty of Management Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, and held at the Peter Mbah auditorium, ESUT, Agbani.  Declaring the conference  open, ESUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Aloysius Okolie, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Chike Nwoha  said the conference is the first of its kind in the…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu  Rights activist, and Director, Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Dr Sam Amadi, has said that the Governors of South-East geopolitical zone are not keen to fight the human rights violations of citizens of the region. Amadi said this while featuring as guest speaker at the monthly Ikengaonline Town-Hall meeting for June 2025 with the topic: “South-East Governors, JAMB and Tertiary Education in Igboland.” Amadi said that most of the governors were not home-grown hence they were far-connected with the people and lacked social accountability. “There is this historical tendency by governors of the South-East not…

Ugo Nosiri, Owerri  The National Judicial Council (NJC), chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has sanctioned the compulsory retirement of 11 judges, with 9 of them from the Imo State Judiciary. In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, Kemi Ogedengbe, the NJC Deputy Director of Information, revealed that the decision was reached during the council’s 109th meeting on June 25, 2025. According to a statement, the nine affected judges from Imo State were found to have altered the dates of birth in their official records to confer on themselves the undue advantage of staying longer…

…Seek FG’s emergency intervention Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The House of Representatives, Thursday,  declared Ideato North, and South Federal Constituency  of Imo State as an erosion and road  disaster zone, calling for urgent intervention from the Federal Government and relevant agencies  to save the federal constituency from total collapse.  This is sequel to a motion by the lawmaker representing the federal constituency in the green chamber, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, drawing the attention of the Federal Government to devastating erosion menace in the area. The motion titled: “Call for Intervention to Address the Gully Erosion and road disaster in Ideato North/South Federal…