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By Rudolf Okonkwo Several weeks ago, in the heat of the 2023 campaign, I commissioned two social scientists conversant with Nigeria to help me map out the DNA of an Obidient. They went to work. Periodically, they sent me their findings. After stating that deep down, the ‘Obidient’ movement is not about Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Scientist #1 propounds that ‘Obidients’ are desolate, dejected, and dislocated hitchhikers who saw a shiny wagon on a muddy road and hopped on. Scientist #2, on the other hand, sees them as reluctant anarchists plotting destruction in the bushes, only to be distracted by the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, Monday, turned down the request by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar; and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, for the live coverage of the petitions against Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, declared winner of the February 25 presidential poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The five-man Panel headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani, dismissed the request, saying it is lacked merit. According to the panel, no regulatory framework or policy direction, permitted it to grant such application. The panel ruled that “allowing…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Chairman, World Igbo Congress (WIC), Professor Anthony Ejiofor, will be the Keynote Speaker in this month’s Ikengaonline town-hall meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 25, 2023. He will be speaking on “Insecurity in the South-East: The Role of Nigeria Diaspora.” According to a press release by the Editor-in-Chief of the on-line newspaper, Uche Ugboajah, the two-hour virtual meeting scheduled for 7:00 pm West African Time (WAT), will be co-anchored by Dr Osmund Agbo; and Dr Chido Onumah. The release gave the zoom link as: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83642576462?pwd=blNRbzcxL1ZlSjl3MjVGWW1VSWhWZz09 It also gave the meeting ID as: 836 4257 6462; and passcode as:…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Funds meant for the 17 Local Government Areas of Enugu State under the Tree Maternal and Child Health programme are yet to be remitted since the inception of the present administration, Ikengaonline can authoritatively confirm. The special funding for maternal and child health programme was initiated by the former administration of Gov. Sullivan Chime to offer free maternal care to pregnant women and their new born babies. An official of the State Primary Health Care Development Agency in one of the LGAs told Ikengaonline in confidence that since the beginning of the present administration of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The House of Representatives has dismissed as “baseless and unfounded,” media reports that it received $15 million inducement from the Federal Government to restructure the N22.7 trillion Ways and Means taken from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The lower legislative chamber urged members of the public to disregard the misleading media reports planted by mischief makers to blackmail the House. Image maker of the House and lawmaker representing Bende Federal Constituency in Abia State, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, in a press statement, said that such allegation was a figment of the imagination of the peddlers. Below is the…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The outgoing Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has urged the Executive members of Enugu Sports Club and all members of the elite club to support the incoming administration of Peter Mbah. He said this at the weekend while inaugurating the 2023/2024 Executive Committee of the Enugu Sports Club under the chairmanship of Sir Nnanna Victor Atuonwu. Governor Ugwuanyi urged the new leadership of the club to continue to expand the frontiers of unity, peace and development through offering support and wise counsel to the incoming administration of Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah. The governor who congratulated the chairman…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Many people may not know it but as powerful as they may seem, presidents can often be glorified prisoners. In this new VIP wing of the SHMC, President Buhari has chosen to invest in a glorified prison as his preferred legacy for his successor Having gone to London to watch the crowning of England’s King Charles III earlier this month, a friend joked last week, President Muhammadu Buhari extended his stay so his dentist could crown his teeth. That was how he read the line from the presidency that the General Buhari had stayed back in London…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Chairman of the Labour Party in Anambra State, Hon Ugochukwu Emeh, has said that his position as the party’s chairman in the state is still intact and never in dispute. Hon Emeh was reacting to claims that a new Labour Party chairman in the person of Hon Peter Okoye emerged in the State. Okoye, during a press briefing in Awka, the state capital,had said Hon Julius Abure remains a former national chairman, and that Hon Ugochukwu Emeh has also ceased to be the state chairman of LP in Anambra. He said Emeh has been removed and…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Gunmen on Saturday killed two police officers and injured one of them, at Okpala junction in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okafor, confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri. He said: “Two of our men paid the supreme price, one of them was injured. We recovered one of the operational vehicles of the hoodlums. “There were piercing of bullets and stains of blood in the vehicle of the hoodlums which shows that our men gave them a battle. We are currently trailing the hoodlums who are on the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Ad hoc staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who worked in Anambra during the just concluded general election have threatened to occupy the Commission’s offices in the state if they are not paid their allowances before Tuesday. The notice came barely three days after the ad hoc staff thronged the INEC Headquarters in Awka, with placards, demanding for the immediate payment of their allowances. A fresh statement which was seen by Ikengaonline flying around in different social media platforms stating that their one week ultimatum will expire next week, after which they would proceed to the commission’s…