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Stephen Ukandu, Umuhia The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has finally thrown open its 2023 presidential ticket to all aspirants from every part of the country. This was the recommendation of the Gov. Samuel Ortom-led 37-man zoning committee of the party which concluded its work in Abuja on Tuesday. Ikengaonline gathered that the ’37 wise men’ of the party settled for the option of throwing the ticket open “due to exigency of time”, according to a source privy to the decision. The source, however, noted that PDP still retained zoning in its constitution. “Zoning as in our party constitution…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Parishioners of Saint Bernard’s Catholic Parish Ugueze Effium, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, have appealed to Ebonyi State Government, to release their parish priest, Rev. Fr. Timothy Ngwuta. The priest has been in prison custody on the allegation of promoting the protracted Ezza/Effium crisis in the LGA which had led to loss of many lives with properties worth billions of naira destroyed. However, his parishioners debunked the allegations levelled against the priest. They made the appeal in a statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Laity Council in the parish, Ezinna Christian Ezakaoru, and…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Mazi Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has kicked against Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s offer of amnesty to IPOB members, contending that members of the pro-Biafra movement are not criminals to deserve amnesty in the first place. According to him, it will be wrong to be contemplating amnesty for people who are no criminals but peaceful agitators for self determination. Gov. Soludo had on Monday, during a prayer session organised to seek divine intervention to end the Monday sit-at-home, announced amnesty to unknown gunmen in the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Ambulance, hearse drivers and mortuary attendants in Abia State, have threatened to embark on one month strike over extortion by revenue taskforce. The drivers gave the threat on Tuesday, during a peaceful protest in Umuahia to register their grievances over extortion of their members by touts operating as revenue taskforce. Protesting under the aegis of Hearse, Ambulance, Casket, Mortuary Decorators Union, the irate protesters drove through major roads in Umuahia the state capital, causing heavy traffic snarl around the metropolis. Other road users had hectic time navigating through the city because of traffic jam caused by the…
Our reporter No fewer than 11 soldiers were feared dead Monday, and about 19 wounded, in a fierce battle with unspecified number of heavily armed bandits that invaded a military base at Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, North West Nigeria. The latest attack is coming less to than one week terrorists derailed a passenger train in the state, killing over eight passengers and Abducting scores of others. Armed terrorists had also last week, allegedly invaded Kaduna airport and prevented Lagos-bound plane from taking off. Ikengaonline gathered that the bandits on motorbikes, Monday, invaded the military base at Pole Wire village…
By Steve Osuji Igbo cannot be president of Nigeria because they are cursed! Jeez! That’s the new line Pastor Tunde Bakare is preaching… Please find his video released last week, March 31, 2022, to view and hear it yourself. This is sheer enunciation of evil. Or at best, let’s call it TREACHEROUS THEOLOGY. Stripped of its dubious religious garbs, Pastor Bakare is simply preaching against Igbo presidency with a most asinine and wicked logic. He is putting down Ndigbo, he is inciting Hausa-Fulani hatred on Ndigbo and he’s dressing it all up as a religious sermon from the altar. Beware…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ogbonna Amadi, has been appointed a Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG to fill the slot of South-East geopolitical zone following the death of DIG Joseph Egbunike who formerly represented the zone in the police hierarchy. The late Egbunike who hailed from Anambra State, died of complications after a throat surgery following a fish bone that allegedly stuck to his throat. Amadi was posted by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, as Ag. DIG Department of Research and Planning, Force Headquarters, Abuja, with immediate effect. DIG Amadi hails from…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A very close ally of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State who played key role in the Governor’s emergence in 2015, and subsequent victory in 2019, Chief Charles Ogbonnaya, has expressed displeasure that Ebonyi State has overtaken Abia in infrastructural development. The former Deputy Chief of Staff to blamed wrong advisers for the poor state of infrastructure in the state while urging the Governor to stop heeding bad advice. Chief Ogbonnaya urged the Governor and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state to allow power to rotate back to Abia-North senatorial district in keeping with…
By Osita Chidoka Days ago, two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were brutally murdered in the ongoing macabre orgy of violence by the strangely named Unknown Gunmen. Their offence? Lawful discharge of their statutory duty. The FRSC officers do not bear arms, and as such, it is cowardly to shoot unarmed citizens no matter the subject of the agitation. The killings, kidnapping, and enthronement of fear in the southeast must end. I have written articles about revamping our security architecture, reached out to leaders in the zone and engaged privately with security agencies and youth leaders to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri; and Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Business activities were totally paralysed on Monday in Owerri, Imo State, in full compliance with the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). But unlike Owerri, the exercise recorded zero compliance in Umuahia as residents ignored the order and went about their normal businesses. In Aba, however, there was partial compliance as residents moved around freely on the streets, but the major markets were closed. Ikengaonline visited some areas in Owerri, the Imo State capital, and found out that residents were indoors. Some residents told our correspondent that they decided to…
