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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka President General of the Urum community in Awka North Local Government Area, Anambra, Chief  Alloy Tabansi, has called the attention of Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to save his community from long suffering and hardship as a result of the state of their access road. The community leader said that the road connecting Isuaniocha-Urum-Amanuke,  Ugbene and to Achalla, their Local Government headquarters is in a deplorable state and needs the attention of the government for its reconstruction. He said that Urum is an agrarian community and that as a town that makes up Awka’s capital development territory, has…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The  Youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Wednesday expressed displeasure over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Services, DSS, in the country. The Igbo youth organisation raised concern over the Federal Government’s alleged disobedience of court orders, bordering on the release and freedom of the IPOB leader from detention. It further called on the Federal Government to address the health challenge facing Nnamdi Kanu, even as it appealed to it to allow the IPOB leader go for medical treatment urgently.…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Youths of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo have called for the postponement of the 2023 census. The youth wing of the organisation made the call after the meeting of its leadership on Wednesday in Enugu. The group said its investigations revealed that National Population Commission is not prepared for the exercise. It said the postponement will enable the Commission put all necessary factors required to conduct the exercise in place. The group said: “We have also noted the unpreparedness of the National Population Commission (NPC) towards the scheduled 2023 National Census; and we hereby add our voice to…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has said that forces opposed to the emergence of new Nigeria, are behind the various propaganda to blackmail him. Obi stated this via his Twitter handle on Tuesday. The former Governor of Anambra State, however, vowed never to give up in his quest to reclaim his stolen mandate irrespective of the antics of his detractors. He urged his supporters to remain calm while efforts were on to restore his stolen mandate. “I encourage Nigerians to remain calm and steadfast in the journey to reclaiming their mandate of a…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Federal Government has been urged to build more dams across the country to reduce the devastation of annual flooding in Nigeria. The Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, said the country has lost huge human and material resources over the years to the deluge and should not continue to rely on relocating people in riverine areas whenever there is a threat of flooding. He explained that unless proactive measures are taken, the country will find it difficult to achieve food sufficiency as greater percentage of what is cultivated every year is often washed away by flood,…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has embarked on regional consultation on the redesign of a new Country Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP) in South-East to boost food. COSOP is also  part of IFAD efforts to provide rural farmers from the zone better support to enhance food security, reduce poverty and generate wealth. The participating states in the workshop which held in Enugu were Anambra, Ebonyi, and Enugu. In his opening remarks, Dr Edward Isiwu, the State Programme Coordinator, Enugu State Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP),  said the IFAD wanted to use the gathering to strategise the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A bill for a law to ensure the health, safety and welfare of workers working in factories in Anambra State has scaled through second reading at the Anambra State House of Assembly. Presenting the bill, Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Pascal Agbodike, complained about the condition of some factories, saying that the working environment of factories in the state needs to be improved. The bill, according to him, will checkmate all the anomalies and sufferings of factory workers. Agbodike who is the lawmaker representing Ihialla II Constituency said: “Most factories in Anambra State with land of five…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State governorship primary of the Labour Party has continued to heighten tension in the party, with more governorship aspirants declaring themselves  gubernatorial candidates.  Ikengaonline in Owerri has been monitoring the development over the tussle of who is the authentic governorship candidate of the party. First, the LP, governorship primary conducted under the chairmanship of the governor-elect, of Abia state, Alex Otti, last Saturday declared Senator Athan Achonu as the governorship candidate of the party. According to Otti, the chairman of the election panel, Achonu scored 134 votes to defeat his closest rival, General Jack Ogunewe, who got…

By Osmund Agbo But young people all over the world are known to be notoriously inpatient and historically rebellious. It’s not just a Nigerian thing. And contrary to all the calculated attempts to tar this movement with an ethno-religious brush, no other movement in our recent history has been as Pan-Nigerian as the Obidient movement.  In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine, the nation’s capital of Kiev became the center of a series of civil disobedience campaigns, sit-ins, and general strikes. The protests were sparked by reports of massive corruption, voter intimidation, and electoral fraud,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia After days of apprehension and tension, the incumbent Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been declared winner of the Saturday supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State. He was declared winner of the tension-soaked contest Tuesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The Returning Officer, Muhammed Melee, who declared Fintiri winner of the contest said he polled 430,861 votes to defeat his major challenger, Aisha Binani of the All Progressives Congress who scored 398,788. Recall  that INEC, Tuesday, resumed collation of results of the supplementary poll after suspending the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Hudu…