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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Twelve persons, mostly women, have died in a fatal road accident which occurred on Tuesday in Ebonyi. The incident, it was gathered, happened along the Ezillo axis of the Enugu/Abakaliki Expressway. The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) confirmed the fatal accident. According to its Sector Commander in Ebonyi, Uche Chukwurah, the accident involved a shuttle bus and a truck. She said 12 of the 14 passengers in the bus died while two injured persons were rushed to the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital (AE-FUTHA) for treatment. “14 passengers were involved. 12 died: 10 females and 2…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that nobody can stop, President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from becoming the President of Nigeria. He advised those thinking they would rob Tinubu of his mandate to have a re-think, insisting that Tinubu can’t be stopped. The governor spoke in Abakaliki, capital of the state on Tuesday when the Speaker of Ebonyi State Assembly and Governor-Elect, Francis Nwifuru, visited him in his office. Nwifuru was in the Governor’s office to present to the Governor his INEC Certificate of Return and appreciate the Governor for his support which gave him…
By LKJ Ogunewe I am not here to deliver a lecture as this has been done several times but to speak truth into sober reflections and action. I have no paper to circulate or give because such papers are rarely read or given a thought, thereafter. I am therefore here to agitate our minds and at the end of my talk, we should interact and look at ways of handling the insecurity that is threatening the peace and progress of Igboland and also, the 2023 elections. I want to ask, “Is a one-day summit sufficient enough to discuss the enormous…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Labour Party candidate for Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal house of representatives, Uche Ogbuagu, on Tuesday alleged loyalists of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have concluded plans to frame him (Ogbuagu) up, kidnap and eliminate him before this week’s Saturday rerun election in Imo State. He disclosed this to newsmen at Akabo in Ikeduru Council Area of the state, while speaking on the forthcoming Mbaitoli/Ikeduru rerun election in Imo. Ogbuagu who is representing Ikeduru State Constituency in Imo State House of Assembly, said one of the ways they wanted to achieve their evil plans was to plant guns in his house and raise…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Residents of Enugu State have said they were not aware of the forthcoming National Population Census in the country from May 3-8, 2023, across the country. Speaking to Ikengaonline many residents expressed worries over lack of sensitisation and awareness for the exercise by relevant authorities. According to, Mr Olu Omotayo, a Civil Rights Lawyer, he said though he was aware of the exercise, many residents around him were not aware. He said that the general awareness among the people was very low, adding that the National Population Commission (NPC) was not doing enough in the area of sensitisation. “For me, I am…
By Cheta Nwanze In April 2019, Nigeria’s Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Ngige, was asked about Nigeria losing healthcare professionals to economic migration that took them to better-paying jobs in other continents, and he brushed it aside, saying that Nigeria had a surplus that made the migration a non-issue. A year before that, his colleague, the health minister at the time, Isaac Adewole, was asked what could be done to improve the post-residency situations of Nigerian doctors, many of whom go through a lot of frustration during and after their residency programmes. Dr Adewole’s flippant response was that such…
By Owei Lakemfa As an aspirant in 2022, the President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, made a pilgrimage to Keffi, Nasarawa State. He needed the blessings of one of the most consummate and influential law professors the country has ever produced: Onje Gye-Wado. The latter from 1999, was for four years, Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State. He was also former Law Dean of the Nasarawa State University, and Dean, Faculty of Law, Birmingham University. He agreed to support Maikyau provided he agrees to use his NBA Presidency to fight for a better country because he believes that…
Agency Report The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect in the 25 February election. The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja. The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A public policy analyst, Chima Christian, has called for multi-stakeholder audits and integrity tests on the systems and processes of Nigeria’s National Population Commission (NPC) ahead of the country’s planned census exercise from May 3 – 5, 2023. In a social media post, Christian endorsed Nigeria’s gradual migration to tech-based solutions but expressed concern about the NPC’s “digitisation” of the upcoming census exercise. He pointed out that the systems and processes NPC will be relying on to conduct the exercise have not been audited or subjected to integrity tests, especially by those who stand to be most…
By Ike Okonta If you want to know the secret of Bola Tinubu’s long and continuing grip on the politics of Lagos State, examine closely the utterances of two of his key lieutenants – Bayo Onanuga and M.C. Oluomo. Bayo Onanuga is the chief executive officer of The News magazine and latterly Head of Media of the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council. M.C. Oluomo is a glorified motor park tout who has been Tinubu’s right hand man in everything political in Lagos since the advent of the Fourth Republic in May 1999. Some commentators have written that Bayo Onanuga’s ethnic…