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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police operatives in Anambra State have, over the weekend, arrested a man for allegedly harvesting some body parts of a 72-year-old woman for money ritual in Anambra State. The suspect, identified as Onyebuchi Ezeh, from Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, was said to be working as a domestic servant to the 72-year-old woman, who hails from Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area of the State. Ikengaonline gathered that the incident took place after the victim raised alarm on Thursday when Ezeh in connivance with two other men trapped her in her house and cut off her genitals and some other…
By Owei Lakemfa The battles I describe, took place four decades ago. They speak to character and governance; some of the problems we have today and why the country is in turmoil. They were between a then 42-year-old General Muhammadu Buhari and 76-year-old Michael Adekunle Ajasin who had retired after 54 years of teaching from July 1921 to August 1975. Both men represented different values: one relying on coercion and the other on persuasion and reliance on the intellect. Ajasin had been admitted into the Fourah Bay College for a Bachelor Programme in English, Modern History and Economics in 1943,…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Gunmen on Monday morning ran riot in parts of Enugu metropolis burning vehicles and tricycles and causing panic and confusion among the populace in the process. Ikengaonline learnt that the incident happened at different areas of Abakpa-Nike including the popular Liberty Junction bus terminal and Harmony Road on Nike Lake. Similar incident also happened at T-junction, still in Abakpa area also in Abakpa leading to New Heaven via Rev. Fr Mbaka Adoration ministry. Ikengaonline learnt that two Sienna cars and five tricycles (Keke) were burnt at liberty bus terminal. Also one Jeep and another unidentified car were burnt at…
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to disclose to it under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 details of the 302 broadcasting stations reportedly sanctioned by the Commission in four months after campaigns for the 2023 elections began in September 2022. MRA said it was seeking the information following the announcement made by the NBC Director General, Malam Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, at a media briefing he held in Abuja on February 9, 2023, where he was reported to have said that out of the 740 currently functional stations in Nigeria, the Commission had sanctioned…
By Rudolf Okonkwo This is the story of how Olusegun Obasanjo’s support of the structure of criminality ruined Peter Obi’s chances, transformed Anambra State and produced the Peter Obi currently on the national stage. It is also a story of how Obasanjo is trying to make amends in the late hours of his life, hoping to make heaven. During the 2004 World Igbo Congress Convention in New Jersey, Chekwas Okorie, the then Chairman of APGA, told a few of us inside a hotel room what happened between him and Olusegun Obasanjo during the 2003 elections in Nigeria. Chekwas Okorie’s story illustrated…
By Okike Ezugwu The first place I met Oyibo Chukwu, the assassinated candidate of Labor Party for the Enugu East Senatorial District, was in the Enugu state High Court. I was waiting for my matter to be called up, and Oyibo, a well-spoken senior lawyer, was cross-examining a witness. In the courtroom, he was not only armed with the knowledge of the law, he was incomparably entertaining and dramatic. Woe was your lot if Oyibo was the Counsel on the other side. He bullied both Bar and Bench and truly enjoyed his game; with a confident smile which hung over his…
Stephen Ukandu Umuahia The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has disowned media report credited to one Tony Chiemelu Obizoba who claimed to be the Director-General, Implementation and Strategic Planning, Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide. Obizoba in the purported media report wherein he also claimed to be speaking for Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said that it was not yet Obi’s time to be President. But embarrassed by the “mischievous report,” Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a terse statement by its Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, said the said Obizoba was fake and unknown to the apex Igbo body. Ohanaeze which dismissed Obizoba as an impostor hired by…
Our Reporter, Abuja The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Monday led from the front in Abuja, as the party protested over the conduct of the presidential election of February 25, by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Joining the PDP flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, in the protest were the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; the Vice Presidential Candidate of the party and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State; amongst other leaders of the party. The protesters decked in black attires blocked the INEC headquarters’ entrance. Other party leaders who also participated in the protest include the…
Our Reporter, Abuja Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah each scored two goals, and Roberto Firmino, one, as Manchester United suffered its worst defeat in the Premier League Era on Sunday after being beaten to pulp by former champions Liverpool, who put unprecedented 7 un-replied goals past the Erik ten Hag side. It was ironic that United who came into the game with an 11-game unbeaten run controlled must of the first half missing chances after chances only to fall behind in the 42nd minute with Liverpool’s first strike on target. Cody Gakpo, a former target for United received…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ebonyi State has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) plans to rig the governorship and state house of assembly elections in the state. The party made the allegation in a statement on Sunday by Mr Charles Otu, Director, Media and Publicity, Odohzhia Ebonyi Campaign council. It alleged that it has uncovered a grand plot by the ruling APC in Ebonyi State, led by Governor David Umahi, to transfer a total sum of N7.8Bn from one of the State’s Government accounts. The funds are allegedly meant to compromise the…