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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has raised the alarm that the 2023 polls might be postponed or called off if the growing wave of insecurity in many parts of the country is unchecked. According to the electoral umpire, there might be a constitutional crisis if insecurity in some parts of the country leads to non-declaration of election results. Chairman, Board of The Electoral Institute, TEI, INEC’s training arm, Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, made the observation Monday in Abuja at the validation of election security training resources. Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Abia State chapter, Apostle Emmanuel Agonmuo,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The forthcoming general elections will be decided by Nigerians youths according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Statistics from the electoral umpire indicates that youths constitute 48 million out of the entire 93.5 million eligible voters for the 2023 polls. National Commissioner at INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, disclosed this during the commission’s engagement with identified groups on the role of the youth ahead of the 2023 general election. He said that Nigeria youths could leverage their population advantage to decide on the outcome of the forthcoming elections. Giving…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The remains of retired Sgt. Fabian Ugwuoke, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Mr Vitus Okechi, Chairman of Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, have been found. The slain CSO’s body was found in the forest of Unadi Community by a combined team of security operatives, who stormed the camp of the bandits in the forest. In a trending video, a middle aged lady who did not disclose her name admitted to killing the CSO and others. “We used his body for sacrifice to our shrine,” she said under tight security. The mashed body of the…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Abia State chapter, Apostle Emmanuel Agonmuo, has expressed worries that the forthcoming elections might be canceled. This is as he absolved members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB; as well as the operatives of the Eastern Security Network, ESN; of any involvement in the attacks on INEC facilities in the South-East, insisting that mischievous politicians should be interrogated over the ugly development. The CAN boss who spoke with Ikengaonline said that some anti-democratic forces holding the country down were bent on perpetuating their hold on power. He said that the same dark forces…

By Owei Lakemfa A lot of hope has been placed on the February 25, 2023, general election in the country. It actually seems that the country’s continued existence depends on it. Already, some foreign observers have dispatched advanced teams. However, in the midst of all these, a 93-year-old statesman, scanning the horizon, advises that the elections be postponed by six months if the country were truly to benefit from their outcome. Aare Afe Babalola is as big as they can come. Sixty years ago, he was called to the English Bar and is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. An educationist,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia American Congressman, Jarvis Johnson,  has called for the urgent intervention of the US Government against the impunity of Nigeria Government against agitators of self- determination particularly the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been illegally held against various court orders. Rep Johnson argued that the continued detention of Kanu is a violation of his fundamental human rights, adding that the US as a global defender of democracy cannot gloss over such impunity. The congressman representing the State of Texas accused the Nigeria Government of carrying out genocide against its own…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu A Legal Practitioner, Mr John Nwatu, has blamed the current congestion at Enugu Correctional Service, on Monday sit-at-home being experienced in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. He told Ikengaonline in an exclusive interview that the perennial lockdown of the state on Mondays is affecting the judicial system in the state and by extension other parts of the zone. “As I speak, the Enugu Correctional Service is over congested. And that is the same all over the South-East. “The reason is that the courts hear criminal cases on Mondays, so due to sit-at-home, courts don’t sit in Enugu and other parts…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ibeku Ward, Opi, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Pharm. Damian Agbo, has decamped to the Labour Party  with over 2000 supporters. Speaking while receiving his membership card in his ward, Agbo said he was dumping PDP for Labour Party because “the umbrella is currently leaking.” He explained that, things were no longer the same in his former party in terms of providing good  governance for the people. “I have seen the Labour Party as an instrument for the needed transformation in Enugu state and in Nigeria at…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.” (Stanley Baldwin, Queen’s Hall, London, 17 March, 1931) When he took over power at the end of December 1983 after overthrowing the elected administration of President Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari, then a Major-General in the Nigerian Army, had all the trappings of a high priest of a regimental cult. His entire programme was boiled down to three letters -“War against Indiscipline” – which went by the deliberately suggestive acronym, WAI. To implement this, Buhari the General arrived in power armed with a hatful of…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Sunday called on Igbo communities to boost the agricultural activities in their areas to address the issue of food inflation facing Nigerians. Iwuanyanwu stated this to newsmen in a meeting of the people of  Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal constituency under the Mbaike People’s Assembly held in Owerri. To achieve it, Iwuanyanwu said every fallow land should be put to agricultural use to increase food production.   He said: “I know with the level of insecurity in the South-East, Imo in particular, many people did not come back for Christmas to come and celebrate. Despite that, we the  Mbaike…