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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The West African Regional Director, of Ford Foundation, Dr. Catherine Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, has called on South-East governors to establish Disabilities Rights Commission in their respective states. Aniagolu-Okoye made the call Monday night while featuring as Guest Speaker at Ikengaonline monthly Town Hall meeting tagged: “Gender Equality, Women’s Rights, Social Inclusion for PWDs in the South-East.” In 2019, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Discriminations Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act which prohibits all forms of discrimination against persons with disability. But the Ford Foundation Director said despite the success of the Act, it had not been implemented in…
Arinze Chijioke In this Report, Correspondent, Arinze Chijioke, goes round the South-East states to unravel the true story behind the incessant protests by pensioners in the region. What he comes up with is not just a tale of woes from neglected pensioners; but also dishonesty and insensitivity on the part of government towards pensioners in the zone. At its rotational quarterly zonal caucus meeting held in Abakaliki on May 25, 2018, the South-East zonal leadership of the National Union of Pensioners (NUP) resolved that its members would embark on a march to protest the lingering challenge of unpaid gratuities and pension benefits.…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Four suspects have been arrested over the killing of two Ebubeagu Security Outfit operatives in Ebonyi State. Commander of the Security outfit, Friday Nnanna confirmed the arrests on Monday. The two Ebubeagu members were shot dead at the popular Ebebe Junction, along Ogbaga Road in Abakaliki on Friday night. Mr Nnana said that the suspects have been handed over to the police for further investigation. He said: “On a strong routine patrol last night, we caught the killer of the two members of Ebubeagu Security Outfit who lost their lives at a checkpoint at Ebebe junction in…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki CaringHeart Foundation, has raised the alarm over alleged plot to re-arrest the senatorial candidate of the Labour Party, Linus Okorie, using government apparatus, and slamming fresh charges against him. The allegation comes as he is set to appear before the Federal High Court in Abakaliki, capital of the state for heating on his bail application today. Mr Okorie is the candidate of the Labour Party for Ebonyi South senatorial zone in next year’s general election. He is a major challenger to the state governor, David Umahi, who is the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has challenged Nigerians to vote him as President in 2023 and watch if the country’s economy would not rebound, stabilize and grow. The former Anambra State Governor threw the challenge when he appeared with his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti-Ahmed on a Kaftan TV programme, The Candidates, moderated by ace television journalist, Kadaria Ahmed, monitored in Abuja, on Monday. Obi said that if voted into power, fixing the crashing Nigerian economy and rekindling the hope of millions of frustrated and dejected Nigerians, would be his top priority. The…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia West African Regional Director, Ford Foundation, Dr Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, has advocated the inclusion of Persons Living With Disabilities (PWDs) into elective positions in Nigeria. Aniagolu-Okoye, who made the advocacy Monday night while featuring as Guest Speaker at Ikengaonline Town Hall meeting on “gender equality, women’s rights, social inclusion for PWDs in the South-East,” decried the exclusion of PWDs in governance in Nigeria. She argued that supporting PWDs to occupy political positions especially in the Parliament would give them a sense of belonging in Government and provide them the opportunity to make their contributions in the political process. The…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The National Coordinator, of the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, Ikule Emmanuel, has called on the victims of police brutality in the South-East zone to come and air their views. Emmanuel stated this at the end of the 2-day Public Tribunal on Police Abuses in Nigeria, South-East Zone, organized by NOPRIN, in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Police Service Commission, PSC, in Owerri. According to him, the alleged police brutality “runs counter to section 34/39 of the nation’s 1999 Constitution as amended, explaining that Police Tribunal was put in place to…
By Owei Lakemfa Intriguing. I mean the topic leaders of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB asked me speak on. ‘Trade Union Leadership: Lessons to be learnt from or Taught to the Political Class.’ I know a lot of lessons politicians can teach labour leaders, but scratch my head what the latter can teach our tribe of political leaders. It is not really that they are two diametrically opposed societies. Parties and unions actually have similarities such as being mass-based organisations with members who are expected to pay dues. Also, both movements are expected to be democratic…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As the dust raised by the recent epistle by Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, is yet to settle, Igbo youths under the auspices of the Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has threatened to dump refuse at the entrance gate to Anambra Government House if the Governor failed to apologise publicly. The youths threatened that if by Friday, November 25, the Governor failed to tender apologies, the youths would fill the state’s seat of power with refuse. COSEYL which expressed utter disappointment in Soludo over…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The situation of a 14-year -old JS2 student of Echele Amita Secondary School Isiagu, Ebonyi State, Master ThankGod Nwachukwu, is very pathetic following a critical wound he sustained in a motorcycle accident. This is as his father, Pastor Paul Nwachukwu of the Assemblies of God Church, Amita Isiagu, has appealed for assistance to enable him clear the N1.6 million medical bill of the boy detained by the hospital after his treatment. The cleric who was in tears during an interview with Ikengaonline, passionately appealed for urgent assistance from members of the public to alleviate the pains of the…