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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The incumbent District Superintendent of Owerri East District, the Rev. Able Amadi, has emerged the new General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God Nigeria. Rev. Amadi who was elected at the 37th General Council meeting of the church holding at Evangel Camp Okpoto, Ebonyi State, scored 3,232 out of the 4441 total votes cast to emerge. The incumbent General Secretary, Rev. Godwin Amaowoh, garnered 1,208 to finish second in the fourth and final round of the votes cast. Retired Rev. Isaac Mpamugo chaired the election session of the Council meeting. Other nominees were eliminated after the second…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Rangers International Football Club of Enugu have begun their pre-season camping in Awka, capital of Anambra State ahead of the resumption of the 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). The Media Officer of the club, Norbert Okolie, announced this in Enugu, adding that the players, coaches, backroom staff and some management officials have arrived Awka for the camping. He said that, on their arrival on Wednesday, the technical crew led by Abdul Maikaba, immediately led the players to their first drill session at the Awka City Stadium. According to the media officer, Captain of the team, Uche…
By Edwin Madunagu Readers are referred to a short piece I wrote as my own contribution to the prefatory note for a 2021 “Book of Honour” done for me by the Nigerian Left, “Edwin Madunagu at 75: Tributes and Reflections.” The book was edited by Comrade Chido Onumah. This tribute to Comrade Seinde Arigbede who died early this month, November 2022 “dovetails” with the prefatory notes. Forty-six years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age (Comrade BJ), I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate in Enugu State, Frank Nweke Jnr., has said he would tackle the acute shortage of table water in the state by “un-bundling the water sector.” The former Minister of Information disclosed this Wednesday night while featuring on Ikengaonline town hall meeting series for governorship candidates in the South-East. He regretted that Enugu had steady water supply during the colonial era up till the First and Second Republics but the taps suddenly dried up following the failure of successive administrations to sustain the feat. Nweke Jnr, noted with dismay that Oji River…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Director, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Mr Frank Nweke Jnr, who is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Enugu State, has promised to strip Enugu the toga of “civil service state” and make it a major economic hub if voted into power in 2023. The former Minister for Information who made the promise Wednesday night while featuring on Ikengaonline gubernatorial town hall meeting series, regretted that successive administrations in the state had failed to tap into the abundant economic potentials in the state. He said that if given the opportunity to preside over the…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Women Information Network (WINET), in partnership with Mundo Cooperante of Spain, has given scholarship awards to 22 indigent female Junior Secondary School (JSS) students of Community Secondary School (CSS), Iva Valley, Enugu, in Enugu State. The NGO also gave the students several items including bags, dozen of exercise books each, writing materials and math-sets. The Executive Director of WINET, Mrs Miriam Menkiti, said the scholarship was in furtherance of the organization’s activities under “the right to be a girl – projects to end girl child marriage.” “We are here today to present one…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has disowned media reports claiming that it had dragged Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, to deities over his controversial epistle against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization said the purported reports never emanated from it, and should be discountenanced. Ohanaeze in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, dismissed the fake media reports as “reckless.” The apex Igbo body said dragging people to deities is not part of Igbo culture. “The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a bizarre and reckless…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Labour party, LP, has called for the urgent resetting of Imo State for good governance, peace and security. The party noted with deep concern that the festering insecurity in the state might not subside unless “there is a resetting of the state.” Gubernatorial aspirant of the party in Imo state, Maj Gen Lincoln Keonyemere Jack Ogunewe (retd.), who made the call in Owerri during a book presentation in honour of the presidential candidate of LP, Peter Obi, said that until there was a paradigm shift on the modus operandi of the state, the woes of the state might persist. He…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The director general, Campaign Council of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Dr Longman Nwachukwu, has said that there would be a new Abia if Professor Greg Ibe emerged Governor in 2023. He said that the reason Abia was stagnated was due to bad leadership, but noted that time has come for Abians to take over their state. The former Commissioner for Lands, who stated this during a press conference in Umuahia expressed disappointment over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led administration in the state. He said that “Abians are now ashamed to be…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has disclosed his plans to revitalise the Nigerian economy if he emerges as the president of the country. In two tweets he personally signed off on Tuesday via his verified Twitter handle, the Labour Party flag bearer gave a hint that his administration will set up a committee of economic experts to champion the revival of the country’s economy. “My administration will not embark on drafting a new economic plan, but I will set up a small national working committee of policy, planning and economic…