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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The quest for Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to win the 2023 presidential poll has received a major boost with the recent appointment of a key figure in Igboland. Igbo leader, Ichie Damian Okeke-Ogene, has been appointed as the South-East Zonal Coordinator of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 Presidential Election. The appointment was conveyed in a letter signed by the Director-General of the campaign, Dr. Doyin Okukpe. His appointment has been well-received by many people who have been sending in goodwill messages.  An Anambra indigene stated: “It is my prayers that he carries out this assignment…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has emerged as the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council in Imo State for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Collins Opuruzor, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri on Monday. Also, the immediate past State Chairman of the Party, Chief Charles Ezekwem, emerged as the director of the campaign. This came after thugs had earlier disrupted the inauguration at the party secretariat along Okigwe road in Owerri, last Sunday.   According to the PDP, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has ratified…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo state Police Command on Monday confirmed that the traditional ruler of Obudi Agwa, in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Eze Ignatius Asor, and two of his aides, have been shot dead by hoodlums suspected to be members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN. The Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mike Abattam, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owerri. He said the hoodlums drove to the palace of the monarch and pretended to be persons in distress that need help. It was when the monarch welcomed them into his palace, that in the…

By Owei Lakemfa “A principled man would have made an honest admission, apologised for the millions of souls his failure has affected, and bowed out. But since it is a poorly scripted drama piece, he declares he is a failure but sits in the same Ministry in his ministerial toga, enjoying the perquisites of office and adding to his unenviable records as Education minister.” Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, after presiding over the N5.6 trillion Education Budget in the last seven years and the N1.3 trillion intervention fund in four years, announced he has failed. It is not that as Education Minister,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, Monday, adjourned indefinitely, the attempt by the Federal Government to re-try the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on amended counts of charge. Although Kanu was absent at the court hearing, the court after a failed attempt by the Federal Government to re-arraign him, adjourned the trial indefinitely. The Federal Government, had claimed that Kanu refused to present himself for the botched re-arraignment. Government prosecutors led by the Director of Public Prosecution, Mr. M.B. Abubakar, told the court that  Kanu declined to be brought before the…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has claimed that contrary to misconceptions in some quarters, the operatives of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, as well as IPOB members, have tremendously helped to checkmate state sponsored terror in the South-East. This is as the pro-Biafra movement has challenged the Nigerian authorities to fix a date for Biafra referendum if it thought that the entire people in the region were not part of the struggle for Biafra liberation. IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a press statement made available to Ikengaonline, dissociated the operatives of ESN as…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has urged Union leaders and Civil Society Organisations across the country to desist from seeing the media as their opponents, but as a sister organization with the sole commitment to championing the common good of man and the society at large. The call was made recently during a one-day Summit organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council, themed, “Progressive Trade Unionism/Civil Society Actions In Nigeria.” It held at Chief Godwin Ezeemo International Press Center NUJ Secretariat, Awka, the state capital. Speaking at the occasion, NUJ Anambra State Chairman,…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A senior lecturer at the Federal College of Education, (Technical), Umunze, Dr Churchill Okonkwo, has been elected as the new Vice President Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU). Dr Okonkwo was named the new COEASU Vice President following an election that held during a special delegates Congress of the Union held on Wednesday 9th November at the Federal College of Education Abeokuta. Dr Okonkwo was returned unopposed by over 35 qualified Colleges of Education across the country who voted him as the Vice President, Research and Documentation of the Union, and the Coordinator of the South-East Zone. Swearing the…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Barrister Casmir Agbo, Enugu State Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), has said the chapter was waiting for directive from the party’s national office to conduct fresh gubernatorial primary as ordered by the Abuja High Court. He disclosed this in a telephone chat with Ikengaonline in Enugu, adding that, they were ready for whichever decision taken by LP headquarters. It would be recalled that, the Abuja  Court had ordered a fresh gubernatorial primary while delivering judgment in a suit brought by, Mr Everest Nnaji, challenging the emergence of Mr Chijioke Edeoga as LP candidate in Enugu State. “We are waiting…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As activities gather momentum for the 2023 polls, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to truncate the forthcoming elections and derail Nigeria’s budding democracy. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, who made the allegation Sunday, in a press statement, said that the ruling party was getting frustrated because it had discovered that its presidential candidate had a lot of baggage weighing down on his candidacy, hence, its resort to derailing the entire 2023 elections. “As we prepare for the 2023 general elections, the APC is busy scheming…