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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has suspended the Principal of Community Secondary School, Awkuzu, Mrs. Florence Edokwe, for her involvement in the collection illegal fees in her school. A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of Post Primary Schools Service Commission, PPSSC Awka, Mrs. Ann Okafor, said the action was against the free education policy of Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo. According to the release, the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, asked Mrs. Edokwe to hand over her duties and the entire property of the school to the vice-principal administration of the school with immediate…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Farmers in some Communities in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, have cried out over the destruction of crops and forceful occupation of their farmlands by marauding herdsmen and their cattle. In exclusive interviews with Ikengaonline, the farmers alleged that, apart from destroying their crops and farmlands, the herdsmen forcefully occupied their farms. They also alleged that some of the herdsmen carry guns which always made it impossible for the farmers to confront them. Mr Ugochukwu Amaechina, a notable commercial sorghum farmer at Opanda community in Uzo Uwani LGA, said a yet-to-be identified herders led their cattle to graze…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Abia State Government says about 60% demolition of structures affected in the proposed six-lane Ossah road expansion project from the Abia Tower Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway to Umuahia City centre have been done. Commissioner for Information Prince Okey Kanu who disclosed this at a press briefing in Umuahia after the State Executive Council meeting, said Gov. Alex Otti-led administration was fully prepared and committed to the signature road project. He said that majority of the owners of property marked for demolition on the road had been fully paid their compensation, explaining that anyone yet to…

Ugo Nosiri, Owerri Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, says he would do all within his limits to ensure businesses thrive in the state. Governor Uzodimma stated this when members of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, IPMAN, Imo State branch paid him a courtesy call at the Government House. He urged the members to be responsive to the hardship bedeviling the people and ensure that prices of petroleum products do not affect the masses in the state. Chief Uzodimma stressed that his administration is committed to cooperating with business owners in the state, noting that no business would suffer a setback…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Professor Charles Igwe, Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has said that the university has graduated over 200,000 students and now has about 60 generations of alumni since its inception. Igwe made this known in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the activities to mark 63rd Founders’ Day celebration of the university held at the Main Hall of the Enugu campus of the University. He said the university’s founders’ day celebration was an annual event held in commemoration of the founding of Nigeria’s first indigenous university. “Thus, we should be celebrating not only the birth of…

… Calls for arrest of instigators of violence Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Special Adviser to Gov. Alex Otti on Media and Publicity, Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma, has dismissed as false, allegations by the opposition and their hirelings that the State Government was sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and plotting to use the group to unleash mayhem on the judges of the governorship election tribunal, should they deliver unfavorable judgment. The tribunal has fixed Friday, October 6 for judgment in the petitions by the All Progressives Congress, APC; and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and their candidates. Ekeoma demanded immediate arrest of those making…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Anambra State Council, has urged Anambra State Government to use the opportunity of the dry season that is setting in to ensure the completion of roads awarded in the state during the rainy season. A communique signed by the Council Chairman, Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, after its September Congress said the dry season that is setting in is a good opportunity for the government to ensure that all outstanding road projects that were awarded in the state, during the rainy season are completed. The union said the quick completion of the road…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia After months of legal battle at the United States court, the Chicago State University, has finally released the academic credentials of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Responding to Atiku’s request for “A true and correct copy of any diploma issued by CSU in 1979 to Mr Tinubu,” the US varsity said: “CSU does not, in the ordinary course, keep copies of student diplomas, and after the diligent search cannot locate a copy of the original diploma it prepared for Mr Tinubu in 1979, hence, has no…

…FG to spend N315 b on salary increase Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia After its late night meeting with the Federal Government, the Organised Labour has agreed to suspend its proposed nationwide strike for 30 days. This is sequel to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Federal Government after both parties reached a truce. Findings by Ikengaonline revealed that the meeting between the Federal Government and Labour at the Chief of Staff’s Conference Room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, lasted for over five hours. The Federal Government is to spend over N315 billion on the new wage hike…

By Okey Ndibe With each passing day, Bola Ahmed Tinubu reveals himself as an exemplar of all that’s wrong with Nigeria. It’s incontestable that Tinubu has fudged or plain forged key nodes of his bio. The least of it is that the very name he goes by is apparently not the one given him at birth. That there is a dispute over his age seems now of relatively minor significance—especially considering his implication in much grander scandals. One of Tinubu’s profounder falsehoods pertains to his education. On the stump, he boasted about his academic brilliance. Yet, his so-called educational experience…