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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki A trafficking victim who hails from Ebonyi State has escaped from her abductors in Mali. The Lady, whose identity is withheld for security reasons, escaped from her captors on Thursday and ran to the Nigerian embassy. She is one of three indigenes of Ebonyi State who were lured to Lagos on the pretext of going for a job interview only to be taken across the border to Mali. The other two Ebonyi indigenes alongside many other women are said to be held in make shift shelters in Mali preparatory to being taken to Libya. One of them,…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Pensioners in Abia State, Thursday, protested 45 months of pension arrears with a plea to the State Government to defray the backlog to reduce mortality rate among the senior citizens. The senior citizens who were decked in black attires marched through major streets chanting anti-government songs with stop-overs at major junctions where they offered prayers. They accused Government of insensitivity towards their plight and called on well-meaning indigenes of the state to intervene. The pensioners noted with despair the miserable condition of their members which they blamed on Government’s lack of care for them. According to them,…
By Azu Ishiekwene Bad news has almost become a regular feature of Nigeria’s daily narrative and recently, it’s been like a flood of it (pun intended). But the news of the ordeal of two-month-old Miracle Chikwe at the hands of his father in Owerri, Imo State, takes the flood of bad news to the realm of an epidemic. We need to find a moral vaccine — and urgently too. According to press reports, the 31-year-old father, Confidence Amatobi, had beaten the baby with a plastic hanger in the middle of the night for disturbing his sleep. His wife had briefly…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Nine persons were killed in a multiple crash involving three vehicles along the Abakaliki-Enugu road on Thursday. The accident, it was gathered, was as a result of wrongful overtaking by one of the vehicles. Seven persons died on the spot while two more died at the hospital, it was learnt. Four others sustained various degrees of injury and are receiving treatment at the hospital. The incident happened at Idodo junction axis of the highway which is in Nkanu East Local Government Area. However, due to its closeness to the boarder with Ebonyi State, the Ebonyi Command of…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Ohaukwu South State Constituency, Godfrey Elebe, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Elebe made his defection known during the visit of the APC gubernatorial Candidate, Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru to his community, Amechi Izhiangbo, in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the State. He said his defection was born out of the conviction that APC is the winning team in the state, while urging his followers to support the FON movement, as well as all APC candidates contesting for election in Ohaukwu Local Government Area come 2023.…
Ike Nnachi Abakaliki The Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ebonyi State Chapter, Charles Ofoke; and the Coordinator of Nnodo Development Centre in Izzi Local government Area, Mr Chijioke Nwuzor, have been arrested by the police for allegedly attacking one John Nwiboko. The arrest follows a petition written by Mr Iboko through his lawyers to the police accusing the duo of orchestrating the said attack on him and his family earlier in the year during which his car was set ablaze. The attack, it was gathered, was as a result of a lingering leadership tussle in Igweledeoha Ezza-Inyimegu village, in…
By Osmund Agbo “If we are in the habit of practicing the opposite of what we preach, our admonition will not only lose its force and cogency, but also, we ourselves will forfeit every claim to credibility. An ounce of example, it has been widely said, is far better than a ton of precepts,” according to Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Not too long ago, I had cause to strike up a friendship with someone whom I considered a co-traveler in my ‘Save Nigeria Project.’ I have always reasoned that for a beleaguered nation to rise above the ashes of the current…
A woman of Igbo origin, Amanda Azubuike, was elevated from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General in the United States Army. Azubuike, whose ancestry is connected to Nigeria, received her new rank during a ceremony held at a military installation in Fort Knox, Kentucky, in the United States. General James Rainey, commander of the US Army Futures Command, said of Azubuike’s leadership abilities that she “makes everyone around her better.” Azubuike, a citizen of the United States, was born to Nigerian parents in London, United Kingdom. She enrolled in the Army’s Aviation Officer Basic Course in 1994 to train…
By Nnamdi Elekwachi There is nothing wrong with the CBN redesigning banknotes in Nigeria. Elsewhere, this exercise is a necessary monetary policy intervention which happens periodically. Normally, the CBN, which issues all Nigerian banknotes, has the statutory powers to recall or withdraw them from circulation to, among other things, control inflation, reduce counterfeiting and control liquidity – money in circulation – as being adduced. But the problem is the cost implication of doing this at a time when the naira faces the worst form of currency crisis (weak purchasing power parity, PPP, vis a vis the dollar and other hard…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The on-going dismantling of the Eastern rail line has drawn the ire of Anglican Bishops as well as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as the duo cry foul over the “suspicious development.” Ikengaonline observed that the rail track connecting Enugu with Port Harcourt is being dismantled and carted away to unknown destinations with the aid of security personnel. This development has been raising dust among locals, and the silence of the Railway Authorities and the Federal Government has not helped matters. Irked by the development, Anglican bishops who spoke at the 13th Diocesan Christian Men Fellowship Conference held in…