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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Senatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ebonyi North District, Ebonyi State, Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi, on Monday lamented the perennial crises in the four local governments that make up the zone. This was as he blamed National Assembly members in the senatorial zone and the National Boundary Commission(NBC) for inability to find solutions to the crises which he said had claimed many lives with properties worth billions of naira destroyed. He disclosed that few months ago, over 100 lives were lost in the crisis between Ngbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state and neighbouring Agila, Ardo…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in  Anambra State, has declared operation win your ward and polling units to its campaign council members ahead of the 2023 general election. The order was given by PDP chieftain, Chief Ben Obi, while inaugurating PDP Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 general election in Awka, the state capital on Tuesday. He said, “This is the time for sacrifice. Our party is in opposition hence, whatever we need to deliver our party should be judiciously utilized for the success of the party in the state.” “The task before us is onerous, bearing in mind that about…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Pioneer Head, Department of Mass Communication, Abia Polytechnic Aba, Dr Uwaoma Uche, has been promoted to the rank of professor of Mass Communication ( Broadcasting Management). He was one of the resource persons at a training workshop for Abia journalists organized recently by Ikenga Media and Cultural Awareness Initiative, IMCAI, publishers of Ikengaonline. The promotion was conveyed to him by the Gregory University Uturu where he was a Reader until the latest promotion. This was contained in a letter dated October 28, 2022, with a reference number: REF:GUU/REG/SARP/UU/PRM/10/2022. Professor Uche is currently the Dean, College of Social and…

By Owei Lakemfa Adigun Agbaje is as good as they come. A Professor of Political Science and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, UI, he bestrides multiple worlds. Even as a veteran journalist, when he speaks on the media, I listen. It is not just because after earning a First Class degree in Political Science from UI he went on to take a Masters degree in Mass Communications with distinctions from the University of Lagos. It is more because he was so good as a practising journalist that we young reporters in the Guardian Newspapers were told to emulate…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Department of State Services, DSS, has said that there would be no national development without security of lives and property. Abia State Director, DSS, Mr Friday Onuche, who made the remark Tuesday, when the executive of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abia State paid him a courtesy visit, said security and national development were inseparable. He said: “There won’t be national development without security just as there won’t be security without national development.” The DSS boss who described the journalists as strategic partners tasked  media practitioners on developmental journalism. He also urged journalists…

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on Governments at all levels to fulfill their obligations to ensure the safety of journalists by investigating all attacks against media practitioners as well as prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of such attacks. The organization said this would send a strong signal to those who attack journalists that they can no longer do so with impunity while also giving the media the confidence to carry out their functions without fear. MRA made the call at a press conference it organized to commemorate the 2022 edition of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The apex Igbo social cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has expressed grief over the death of Igbo sage and elder statesman, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, describing his demise as a monumental loss to the Igbo race. Ohanaeze in a condolence message further described the former Aviation Minister as “a quintessential Igbo titan, icon and trail blazer.” Chief Amechi (Dara Akunwafor) aka, ‘The Boy is Good,’ died at the age of 93 after eventful years on earth. Ohaaeze Ndigbo in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, recalled “with freshness how Dara mortgaged the bloom of his…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Government has made a passionate appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria and the United Nations for their assistance in tackling some natural disasters bedeviling the state. Deputy Governor, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, made the appeal when he led the United Nations delegation to on-the-spot assessment of Oko erosion sites and the recent landslide which saw many buildings and economic trees cave-in some weeks ago. He narrated the environmental challenges facing the state to the international body and appealed to the international community, Federal Government and indigenes of the area to do all they could…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu On Sunday October 30, 2022, the South-East Governors Forum met at the Enugu State Government House to deliberate on several issues affecting Nigeria, with special attention to the region. Interestingly, the governor’s were meeting for the first time after one year in political wilderness characterised by broken and bruised political marriages. One among the issues discussed was, the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (MNK), incarcerated Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the forum of governors said that it would seek political solution to the release…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka  The only surviving minister of the First Republic and member of the pre-colonial ‘Zikist Movement’, Chief Mbazuluike Amechi is dead. According to a release from the family signed by Azeana Tagbo Amechi, Chief Amechi died in the early hours of Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Until his death, Chief Amechi, who hailed from Amihe village in Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, was a nationalist and the only surviving member of the Zikist Movement. The statement read: “With total deference to the will of the Almighty God, the Ume Amechi, Ezeana Ihinede families and the…