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Our Reporter, Abuja National leaders, friends and associates have continued to express their shock at the news of the death of the former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Eze Ogbulafor. Although no official announcement of the death of the former minister has been made by the family, Ikengaonline learned from a source close to them that the former national chairman as well as scribe of the PDP died in Canada after a protracted illness, aged 73. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari and other dignitaries in the country have condoled with Ogbulafor’s family. The president in a…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Human rights group, the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), has launched an appeal to Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo to establish Flood Victims Trust Fund as well as the Flood Victims Welfare Committee to enable the government to source funds towards providing adequate relief materials, and palliatives to flood victims. The group also said the establishment will ensure prompt and permanent rehabilitation of victims of the flood disasters and their families immediately the flood recedes. It said the plights, and predicaments of the flood victims are huge, that government alone cannot ameliorate their challenges ranging from loss of houses, source of…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The people of Amutenyi, Obollo-Afor Community in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, on Saturday received with shock the news of mysterious death of five family members including a wife. An eye witness, Mr Sunday Ebonyi, told Ikengaonline, that the incident has thrown the entire community in a devastating and mournful mood. “It was early morning on Saturday when the husband of the deceased, Rev. Adolphus Odo, came back from where he spent the night to discover that the doors of the room were still locked and his wife, two children and two relatives of the wife were nowhere…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka About 76 persons are reportedly missing in a boat mishap that occurred in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. Ikengaonline gathered that the tragedy took place at the weekend in Umunnankwo community of the area. Sources said the ill-fated boat, which had about 85 persons on board, took off from Onukwu Bridge and was heading to Nkwo market, Ogbakuba before it capsized. Another source in SEMA who spoke in the condition of anonymity said the engine boat which had about 85 passengers on board from Onukwu bridge Ossomala enroute to Nkwo Ogbakuba market capsized in the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has unveiled an online platform for donations by his supporters to fund his campaigns. Obi who disclosed this via his Twitter handle, invited members of the ‘Obidient Movement’ to make their freewill donations via the platform. “I invite every member of the OBIdient Family, and every supporter of our march to a new Nigeria to visit the official campaign website for the Obi-Datti Campaign organisation. You can use that medium to support and donate in cash & kind to the campaign – PO,” he tweeted. The presidential hopeful,…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Friday, ordered university lecturers to end their protracted strike action and return to the classroom. University lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, had on February 14, 2022, declared an industrial action over the failure of the Federal Government to honour its 1999 agreement with the union. Following the failure of ASUU and the Federal Government to reconcile their differences over the eight-month old strike, the Federal Government, last month dragged ASUU to the National Industrial Court, NIC, which ordered the Union to return to class.…
Our Reporter, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has presented a budget of N20.5 trillion for the 2023 fiscal year. The President laid the budget before a joint session of the National Assembly on Friday. Addressing the lawmakers, President Buhari described the 2023 appropriation as a budget of “fiscal sustainability and transition.” He said the budget “reflects the serious challenges currently facing our country, key reforms necessary to address them, and imperatives to achieve higher, more inclusive, diversified and sustainable growth.” He also said: “A total expenditure of N20.51 trillion is proposed for the Federal Government in 2023. This includes N2.42 trillion spending by…
Our Reporter, Abuja Celebrated Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has received the highest honour of Harvard University, the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal. She received the medal at a ceremony on Thursday. The W. E. B. Du Bois Medal is Harvard’s highest honour in the field of African and African American studies. The award is given to individuals in the United States and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture and the life of the mind. The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research had stated that the medal was for…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki 11 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) 2021 Batch ‘C’ Stream ‘1’ Corps members have been slammed with extension of their service year for various infractions. The NYSC State Coordinator, Mrs Bamai Mercy, revealed this in Abakaliki, the state capital during the passing out parade of the batch. According to her, one male Corps member is to repeat the entire service year. She cautioned outgoing Corps members against indulging in criminal acts, that could bring bad image to the Scheme and their families. She urged the outgoing Corps members to be good ambassadors of the…
By Owei Lakemfa The Confluence Hotel in Ganaja, Lokoja, used to be my favourite spot whenever I visited Kogi State. Its main attraction to me was sitting down to watch the Rivers Niger and Benue warmly embrace in an eternal wedlock as their waters flow down South to the Niger Delta before emptying themselves into the Atlantic Ocean. Sitting there, I never forget that one of the tributaries of these great rivers, with their confluence in Ganaja, is the Forcados River on whose banks I was born. I used to dash from Ganaja to eateries in the city centre; it took only…