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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Speaker, Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon. Ogbonnaya Nwifuru, and Chief Ifeanyichukwuma Odii have emerged the authentic candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election  for Ebonyi State. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Chukwuemeka Chukwu disclosed this in Abakaliki on Tuesday. According to him, 13 governorship candidates and 246 candidates for state house of Assembly will contest for the election. The REC further disclosed that Odoh Ifeanyi Bernard is the candidate for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA); while Nkwegu Edward is the Labour Party (LP) candidate. Other governorship candidates include, Opoke Sunday…

By Osmund Agbo Few weeks ago, I met a young woman of Iranian descent who had come for an elective hospital sub-specialty rotation in our department. As with Mahsa and others that came before her, this has become more or less, a right of passage for most medical residents, in fulfillment of their pre-graduation academic requirements. I have always struggled to pronounce Iranian names correctly. As a medical resident in New York a couple of years ago, Pedram, a Persian who was both a friend as well as a classmate would have a good laugh each time I sounded out…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Governor David Umahi is again in the news for the wrong reason following a video which trended online on Tuesday in which he was accused of ordering soldiers to flog some civil servants in the State. The video was said to have been first shared by human rights activist, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, on his Twitter handle. In the video, the governor’s car could be seen with some of his security aides standing and watching the soldiers flogging some person’s lying on the ground. The incident, it was learnt, happened at the new airport being built by the state…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, popularly known as the ” Obedient Movement,” have threatened legal action against those behind the purported endorsement of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Abia South senatorial race in 2023, hiding under the umbrella of the movement. The  Movement denied endorsing Ikpeazu who they said had preformed abysmally for any senatorial contest in 2023. It described the said report  as misleading and mischievous. In a release jointly signed by the Coordinators, Onyelucheya Prince; Onyebuchi Chukwu; and Secretary, Precious  Ogueri; the ‘Obi Movement’…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The husband of a final year student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, MOUAU, Oluomachi Nwoye, is yet to show up, nearly 24 hours after his wife was delivered of a set of five babies at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia. Ikengaonline gathered that the 24-year-old Forestry student was delivered of her babies (two boys and three girls) around 9:15pm Monday. But when our Correspondent visited the hospital on Tuesday around 3:00pm it was gathered that the husband from Umunnya in Anambra State was yet to visit although reasons for that could not be ascertained as at…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, has slated October 27 for judgment in the suit filed by the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, challenging his extraordinary rendition from Kenya. When the matter came up for hearing Tuesday, counsels to both parties adopted their written applications. Presiding Judge, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, after listening to the arguments by both parties, fixed October 27 for determination of the matter. Kanu, in the suit filed by his Special Counsel, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, is challenging his extraordinary rendition from Kenya by the agents of…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka An Anambra State-based lawyer, Mr Ndubuisi Agu, has dragged the Anambra State Traffic Management Agency (ATMA), its newly appointed Managing Director, Mr Emeka Okonkwo popularly known as Konti, and one Mr Emmanuel Iruogu, before the Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka, for collecting a sum of N50,000 from him following alleged traffic offences. Agu, in a suit No: A/324/2022 dated 30th September 2022, filed by his lawyer, S. T. Omeh, alleged that some ATMA officials impounded his  Toyota Camry Car with Registration Number: AAA337CA, on Saturday September 17th, 2022 while he was driving out of a…

By Owei Lakemfa Poverty is often presented as statistics. But what the Yusufu Bala Usman Institute did on September 21, 2022, was to produce a book, The Face of Poverty in Nigeria, which focused on the faces behind the statistics. As one of the reviewers, I summarised the Nigerian situation thus: If you are poor in thinking, you are poor. If others think for you, you are poor. If you follow other people’s culture, you are poor. If foreigners decide your beliefs, you are poor. If others decide your economic policies and programmes, you cannot but be dirt poor. My argument is…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The decision of the Bishop of Nnewi Catholic Diocese, Most Reverend Jonas Benson Okoye, to sack Holy Ghost Fathers residing at St Martin’s de Poures Catholic Church, Ihiala, has caused tension in the Diocese and its environs. It was gathered that the Bishop, at a recent meeting with priests in the Diocese, announced postings during which his Diocesan priests were posted to St Martin’s Ihiala. But the Holy Ghost Fathers have been in charge of the St Martin’s Church parish for over 100 years, during which they established many churches and schools, including the popular Holy Ghost…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Angry residents have continued to appeal to the Imo State Government to quickly come to their rescue and address the level of flooding and damage of the bad MCC/Uratta Road, in Owerri, Imo State. Ikengaonline yesterday captured the lamentations of the road users within the area. In 2019, the former Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, reportedly listed the MCC/Uratta road among others to be repaired/rehabilitated. But before he was sacked by the Supreme Court, there was no significant work done on the road. Again In 2021, under the present administration of Hope Uzodimma, the road was under construction. The government…