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Stephen Ukandu, News/ Features Editor The traditional ruler of Ogbeke Agbani Community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, HRH Igwe Okechukwu Nwobodo Egbuna, has cancelled the alleged embargo he imposed on the burial of a widow, late Mrs Elizabeth Ogbodo Egbuna, Ikengaonline can authoritatively report. He also publicly announced that the burial of the late widow who was his uncle’s wife would go ahead as planned on Wednesday, April 28. The action of the monarch is coming less than 24 hours after Ikengaonline had carried the report of the alleged embargo and threat by the traditional ruler…
Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor There is palpable fear and tension in Ogbeke Agbani Community, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the alleged embargo by the traditional ruler, HRH Igwe Okechukwu Nwobodo Egbuna, on the burial of a widow, late Mrs. Elizabeth Ogbodo Egbuna. Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL, has appealed to security agencies and relevant government agencies for intervention over the worrisome development. According to WACOL, the deceased, Mrs. Egbuna, 80, died about three months ago but her burial slated for Thursday, April 28, 2022, is under threat by the traditional ruler’s pronouncements. Before her death, she had…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka The Management of Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area, Anambra State, has passionate appealed to the Federal Government to intervene and save staff and students of the institution from impending disaster resulting from heavy downpour which wreaked havoc on the newly constructed road leading to the institution. A trending viral video on different social media platforms, had revealed how the road, constructed only a few months ago by an unnamed federal contractor, was in a terrible state after flood swept aside its connecting bridge leaving a scary gully mark across the…
By Osmund Agbo For the past several days, the rumour mill has been buzzing non-stop about a potential presidential run in 2023 by Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Dr. Reuben Abati, his former spokesperson, was credited to have made a Facebook post suggesting that his former boss was set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that he will declare for the presidency on the platform of the ruling party. But Reno Omokri, another of Jonathan’s trusted media aides, had since dismissed that statement as “at best a figment of the imagination of that journalist.” It turned out…
Our Reporter, Abuja The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Federal University of Lokoja, Kogi State, Senator Chris Adighije, has thrown his weight behind the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) on the cost of the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms of the party. According to him, the said cost of the forms is a measure to assess the support base of aspirants. The APC chieftain, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, alluded to the arguments that the high cost of the party’s nomination forms has both the positive and negative sides, as he quipped that no…
By Owei Lakemfa When a government like that of Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, is doing very well, it is manifestly immoral for a Bishop to divert its attention, especially with unsolicited homilies. That is the problem I have with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Sokoto Archdiocese. He has this strategy of waiting until the Easter period of salvation to release nuclear-powered inter-continental missiles against the Buhari Presidency as if he were the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, putting Russia in its sight. In the 2021 Easter Buhari-Kukah war, I had uncritically taken sides…
By Hassan Gimba This is the concluding part of this write up, having done parts one and two a few weeks earlier. “When that is not the case, the victim’s faith in his country gets punctured. With the country’s might demystified in his eyes, he can fantasize about the power and invincibility of his captors. Is that Amuta’s case? In a country weighed down by increasing insecurity, where life has become short, nasty and brutish, such victims may feel they are ‘safer’ in the hands of the terrorists. We need to do a lot of things in Nigeria to help…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Police in Anambra State have said nine out of the ten kidnapped herders in Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State have been rescued. They also said some of the 300 cattle, which were said to have been rustled by gunmen have also been found. South-East Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Gidado Siddiki, had raised an alarm that 10 of their members were abducted by gunmen in Obene Community, Ogbaru LGA on Saturday. The gunmen, who also allegedly stole over 300 cows, had demanded N4 million ransom and an AK-47 gun from…
Our Reporter, Abuja In a rare show of unity, socio-cultural and political groups across the country on Monday agreed that the time for a Southeasterner to become the President of Nigeria is now. According to them, the two other legs of the tripod on which Nigeria stands have taken their turns at the Presidency. The leaders of the socio-cultural and political groups also affirmed that where the President should come from in 2023 also matters, as zoning is legal based on the Federal Character principles. According to them, all the political parties should zone their Presidential tickets to the South-East.…
Our Reporter, Abuja Leader of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has described former President Goodluck Jonathan’s contemplation to run for the 2023 presidential election as disgraceful and shameful. Adebanjo stated this on Monday at a conference organized by a think-tank of South-East leaders and friends of the South-East from across the federation under the aegis of Greater Nigeria Conference (GNC). The Yoruba leader, who who spoke loudly that the South-East should be considered for the Presidency next year said, “it is disgraceful for former President Jonathan to say he is even considering running for the presidency again.…