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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Young Progressive Party (YPP) candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District, Dr Anthony Umeadi, has disclosed a major reason he joined the race. During a media chat with journalists at the Godwin Ezeemo International Press Centre, Awka, Anambra State capital, Thursday, the YPP candidate said his intention is to offer the people an effective representation that is different from the normal. Umeadi who is a medical expert said the people of Anambra Central have not had quality representation at the National Assembly due to the recycling of same politicians in the zone. “What we have done is recycling of the same…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka There is tension in Anambra State as a high court sitting in the state may dethrone no fewer than 48 traditional rulers. The dethronement followed an application to do so by a plaintiff named Chinedu Tagbo. Tabo averred that the State Government had issued the monarchs certificates of recognition from 20I4 to 2022 without following due process of the extant laws. The presiding Judge had adjourned the matter for hearing in the interlocutory injunction seeking the stoppage and recovery of their salaries, as well as other entitlements. Tagbo, who sued for himself and on behalf of the people…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied any duplicity in the voters’ register contrary to allegations by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). INEC in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, urged members of the public to disregard CUPP. The electoral umpire restated its commitment to conduct a credible election in 2023. Below is a full text of the statement entitled,”Further Update On The Cleaning Up Of The Voters’ Register,” and made available to Ikengaonline: “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a report…
Our Reporter, Abuja Roger Federer has officially announced his retirement from tennis bringing what has been a glittering tennis career to an end. The Swiss maestro Thursday in a statement said he will retire from tennis after the Laver Cup next week. Federer will bow out as one of greatest and most successful in his sport for all times having won 20 grand slams titles in a professional career spanning 24 years. The statement read: “To my tennis family and beyond, of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Police in Ebonyi have rescued a 4-year-old boy, identified as Testimony, who was sold last year to an unidentified man in Enugu State. The victim was stolen from the mother, one Theresa Nweke, who lives in Omuma community in Etche Local Government of Rivers State. Spokesperson of the Police in Ebonyi, Chris Anyanwu, told journalists on Thursday that the suspect, one Precious and her cohort who abducted the boy were arrested and they confessed to the crime. “We paraded a syndicate that specializes in kidnapping, stealing and selling children. One of them happens to be a little…
By Azu Ishiekwene The only thing that compares in recent tweet villainy with the post of US-based Nigerian professor Uju Anya on Queen Elizabeth II, was perhaps the visit of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, to the Windsor Castle. Yet, after her ordeal even Anya is back, recuperating from the injury inflicted by the hounds and five days in Twitter jail. If large sections of the British press needed any proof that Meghan killed the Queen her Saturday visit to Windsor confirmed it. There is no need to question how. About three weeks ago, the Duchess started a Podcast, Archetypes with Meghan.…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Abia State gubernatorial flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, Professor Greg Ibe, has promised to deliver “a new Abia” if voted into power in 2023. Professor Ibe who made the promise Thursday while inaugurating his campaign offices in Aba and Umuahia after his return to the state, decried infrastructural deficit in the commercial city and other parts of the state. He promised to declare a state of emergency on infrastructure in Aba if elected Governor. Ibe said that “Aba is very critical to the survival of Abia State and the South-East economy” regretted that the “Enyimba City…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Francis Nwifuru, has been accused of sending thugs to destroy the billboards of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in his Izzi Local Government Area. The campaign posters destroyed, it was learnt, include those of the governorship candidate of the party, Ifeanyi Ọdịi, and that of the senatorial candidate for Ebonyi North, Senator Sam Egwu. Others are the campaign posters of the House of Representatives candidate for Izzi/Abakaliki constituency, Barnabas Ofoke, and that of the Izzi East state constituency candidate, Jerome Elom. The party made the accusation yesterday in a statement by the spokesperson of…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra Fashion Expo 2022 will celebrate the resilience of the Akwete women who have over the years ensured that the Akwete fabric found a space on the country’s fashion map. The Akwete fabric is a unique hand-woven textile produced in Akwete town in Abia State, which is usually done by the Akwete women. The cloth is made of cotton thread, while the decorative patterns and effects are added with a thread of heavier texture or contrasting colors. Recall that the governor of Anambra State, Governor Charles Soludo during his election campaigns, disclosed his intention to promote locally-made…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, said it has uncovered a secret suit filed to stop the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, in the 2023 general election. The coalition also claimed to have uncovered massive fake registrations on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) register using foreign names at the just-concluded Continuous Voter Registration CVR, exercise. It further claimed to have uncovered plots to sack the Chairman of INEC Professor Mahmood Yakubu if he failed to suspend the use of BIVAS. CUPP Spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday,…