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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Unknown gunmen have attacked Ohaogelode community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State killing many persons. The community is said to be a neighbouring community with Effium in Ohaukwu LGA which has been involved in intra-communal crisis. The crisis in Effium, which is between Effium and Ezza-Effium has claimed many lives and led to many Ezza-Effium people taking refuge in Ohaogelode community. Although the Police Spokesperson in the state, Loveth Odah, said she was not aware of the incident, a viral video of the said incident circulating online shows some corpses of the victims. In the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia After months of speculations, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has finally declared his interest to run for the office of the President in 2023. Osinbajo disclosed his intention to join the presidential race via his Twitter handle on Monday. “I am today, with utmost humility formally declaring my intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of APC,” the Vice President tweeted. Speaking later on Channels Television, the Vice President promised to uphold the rule of law if given the opportunity to become Nigeria’s President. He also…
By Farooq Kperogi I just got a chance to watch the video of Rotimi Amaechi’s declaration of interest to be Nigeria’s president. It was an unfunny clown show that dramatizes the descent of Nigeria’s presidential politics into the theater of the absurd. He started his clown show by jogging—along with a bunch of hungry, slavish flunkies—ostensibly to demonstrate his physical fitness. But he ended with a speech that demonstrated his intellectual unfitness. He gave a dizzyingly vacuous speech (whose title he couldn’t even remember!) that was punctuated by preplanned cheers and songs from a paid crowd of groveling toadies. This…
By Hassan Gimba I believe Nigerians should no longer accept to be fooled by those who use their sentiments to get into office. We must not forget yesterday if we want to correct our today for our tomorrow to be great. On March 26, 2018, when we warned on this page under the screaming headline, ‘Mr President, Nigeria is at War!’, some powerful figures had since told us they had given money to (or empowered the) enemies of Nigeria “to stop banditry”! But it is on record that we said: “Nigeria is in a state of war but it looks…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has condemned the violent attack on his supporters during an expanded stakeholders meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State. Ekweremadu disclosed this in a statement on Sunday signed by his Media Adviser, Uche Anichukwu, and made available to newsmen in Enugu. Recall that the PDP in the council had summoned a stakeholders’ meeting on April 9 at Ndeaboh but the meeting ended in a fiasco during which supporters and associates of the senator were attacked. For instance, Mr. Chinedu Okwu, member representing…
Our Reporter, Abuja Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, said his team “deserved a slap.” An upset Arteta said this after Arsenal blew a great chance of maintaining a tight hold on the fourth position on the Premier League table by falling to a 1-2 defeat at home to Brighton over the weekend. The away club had not won in seven games before their game at the Emirates on Saturday. But once the game kicked off, it was not difficult to see that Brighton showed they wanted it more than their hosts who had succumbed to a surprising 3-0 defeat earlier in…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka. Anglican Archbishop of Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger and Bishop, Diocese of Awka, Most Revd. Alexander Ibezim, has predicted that the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, would be released in May. Ibezim said this Saturday at the 2022 Awka Diocesan annual prayer convention entitled: “This Mountain Shall Be Removed,” held at the premises of Paul University, Awka, Anambra State. The priest prophesied at the event that God would touch the leadership of the country to release the IPOB leader so as to end the killings and destructions in the Southern…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri. Vehicles, houses, electric poles and billboards were destroyed by a heavy windstorm that swept past the Owerri metropolis, in Imo State, Friday night. Ikengaonline captured the situation in some parts of Owerri, especially along Egbu Road and other adjoining streets. One of the badly affected places, the Mbaise Park close to the Federal Housing Estate in Egbu, was a bad sight to behold when Ikengaonline visited the area. Over four vehicles were observed in bad shape with their windows, doors and windscreens shattered. A large billboard was uprooted by the wind and it landed on the vehicles…
Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor). Determined to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket in 2023, aspirants of the number one position in the country from the South-East geo-political zone, have united to win the ticket. The presidential hopefuls who met in Abuja on Saturday, demanded that the PDP ticket be ceded to the zone, which has not tasted power for over 50 years. Those who attended the Abuja parley were former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim; Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa; and Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze. Addressing newsmen after the parley, Senator Anyim, said, “We…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu. Enugu State Government has trained 35 persons as members of the State Task Group on Sanitation, STGS, Special Adviser on Water Resources to Enugu State Governor, Anthony Onyia has said. Onyia disclosed this on Saturday in Enugu during the inauguration of the STGS. The Special Adviser said that the training and inauguration of the group were parts of deliberate efforts to make the state Open Defecation Free, ODF. He commended the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, for putting up the initiative which he said had continued to revive institutions, structures and infrastructure in the state. He said…