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Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Police Command says its personnel have started combing of forests around Ihube Okigwe area in search of the four Catholic Church sisters abducted Sunday morning by bandits. The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, who confirmed the incident, vowed that the perpetrators would be fished out. “We received a report of that nature. The commissioner of Police has already given direction and we have our men combing that area and enough policemen have been drafted.” Unidentified gunmen on Sunday kidnapped four sisters of the Catholic church, along the Okigwe-Umulolo area. Ikengaonline gathered from…
Our Reporter, Abuja There was a sense of public relief as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Sunday clarified its position, insisting that it has not jettisoned its earlier plans of transmitting the results of the the 2023 general election electronically. The clarification was needed after an interview granted to a national newspaper by Festus Okoye himself gave the impression that INEC would abandon electronic transmission of results in 2023. But in swift reaction, Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC commissioner in charge of information and voter education committee in a statement debunked the suggestion describing what happened as “misunderstanding arising…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia No fewer than 200 youths and women in Ikwuano-Umuahia Federal Constituency of Abia State, have commenced training on fish production and marketing. The five-day training facilitated by Hon. Sam Onuigbo representing the constituency began Thursday at the Kolping Society Umuahia. Hon. Onuigbo said the gesture was aimed at reducing poverty among youths and women in the constituency. He further noted that the training done in collaboration with the National Institute for Cultural Orientation, NICO, focused on making the constituency a major fishery hub in the state. The lawmaker who was represented by his Liaison Officer, Mr Abraham Osondu,…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nearly 10 years ago, in September 2012, the then president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Okey Wali, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was at the beginning of his tenure. With the energy of a fresh presidency, he desired to make a mission of changing the way the association did business. To begin that, he constituted a small committee to examine the operations of NBA. I chaired it. The committee took three months to conduct is work. Over that period, it consulted with a cross-section of leadership, branch structures, members and staff of the secretariat. The report,…
By Owei Lakemfa The Amnesty International which is 61 years having been established in 1961 is up for lunch in angry Ukraine. If you must know, its ‘sins’ are very grave. Those who run the West assume they have Amnesty eating out of their hands. On the other hand, those outside the western ruling class circles like India, China and Syria, see the organisation as the propaganda arm of the West. So much heat was turned on Amnesty in India that the organisation in September 2020 decided to throw in the towel. Sometimes, Amnesty’s wounds are self inflicted such as when…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki In what looks like a clear case of abomination in Igboland, gunmen suspected to be members of Ebonyi chapter of Ebubeagu South-East Security Outfit on Saturday allegedly attacked women holding their August Meeting programme. The incident happened at the Peoples Club along Abakaliki-Enugu Highway in the capital city of Abakaliki. The meeting was said to have been convened by over 17 women groups with a view to empowering the women. The women were said to have gathered from the 13 local government areas of the state in their hundreds when the gunmen stormed the venue and started shooting…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Reactions have trailed the peace pact between Eha-Amufu community in Isiuzo Local Government Area of Enugu State and the Fulani community in the area. Recall that Eha-Amufu has in recent times witness series of kidnap and attack on residents of the community which led to mutual suspicion between members of the host community and the pastoralists in the area. However, a committee with members from both sides was inaugurated and mandated to reconcile the two groups and work out a sustainable solution to the spate of insecurity in the area. The Chairman, Eha-Amufu and Fulani Communities Peace…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government will begin the implementation of the state Anti-Open Grazing Law next month, Ikengaonline reports. The state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo stated this during a meeting with members of Anambra State Cattle Menace Committee, held at the Government House, Awka. The Governor said though the law has been in existence since almost one year ago, cattle herders keep parading certain areas in the state in contravention to the law. While Soludo applauded members of the Committee for their devotion to duty, the Governor said that Anambra operates in social harmony with everyone, including cattle herders but…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to dialogue with the suspended broadcast stations to save many Nigerians from joblessness. NGE expressed concern over the shutting down of over 50 broadcast stations by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for failing to pay their renewal licence fees. In a press statement signed by its President, Mustapha Isah and the General Secretary, Iyobosa Uwugiaren, on Friday, the professional body of all the editors in Nigeria said that the action, if not reversed, will lead to the loss of thousands of jobs in…
By Godwin Onyeacholem The ridiculously lenient sentence recently slapped on Hamisu Bala, also known as Wadume, a broad-spectrum gangster whose specialty is kidnapping for ransom, is a travesty of justice on a grand scale. No question. A measly seven-year jail term courtesy of a federal court in Abuja for a desensitized criminal whose atrocious exploits in one single night led to the cold-blooded murder of four persons including three policemen by a band of soldiers who had been hand in glove with him in sowing sorrow in Taraba State and the surrounding areas, must be another disturbing entry in the…