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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has appointed Mustafa Chike-Obi as Board Chairman of Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency, ANSIPPA. He also named Chinedu Onyiuke as the Secretary of the newly constituted Board. Other members include the MD/CEO, ANSIPPA, Mr. Mark Okoye; Attorney General, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje; Commissioner for Finance, Mr Ifeatu Onejeme; Commissioner for Lands, Prof Offornze Amucheazi; SAN, and Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Chiamaka Nnake. Others include the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, Mr. Obinna Ngonadi; Mr Sammy Chidoka; Mr Christian Udechukwu; Dr. Marcel Offormata; and Dr. Emeka Okeke; respectively. ANSIPPA was set up by law in 2014 with…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki A 32 years old man, Arinze Chukwu, has reportedly hacked his mother to death with an axe in Ndieze community, Okpoto Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It was gathered that the 60-year-old woman had reported Arinze to be reprimanded for his bad behaviours, following which the youths of the community tied him up at the village square. Arinze, upon his release by the youths was said to have hit his mother with an axe out of rage on September 17. The aged father of the defendant, Anthony Chukwu, confirmed that his son (Arinze) killed his wife…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia. A total of 18 candidates have been shortlisted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2023 governorship poll in Abia State. Out of the 18 successful candidates on the INEC’s final list published Tuesday at the INEC headquarters in Umuahia, only two candidates are females while 16 are males. Analysis of the male-dominated list by Ikengaonline, shows that it  has only four females as deputy governorship candidates while the rest are males. Some of the governorship candidates include Professor Uche Ikonne of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party;  his running mate, Hon. Okey Igwe; Professor Greg Ibe…

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…