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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has reiterated his calls to the people of the state living outside to bring their investments home. This, he said, would help in the overall development of the state. Governor Soludo made the call during a town hall meeting with Anambra businessmen and women resident at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Ikengaonline reports that Soludo made similar calls to Ndi Anambra resident in Lagos few weeks ago. He specifically enjoined the business owners and investors of Anambra extraction to imbibe the homeland consciousness by repatriating home their investments to begin the foundational…
The war child to speak on insecurity in the South-East Our Reporter, Abuja On July 27, 2023, Ikengaonline, your online news platform intentionally focused on the South-East of Nigeria, will hold the July edition of its monthly Town-hall meeting. The townhall meetings have become a veritable platform where conversations on topical issues that affect the South-East in particular and Nigeria in general hold. The Guest Speaker for the July edition of the Town-hall is none other than the erudite scholar, Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, who simply refers to himself as “a war child born an adult.” Professor Odinkalu will…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The National President of the Association of Igbo Town Unions, ASITU, Emeka Diwe, has called on President Bola Tinubu to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, because it was an order of a competent court that he should be freed by law and not based on mercy. Diwe disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Owerri, on Friday regarding the call that Kanu should be released based on political mercy. According to ASITU, “During the past administration, President Muhammadu Buhari pledged to obey the court ruling on…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Commissioner for Project Monitoring in Ebonyi State, Felix Igboke, has written to the Ebonyi Election Petition Tribunal seeking to withdraw a suit he filed challenging Mr Nkemkanma Kama’s election to represent Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency. Mr Igboke was the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the said Federal House of Representatives Constituency election. He however lost to Mr Kama, who was the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the election. Mr Igboke had dragged Kama to the Tribunal challenging the results of the said election. But in a statement, the Commissioner announced his decision to withdraw the matter. He…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Former Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has called on government and corporate organisations to strengthen and expand the reach and number of diseases being treated in the Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC). “This move will greatly assist millions of poor people access quality and essential healthcare, which their out of pockets expenditure cannot cover,” Adewole said on Thursday in an opening remark at the 2023 Amaka Chiwuike-Uba International Asthma Conference (ACUBIAC 2023). The Conference, which was organised by the Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF), is themed: “COVID-19 and the Future in the Past: Health Financing and Universal…
Our Reporter, Abuja The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo Thursday night in Abuja called on Anambra people to develop homeland consciousness and seize the opportunities his government is providing to develop the state to invest. Soludo was speaking at a town hall meeting with Anambra people, which took place at Bolton White Event Centre in Abuja. The event was chaired by the the chairman of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria (EEDC), Sir Emeka Offor, who rallied support of the Anambra elite, particularly the National Assembly members from the state, for the governor. In his address delivered in…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, has exposed how his predecessor, Okezie Ikpeazu is in desperate efforts to surreptitiously procure court order to escape the on-going investigation of his administration. Otti had penultimate week, inaugurated a Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the Recovery of Government Properties and Funds belonging to Abia State from 2015 to May, 2023. According to Otti, the former Governor who is uncomfortable with the establishment of the panel, has been shopping for court order in Abuja to stop the panel. “Unfortunately for Ikpeazu, every effort to surreptitiously obtain an order of the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Thursday, ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to allow the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, access to his personal physicians and medical records. Justice Nyako ruled that the objections by the DSS against Kanu lacked merit. The court held that the IPOB Leader was constitutionally entitled to have access to his medical records as well as his doctors. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2341/2022, filed by his team of lawyers led by Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, Kanu had applied for an…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the devastating activities of erosion menace in his constituency, the member representing Bende North state constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Nnamdi Ibekwe, has called for a declaration of state of emergency on erosion in the area. The call is coming days after the PDP lawmaker said that erosion sacked some villages in Umuenyere Alayi Community in Bende Local Government Area. Addressing newsmen in Umuahia over the latest incident, the lawmaker who decried the threat posed by erosion in the area called for quick Government intervention According to him, over five houses…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A family of six comprising a man, his wife, two children, mother-in-law and an apprentice have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous fumes from generating set. The incident happened at their residence in Nkwele Ezunaka, close to the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State. According to reports, the man identified as Ifeanyi from Enugu State, a trader at Onitsha Bridge Head Market, had planned a surprise package of moving into a new apartment for his wife who put to bed few days ago. A family source said it was same night they moved into the apartment to…