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By Chuma Nwokolo  In his book The Trouble with Nigeria, ancestor, Chinua Achebe, wrote ‘the problem with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.’ I think he was wrong. Our biggest problem is the failure of followership. Nigeria will be healed of her troubles if followers were awake to their responsibility to elect, to audit – and where necessary, to recall their political leaders. Unfortunately, the Nigerian followership is asleep.   Today, our land is plagued by bad governance, kidnappings, murders and insecurity. This is the season of both Known and Unknown Gunmen, when young men go to work and…

Our Reporter, Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has apologised profusely for flaunting his ongoing education at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, online, while public universities in the country where he is the number 4 citizen remain under lock and key for over three months because of the Federal Government’s refusal to listen to the striking academic staff. The lawmaker had taken to his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday to share pictures of himself receiving lectures at the prestigious Kennedy School at Harvard, saying one can never be to old to go back to school. If…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has set September 30, as the official date to outlaw dumping of refuse and other waste materials on the road and along the streets of the state. The law, Ikengaonline learnt, was to ensure that Anambra State becomes  one of the cleanest in the country, by December this year. The resolution was made during an interaction between the board of Anambra State Waste Management Authority, ASWAMA, acting chairmen and environmental health officers from all the twenty one local government areas of the state. The meeting, according to the board chairman, Dr Emma Ezenwaji, is to keep them abreast…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has given reasons some cattle were killed at Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, explaining that the affected animals were grazing on people’s farms in violation of the anti-grazing law in the state. IPOB said the killing of the cattle was not targeted against Fulani legitimate business interest but a defense against the criminal activities of herders hiding under cattle rearing to perpetrate insecurity in the area. The pro-Biafra movement  sternly warned Fulani herdsmen against any reprisal attacks on communities in Umunneochi as such would be responded to exponentially. IPOB in…

Michael Onwuka, Enugu Public primary school teachers in Enugu State on Wednesday began an indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the N30, 000 minimum wage in the primary school sub-sector. Recall that the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and its Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) counterpart had on June 21 issued the state and local governments seven days ultimatum to implement the new minimum wage. The two unions threatened a total shutdown of the local government system and primary school sub-sector in Enugu State if the government failed to show commitment at the expiration of the ultimatum. The…

Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor Nigerian Senators, Wednesday, vowed to impeach both President Muhammadu Buhari; and the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan;  over  the festering insecurity in the country. The senators who were enraged over the worsening insecurity in the country staged a walk out from the red chamber to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with Buhari’s handling of security challenges in the country. They chanted, ”All we are saying is Buhari must go, Lawan must Go”, as they staged a walk out from the red chamber.  Lawan stopped the Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, from moving a motion to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari on his failure…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo state Police Command on Wednesday, paraded two suspects Yahaya Samaila ‘male’ 23-year-old and Saminu Abubakar  ‘male’ 24-year-old both of Kware Local Government Area of Sokoto state, for allegedly involved in the snatching of vehicles, armed robbery, unlocking peoples shops to steal their wares at Ama-Hausa community in Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of the state. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, stated this while parading the suspects at the Police Command in Owerri. Police said they were able to arrest the suspects based on the directives from the state Commissioner of Police…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A group known as Peter Obi Support Network (POSN), Austria branch, has asked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC),  Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to focus on their 2023 projects and stop their unwarranted verbal attacks on the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. The group reminded the duo that their continuous derogatory remarks on Obi and the Labour Party, are counter-productive as the attacks rather make the former Anambra State Governor more popular. POSN observed that despite their pretensions both Tinubu and Atiku are jittery over…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Federal Government has remained silent as reactions trail last weekend’s opinion by the United Nations, UN Human Rights Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, requesting Nigeria to “immediately release” the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and also pay him compensations for the violation of his fundamental human rights. Accordingly, Methodist Church Prelate, Bishop Samuel Uche, has urged the Federal Government to initiate negotiations with the IPOB leader, Kanu. Former Chairman of Human Rights Commission, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, however, has reservations whether Nigeria would comply with the UN opinion but said…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Some stories are impossible to wipe from the mind, especially if one had a ringside seat in the unfolding of the macabre act. An old friend ran into me recently at a sporting event, and all he wanted me to recall was the night one of Nigeria’s most flamboyant boxers nearly died under my watch. The shocking near-tragedy happened before my very eyes when I was a young reporter of THISWEEK magazine that was about to hit the newsstands. The editor of the magazine, Sonala Olumhense, had told me not to bother to come to the…