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Stephen Ukandu, News & Features Editor President Muhammadu Buhari, has said he has no “anointed candidate” ahead of the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. The President stated this while addressing Northern APC Governors at Aso Rock ahead of the primaries. Speaking at a meeting with the Governors at the State House, Abuja, President Buhari said “the party is important and its members must be respected, and made to feel they are important.” According to a release by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President also reiterated his resolve…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri No fewer than thirteen persons on Monday were rushed to the Specialists hospital Umuguma in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo state after they were found lying unconscious in a room. About five of them were allegedly to be confirmed dead at the hospital. Eyewitnesses gave different versions of the tragic story that took place in a room at Obokwu/Umuekpu village in Obinze, Owerri West LGA in the State. Among the victims, was said to be the Chief Driver of the Imo East Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Onyeagocha, whose name was…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police operatives in Anambra State have gunned down the leader of a kidnap gang and arrested five other gang members in Anambra State. Among the arrested criminals was a native doctor believed to be preparing charms for the suspected hoodlums causing havoc in the state. Ikengaonline learnt that the suspected kidnap leader was killed when his gang’s effort to kidnap someone was resisted by gallant security operatives on Sunday. Eyewitness account said the assailants, numbering about four, had stormed the Oko community in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of the state where they planned to execute the…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Senator Obinna Ogba, representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone, has won the rescheduled governorship primary election of the Ebonyi Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The election was held on Sunday at the party’s secretariat in Abakaliki, capital of the State The accreditation of delegates and voting began around 8 pm on Sunday and ran into the early hours of Monday. Five hundred and thirteen delegates from the 171 wards of the 13 LGAs of the state took part in the primary election. Chief Chris Okolo, Chairman of the Electoral Panel, said that Ogba polled 253 votes to…
Our Reporter, Abuja Contrary to some reports making the rounds, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, was not involved in any accident today, Ikengaonline can confirm. According to a statement by Richard Akinnola, Chairman Pastor Yemi Osinbajo (PYO) Media Council, the Vice President was on his way to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport enroute to Owo this morning over the terrorist attack yesterday when his convoy ran into an accident scene. The Vice President thereafter ordered his convoy to stop and his ambulance used to convey the victims to hospital. He was to continue to his journey after boarding his…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Senator Rochas Okorocha representing Imo West Senatorial district and one of the 2023 Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday described as “a wicked act” the killings of over 50 people by gunmen at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State, last Sunday. Okorocha made this statement through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo to newsmen in Owerri. Okorocha a former governor of Imo state said those behind the killings are living a life of double standard. According to Okorocha’s statement, “The former Governor of lmo state, and Senator Representing lmo West…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has condemned the attack by gunmen on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, describing it as cowardly and satanic. Soludo said the attack on the innocent worshippers amounted to a declaration of war against the country and her innocent citizens by terrorist elements. The governor, in a statement by his Press Secretary, Mr Christian Aburime, decried the rising incidences of attacks against Nigerians by criminal elements, stressing that the hoodlums should no longer be allowed to get away with their nefarious acts. He said: “The rising spate of attacks…
By Owei Lakemfa This is one of the most engaging seasons in the life or history of this country; when federal and state governments and our political leaders at all levels are engaged in succession politics which can also slide into secession politics. This is the season of party primaries and nothing else matters. This is the time big political guns are rolled out and war chests opened to allow hoarded dollars and naira flow. This is the only explanation I can give for the dead silence on armed bandits operating for days long on the Kaduna–Birin Gwari highway unchallenged…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Justice Alexious Okuma of Atani High Court has directed the Anambra State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Dr. Christian Ngonadi, and other officials of the Ministry to stop harassing the Chairman of Ogbaru Main Market, Chief Ndubuisi Ochiogu, and the members of his executive committee with security operatives. Justice Okuma issued the order over the weekend when the case brought by the Ochiogu-led executive against the Commissioner for Commerce and Attorney-General of the State came up for hearing at Onitsha High Court. The directive came following complaints by the counsel to the leadership of Ogbaru Main market, Chief Ben…
By Uche Ugboajah The strongman and leader of South-West politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been at the receiving end of all manner of attacks in the past few days, including from members of his own political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). The attacks are coming not only from those who hate him, those who secretly admire his guts, those who fear him, but also from those who have been eating from him for a long time. But what exactly did Tinubu do to warrant the kind of bile that has been lately unleashed on him? The offence of…