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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Zone 9 Police Command, has said that operatives from the command were not involved in the alleged sealing off of Zenith bank branches in Imo following a garnishee order to recover N1. 9 billion owed former Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere. Madumere was Deputy Governor to Senator Rochas Okorocha and was impeached after dumping the All Progressives Congress, APC, to contest for governorship under the platform of another party in 2015. National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Owerri, had in the early hours of Thursday, sealed off branches of Zenith bank within the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia. The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has urged Nigerians to embrace the use of bicycles as means of movement in view of the numerous health benefits, as well as to help decongest the roads. Abia State Sector Commandant of FRSC, Mr. Paul Ugwu, who made the appeal in Umuahia during a rally to commemorate this year’s World Bicycle Day, also said that the use of bicycle helps in burning off unnecessary fats in the body. He enumerated some of the benefits of bicycle riding to include:”reduction of carbon emission, reduction of expenses on fuel and improvement on…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said that the much-needed peace in Nigeria will remain elusive in the face of injustice against certain sections of the country. The Governor who featured in an exclusive interview, “Nigeria now with Dickson Iroegbu,” in Abuja, noted that the agitation for self determination being championed by the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was as a result of glaring injustice being perpetrated against the South-East by the Nigerian Government. According to him, “It is difficult to find peace wherever injustice pesters. Nnamdi Kanu is saying that…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka About five hundred girls and women of child bearing age, Friday, received training on menstrual hygiene in Anambra State. The training was in commemoration of this year’s World Menstrual Hygiene Day. It was organized by the Keystone Bank Limited in Partnership with Whispering Hope Africa Initiative, WHAI Africa. The event held at the Civic Center, Ama Umueri, Anambra East and was attended by female students, youths and women of child bearing age and other members of the community. The participants were trained on menstrual Hygiene, dangers of pre marital sex, school drop out and early marriage and…
Our Reporter, Abuja The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Federal University of Lokoja, Kogi State, Senator Chris Adighije, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-East as he makes his final decisions on consensus Adighije, a chieftain of APC, and leader Abia State APC stakeholders, made the plea in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday. According to him, a South-East APC presidential candidate would invariably end the feelings of the civil war and integrate properly and peacefully the South-Easterner in the entity called Nigeria.…
VERY recently, there was a news report in Ikengaonline and other news outlets concerning the Enugu West senatorial district. In that report, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant for the senate, Senator Ben-Collins Ndu, had gone to meet the party delegates of the senatorial district in a bid to persuade them to vote for him in the primary election.What the senatorial aspirant did was exactly what the tenets of democracy prescribe given that power in a democracy resides in the people – what is more accurately defined as popular sovereignty. And that is most probably where the PDP got its slogan,…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Members of the Concerned Emudo Development Union— National (EDUN) Stakeholders Forum in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State have raised concern over possible breakdown of law and order in their community. The Coordinator of the group, Mr Udeinya Ukegbu disclosed this on Friday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the security concerns in the community. Ukegbu said that it had become necessary to speak out and seek Government’s intervention following the succession crisis rocking Emudo Nenwe Community. He said that the community had known no peace since the death of their traditional ruler several years ago,…
Our Reporter, Abuja After the screening of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants, supporters of former President Goodluck Jonathan stormed the National Secretariat on Friday, demanding that the party adopts him (Jonathan) as consensus candidate. The party had earlier distanced itself from Jonathan, stating that he was not in the list of the presidential aspirants. Among the 23 names submitted to the Screening Committee led by the former National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the name of the former President, Jonathan, was not included. However, the supporters who were at the Headquarters of APC said, “We are calling on the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Campaign Organisation of a leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has accused the opposition and traducers of the former Lagos State Governor of twisting his fair comments at a campaign ground in Ogun State to pitch him against President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu was quoted as saying at the event that he made Buhari to become President in 2015. But the Campaign Organisation, in a statement on Friday by Director Media & Communications, Bayo Onanuga, claimed that the political enemies of the APC National Leader, were mischievously misconstruing his statement. Below is a full text of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Ex-Biafran General, Alexander Madiebo, is dead. He died at the ripe age of 90. General Madiebo was a former Chief of Staff of the Biafran Army who played heroic role in defending Biafrans against the federal forces in the 33-month war. A statement released by his family expressed sadness over his demise. The statement which did not give much information on how the ex-Biafran General passed on simply read: “We are sad to announce the passing of General Alexander Madiebo, Chief of Staff of the Biafran Army and the last of the three titans. He was 90. “For condolence call please…