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By Owei Lakemfa President Bola Tinubu is being praised to the high heavens for the alleged giant strides and courageous decisions he had taken in the first four weeks of his government. The international community led by the World Bank have also been full of praises, claiming that the confidence of international investors is being restored. The triumphant song out there is that President Tinubu hit the ground running. I went back to see where he hit the ground and found some debris. Otherwise, the aircraft appears in perfect condition. So the debris might just be a few loose panels…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka An activist and National Coordinator, Association of Persons Living With Sickle Cell Disorder (APLSCD), Mrs Aisha Edward-Maduagwu has called on Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to consider retrieving the State’s ministry of women and children affairs from certain cabals in the state. The activist also advocated for appointment of a man as commissioner to oversee the affairs of the ministry. Mrs Edward-Maduagwu made the call in recent interview held at Sickle Cell Orphanage Home, Agulu, Anaocha LGA of Anambra State She argued that it was the best way to retrieve the ministry from people trying to run…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The people of Eke Community in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State have alleged the killing of a volunteer member of its neighborhood vigilante and a house wife from the community by soldiers. Narrating what transpired on Sunday, Mr Emeka Anigbo, Assistant Chief Security Officer of Eke Security Neighbourhood Vigilante Watch, who is still grieving over gun shots pain, said they were at 9th Mile Corner on Thursday night when they got a distress call that armed robbers blocked the major road leading to the popular Catholic Church Prayer Center (Ugwudinso) and Eke, from Ama Breweries.…
As Anambra govt drops Mmesoma, honours Nkechinyere There’s more to the story – Innoson Our Reporter, Abuja with Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has publicly disowned, and vowed to prosecute one Ejikeme Mmesoma, said to be the highest scorers in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for allegedly manipulating her score from 249 to 362. But Innoson Group, which had honoured the embattled young girl and offered her a scholarship had said there is more to the story promising to conduct its own independent investigation on the matter before taking any action. JAMB said the…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Since well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic, On Violence, called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry.” “Bandits” is a conveniently capacious bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria that precludes necessary questions as to the provenance of the descent into lawlessness. It captures diverse elements that may include terrorists, cultists, herdsmen, kidnappers, criminal gangs, and militants. Originally applied to the motorcycle gangs who perpetrate carnage in different parts of Nigeria’s north-west, bandits…
Says group being impersonated in Anambra Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Vigilante Group (AVG) has denied reports that its Ojoto community vigilante commander was responsible for the abduction and killing of Christian Oluchukwu Onah, a commercial motorcyclist in Ojoto, Idemili South, Anambra State. Onah is a 25-year-old tricycle rider from Ovoko community, Igbo-Eze South LGA, Enugu State but resident in Oba, Idemili South LGA of the State. The said commander alongside two others it was reported were recently apprehended for their alleged involvement in the murder of Onah and throwing his corpse into Mmili John Ojoto, a popular river…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer than eight passengers were Saturday crushed to death in a ghastly road accident in Umunya, Odumodu Junction, in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. Ikengaonline learned that the accident occurred as a result of over-speeding; and involved two trailer trucks, one Sienna bus, one black Toyota car, all of which were badly damaged. A commercial motorcyclist who claimed he was close to the scene of the accident said one of the trucks involved, lost its breaks while traveling from Onitsha to Enugu. “I was waiting for passengers when I suddenly saw a trailer coming…
By Fr Anokwuru Christian Uche John Okiyi Kalu. Remember the name? The man who told us what a wonderful governor Okezie Ikpeazu was; how he had “totally transformed Abia;” the fellow who never stopped talking about the “kinetic” performances of “our dynamic governor.” Strangely, while Okiyi Kalu spent his waking hours itemising the “achievements” of the Ikpeazu administration, our pensioners and civil servants were dying in thousands. Reason: Kalu’s master refused to pay them their genuine entitlements. So this man literally endorsed the mass murder of elderly pensioners and middle aged civil servants. If closing his eyes and mouth to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Fear has gripped residents around Amaraku Market in the Isiala Mbano council area of Imo State, following the stealing of a 7-month-old baby by a suspected child traffic syndicate on Friday. An eyewitness a female trader, who did not want her name mentioned, narrated the incident saying that the suspected child trafficker, targeted the crying baby strapped on her mother’s back (a trader) in her shop struggling to sell her foodstuff. The suspect approached the woman and offered to assist her carry the crying baby and even collected a wrapper from the mother of the child. But in the process,…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The whereabouts of an industrialist detained at the Nigerian Correctional Service, Onitsha has become a source of worry to the people of Abba community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. The community, where award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie comes from, claimed that some persons are behind the sudden disappearance of one Chief Pius Nweke, an Abba son and the holder of the title of ‘Ikemba of Abba.’ Chief Nweke has been in detention at the Nigerian Correctional Service centers after the Federal High Court, Awka presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba sentenced him to 10 years…