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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has raised concern over the infrastructural deficiencies in Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu. The Chairman of NAGAFF in Enugu State, Mr Raymond Okonkwo disclosed this on Friday in an interview with Ikengaonline in Enugu. Okonkwo said the non-completion of the terminal building in the international wing of the facility had limited the capacity of the airport as well as limited the business potential of the area. He called on the Federal Government to deliver the project without further delay in order to get the international wing functional. He…
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Part of tendering a sincere apology is to deliver an honest assessment of one’s sins. I am one of those pretentious Nigerians often seen all over the world who are full of themselves. We carry on our shoulders a fake intellectual sophistication that makes us look at Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a man of great moral courage and integrity, and we call him a buffoon. Yes, I said it. Ike Ekweremadu is a learned gentleman. We just don’t understand him. Who would have known that the man cared until he showed it by the extent he went to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Elders Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has told the Senate that the group would be ready to defend Ekweremadu, in court in London where he is currently detained with his wife over alleged organ harvesting. This was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, dated 5th July 2022, signed by the Chairman Elders Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Friday. Ohanaeze among other things said that the apex Igbo socio-cultural body is prepared to defend any honest and patriotic citizen whose rights and freedom are being unduly trampled upon anywhere…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Just as Ikengaonline had reported, the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has finally unveiled Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, as his running mate for the 2023 poll. This has laid to rest, weeks of speculations and consultations on the matter. It has also formally ended the controversial negotiations on a possible joint ticket with Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. The unveiling of Baba-Ahmed which took place in Abuja on Friday, came less than 24 hours after the withdrawal of Doyin Okupe, who had earlier occupied the position in holding capacity. Ikengaonline gathered that…
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday. Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, was cleared of fraud by the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona. Platini, a former France national team captain and manager, was also acquitted of fraud. The two, once among the most powerful figures in world football, had denied the charges against them. Prosecutors had accused Blatter, a Swiss who led FIFA for 17 years, and Platini of unlawfully arranging for FIFA to pay the Frenchman two…
By Owei Lakemfa Africa for centuries has been entangled in European conflicts and wars in which they suffer from both sides. The most terrible for Africans was the Second World War for which youths, including high school kids from various parts of the continent, were conscripted and many never returned home. In Nigeria, it was known as the ‘Burma War’ because that was the war theatre where many of our grandfathers were forced to fight a war they knew nothing about. African resources were seized to fund that war which like the first, was essentially, an All-European War in which the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has ordered the sanctioning of security operatives involved in the manhandling of a cleric, Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje. Odumeje is the General Overseer of Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry. His church was Thursday demolished for being built on drainage channel, while the pastor was brutalised by security operatives, when he attempted to disrupt the exercise. But Governor Soludo in a statement has condemned the brutalization of the cleric, saying he has ordered sanction on the security men involved. He said: “Yesterday’s outing has evoked emotions, not against…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Security has been beefed up around Abia State, as a former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, buries his late wife, Elder Mrs Felicia Edeomola Wabara, on Saturday, in his Ohambele, Ukwa East Local Government Area. Speaking with Ikengaonline on the security arrangement, Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Zone 9, Mr George Okafor, said adequate security measures had been put in place to ensure the safety of guests to the event. He said that Operational Order had been drawn, and security operatives deployed both around the venue of the burial and hotels as well as critical locations…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has condemned reports making rounds in some social media, alleging ‘budget-padding’ in ongoing right-sizing of the state’s budget. Soludo in a statement released by his press secretary, Christian Aburime on Thursday, described the reports as misinformation and falsehood. According to him, the peddlers were those who have lost out in milking the state treasury. “These are the handiwork of losers and detractors. The misinformation should evoke pity for the purveyors in the light of the manifest ignorance boldly couriered in every paragraph of the hasty piece of distraction. Bad as it is, no credible reporter…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Federal Government and other security agencies in the country to desist from luring Nigerians into unnecessary war and crisis. The separatist group gave the warning in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful. It accused the government and security forces of syndicating bandits in the North to attack Kuje correctional centre in Abuja. It also claimed that the security agencies especially the military and DSS agents are in a covert action detailing a systematic strategy to eliminate IPOB members detained in the correctional center. According to…