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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki There has been total blackout across the South-East as staff of electricity companies commenced strike on Wednesday. Spokesperson of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), Emeka Ezeh, stated this in a statement on Wednesday. The strike was called by National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) over welfare issues. Mr Ezeh said that all feeders in the five South-Eastern states were out due to the situation. “The industrial strike action embarked upon by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) power stations, operations across the franchise area of the Enugu…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State, Tochukwu Okorie has hailed the judgement of the Court of Appeal which restored him as the substantive Chairman of the party in Ebonyi State. The Court of Appeal Abuja Division had nullified and set aside the judgement of the FHC of April 13, 2022 which installed Mr. Silas Onu as Chairman PDP Ebonyi State chapter and restored Okorie as substantive Chairman of the party in the state. In a unanimous decision, the 3-man panel of Justices held that the trial court erred when it assumed jurisdiction to…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Brigadier General Adegoke Adetuyi, has assumed duties as the new Commander of 14 Brigade Nigerian Army Ohafia, Abia State. He took over from Brigadier General Abu-mawashi who has been redeployed. According to a press release by Lieutenant Innocent Omale, 14 Brigade Public Relations Officer, the handing and taking over event took place at the Brigade Headquarters Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Barracks, Ohafia, on Tuesday, August 16. According to the release, Brigadier General Adetuyi, during the handover ceremony, appreciated the out-gone Commander for his efforts and the successes recorded under his watch. The new Commander promised to maintain the momentum…
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my alma-mater Great Ife (University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University) after I had graduated from the school where Prof Wole Soyinka was our Head of Department. The fire of creative arts burnt in him relentlessly, and he was from the beginning determined to conquer the world of literature. He won the International Student Playwriting Competition with his play “Rain,” and travelled to London to receive the prize and did not return to his studies at…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Chancellor of Gregory University Uturu and Abia State governorship flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Prof Greg Ibe, has said that any Government that fails to regularly pay health workers is toying with the lives of it citizens. The governorship hopeful who said this at the commencement of his free medical/surgical outreach at Ohafia, expressed worry over the collapsing health sector in the state. He noted that no responsible government should joke with the critical sector to avoid the miserable consequences of collapse of the sector. Professor Ibe who was represented by his running mate, and…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Gunmen, Tuesday, struck in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, at a popular Ogbaku market located along Owerri/Onitsha Road, killing a motorcyclist, whose identity is yet-to-be known, This came a few hours after the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Usman Baba, landed in Imo State to commission Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC, donated by the state government under Governor Hope Uzodimma to improve the security of lives and property in the state. An eyewitness who spoke to Ikengaonline said the incident happened in the morning hours. He could not say exactly the reason the motorcyclist was killed but he confirmed that…
By Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri As many aggrieved Imo citizens wondered why Justice Inyang Ekwo, the trial judge in the N2.9 billion fraud case which the EFCC brought against the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, allowed him to ‘travel’ to the United Kingdom for Medicare instead of directing him to use one of the 27 general hospitals he bequeathed to the state, Ikengaonline decided to ascertain the condition of those hospitals by visiting at least two in each of the three senatorial districts in the state. What our Reporter, Nonsochukwu Uwa, uncovered is a haven for rodents, reptiles and drug users. You must have heard the former…
By Ike Okonta Professor Patrick Utomi graciously received Chiedu Ezeanah, the poet and journalist, and me in his hotel suite in Rockview Hotel, Abuja, on a rainy Friday evening in early July. Professor Utomi had just come in from the Channels Television’s studio where he had fielded questions from Seun Okinbaloye, anchor of the television network’s politics programme. The subject was the Labour Party and Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate. As usual Professor Utomi was passionate, lucid and brilliant, making the case that Peter Obi represented an epochal shift in Nigerian politics, a rare opportunity for the younger generation to…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Efforts for the economic recovery of the South-East geo-political zone have received a major boost following the resolve of an international group of investors, Zenith Environmental and Social Protection Network, ZESPRONET, to embark on Trans South-Eastern Gas Pipeline. The project according to the investors, will provide uninterrupted energy supply to the region replete with a lot of enterprises. President of the group of investors, Dr. Emeka Oji, who disclosed this in Abuja said the group was poised to make the South-East a major industrial hub in the West African sub-region. He noted that if the energy needs of…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Popular philanthropist and Chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) High Chief Azubuike Ekweozor, has empowered five individuals to mark his birthday at Umuawulu community, Awka South Local Government area, Anambra State. Chief Ekweozor, a Maritime expert, who cuts a key figure in his community for his philanthropy and penchant for community development embarked on the empowerment to enrich the masses with fresh hope. The beneficiaries were empowered through Ide Global Movement, a foundation set up for his philanthropy and other think-home philosophy activities in his community. They were gifted automobiles including three shuttle buses, a Toyota corolla saloon…