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Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday assigned portfolios to the seven Minister-designates after swearing them in. The President also effected a minor cabinet reshuffle before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council. The Senate had last week cleared all seven Minister nominees sent to it earlier by the President. Below is a list of the new Ministers and their portfolios: Sen. Adeleke Mamora – Science and Technology Mu’azu Jaji Sambo – Minister of Transportation Umanna Okon Umanna – Minister of Niger Delta Sharon Ikeazor – Minister of State for Niger Delta Senator Gbemisola Saraki – Minister of State for Mines and Steel…
Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor The whereabouts of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, remains unknown after gunmen suspected to be terrorists attacked Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, on Tuesday night. Kyari was among the high-profile inmates in the facility before the terror attack. About 600 inmates were said to have escaped after the attack which lasted for hours. Ikengaonline gathered that Kuje prison is used for holding high-profile inmates and suspects, including former governors and ministers. According to officials, the facility houses over 900 inmates. One person was said to have died and three others injured during the attack. A…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A highly-talented Imo youth, Wisdom Ofaja, who produced a remote-controlled prototype armoured tank in 10 days has appealed for assistance to enable him pursue his career in the university. The young innovator who hails from Obike Community in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, told Ikengaonline that his “desire is to study mechanical engineering in the university.” Our Correspondent ran into the 25-year old at Okpara Square Umuahia where he was manipulating his innovation to the admiration of the people. Ofaja who said he just wrote his Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination at BTC Aba, also said he…
Stephen Ukandu, News and Features Editor Unspecified number of inmates were feared missing as gunmen suspected to be terrorists, Tuesday night, attacked the Nigerian Correctional Service Centre Kuje, Abuja. The attack by the heavily armed group occurred around 10:00 pm according to media reports. Some high profile inmates at the centre including celebrity policeman, Abba Kyari, have been relocated from the facility after the attack. The Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed the attack on the Custodial Centre. In a statement by its spokesperson, Umar Abubakar, in the early hours of Wednesday, the Service said the armed squad of the service in…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The much expected alliance between the Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP for the 2023 presidential poll, is dead and buried, Ikengaonline can authoritatively report. This was confirmed by the Director-General of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe. According to Okupe, who is the ‘placeholder’ as Obi’s running mate, the merger talks died about a month ago following the inability of the NNPP negotiators to respond convincingly to a genuine question raised by the LP camp. Okupe who featured on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television, Tuesday night, disclosed that…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo, is dead. His sudden death occurred around 11:00pm, hours after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari who had honoured him at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced Barkindo’s death in a tweet he posted to his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday. Kyari tweeted:“We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo. He died at about 11pm yesterday 5th July 2022. Certainly a great loss to his immediate family,…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, Monday removed his Obingwa Council Chairman, Hon. Michael Ibe Nwoke from office, and swore in his deputy, Mrs Uloma Nwogu, as his replacement. His removal is coming barely 10 days the former Council boss dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on whose platform he was elected. Mrs Nwogu was sworn in by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu at the Executive Council chamber of Government House Umuahia. Obingwa LGA is Gov. Ikpeazu’s home LGA, and political watchers see the Council boss’ defection to YPP as a spite on the Governor which he is unlikely to stomach.…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Amid growing insecurity in the country, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has raised alarm that forests in southern Nigeria have been surrounded by infiltrators. He, therefore, warned communities in southern Nigeria particularly the South-East, to as a matter of urgency, mobilise their youths to comb every forest in their locality. Prince Emmanuel who raised the alarm while speaking with our Correspondent, said it had become imperative for communities to comb their environments following credible intelligence that forests in the zone have been infiltrated and taken…
Constance Meju Rising cases of vandalization of national infrastructure and insecurity is creating serious concerns for stakeholders as it constitutes a threat to national security. Efforts are now being made to address this through broad-based dialogues where collective perspectives and suggestions for solutions would be collated for policies that can be identified by all with a spirit of responsibility towards protecting national infrastructures and assets. This was the main thrust of a recent press briefing on the South South Zonal Stakeholders Summit on Domesticating Stakeholders Statutory Responsibilities in Protecting Nigeria’s Critical Infrastructures and Assets billed for Presidential Hotel Port Harcourt,…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Abia State, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, has dismissed as impostors, former National Chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie; and Edozie Njoku, who parades himself as the party’s presidential candidate. Ehiemere said that Okorie had long ceased to be a member of the party following his defection to other parties. This is as Ehiemere has urged the people of South-East to support APGA “and make it a regional party for power negotiations so that the zone will not continue to be political orphans going cap in hand begging for recognition.”…