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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Senator Victor Umeh, the former senator representing Anambra Central senatorial district says God has anointed the candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, to lead the country after the 2023 general election. Umeh made this known in a brief interview with Ikengaonline in Awka, the Anambra State capital on Sunday. The former All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, national chairman noted that Obi’s growing popularity ahead of the 2023 election is a sign that God has anointed him to rule the country. He likened Obi’s emergence to the biblical story of the birth of Jesus Christ where God…
Our Reporter, Abuja The clouds in the art community in Nigeria and indeed across the globe were darkened Sunday with news of the shocking passing of the famous director of Half of a Yellow Sun, Biyi Bandele at age 54. The writer’s death was announced in a statement signed by his daughter Temi Bandele. The statement reads, “I am heartbroken to share the sudden and unexpected death on Sunday 7th of August in Lagos of my father Biyi Bandele. “Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and film-maker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father. He was a storyteller…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Nigeria Police Force has announced the dismissal of PC Liyomo Okoi with Force No. 524503 over gross misconduct. The Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Ikengaonline reports that Okoi was until his dismissal attached to Ekori Divisional Headquarters, Cross Rivers Police Command. He was captured in a viral video on July 31, 2022 where he was flogging a man with a machete. Meanwhile, Adejobi said that his dismissal was with immediate effect. He said that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba was committed to ensuring…
By Hassan Gimba “The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonourably, foolishly, viciously.” ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot Till the rivers run dry and the world ceases to exist, problems shall never end. Problems became part of man the moment he took a bite of that apple and was banished to earth to come and find the solution that would take him back. And so, seeking solutions to problems must be our eternal habit. However, just as Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were…
By Jude Eze Physicians and other healthcare professionals are in a position to refer business to a variety of individuals and entities: specialists, companies, home health agencies, and others. But what criteria are used when deciding where patient referrals should go? Is it always what is in the best interest of the patient? Are there other motivating factors? How ethical are those ‘motivating’ factors? Have you ever reported sick to a clinic and found yourself being referred to another clinic for a particular procedure, be it diagnostic or curative? Chances are high that someone has made thousands off your coffers…
Our Reporter, Abuja Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has dissociated himself from a viral social media video showing members of the Pyrates Confraternity mocking the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a song while in a procession. In a statement on Monday, Mr Soyinka said he was “frankly appalled” at the lyrics of the song describing it as “distasteful.” In the said video, the Pyrates’ members, who are marking the 70th anniversary of the group this year, in their traditional red and white regalia, can be heard singing a song about a presidential candidate whose “hands and feet are shaking, yet he is…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Archbishop Metropolitan, and Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), His Grace, the Most Revd. Dr. Henry Ndukuba, has said the infant and maternal healthcare are still a big burden on Nigeria. Primate Ndukuba stated this during the weekend at the official dedication of College of Nursing Sciences, Awka, built by the Diocese of Awka, Anglican communion, Anambra State. Delivering his homily at the occasion, the Primate said the country is still backward in its healthcare deliveries despite the recent innovations and developments across countries of the world. He further decried that infant and maternal mortality rate…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Political office seekers in Abia State hoping to use the youths to rig themselves into office in 2023 may be in for a shocker as the youths have declared that the era of mortgaging their future for a piece of bread is over. The youths who vowed to take their destiny in their hands in 2023, gave red car to bad leaders and greedy politicians holding the state to ransom. They have sworn never again to allow few individuals who allocate to themselves the powers of God to decide the future of youths in the state. Leaders of different youth…
By Owei Lakemfa Professor Akinlawon ‘Akin’ Ladipo Mabogunje was an African institution established for all-round development. He is also widely accepted as the Father of African Geography. By 2000, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, was fed up with the National Housing Fund, NHF, which in the eleven years of its establishment had failed to deliver on mass housing for workers. Under the scheme, all those earning the National Minimum Wage and above, contributed 2.5 per cent of their monthly income. Although workers had contributed about N6 billion to the fund, the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, which administered the fund…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The former gubernatorial aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Engr Sunday Opoke, has emerged the Governorship Candidate of Young Peoples Party YPP for 2023 general election. The election was conducted for the purpose of substitution in accordance with the new electoral act. The YPP National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ogbeola Olawale Martins Stated this while announcing Mr Opoke the winner of the substitution election at the party Secretariat in Abakaliki the state capital. Ogbeola said the election was hitch free “in accordance with the guidelines of the new Electoral Law, it stipulates that every political party must organise Primary Elections…