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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Abia State Government has confirmed three cases of monkey-pox in the state, adding that five samples are currently under investigation. The contact cases have, however, according to Government sources been treated and discharged from the hospital. Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Osuji, who confirmed this while speaking with Ikengaonline on Thursday, however, said the situation was under control. He identified Aba North, Ikwuano and Umuahia South Local Government Areas as the LGAs where the cases were reported. The Commissioner said that Government was leaving nothing to chance in its spirited efforts to put the disease under check. He explained that the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Armed bandits suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, Thursday went berserk in the South-East as they opened fire on motorists at Lomara in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State. This is coming four days that bandits also suspected to be herdsmen blocked the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway at Leru/Ihube Okigwe axis, between Abia and Imo border. All occupants of three vehicles were reportedly abducted by the hoodlums during the Saturday attack while a military van was also allegedly burnt when a team of soldiers stormed the scene following distress call. A woman was seen in a viral video jubilating around…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The soaring cost of living following the continued nosediving of the Nigeria economy is taking a toll on orphanage homes as the Motherless Babies’ Home, Ahieke Ndume, Umuahia, Abia State, has appealed for more aid to enable it take adequate care of inmates in the home. The Matron in charge of the home, Rev. Sister Anita Ogbonna; and her assistance, Sis. Chimuanya Madu, who made the passionate appeal when Bishop Sunday Onuoha visited the home revealed that it takes them about N700,000 per month to feed the inmates alone. They identified paucity of funds for feeding as the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The hope of former Deputy Senate President, and Senator representing Enugu West, Ike Ekweremadu, to regain his freedom was this morning quashed as the Central Criminal Court in the United Kingdom hearing the alleged organ harvest charge against him has refused to grant him bail. Trial Judge who adjourned the matter till October, said there would be a hearing of pretrial applications on October 31. The Judge further disclosed that the trial will commence fully on May 2, 2023. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are facing charges for allegedly arranging the travel of one David Nwamini with a…
By Sam Amadi The obi-dient movement is not much about Mr. Peter Obi, an inspirational character in his own right. It is about a social truth that Nigerian elite politicians have missed for too long. It is about the symbolism of government of the people by the people that Peter obi has embraced. It is about the public ethics (not necessarily the personal morality) of public leadership in a society that is extremely poor, not just in terms of very low household income, but also in terms of miseries and incapacities. Mr. Peter Obi does not have a towering political profile.…
By Azu Ishiekwene Seven weeks after the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar announced Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, the man not chosen remains the talk of the town. I’m not sure Abubakar (fondly called Atiku) expected this amount of pushback when he chose Okowa over Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike. But just as it is with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) too, the choice of running mate has become a national obsession, exposing Nigeria’s deepest religious and ethnic fault lines. On the eve of Atiku’s announcement of his running mate when the…
By Nnamdi Elekwachi Sam Omatseye is an acclaimed publicist from whose journalistic enterprise and outings I love harvesting, he is as good as they come, doubtless. However Sam caught my attention yesterday with his latest piece on the candidacy of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential standard bearer. It was, and I must admit, a beautiful piece with respect to syntax, wording and crafting; but yet a sharp disservice to history, especially history of secession and the Igbo in Nigeria, combinedly. In this sense, it was only a beautiful nonsense; yes, that oxymoronic figure of speech captures it best! It…
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi in his piece titled “Obi-tuary.” Like a crocodile girl, I wept for Obi-dient disciples. I am sure they will spend the next 40-days and 40-nights gnashing their yellow teeth held together by customized toy braces. But what he did to the Biafrans in the same column made me wonder if nobody has ever hugged Sam Omatseye and told him that his story of Biafra is valid, and as such, he should not lose touch with his scented offal. I love the poetry of Sam Omatseye. It is his prose that I…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Yusuf Datti-Ahmed, has said that the rising profile of his boss, Mr Peter Obi, has become a bitter pill and a threat to anti-progressive political forces in the country, behind various propaganda against him. This is as he accused them of creating fake social media accounts in his name which they use to fabricate and spread falsehood with grave religious implications in their desperation to blackmail and pitch him against some religious groups and leaders. Datti- Ahmed who disclosed this in a press conference, denied ownership of such…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Abakaliki Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday quashed the substitution primary of the Labour Party which it held on Tuesday to replace its governorship candidate. It therefore sacked the new gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Edward Nkwagu, who was elected in the substitution primary on August 2nd, 2022. The sack of Nkwagu by the federal High court, followed a suit filed by Mr. Splendour Oko-Eze who was had emerged from the June 9th primary as the governorship candidate of the party. In his ruling, Justice Fatun Riman, said the party primary held earlier…