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Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Charred remains of the victims of the explosion which occurred at an illegal refinery site in Abaezi community last Friday in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, have been buried. The Interim Management Chairman of Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo state, Marcel Amadioha, said only 50 bodies were buried because they were burnt beyond recognition out of the over 110 victims of last Friday explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Abaezi community. He disclosed this at the site of the mass burial in Abaezi forest on Tuesday. The mass burial was conducted with security…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The endorsement of the embattled Ebonyi State House of Assembly Speaker, Francis Nwifurụ, by Governor David Umahi as his successor is generating ripples in the state. This is as major stakeholders in the party have rejected the said endorsement of Mr. Nwifuru. Umahi had last Saturday at a function in Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state, announced that he had chosen Nwifuru to succeed him, come 2023. Leading the stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the endorsement are the Chairman Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Elias Mbam; and a former…
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo I have a neighbour who constantly needs a prompt before she throws Udoka’s ball back into our backyard. It is not just a prompt; the woman wants a thank you each time she does that. And that could be a lot of times in one weekend alone. I don’t really blame her. The white picket fence separating our yard from hers is not high enough for Udoka’s basketball to stop flying over whenever he plays outside. For a long while, this woman’s propensities troubled me. I am a quiet and calm person, but somehow, I feel…
Our Reporter Desperate Instagram celebrities are destroying Nollywood by doing everything to be like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Rita Dominic, and other genuine actresses according to Nollywood actor and producer, Kanayo O. Kanayo. The veteran actor disclosed this on Sunday when he appeared as a guest on the online talk show 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah. Kanayo O. Kanayo, who starred in the breakthrough Nollywood movie, “Living in Bondage,” said, “When they introduce themselves as actresses, we know they are not actresses. We know what they are doing is impersonation. It is when they steal the…
Stephen Ukandu, News/ Features Editor The traditional ruler of Ogbeke Agbani Community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, HRH Igwe Okechukwu Nwobodo Egbuna, has cancelled the alleged embargo he imposed on the burial of a widow, late Mrs Elizabeth Ogbodo Egbuna, Ikengaonline can authoritatively report. He also publicly announced that the burial of the late widow who was his uncle’s wife would go ahead as planned on Wednesday, April 28. The action of the monarch is coming less than 24 hours after Ikengaonline had carried the report of the alleged embargo and threat by the traditional ruler…
Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor There is palpable fear and tension in Ogbeke Agbani Community, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the alleged embargo by the traditional ruler, HRH Igwe Okechukwu Nwobodo Egbuna, on the burial of a widow, late Mrs. Elizabeth Ogbodo Egbuna. Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL, has appealed to security agencies and relevant government agencies for intervention over the worrisome development. According to WACOL, the deceased, Mrs. Egbuna, 80, died about three months ago but her burial slated for Thursday, April 28, 2022, is under threat by the traditional ruler’s pronouncements. Before her death, she had…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka The Management of Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area, Anambra State, has passionate appealed to the Federal Government to intervene and save staff and students of the institution from impending disaster resulting from heavy downpour which wreaked havoc on the newly constructed road leading to the institution. A trending viral video on different social media platforms, had revealed how the road, constructed only a few months ago by an unnamed federal contractor, was in a terrible state after flood swept aside its connecting bridge leaving a scary gully mark across the…
By Osmund Agbo For the past several days, the rumour mill has been buzzing non-stop about a potential presidential run in 2023 by Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Dr. Reuben Abati, his former spokesperson, was credited to have made a Facebook post suggesting that his former boss was set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that he will declare for the presidency on the platform of the ruling party. But Reno Omokri, another of Jonathan’s trusted media aides, had since dismissed that statement as “at best a figment of the imagination of that journalist.” It turned out…
Our Reporter, Abuja The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Federal University of Lokoja, Kogi State, Senator Chris Adighije, has thrown his weight behind the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) on the cost of the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms of the party. According to him, the said cost of the forms is a measure to assess the support base of aspirants. The APC chieftain, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, alluded to the arguments that the high cost of the party’s nomination forms has both the positive and negative sides, as he quipped that no…
By Owei Lakemfa When a government like that of Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, is doing very well, it is manifestly immoral for a Bishop to divert its attention, especially with unsolicited homilies. That is the problem I have with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Sokoto Archdiocese. He has this strategy of waiting until the Easter period of salvation to release nuclear-powered inter-continental missiles against the Buhari Presidency as if he were the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, putting Russia in its sight. In the 2021 Easter Buhari-Kukah war, I had uncritically taken sides…