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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to pick a fellow Muslim, Alhaji Kashim Shettima as his running mate, continues to generate reactions, northern Christians in APC, have pulled out of Tinubu’s campaign team. They said their conscience would no longer allow them to continue to campaign for the APC candidate as the party had shown it had little or no regard for Christians. The northern APC Christians who met Tuesday in Abuja, warned that if the selection of Shettima as the party’s vice presidential candidate were not…
By Ade Olu At no time in the past had it been clearer that most political gladiators in the country have no interest of the country at heart, than now. Happenings within the political space speak volumes of the measure of disdain the political elite have for the peace and unity of Nigeria. Recent events point to the bitter and condemnable truth that an average Nigerian politician is on a desperate search for daily bread and will do anything unthinkable to protect his interest and that of his family. To start with, it must be established that religion and ethnicity…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu A young Nigerian girl, Covenant Onyebuchi Okereke on Tuesday gifted the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, an undisclosed sum of money as her support for his presidential election. Okereke said she was led by God to bless Obi with her ‘widows mite’ which she had saved over time. Ikengaonline reports that Obi was in Enugu State for a live interview on Urban Radio, located off Presidential Road, Independence Layout, Enugu. The Labour Party presidential candidate was besieged by some of his supporters after the radio programme during which the young girl approached him to make the…
Stephen Oko, Umuahia Women leaders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, have intervened in the legal fireworks against the governorship candidate of the party, Professor Greg Ibe. Three governorship aspirants who lost to Ibe at the May 29 primaries – Etigwe Uwa (SAN), Gen. Ijioma. N Ijioma, and Chief Chikwe Udensi, have respectively approached the Federal High Court Umuahia, to challenge Ibe’s victory. But displeased with the legal tussle over the governorship ticket of the party, the women leaders passionately appealed to all the litigants to sheath their swords and join hands with Ibe in his bid to rescue…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abia State Council, has urged the Abia State Government, to as a matter of urgency, come to the rescue of hapless motorists especially those plying Umuahia-Bende Route who are daily subjected to extortion by security operatives. NUJ demanded immediate end to the extortion of motorists at a police checkpoint in front of the office of the Commissioner of Police at the state headquarters, Bende Road Umuahia. The demand was contained in a communique by NUJ after its monthly congress in Umuahia. According to the communique jointly signed by the NUJ Chairman, Comrade Victor…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Medical Doctors in Abia State who have been on “every Tuesday strike” since three weeks ago, to register their displeasure over the backlog of salary arrears owed some of their colleagues, have threatened to escalate the action if after seven days Government failed to meet their demands. Doctors in the Abia State University Teaching Hospital Aba, ABSUTH have been owed salary arrears of 25 months while their counterparts in the State Hospital Management Board, HMB, are owed for 11 months according to the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA. NMA expressed dissatisfaction that despite several negotiations with Government, the…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri An exclusive investigation by Ikengaonline has revealed how hoodlums disguise as estate developers, lure prospective land buyers to locations in the bush, and kidnap their victims for ransom in Imo state. Our Correspondent gathered that one of such incidents happened between the forest of Avu in Owerri West local Government Area and Obosima in Ohaji/Egbema local government area both in Imo state. The latest victim said to be a businessman, hails from Ohaji/Egbema, but lives in Umuguma area, where he sells building materials. However, his name was withheld for security reasons. He was rescued from the forest…
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem On Thursday, July 14, 2022, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration with Yar’Adua Foundation will launch the Corruption Anonymous (CORA) whistleblowing platform at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. The CORA platform is a secure civil society driven public whistleblowing tool through which citizens can submit tips on corruption and other forms of wrongdoing anonymously. Jointly developed by AFRICMIL and the Yar’Adua Foundation, the platform aims at strengthening the whistleblowing policy of the Nigerian government. We shall return to this. It was an unprecedented dramatic exploit, an unforced disclosure least expected from the unlikeliest…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Dr. Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning and Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will grace the unveiling of Corruption Anonymous (CORA), a whistleblowing platform. The CORA platform is a secure civil society driven public whistleblowing tool, developed by the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration the Yar’Adua Foundation. The platform which would be launched, Thursday, July 14, 2022, at Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, aims at strengthening the whistleblowing policy of the Nigerian government. It would also offer citizens avenue to submit tips…
By Ike Okonta ‘In any society where a governing elite, faced with wide social inequality, mass poverty, unemployment and conspicuous waste of limited national resources, resorts to a systematic denial of its earlier revolutionary slogans, such an elite is bound to be challenged by a frustrated younger generation that is eager to consummate the social revolution.’ – Mokwugo Okoye: A Letter To Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (August, 1955). There is no doubt about it: the youth in Nigeria are stirring at long last. You need to encounter them on social media platforms and radio and television phone-in programmes to experience their…