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 Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Professor Greg Nwakobi, the Vice-Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, has given reasons his institution withdrew from the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU has been at loggerheads with the Federal Government following the government’s refusal to fulfill the agreements it reached with the Union since 2009. Part of the agreement include the replacement of Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS); release of the reports of visitation panels to federal universities; and improved funding for revitalisation of public universities and others. Speaking at the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued a stern warning to women in Igboland to resist any attempt by anybody to persuade them into staging protest that will endanger their lives in the hands of security operatives in Nigeria. The pro-Biafra Biafra movement gave the warning following a purported call from its United States-based legal Adviser, Mr. Bruce Fein, asking IPOB women to embark on a street protest in Abuja over the continued detention of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. A statement signed by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, urged the women…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, said it had deployed 419 personnel, patrol vehicles and ambulances across Abia State ahead of the Muslim Eid- el-Kabir holiday. FRSC Sector Commander in charge of Abia State, Mr. Paul Ugwu, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Umuahia, warned motorists against over speeding and route violation. Ugwu who said that the Corps began a special patrol on July 6, to ensure a free flow of traffic during the Sallah period, said they had also embarked on aggressive sensitisation of the motoring public. The FRSC boss who noted that the period usually records high…

Michael Onwuka, Enugu The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has raised concern over the infrastructural deficiencies in Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu. The Chairman of NAGAFF in Enugu State, Mr Raymond Okonkwo disclosed this on Friday in an interview with Ikengaonline in Enugu. Okonkwo said the non-completion of the terminal building in the international wing of the facility had limited the capacity of the airport as well as limited the business potential of the area. He called on the Federal Government to deliver the project without further delay in order to get the international wing functional. He…

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Part of tendering a sincere apology is to deliver an honest assessment of one’s sins. I am one of those pretentious Nigerians often seen all over the world who are full of themselves. We carry on our shoulders a fake intellectual sophistication that makes us look at Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a man of great moral courage and integrity, and we call him a buffoon. Yes, I said it. Ike Ekweremadu is a learned gentleman. We just don’t understand him. Who would have known that the man cared until he showed it by the extent he went to…

 Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Elders Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has told the Senate that the group would be ready to defend Ekweremadu, in court in London where he is currently detained with his wife over alleged organ harvesting. This was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, dated 5th July 2022, signed by the Chairman Elders Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Friday. Ohanaeze among other things said that the apex Igbo socio-cultural body is prepared to defend any honest and patriotic citizen whose rights and freedom are being unduly trampled upon anywhere…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Just as Ikengaonline had reported, the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has finally unveiled Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, as his running mate for the 2023 poll. This has laid to rest, weeks of speculations and consultations on the matter. It has also formally ended the controversial negotiations on a possible joint ticket with Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. The unveiling of Baba-Ahmed which took place in Abuja on Friday, came less than 24 hours after the withdrawal of Doyin Okupe, who had earlier occupied the position in holding capacity. Ikengaonline gathered that…

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday. Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, was cleared of fraud by the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona. Platini, a former France national team captain and manager, was also acquitted of fraud. The two, once among the most powerful figures in world football, had denied the charges against them. Prosecutors had accused Blatter, a Swiss who led FIFA for 17 years, and Platini of unlawfully arranging for FIFA to pay the Frenchman two…

By Owei Lakemfa Africa for centuries has been entangled in European conflicts and wars in which they suffer from both sides. The most terrible for Africans was the Second World War for which youths, including high school kids from various parts of the continent, were conscripted and many never returned home. In Nigeria, it was known as the ‘Burma War’ because that was the war theatre where many of our grandfathers were forced to fight a war they knew nothing about. African resources were seized to fund that war which like the first, was essentially, an All-European War in which the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has ordered the sanctioning of security operatives involved in the manhandling of a cleric, Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje. Odumeje is the General Overseer of Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry. His church was Thursday demolished for being built on drainage channel, while the pastor was brutalised by security operatives, when he attempted to disrupt the exercise. But Governor Soludo in a statement has condemned the brutalization of the cleric, saying he has ordered sanction on the security men involved. He said: “Yesterday’s outing has evoked emotions, not against…