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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki There was a mild drama on Friday at the Ebonyi State Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as members stopped the embattled Chairman of the party, Tochukwu Okorie, from addressing Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Mr Wike, a presidential aspirant, was in the state to solicit support of members, stakeholders and delegates from the state. He was received at the State Secretariat along Enugu/Port Harcourt Road. The Secretariat has been under lock and key since the defection of Governor David Umahi to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in December 2020. Wike’s visit was the first time…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Ahead of political campaigns leading to the 2023 general election, a prayer and intercessory group, Nigeria Prays, shall hold a national prayer rally for Nigeria. This is contained in a joint statement by the Zonal Coordinator and Zonal Secretary of the group, Prof. Benjamin Marire and Apostle Chuks Alozie, respectively , and made available to newsmen on Friday in Enugu. According to the statement, the South-East prayer rally which will hold in Enugu on Sunday, April 24, 2022, will seek God’s intervention as political activities kick-off in earnest. It stated that the prevailing economic situation and the…
Steve Oko, Umuahia Member representing Aba South state constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Obinna Ichita, has called for the resignation of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu if he could no longer pay salary of Abia workers. The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Leader, also called for the sack of the Commissioner for Finance as well as the Accountant General of the state over the 12 months salary arrears owed the staff of Abia State Health Management Board. The lawmaker argued that, “it is the primary responsibility of every responsible and responsive Government to take care of its workers’…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka No fewer than 100 residents of Ihiala community in Anambra State have benefitted from free medical services by a non-governmental organization, Anyiego Foundation. The free Medicare which took place at the Okeohia Primary School, Ihiala town, attracted residents of the area including youths, the aged and children alike. The beneficiaries received treatments in different medical cases including malaria, diabetes, cough, ulcer, arthritis, hypertension among others. They were also given free drugs, health talk, counselling and medical treatments for their respective ailments. Speaking shortly after flagging off the program, the founder of Anyiego Foundation, Dr. Ifeanyi Harry Jeffrey,…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Police Command on Friday, said it had arrested a 50-year-old-man, one Simeon Onigbo, who allegedly was manufacturing bombs and other Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, which hoodlums were using to destroy police stations and government facilities in the state. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, disclosed this in Owerri, while parading the suspect. The Command said it made the breakthrough after it got intelligence on the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB’s location, which led to raiding of the bomb manufacturing camp at Uba Umuaka in Njaba Local Government Area, last Wednesday. According to the…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri One year after, a 60-year-old woman, Mrs. Maria Ezediaro from Imo State was arrested in Owerri, by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, led by Abba Kyari, was on Thursday, freed by the Hon. Justice M.O. Olajuwon of the Federal High court in Abuja. Ikengaonline gathered from the lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, that Mrs. Ezediaro was arrested in February 2021. However, the IPOB’s lawyer said that Mrs. Ezediaro’s freedom was made possible when the IPOB legal team filed a lawsuit demanding the Enforcement of Mrs. Maria Ezediaro’s fundamental…
Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor) A leading presidential aspirant of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has emerged the most preferred presidential aspirant according to a survey conducted to gauge the choice of voters ahead of the 2023 polls. The survey was conducted by Nextier, a multi-competency advisory firm; and Data-Tier, a data analytics and digital communications firm, to seek insights to the race. Some of the objectives of the study were to gauge Nigerians’ preferences for a presidential candidate, understand the challenges Nigerians would like President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri with Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Renowned lawyer and elder statesman, Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN, has said that contrary to the erroneous thinking in some quarters, the National Assembly is vested with enormous powers by the Constitution more than the President. Ahamba who made the assertion in Owerri while fielding questions from newsmen after the launch of his book, Getting it Right for Nigeria, however, regretted that the National Assembly, most times failed to utilise the enormity of powers at its disposal because of political and ethnic sentiments. The legal luminary also contended that the thinking that the Constitution could…
By Owei Lakemfa I was invited by the Venezuelan Embassy in Abuja, along with some diplomats, civil society activists and journalists on Thursday, April 14, 2022, to watch a documentary on the aborted military coup 20 years ago. The documentary centred on the bloody coup and how the populace in their millions marched on the coup plotters holed up in the Miraflores Presidential Palace. On hand to welcome guests was the Venezuelan Ambassador, David Vasquez Caraballo, who was part of the history and featured in the documentary. On April 11, 2002, when the coup was executed, he was the leader…
By Osmund Agbo Last week, Nigerians received with mixed feelings the news of President Buhari granting pardon to 159 prisoners serving jail terms for various offenses in Nigerian prisons. The pardon, we were told, came on the heels of an approval by the Council of States (CS) on Thursday, April 14, 2022. In a follow-up statement, the presidential spokesperson and former president of Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Garba Shehu, explained that the exercise “was a culmination of a rigorous process, regulated and guided by the law which was not, in any way designed to achieve a political purpose.” Oh…