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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State Council, has raised concern over the strike by local government workers and public primary school teachers in the state. A communique issued during the July Congress of the council on Friday in Enugu, appealed to the state government to restore industrial harmony in the local government system and primary school sub-sector. The communique was signed by the Secretary of the NUJ in the state, Comrade Emmanuel Acha and members of the drafting committee, Comrades Christian Nwangene, Lilian Ilouno and Nnamdi Mbawike. Recall that public primary school teachers in the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer than hundred thousand participants have gained empowerment through Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) interventions on Advanced Digital Appreciation Programme for Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria (ADAPTI) and digital literacy. The disclosure was made by the President/CEO of Digital Bridge Institute, DBI, Prof. Mohammed Ajiya, at the closing ceremony of ADAPTI, following a successful training of some teaching and non-teaching staff of the Nile University Abuja on Friday by the DBI resource persons. In a statement signed by the Head of Public Affairs Unit, Digital Bridge Institute, Akin Ogunlade, the DBI boss noted that NCC’s interventions came through the empowerment of Nigerians on digital…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The immediate past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, says House of Assembly in the states of the nation and South-East in particular have lost their glories having been hijacked by their respective governors. Abaribe, a Senator representing Abia-South Senatorial district, claimed that the lawmakers at the state level have allowed the state governors to permeate the hollowed chambers of their Houses, hence have lost their core duty of ensuring accountability of the state Governors. Speaking at the maiden Ikengaonline virtual town hall meeting, Thursday, the Senator decried that the lawmakers at the state level have become toothless to challenge…
By Osmund Agbo “This is our message to the government of Nigeria and just as you have seen these people here, by God’s grace, you will see your leaders; your senators and governors will come before us. These ones you are seeing here, we will keep some as our slaves and sell them off just as our Imam told you in the past.” The above statement was released by terrorists in a video that showed the group flogging some passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train, kidnapped and held in custody since March this year. In the referenced video, one of the…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Mrs Ann Agom-Eze, the runner-up in the May 28 primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ebonyi South Senatorial District has appealed the High Court judgment which allowed fresh candidates for the re-run primary election for the constituency. Mrs Agom-Ezem lost to Governor David Umahi’s brother, Austine in the first primary and joined the suit filed by Umahi seeking to be declared the candidate of the party for the senatorial zone. Mr Umahi, was declared winner unopposed in the second primary after his younger brother, Austine withdrew as candidate of the party. Justice Fatun Riman of…
Our Reporter, Abuja Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has urged the people of the South-East to do all it takes to participate in the 2023 general election in spite of all the obstacles the system puts in front of them because the consequences of non-participation would be grave for the zone. The immediate past Senate Minority Leader gave this advice Thursday as Keynote Speaker at the inaugural Ikengaonline monthly virtual town hall meeting. The lawmaker who said that their (opposition senators) walking out of the Senate chamber yesterday showed that there are serious problems in the country. The senator said that with…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The immediate-past Senate Minority Leader and the Senator representing Abia South, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that the emergence of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has re-awakened the interest of many Nigerians in the political process and the 2023 general election. Senator Abaribe who stated this as keynote speaker at the inaugural Ikengaonline monthly town hall virtual meeting Thursday, said the Obi phenomenon was a revolution in the country’s electoral system. He explained that a lot of youths and Nigerians from across the different geo-political zones who had lost interest in the political…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Social commentator and Coordinator of the African Center for Transparecy(ACT), Dr Osmund Agbo, was last Friday in Abuja, conferred with the prestigious Technology & Innovation Award, by the Rotary Club International. The honour according to Rotary Club, is in recognition of his role as Founder, Technology and Innovation Centre, Enugu, an organization that supports local inventors and incubators in Nigeria. The award was conferred on him during the investiture of Rotarian Max Amuchie, the publisher of the Sundiata Post, as the 6th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja, on Friday the 22nd of July, 2022. Dr.…
By Aloy Ejimakor The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a quasi-judicial body that has a subsisting legal mandate of the United Nations to consider and adjudicate human rights petitions against member nations of the UN. Its rulings or decisions (diplomatically called Opinions), such as was recently issued in favor of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, are legally binding on Nigeria on myriad grounds, including the fact that the decision is based on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both of which Nigeria ratified several decades ago. Ratification is a means…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the festering insecurity in the country and the economic malady, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has warmed that if no urgent measures were taken to halt the spate of insecurity in the land, Nigeria may collapse before 2023. Senator Ohuabunwa who represented Abia North in the 8th Senate, expressed rage over the worsening insecurity which he warned might soon engulf Nigeria. The former Leader, ECOWAS Parliament, who gave the warning when he visited victims of the recent flood disaster in Nkporo communities of Ohafia Local Government Area, Abia State, said “Nigeria is on the precipice.” Ohuabunwa cited the…