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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Pained by the orgy of unprovoked attacks against Igbos and their business interests in different parts of Nigeria particularly in the wake of the 2023 general election, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders, has declared that Igbo would no longer watch idly, the senseless killing of their kinsmen in any part of the country again. The elders took the firm decision after an emergency virtual meeting of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders which had in audience, participants from across the globe. They reviewed the barbaric attacks against Igbo living in Lagos especially the burning of Igbo dominated markets in…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Less than two months to vacate office, President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has approved N320,345,040, 835 as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary institutions in the country. This is coming amidst complaints by university lecturers over their withheld salaries for the seven and half months they were on strike for the greater part of 2022. Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all Heads of beneficiary institutions. Echono further disclosed that from 2015 till date, the total sum…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The House of Assembly candidate for Owerri Municipal state constituency, in Imo State, under the Labour Party, LP, Clinton Amadi, was on Wednesday arrested by the police at the Owerri office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, while trying to inspect and collect certified copies of the just concluded election. The leadership of the Labour Party, in Imo State, under Festus Onyekwulisi, confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri. According to LP, Amadi was at the Owerri office of the INEC, based on a court order he obtained from a competent court, to inspect and collect certified copies…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leadership in Imo State, on Wednesday alleged that there was a fresh collation of election results ongoing in Imo State to upturn the victory of the PDP for the state House of Assembly elections in the state. The State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Collins Opuozor, who disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, mentioned Isu as one of the state constituencies where the fresh collation of election results was ongoing. He alleged that top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last week colluded with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to…
Our Reporter, Abuja In what is clearly his first comprehensive response to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), after a series of media attacks launched against him at home and abroad, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has said he is rather focused on retrieving his stolen mandate in the court and would not yield to the ploy to distract him and pressure him to leave the country. Obi also dismissed as fake, the purported phone conversation between him and the Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo. The former governor of Anambra State also…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia There is no end in sight for the supremacy battle that has engulfed the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the member representing Ikwuano- Umuahia federal constituency, Hon. Sam Onuigbo, has told the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Ikechi Emenike, to account for all the funds he received for the party’s campaigns in Abia. The House of representatives Committee Chairman on Climate Change who was reacting to his purported suspension by the state leadership of the party, accused Emenike of trying to pocket the party and run it as his private estate. Ikengaonline had reported that Onuigbo…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has urged Ndigbo and Biafrans not to joke with the forthcoming population census, but massively participate in the exercise. IPOB which described the head count as a mock referendum for Biafra independence, said it would afford Biafrans the opportunity to prove that contrary to insinuations, they are not a dot in a hole. The pro-Biafra movement in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, vowed to stoutly resist any attempt to sabotage or scuttle the exercise in Biafra land. It, however, argued that considering the unprovoked attacks against Igbos living in…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the Clerk of the British Criminal Court over the recent conviction of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife. In the letter, Obasanjo acknowledged the grave consequences of the offence leveled against the duo but stressed that the revered senator was a high level and respected citizen of Nigeria. The former president also drew the attention of British Court to the plight of Ekweremadu’s sick daughter and his reputation to temper justice with mercy. He said: “It is my fervent desire that for the very warm relationship between the United…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Vehicular movements and entry and exit from Onitsha to Asaba were made impossible following an incident that claimed the lives of three persons in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra State. A lorry driver killed three persons while trying to escape from unidentified revenue officials of the Anambra State Revenue Agency. Ikengaonline gathered that the incident occurred yesterday at the Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge near the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s sculpture. An eyewitness said that the lorry driver who was conveying vegetable oil was driving out from the Harbour Industrial Layout area of the town…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The 34th Edition of the Enugu International Trade Fair organised by Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA), ended on Wednesday in Enugu. The fair, which commenced on March 24th, 2023 saw Dangote Group of Companies and the Nigerian Breweries PLC coming tops for their sponsorship and active participation throughout the fair. Ikengaonline reports that the trade fair which was scheduled to end on April 3, was extended by two days due to Mondays’ sit-at- home in the South-East. Investigation also reveals that many companies and business owners both within and outside Nigeria as well as Federal Government…