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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Igbo youths have furiously reacted to the rumoured defection of former President Goodluck Jonathan to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with an eye on the party’s presidential flag in 2023. The youths under the aegis of Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, said it amounted to political treachery and paying Ndigbo with the wrong coin should Jonathan join the presidential race instead of supporting the bid for the South-East to produce Nigeria’s President in 2023. COSEYL said it was shameful that Jonathan could contemplate offering himself to be used by the North to ruin the chances…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A rights group, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation (HURIDE) has urged the police in Anambra State to prosecute a commercial driver who allegedly crushed to death a female road-side beggar in the State. Ikengaonline learnt that the commercial bus driver was on top speed when he knocked down the 15 years old teenager, injuring five others before his attempt to escape was resisted by traffic officers on duty. The group in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Dede Uzor A. Uzor, in Onitsha condemned the killing of the teenager and urged that the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, has debunked reports circulating on social media that he has been sacked by the Supreme Court as National Chairman of APGA. The APGA Chairman who responded to enquires made to ascertain the veracity of the information published on Facebook site called APGA Interactive Forum (AIF), simply said reports of his removal are fake news. The report, which was published on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, claimed that the Supreme Court had sacked Oye as the National Chairman of APGA. It read: “The Supreme Court of Nigeria…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Tuesday declared the controversial Ebonyi Cybercrimes Law No 12 of 2021 “unconstitutional, null and void.” The Court ruling followed a suit by one Pascal Etu who had sued the State Governor, David Umahi, over the controversial law. Ebonyi State Government had in September 2021 enacted the controversial law in equally controversial circumstances. Apart from the House of Assembly members, no Journalist was present when the law was enacted even as there was no proof of the law going through public hearing before being passed. It was…

Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has said that the spate of insecurity in the South-East zone is not targeted at herders. The South-East Zonal Chairman of MACBAN, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen in Enugu. Siddiki spoke on the sideline of the burning of a truckload of cattle along Uga-Ezinifite-Igboukwu Road in Anambra on May 8, 2022. Ikengaonline reports that since the incident, there has been war of words between another herders’ association called Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. However, the…

By Ken Ugbechie Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was Nigeria’s fortuitous President from 2010 to 2015. He failed to get his mandate renewed in 2015. He failed largely because he was both gutless and betrayed the trust of the people including his party members. Jonathan promised to do only one term of four years (2011 to 2015), but he reneged. He showed he could not be trusted. All through his political life, he epitomized a man of peace. A man only helped by God. A man of humble background but thrust to the summit of public life by Providence. For his meekness,…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Member representing Aba South state Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Obinna Ichita, has decried the deplorable condition of the health sector in the state, alleging that “Abia has more mortuaries than functional hospitals.” The lawmaker who made the claims while addressing Local Government and Ward Chairmen of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA at the party’s state secretariat Umuahia, ahead of their three-man congress, said that “Abia is under the bondage of bad governance.” He accused the State Government of abandoning the health care sector, a development, he said, posed existential threats to…

Our Reporter, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday declared that it would be difficult for it to win the presidential election next year with a southern presidential candidate. A member of the Board of Trustees of the party, Amb. Sam Nkire, who led members of the National Assembly to collect the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan in Abuja, stated this. According to him, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was pushing them to consider a northern presidential candidate after President Muhammadu Buhari. Asked why they were collecting forms for the Senate…

By Sam Amadi Maybe with the increasing collapse of ‘democracies’ in the African region, it may not be wise to bewail the quality of democracy in the continent. As we see Africa’s democracies crumbling, shouldn’t we be grateful we have democracy in Nigeria and not fret so much about its poor quality? But the recent move by the Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to fix nomination fees for all elective offices for its members, raises worries about not just the quality of the country’s democracy but also its rationality. The party outraged even itself by asking aspirants…

By Our Reporter, Abuja Former President Goodluck Jonathan is not vying for the office of the President of the Federal Republic in 2023 says his Special Assistant on the Media, Ikechukwu Eze. This is coming as a Fulani pastoral group last night purportedly purchased the APC nomination forms for the former President claiming he was the best choice for the country in 2023. Ikengaonline reported the leader of the Group, Ibrahim Abdullahi, as justifying their decision to purchase the forms for Jonathan. “You may recall ladies and gentlemen of the press that during Goodluck Jonathan’s era he was the first…