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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Deputy Governor of Abia State, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, has said he had garnered enough experience to fix the state having been around the corridors of power for some time. He stated this on Friday at Abia Hotels Umuahia where he formally declared interest in the 2023 governorship race. Oko Chukwu was the former Speaker, Abia House of Assembly, until 2015 when he was elected the Deputy Governor to Okezie Ikpeazu. The Nkporo-born chartered accountant said he had full understanding of the challenges of the state, and was better prepared to tackle them. Oko Chukwu promised…
By Crispin O. Dah! If you’ve never impregnated a weird human being that is disguising as a regular human being you don’t know how lucky you are. The kain wahala you will see ehn! It will be following you like MTN everywhere you go. I was just on my own o. Deputy Editor that year just minding my life. That’s how some students from a university in Nasarawa came to ask me to come and give them career talk at one event like that. Of course they were not paying but I sha agreed to go. Give back to society…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Heavy rains have wrecked residential houses, shops and marketplaces in some parts of the Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo state. Ikengaonline gathered that the incident occurred Friday evening in the different locations of the Okigwe axis of the state. Some of the affected residents who spoke to Ikengaonline mentioned some of the locations that were affected are Ihugbe, Umuchima, Ubahu road, and Owerri road among others. They said the it started at about 03:30 pm with a wind storm, followed by heavy rains later with thunder and lightning. According to Madam Uchechi Ibeh, “it became worse…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Unknown gunmen attacked the house of the Imo State Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Ford Ozumba, in his hometown Umuhu, Okabia community in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State, with Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, early hours of Friday. The commissioner confirmed this to Ikengaonline in Owerri, adding that no life was lost but his house was damaged by the explosives. The commissioner stated: “I am in Owerri, they called me this morning and told me that my house was attacked this morning. They threw explosives on it and it was burnt. Nobody died. But the house…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri. The Imo State Police Command has confirmed that hoodlums in large numbers came and attacked Mbieri Police station in Mbaitoli Local Government Area in the early hours of Friday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri. According to him, the hoodlums attacked the police station with Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, adding that the explosives caused damage to the station. He, however, said no life was lost and no ammunition was carted away. Abattam said the hoodlums were repelled. Ikengaonline reports that last month, hoodlums had attacked police stations in …
Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki Four hotels have been sealed in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, South-East Nigeria, for allegedly refusing to pay ground rent. The action was carried out on Tuesday by the State Government, with a threat to seal more. Emmanuel Igwe, the Special Assistant to Governor David Umahi on Lands and Survey, said the enforcement of payment of ground rent had commenced in the state and any hotel or property owner who fails to comply with the government directives would have its premises sealed without delay. “We are in the process of enforcing the payment of ground rate by…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu. The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division on Friday dismissed an appeal seeking to remove Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and his deputy Mr. Kelechi Igwe from office. In a lead judgment delivered by Justice J. O. K. Oyewole, the court held that the appellants, Sen. Sonni Ogbuoji and Mbam Ogodo, had no locus in their bid to supplant the respondents. Oyewole said that though the defection of the governor and his deputy from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) might appear immoral but the constitution did not provide for their removal from…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Gunmen have killed another operative of the Ebubeagu security outfit in Ebonyi State. The operative, Iboko Christian, was allegedly killed on Thursday night by unknown gunmen. The victim was said to have been a graduate who joined Ebubeagu due to his inability to secure a job after graduation. He was said to have been attacked by the gunmen who trailed him to his house in Nduogbuovu community in Izzi Local Government Area of the state. The lawmaker representing Izzi East Constituency in Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Anthony Nwegede, confirmed the killing. The Lawmaker, who is an…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia It was an outpouring of goodwill messages, Thursday evening, as Ikengaonline, the media arm of Africa Centre for Transparency was formally unveiled. Eminent personalities from all walks of life, including Nigerians in the diaspora, joined in the virtual launch as a legal luminary, Chief Mike Ahamba, formally presented the online media platform. Professor Okey Ndibe in a keynote speech, noted that the South-East had remained under reported since the return of democracy in 1999. This, according to him, was because most media organisations are concentrated in the South-West and the northern part of the country. Ndibe regretted…
Dave Chukwuji …he stirred; waking up from an abyss so deep it had no form. Reality was still a few miles out, he reached out, grabbing at lights dangling in front of him like carrots before a panting donkey. Slowly he began to crawl out of the abyss. The smell of burning flesh assailed him. The crackle of burning cables and fume of fuel suffused his senses. Somewhere in the recesses of his subconscious mind the smell stirred him and he began the audacious climb from the abyss to the burning cavernous hold of the plane. As soon as…