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Our Reporter, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it is committed to ensuring that all citizens interested in registering to vote are given the opportunity to do so. INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Thursday in a statement he personally signed and shared via the body’s official Twitter handle. Professor Yakubu also gave a hint of possible extension of the deadline for registration exercise in order “to respond positively to the needs of Nigerians.” The full text of the statement below read: “I wish to reassure Nigerians that the Commission remains committed to ensuring that all…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has explained that sacked teachers in Anambra school system were the ones employed under hazy and irregular circumstances by the out-gone Willie Obiano administration in the state. The governor’s explanation followed Tuesdays massive protest by teachers in the state. The teachers numbering up to one thousand, stormed Awka, the Anambra State capital, to protest the termination of their employment by the incumbent governor. During the protest, the teachers said they were previously engaged by the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the various communities in the state before the Obiano administration…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Governor of Anambra State, and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has raised alarm over alleged bureaucratic bottlenecks in voter registration in the South-East geo-political zone. Obi who raised the alarm in a tweet Thursday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to as a matter of urgency, clear up the impediments. The Labour Party presidential hopeful wrote on his verified Twitter handle: “Information reaching me indicate that voter registration across Nigeria, more so in the South-East, is dogged by inertia & bureaucratic bottlenecks. I respectfully call on @inecnigeria to facilitate…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Anambra State has continued to witness heavy crowd of citizens who troop in to register for voters card in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The large crowd witnessed on daily basis in recent days in the state may not be unconnected with the June 30 deadline announced by INEC for the exercise ahead of the 2023 general election. Ikengaonline who visited the INEC headquarter at noon on Thursday met a long queue of individuals outside the premises of the Commission waiting to be allowed in. Hundreds of others…
By Azu Ishiekwene After the feisty, if not bitter, presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ended on Wednesday with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerging the party’s candidate for the next election, the overriding instinct is to throw the losers under the bus. You can hardly blame Tinubu’s camp. The man had a raw deal right up to the last minute. For seven years, he was literally an outsider in a party that he played a consequential role to build and a government that he helped to bring to power. And no one seemed to bother. As Tinubu…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Total Education Development Academy, TEDA, Eke-Owerri, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, has introduced more practical courses and equipment to boost the curriculum for students as it prepares for the 2022/2023 academic session. Proprietor of the School, Dr Godson Dinneya, told Ikengaonline that the vision was to groom a generation of ICT gurus that could favourably compete with the West in the ICT world. He said that the idea behind the newly introduced subjects and ICT equipment was to prepare the students ahead of the new academic session. According to him, “TEDA has introduced and equipped…
Our Reporter, Vancouver Lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has expressed reservation about the viability of a “third force” to confront the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections. The activist spoke Sunday when he appeared on 90MinutesAfrica, the online interview programme hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah. Since Peter Obi’s defection to Labour Party from the PDP, there has been speculations of a possible merger with other political parties to form a “third force” to confront the two major parties in the country. “Whether the Labour Party and other smaller…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former banker and an Economist, Dr Alex Otti, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Abia State. Otti emerged unopposed at the governorship primaries Wednesday in Umuahia. He was declared winner by the Returning Officer, Mr. Sunday Okeke, after polling a total of 454 votes. Dr. Otti was the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship flag-bearer in 2019 poll but lost to the incumbent Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He later joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, but left for the Labour Party following the leadership tussle and…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki A five-storey building, which was under construction, has collapsed in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State. It was gathered that construction workers ran out of the building seconds before it collapsed. The building is at Ngbabor, off-Presco campus of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. No casualty has been recorded at the time of filing this report. When our reporter visited the scene of the incident, government officials were seen inspecting the collapsed building, apparently to find out what went wrong. A handful of residents of the area gathered around the scene. Some police officers and Ebubeagu operatives were also…
Our Reporter, Abuja The South-East has only made a minor improvement in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise according to the Weekly Update from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Figures released by INEC as at 7am on Monday June 6, 2022, indicate that the South-East with a total of 683,066 new registration is still behind all the other zones in the registration table. The new figure represents 24.02% increase of the figure from the previous week, which was 550,771. The breakdown of the latest figures according to states in the South-East puts Ebonyi State with 274,640 above the…