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Our Reporter, Abuja Former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, has again made a serious case for a Nigerian president of South-East extraction in 2023. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, the former governor and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated that the most compelling case for a president from the South-East in 2023 is his belief that Nigeria is a country of conscience. Nwodo said that Nigeria had in the past addressed the problem of marginalization and injustice in the system by drawing on this rich reservoir of conscience, whether the problem is…
By Farooq Kperogi Bukola Saraki manipulated “northern elders” led by Professor Ango Abdullahi to simultaneously endorse him AND Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed as the North’s “consensus candidates” for PDP’s presidential primaries. But by what woolly arithmetic logic do two distinct people emerge as the “consensus candidates” of one region? Well, Abdullahi reportedly said Saraki and Mohammed were “required to make further concessions so that in the end, one of them would be presented as the consensus candidate.” How? Of course, other PDP candidates have dismissed the “northern consensus” exercise as an immature political flimflam. The clearest indication that the…
Michael Onwuka Enugu The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Enugu State Command has urged parents to closely monitor the activities of their children to stem the tide of illicit drug abuse in the South-East. The Assistant State Commander, Drug Demand Reduction Department, NDLEA, Mr. Adjai Eyiuche disclosed this on Sunday during the Mothering Sunday celebration of St. Mulumba Catholic Church, Enugu. Eyiuche, who addressed the worshippers during the advocacy visit, said that the appeal followed the high incidence of drug abuse and production among young people in the state. He said that the most abused illicit drug in the…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri An exclusive investigation by Ikengaonline has revealed that owners of illegal oil bunkering sites in Abaezi community, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, usually pay between N250,000 to N500,000 to landowners, just to allow them to use their property to operate illegal oil refinery sites. A reliable source, a community leader in Abaezi who claimed to have been advocating against the illegal oil bunkering activities, spoke with Ikengaonline after an explosion occurred last Friday night in an illegal bunkering site in the community. Ikengaonline reported that over 100 people were killed in the inferno and several…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu Former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, says the purported emergence of former Senate President, Alhaji Bukola Saraki and Bauchi State governor, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, as northern consensus candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential ticket is undemocratic. Lamido disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Dutse. Recall that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) had on June 23 announced Saraki and Mohammed as the consensus presidential candidates from northern Nigeria ahead of the May 28 presidential primaries of the PDP. The Chairman, NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, had in a communique, said the election of the…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In the currency of public policy and political communication in Nigeria, one word occupies the Platinum standard all by itself – “virile.” No major speech by a Nigerian ruler is complete without it. Soon after assuming office in his first term, Nigeria’s President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, proudly informed the European Parliament that his ambition was to have Nigeria “be counted among the most stable, strong and virile democracies in Africa.” His European audience must have been forgiven for wondering why this African president appeared to be distracted by an anatomical part closely associated with change. Buhari’s…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Over a hundred people died and vehicles burnt Friday night, following an explosion at an illegal oil bunkering field located in Abaezi community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State. Ikengaonline gathered from sources in the area which has a boundary with Rivers State, that the incident happened at about 11:45 pm, while the bunkerers were busy doing their illegal local refining of petroleum product. Confirming the incident, the Imo State Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, Goodluck Opiah, said: “The governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has declared the owner of the illegal bunkering field, Okenze Onyewoke,…
By Jude Eze Theologians are unanimous that man is an image-loving and image-making being. He likes representing his feelings, his thoughts, and his worldview in a concrete form, mostly through creative arts. This must be why God placed a caveat against abuse of this inherent image-making trait, and forewarned against worshipping images in place of Him, the true living Creator (Ex. 20:4-5). He would choose to save the world in the person of Christ Jesus, the image of the unseen God (Col. 1:15), because man innately and readily connects with that which he can see empirically, palpate concretely and re-produce…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka A former Minister for Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has tasked Professor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State on completing projects inherited by his administration from the past one. The former Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, gave the advice at a two-day retreat organized by Anambra State Government for the new appointees of the Governor, as well as other senior officials of Government. Chidoka who spoke on “Measuring Time and Performance: The FRSC Experience,” explained that there was no wisdom in cancelling or abandoning projects already awarded by previous administrations unless there is…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Nkechi Nwaogu who represented Abia Central in the Seventh Senate, has vowed to return to the Senate in 2023, to give the zone “quality representation.” Nwaogu who is seeking the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that a vote for her “is a vote for emancipation, restoration and resuscitation of Abia Central.” The former Senate Committee Chairman on Oil and Gas, who formally declared her intention for the seat, Thursday in Umuahia, said she had the magic wand to give effective representation to the district. She said that “APC ticket is a jewel of…