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The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, on the false parade of Thaddeus Ojokoh as a suspect in the killing of some policemen. The centre said in a letter dated May 8 and signed by its Executive Director, Okechukwu Nwanguma, that Mr Ojokoh, 53, was arrested on April 15 on an allegation of being a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and that the Imo State Police Command later issued a statement saying he was among the suspects who killed some policemen on April 21. RULAAC said…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As horse-trading and intense lobbying for the President of the 10th Senate continue, no fewer than 72 former senators have reportedly adopted former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, for the position of the third citizen of the country. Akpabio who is said to be the preferred choice of the President-Elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is being projected by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC ‘progressives.’ The ‘progressives’ were also said to have endorsed Tinubu’s zoning formula. A prominent member of the group and former senator representing Kano Central, Basheer Lado, confirmed this during  a press conference in…

By Owei Lakemfa General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the Dean of Coups in Nigeria, finally staged a coup for himself on August 27, 1985. The veteran coup plotter could sniff coups years away. On December 17, 1985, he rounded up over 100 military officers for allegedly conceptualising a coup. Some, including his childhood friend, Major General Mamman Vatsa, were sentenced to death. When it was announced that the ruling military junta was to meet in the evening of March 5, 1986, over the death sentences, Nigeria famous literary triumvirate: Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark and Chinua Achebe, rushed to meet Babangida in the morning. The…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Monday bowed to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the industrial action blackout in Imo, caused by the alleged disruption of the Workers Day celebration in the state, since May 1, 2023. The government agreed to settle with NLC, in a joint statement made available to newsmen in Owerri, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, SGI, Cosmos Iwu, Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice, Barrister Cyprian Akolisa, on the side of the government. Comrade Onyeka Chris, NLC headquarters; Comrade Tony Ebaho, TUC headquarters; Imo State Secretary NLC, Comrade Anukworji Nduka; Chairman TUC, Imo State, Comrade Amalu…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The people of Amechi Awkunanaw in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State have been thrown into mourning following the reported death of Mrs Jane Nnamani, wife of former President of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani A family source told Ikengaonline that the late Nnamani passed on, at the weekend after a minor surgery at an undisclosed hospital in Enugu. According to a family source, late Mrs Nnamani until her death was a cheerful woman loved by all around her, especially for her philanthropic activities. Late Nnamani , who was in her early 60’s left…

As Action Alliance withdraws petition  Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Justice Haruna Tsammani of the Abuja Court of Appeal, is to head the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) which on Monday, began its sitting in Abuja. Other members of the five -man panel include: Justice Stephen Adah of the Court of Appeal Asaba division; Justice Misitura Bolaji-Yusuf, also of Asaba Division of the Court of Appeal; Justice Boloukuoromo Ugoh of Kano Division; and Justice Abba Mohammed of Ibadan Court of Appeal. In his remarks during the inaugural sitting of the panel, the Chairman, Justice Tsammani warned Counsels to all the parties…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Unknown gunmen suspected to be herdsmen at the weekend invaded Eburummiri village, Ibagwa Aka Community in Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State. A village source, who craved anonymity told Ikengaonline that the Invaders suspected to have come from the neighbouring Kogi State stormed the village at about 10:30pm on Saturday. “They invaded the community via Agu Ibagwa around 10:30pm on Saturday night and kidnapped four people and killed two in the process,” he said. He also said that the marauders had their way throughout the operation after which they succeeded in killing two persons…

Our Reporter, Abuja Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has given reason for his Sunday visit to Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka at his home. The former governor of Anambra State said he had to visit the legendary playwright against the background of misconceptions of the relationship between Soyinka and his (Obi’s) followers, the ‘Obidients.’ Obi made this known when he shared pictures of the visit accompanied with some posts on his Twitter handle, which he personally signed. The post read: “Today, I visited one of Nigeria’s most revered figures and an international literary icon, Prof…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Ahead of today’s commencement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar; and his party; have filed an application for an order to allow live coverage of day-to-day proceedings of the tribunal. A three-man panel of the PEPC, today (May 9), is due to begin a pre-hearing session on all petitions that were brought before it at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Atiku and the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, are currently challenging the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress, as the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On New Year’s Day in 1991, 81 year old Siad Barre, Somalia’s third (and last) president, fled the capital city, Mogadishu, under assault from the combined forces of a prolonged insurgency. 16 days later, in a supposedly unrelated development, President George Hubert Walker Bush of the United States of America launched Operation Desert Storm against the occupation of Kuwait’s oil fields by Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein. Four months later, in May 1991, Siad Barre went into exile in Nigeria where he lived until his death in 1995. Back home, the vacuum created by General Barre’s departure in 1991…