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Our reporter No fewer than 11 soldiers were feared dead Monday, and about 19 wounded, in a fierce battle with unspecified number of heavily armed bandits that invaded a military base at Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, North West Nigeria. The latest attack is coming less to than one week terrorists derailed a passenger train in the state, killing over eight passengers and Abducting scores of others. Armed terrorists had also last week, allegedly invaded Kaduna airport and prevented Lagos-bound plane from taking off. Ikengaonline gathered that the bandits on motorbikes, Monday, invaded the military base at Pole Wire village…
By Steve Osuji Igbo cannot be president of Nigeria because they are cursed! Jeez! That’s the new line Pastor Tunde Bakare is preaching… Please find his video released last week, March 31, 2022, to view and hear it yourself. This is sheer enunciation of evil. Or at best, let’s call it TREACHEROUS THEOLOGY. Stripped of its dubious religious garbs, Pastor Bakare is simply preaching against Igbo presidency with a most asinine and wicked logic. He is putting down Ndigbo, he is inciting Hausa-Fulani hatred on Ndigbo and he’s dressing it all up as a religious sermon from the altar. Beware…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ogbonna Amadi, has been appointed a Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG to fill the slot of South-East geopolitical zone following the death of DIG Joseph Egbunike who formerly represented the zone in the police hierarchy. The late Egbunike who hailed from Anambra State, died of complications after a throat surgery following a fish bone that allegedly stuck to his throat. Amadi was posted by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, as Ag. DIG Department of Research and Planning, Force Headquarters, Abuja, with immediate effect. DIG Amadi hails from…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A very close ally of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State who played key role in the Governor’s emergence in 2015, and subsequent victory in 2019, Chief Charles Ogbonnaya, has expressed displeasure that Ebonyi State has overtaken Abia in infrastructural development. The former Deputy Chief of Staff to blamed wrong advisers for the poor state of infrastructure in the state while urging the Governor to stop heeding bad advice. Chief Ogbonnaya urged the Governor and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state to allow power to rotate back to Abia-North senatorial district in keeping with…
By Osita Chidoka Days ago, two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were brutally murdered in the ongoing macabre orgy of violence by the strangely named Unknown Gunmen. Their offence? Lawful discharge of their statutory duty. The FRSC officers do not bear arms, and as such, it is cowardly to shoot unarmed citizens no matter the subject of the agitation. The killings, kidnapping, and enthronement of fear in the southeast must end. I have written articles about revamping our security architecture, reached out to leaders in the zone and engaged privately with security agencies and youth leaders to…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri; and Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Business activities were totally paralysed on Monday in Owerri, Imo State, in full compliance with the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). But unlike Owerri, the exercise recorded zero compliance in Umuahia as residents ignored the order and went about their normal businesses. In Aba, however, there was partial compliance as residents moved around freely on the streets, but the major markets were closed. Ikengaonline visited some areas in Owerri, the Imo State capital, and found out that residents were indoors. Some residents told our correspondent that they decided to…
Our Reporter Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to pay N5 million to one of the lawyers defending the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Maxwell Opara. Delivering judgement, the presiding Judge, Justice Zainab Abubakar, also directed the secret police to tender a written apology to Opara and also publish the same in a national daily. The judgement followed a fundamental right enforcement suit the lawyer filed to protest the alleged degrading treatment he was subjected to, when he paid a visit to the IPOB…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Federal Government has directed telecommunications companies in the country to bar outgoing calls on unlinked Subscriber Identification Module, otherwise called, SIM cards, effective April 4. The directive is contained in a statement jointly signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, and Head, Corporate Communications, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr Kayode Adegoke. Recall that the Federal Government had in December 2020, as part of its security and social policies, directed Nigerians and legal residents to link their National Identification Numbers (NIN) to their SIM cards. The deadlines for the NIN-SIM…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Some pro-Biafra groups have declared their readiness to actively participate in the 2023 political process, reiterating their firm belief in pursuing Biafra restoration through peaceful means. The pro-Biafra groups said that boycotting the political process in Nigeria was not in the best interest of the struggle, and urged “all Biafrans of voting age to quickly arm themselves with the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) for active participation in the 2023 polls”. According to them, it is by voting into power the right people with conscience that the agitators for self-determination including Biafra will no longer be treated as…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Sensational Beninese opera star, Angélique Kidjo, has won this year’s Best World Music Album for ‘Mother Nature’, at the 64th Grammy Awards on Sunday. The award-winning album, ‘Mother Nature’, was worked on by several Producers such as Kel P of (Burna Boy), James Poyser of The Roots, Vtek, Rexxie, Synematik, Blue Lab Beats, -M-, Brad Thomas Ackley, David Donatien and Dany Synthé. Angélique while receiving the gilded gramophone, acknowledged the tremendous contributions of the Nigerian artistes who featured in the album — Burna Boy, Yemi Alade and Mr. Eazi. The Beninese who has won the prestigious Grammy…