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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has approved the appointment of Mr. Obumneme Akunyili, as the Director-General Project Monitoring. Obumneme is the son of former National Agency for Food and Drugs Administation and Control, NAFDAC, boss, late Prof Dora Akunyili. He was appointed alongside 10 others in the fresh appointments announced by the state Commissioner of Information, Paul Nwosu on Thursday. Other appointees are Rt. Hon Anayo Nebe – Special Adviser, Legislative/State Assembly Matters; Dr. Alex Obiogbolu – Special Adviser, Political Matters; Dr. Godwin Nnadozie – Special Adviser, Medicals and Pharmaceuticals; Dr. Emma Ezenwaji – Chairman of…

By Osmund Agbo At last, the much anticipated national convention of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has come and gone. The party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election also has finally emerged. Expectedly, the August assembly hosted at the Eagle Square in the nation’s capital, did not disappoint. It was action packed and delivered handsomely on its promise of Machiavellian plots, melodrama, intrigues, and yes, a free-for-all brawl. We will discuss a few of them in this piece. Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his men dominated the entire time from start to finish. In the end, the Bullion…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, has threatened heavy sanction against one of its governorship aspirants who came last in the gubernatorial primaries, Chief Chikwe Udensi, over spurious allegations and blackmail against the party. Chairman of APGA in the state, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, who addressed the press in Umuahia,  advised Udensi to desist from using the media to denigrate the leadership of the party in the state. Ehiemere said that contrary to claims by Udensi that he has been the financier of APGA in the state, the party “has not received…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has given political parties up till Friday, June 17 to submit names of their presidential, and governorship candidates with their running mates to the commission. INEC gave the ultimatum in a post Thursday by its Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on the Commission’s official Twitter handle.  The post read: “For emphasis, the Commission wishes to remind Political Parties that only the names of candidates that emerged from democratic primaries as provided by Sec. 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 shall be submitted to the Commission. “Similarly, the list of all Presidential and…

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…