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Our Reporter, Abuja Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, stakeholders, and citizens, Nzuko Umunna, a global Igbo Think-Tank, is set to organise a historic national conversation to persuade Nigerians to see the fidelity of a Nigerian president from the South-East region. The group is of the view that a president of South-East extraction is the fairest national consensus, Nigeria should make to the region for equity, justice, and fairness. A statement by the spokesperson of the group, Collins Steve Ugwufor, said the gathering which will be conceived as the Greater Nigerian Conference (GNC), will be a significant event geared to…

Our Reporter Former Anambra State Governor and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, yesterday told PDP delegates in Delta State to think about the future of their children before casting their votes at the party’s presidential primaries.  Speaking in Asaba during his visit to national delegates of the Delta State Chapter of PDP, Obi stated that Nigeria has to focus more on production formula than sharing formula to salvage economic situation. He said Nigeria’s economy is crippled because leaders failed to prioritise a production formula but focused on a sharing formula. Obi who said Nigeria is…

Our Reporter, Abuja Presidential hopeful and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, yesterday said the security crisis in the country might be self-inflicted to stall the transition in 2023. Mohammed who stated this yesterday when he met with the PDP Caucus of the House of Representatives, said such plans must be stopped. The Bauchi State governor, also lamented that the country is further drifting to a state of no-where. He said, “As a member of the sub national, we don’t share anything from the NNPC and in the next six months we will not. We are further drifting to a…

Our Reporter The rift between the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, appear to have deepened as the latter, yesterday, ignored the former when he visited the state to campaign for votes ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries. Wike, a PDP presidential aspirant, who was accompanied by the South/South vice chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, met with party delegates at the Government Reservation Area (GRA) residence of former Board of Trustees, (BoT), late Chief Tony Anenih, instead of the party’s state secretariat. He until his departure from the state didn’t…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Police operatives in Anambra State, yesterday, overpowered a gang of hoodlums believed to be gunmen terrorizing different quarters of the state in the past weeks. The State Police Command confirmed that the gunmen were neutralized during a gun battle at Nteje Divisional Headquarters in Oyi Local Government Area of the state. In a statement, Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said that the Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Echeng, led a squad to launch an offensive on the gunmen who attacked the station. Ikenga stated that the CP received a distress call that the station was…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Barely one month after taking over office, Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, has, for the second time, disagreed with his predecessor, Chief Willie Obiano, over notes handed over to him. The first instance was when Obiano claimed that the state under his administration was not indebted to anybody, but Soludo some days after his inauguration while speaking on Arise TV programme, said he inherited a debt of over N100bn. Again, Obiano had before the end of of his tenure told journalists in his Aguleri hometown that one of his bequests to Soludo was handing over to…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka The Archbishop Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Alexander Chibuzo Ibezim, has said that Nigerians are currently operating in a country that its system had collapsed. The Anglican Prelate made the assertion, while fielding questions from journalists in Awka, the Anambra State capital. He said the governance systems in the country had lost its shape and that “people are currently passing through all manner of sufferings and hardship to survive. “We are passing through a time where many people are asking if Nigeria can survive as a nation and if the eastern region can…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka The Nigerian Union of Journalists Anambra State Council has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to show full commitment to the fight against insecurity across the country. Insecurity has worsened across the country following the activities of bandits and terrorists including unknown gunmen. The northern parts of the country has recently been witnessing successive kidnappings by arm-wielding bandits, while several attacks have been carried out on government facilities by unknown gunmen in the South. In a communiqué signed by the Council Chairman, Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, at the end of its April Congress at the Godwin Ezeemo…

By Michael Onwuka, Enugu Former Director General, Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, Professor Armstrong Idachaba, has reiterated the call for the regulation of the social media. Idachaba made the call Thursday in Enugu while delivering the 8th Inaugural Lecture of Godfrey Okoye University. The professor of Mass Communication, who spoke on ‘Media Convergence: Nature and Relevance in Nigeria,’ said that regulation of the social media would curb the excesses and ‘rudeness’ of the platforms. Ikengaonline reports that converged media is a media strategy that combines the three types of media in marketing, namely, owned, paid, and earned media to deliver messages across…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Unknown gunmen on Thursday killed a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Anthony Okorie, at the on-going Continuous Voter’s Registration Exercise, CVR, in Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State. INEC, National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri. He stated that the incident happened at Nkwo Ihitte (PU 004) in Amakohia Ward (RA 02). As at press time, INEC said two other officials of theirs were still missing. The reason for the attack, Ikengaonline gathered was because of the alleged insistence of…