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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Apprehension has seized some officials of British Foreign Ministry following the submission of report by a committee set up to investigate the alleged negligence of duty by the Ministry in handling the case of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is also a British citizen. Ikengaonline reliably gathered that the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) handling of state level hostage situations has published its findings on the matter. Bindmans LLP, on behalf of Kanu’s family, complained of the failures of the FCDO…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Resident Electoral Commissioner REC for Enugu State, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu, says INEC has concluded arrangements for a hitch-free Governorship and State Assembly elections as well as rescheduled Enugu East Senatorial Zone poll on March 18. The REC announced this on Wednesday at a press conference held in Enugu on the preparedness of the commission for elections. Chukwu said that the conference was to inform the electorate and critical stakeholders in Enugu State on the commission’s preparedness to conduct a peaceful, hitch-free, credible and fair polls come March 18. He noted that INEC in Enugu State had received sensitive materials…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has urged exporters in non-oil sector in the South-East Region to take advantage of it’s training programmes to improve their trade. Mrs Esther Ikporah, the South-East  Regional Coordinator of NEPC said this on Wednesday during a training programme on “current trends in e-commerce” for non-oil exporters in Enugu. She said the Export Clinic was designed to build the capacities  of the newly registered non-oil exporters and potential exporters. According to her: “The Export Clinic is a programme specially designed to build the capacities of potential and newly registered non-oil exporters.” Ikporah said…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has endorsed the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, Ogbonna Nwifuru, ahead of the March 18 governorship and State House of Assembly elections. Anyim, who contested the 2023 presidential primary election of the PDP, disclosed this to Journalists at his country home, Wednesday. He spoke at a town-hall meeting for the local government convened by Governor David Umahi. The meeting was hosted by Mr Anyim in his compound at Ishiagu, Ivo LGA of the…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Police in Ebonyi State has confirmed the arrest of seven suspects over the murder of a top Monarch, Eze Igbokwe Ewa. The 76 years old Monarch was killed on the 27th day of February, in his Umu-Ezekoha Community, Ezza North Local Government area by gunmen. Police spokesperson, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, in a statement said the arrest of the subjects followed a formal complaint at the Divisional Police Headquarters Achiagu Ezza North LGA by the son of the deceased, Igboke Samuel Onyema.  She noted that a petition dated 1st March, 2023, was also received by the Police from St. Sen Solicitors on behalf…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led Anambra State Government has debunked reports that non-indigenes particularly Ebonyians resident in the state were asked to leave the state following the death of a 72 year old woman. The State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, debunked the news, Wednesday, while reacting to the death of the septuagenarian, whose organs were harvested in the state. Ikengaonline had reported the week before that the deceased was attacked by a suspect identified as Onyebuchi Ezeh from Ebonyi State at her residence in Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area, where her nipples, private…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The leadership of the Imo State Council of Elders, on Tuesday appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to suspend its ongoing strike since the previous Thursday, and open for dialogue between the NLC and the state government. The chairman of the council, the Obi of Obinugwu, HRM, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, made this call in a statement to newsmen in Owerri. The elders were of the view that the NLC should consider the residents of Imo State, who are now passing through severe pains due to the public power outage for the past five days. According to the Imo elders, “After…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has called for a thorough investigation over the weighty allegations raised by the Abia State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Professor Ike Uzochukwu. This is as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial candidate has insisted on the cancellation of the February 25 senatorial contest in the zone, alleging unprecedented irregularities. The former Leader, ECOWAS Parliament, who expressed shock at the startling revelations by the REC over his ‘mysterious’ abduction by security agencies hours after the presidential and national assembly elections, said the issues raised should not be swept under the carpet. Senator Ohuabunwa argued that…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Gerald Irona, who was remanded in Owerri correctional center, last Thursday, could not appear in Owerri high court on Tuesday, because his matter was not enlisted. The Imo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Legal Adviser, Kissinger Ikeokwo, made this known to newsmen in Owerri. Irona will now be arraigned on Wednesday (March 15, 2022). According to Ikeokwo, “The arraignment will now take place on Wednesday. We hurriedly filed on Friday and when we got to the court on Tuesday we discovered that the arraignment will no longer take place today. The matter was…

By Sufuyan Ojeifo  Before imaginations begin to run riot, let me quickly assure my readers that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in any danger whatsoever either in the hands of Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume or in the hands of Vincent Adodo, who prefers to be referred to as a citizen of Nigeria, legal practitioner, Notary Public for Nigeria and public interest lawyer. It is, perhaps, on the linchpins of his citizenship of Nigeria and his interest in public matters that he has latched his locus to drag the President Muhammadu Buhari through the court, not to create but to cure…