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Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Anambra State Chapter, has called on the relevant authorities to ensure the prosecution of the alleged killer of the late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu. NAWOJ expressed shock and anger over the questionable circumstances surrounding Osinachi’s death and demanded an end to violence against women and girls. In a release signed by its State Chairperson, Comrade Franklyn Onyekachi, NAWOJ Anambra State chapter, lamented that domestic violence had claimed yet another one of the state’s shining stars. According to the release, while NAWOJ hates divorce, it advised that women should separate from…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Eight suspects believed to be involved in the parade of one Mrs. Blessing Ajuese Egwuatu along the streets of Aguleri in Otuocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, have been granted bail by a Magistrate court sitting in Otuocha. The court had last month, remanded the suspects in police custody after they were allegedly caught in a viral video parading the widow naked in public. In the viral video, the woman was made to sit by her late husband’s corpse, assaulted and was accused of causing the death of her husband through her alleged infidelity. Presiding over…
By Nonsochukwu Uwa The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday announced April 27, 2022, as the deadline for the ban on open grazing after which they would commence enforcement of the ban in Igboland. IPOB made this known in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful. The pro-Biafra movement said the decision was in line with the position of the South-East Governors who had already banned open grazing, as well as the open grazing laws passed by states in the region. IPOB also said it was worried that since the law was passed the law enforcement agencies were…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia In a bid to end the plight of citizens as a result of epileptic power supply, the World Bank in collaboration with the Federal Government through the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC, has commenced installation of solar systems in 5000 households in Abia. The initiative was introduced to provide 24-hour uninterrupted solar power to 5 million households in Nigeria off the national grid, according to NDPHC representative, Mr Chinonso Ugwueke, an Engineer who led the team for the installation to Abia. He said that the lawmaker representing Aba-South state constituency in the Abia State House of…
By Rudolf Okonkwo My dear brethren, I send you all Calvary greetings and love from my Daddy’s office. As we get ready for Easter, I have a recurring vision about death and resurrection that I want to share with all the over five million members of my Daddy’s church. As you all know, our beloved Daddy G O has surpassed the three scores and ten years that God promised us. For all practical purposes, that he is still on the field playing is all thanks to injury time. We may need an urgent transition to new leadership in our ministry…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Barely 10 months after her husband was allegedly “extraordinarily renditioned” from Kenya to Nigeria in controversial circumstances now a subject of litigation, Mrs. Uchechi Okwu Kanu, wife of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has petitioned the United Nations Security Council over the IPOB leader’s alleged abduction, rendition and continued detention in breach of his fundamental human rights. Mrs. Kanu in the petition by her lawyer, American-born Bruce Fein, asked the UN to also set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the alleged torture of her husband, and punish all those involved…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said he has no plans to have his deputy, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, impeached. Ikpeazu who made the denial in a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Onyebuchi Ememanka, said he had enjoyed a very warm relationship with his deputy, and had no intention or reason to push for his removal. The statement made available to Ikengaonline explained that “while the natural expectation of Governor Ikpeazu at this time was that his Deputy would have stood by him in steadying the ship of state as we head towards…
By Farooq A. Kperogi Yemi Osinbajo’s underwhelming, grammatically error-ridden, self-sabotaging presidential declaration speech contains two barefaced lies. The first major lie is his claim that he has “been to practically all local governments in Nigeria.” The lie is too self-evident to need further elucidation from me. But the second major lie, which concerns me more than the first, is his claim that he wants a Nigeria “where the man from Nnewi sees the man in Gusau as his brother, where the woman in Warri sees the woman in Jalingo as her sister, where the love of our nation burns alike…
By Jude Eze A new reality of life is dawning on Prof. Chukwuma Soludo. He arguably must have known that being a central bank governor is not synonymous with being a state governor. But today, he has a practical dimension to that lone knowledge. One is an appointment, the other a political mandate. One requires professional know-how, the other an integral administrative skill and sagacity. One is administered adorning suites and other corporate dressing outfits, the other on a rolled sleeves (especially in Africa). It is barely one month that the globally-acclaimed economist and intellectual mounted the saddle in Anambra state…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has called on Nigerian leaders to gather and put pressure on the political system the same way they did in 1999 in favour of the South-West region that produced the president in the country. Uzodinma said this when he hosted Igbo leaders at the Government House in Owerri at the weekend to honour the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor. Uzodinma argued that at that time, the South-West had cried against political marginalisation of the region. And as a result of the pressure, leaders of the country rallied round and…