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Our Reporter, Abuja Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, said his team “deserved a slap.” An upset Arteta said this after Arsenal blew a great chance of maintaining a tight hold on the fourth position on the Premier League table by falling to a 1-2 defeat at home to Brighton over the weekend. The away club had not won in seven games before their game at the Emirates on Saturday. But once the game kicked off, it was not difficult to see that Brighton showed they wanted it more than their hosts who had succumbed to a surprising 3-0 defeat earlier in…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka. Anglican Archbishop of Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger and Bishop, Diocese of Awka, Most Revd. Alexander Ibezim, has predicted that the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, would be released in May. Ibezim said this Saturday at the 2022 Awka Diocesan annual prayer convention entitled: “This Mountain Shall Be Removed,” held at the premises of Paul University, Awka, Anambra State. The priest prophesied at the event that God would touch the leadership of the country to release the IPOB leader so as to end the killings and destructions in the Southern…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri. Vehicles, houses, electric poles and billboards were destroyed by a heavy windstorm that swept past the Owerri metropolis, in Imo State, Friday night. Ikengaonline captured the situation in some parts of Owerri, especially along Egbu Road and other adjoining streets. One of the badly affected places, the Mbaise Park close to the Federal Housing Estate in Egbu, was a bad sight to behold when Ikengaonline visited the area. Over four vehicles were observed in bad shape with their windows, doors and windscreens shattered. A large billboard was uprooted by the wind and it landed on the vehicles…

Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor). Determined to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket in 2023, aspirants of the number one position in the country from  the South-East geo-political zone, have united to win the ticket. The presidential hopefuls who met in Abuja on Saturday, demanded that the PDP ticket be ceded to the zone, which has not tasted power for over 50 years. Those who attended the Abuja parley were former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim; Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa; and Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze. Addressing newsmen after the parley, Senator Anyim, said, “We…

Michael Onwuka, Enugu. Enugu State Government has trained 35 persons as members of the State Task Group on Sanitation, STGS,  Special Adviser on Water Resources to Enugu State Governor, Anthony Onyia has said. Onyia disclosed this on Saturday in Enugu during the inauguration of the STGS. The Special Adviser said that the training and inauguration of the group were parts of deliberate efforts to make the state Open Defecation Free, ODF. He commended the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, for putting up the initiative which he said had continued to revive institutions, structures and infrastructure in the state. He said…

 Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor) The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may be headed for turbulence in the weeks ahead as the various blocs and political bigwigs in the party strategise for 2023 presidential ticket of the party. Governors of the party from Southern Nigeria have insisted that the presidential ticket of the party must be zoned to the South, just as it was ceded to the North in 2019. The PDP Southern Governors who met Friday night in Abuja, vowed to stop at nothing in having their way. They reinforced their earlier position taken at separate meetings in Asaba…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former Rivers State Governor, and Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has finally declared for the 2023 presidential contest. His declaration for the presidential race is coming after months of denials, speculations, intrigues, and behind-the-scenes consultations. Amaechi made the declaration, Friday at a thanksgiving service organised by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Promoters of his candidacy have argued that his emergence as the President could put paid to the agitations by the South-East and the South-South zones as the former Rivers State Governor can comfortably pass for a bona-fide “indigene” of both…

By Chuks Iloegbunam Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church recently spoke through his hat while preaching a sermon. He told his congregation that, during the January 15, 1966 military action that toppled the First Republic, the soldiers that took Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa removed his turban, poured wine on his head and force-fed him with the alcohol. For abominating him, Balewa, just before he was shot, pronounced a curse on Ndigbo, to the effect that no one from the ethnic group will ever rule over Nigeria. Mr. Bakare’s story, fanciful as it sounds, is a pack…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Former Presidential Adviser and Co-convener of the National Consultative Forum of Leaders of Conscience, Professor Pat Utomi, has blamed Nigeria’s backwardness on what he called “the politics of big men” played by politicians in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Utomi who stated this at a press conference in Lagos on Friday, urged Nigerians to shun both parties at the 2023 general election. According to him, the existential challenges facing the country spurred some ideas-driven leaders to begin to have meetings to restore the nation to its pride of…

Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Saturday, had 20 commissioners sworn-in to serve as members of his cabinet. The new commissioners were sworn in after screening and confirmation on Thursday by the Anambra State House of Assembly. Soludo charged the commissioners to abide by their oath of office and discharge their duties diligently. Speaking to journalists shortly after the low- key event that took place at the Government House Awka, the Commissioner for Information, Chief Paul Nwosu, promised to partner with the media to project the agenda of the Soludo-led administration. Meanwhile, the 20 commissioners and their…