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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Abakaliki Division of the Federal High Court has again nullified the Ebonyi Local Government elections and sacked all the 13 Council chairmen in the state. The court also sacked all the 171 ward councilors elected same day with the Chairmen. The court had earlier on August 25 nullified the council polls of May 31. Ruling on the matter with suit NO: FHC/AI/CS/224/2022 on Friday, Justice Fatun Riman ordered the seizure of the monthly federal allocation of the chairmen pending when rightful Chief Executives are elected into office. Fatun restated that the council election by the Ebonyi…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Abakaliki Division of the Federal High Court on Friday declared the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that emerged from the May 28 and 29 primaries as the authentic candidates of the party. The court therefore declared Mr Ifeanyi Odii as the authentic governorship candidate of the party having emerged from the governorship primary of May 29. The Court gave the ruling in a suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/2020/2022 filed by Tochukwu Okorie against the PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Okorie had urged the court to cancel the PDP primary in Ebonyi state of…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Unidentified gunmen on Friday were seen shooting sporadically in some parts of Imo State, it was gathered from eyewitnesses in Owerri and its environs. The Imo State Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, confirmed the development. However, it was said by eyewitnesses that the gunmen’s plot was to enforce the sit-at-home order allegedly issued by one Simon Ekpa, an order which had been denied by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. In the process of the shootings, it was said that some persons were attacked and injured. One Prince Henry Iheme, a…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Federal High Court Enugu, under Justice, M G Umar, has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to list the name of, Barrister Gideon Okey Agbo as the Senatorial Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for Enugu North. The Order followed a suit filled by the candidate challenging the exclusion of his name on INEC’s list of candidates for the 2023 general election as released in October 2022. In his ruling, the Judge declared that “the Defendant (INEC) does not possess any lawful authority to exclude the 1st plaintiff  as the 2nd plaintiff’s candidate for…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, has promised to embark on mass rural electrification of communities across the state, if elected. He said this during a governorship campaign rally at Ogbodu Aba, ward, in Udenu Local Government Area of the state. Edeoga said that, he would decentralize the State Rural Electrification Board to the three senatorial districts to make the agency serve it’s purpose of connecting the communities with electricity. “I will decentralize the Enugu State Rural Electrification Board in order to drive my mass rural electrification vision across communities…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The only Kidney Transplant Centre in the South-East located at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia, Abia State, says it has conducted 10 kidney transplants since inception  five years ago with 70% success. A Consultant Nephrologist and member of the Kidney Transplant Programme of the hospital, Dr. Chimezie Okwuonu, who disclosed this during the 5th anniversary of the centre, decried the high cost of kidney transplant. According to him, about N9 million is needed for kidney transplant at the hospital but greater per cent of the patients cannot afford it. “We saw from our data that we have…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Chairman, Anambra State Sports Development Commission, Hon. Patrick Estate Onyedum, has called for the ban of elite athletes from Nigeria’s biggest sports programme, the National Sports Festival (NSF). Onyedum made this known in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Asaba venue of the 21st edition of the NSF. Onyedum stated that participation of elite athletes is doing more harm than good as it is affecting the growth and development of sports especially at the grassroots level in Nigeria. He also said that the trend is responsible for the ‘win at all cost’ syndrome and the desperation by most…

By Owei Lakemfa The European Union, EU, and the Group of Seven, G7, comprising Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United States, US, the United Kingdom and Australia made a deceitful announcement to the world on Friday, December 2, 2022. They claimed that in solidarity with Ukraine, they have decided to cap the price of Russian oil at $60 per barrel in order to reduce the funds available to the latter to prosecute the war in Ukraine. US officials claimed the cap demonstrated the resolve of the coalition opposing Russia’s war on Ukraine. However, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Government has debunked reports of an alleged gunmen attack and kidnap of babies in a hospital in one of the communities in the State. Reports had it that unknown gunmen, suspected to be ritualists invaded an undisclosed hospital in the state and abducted the new born babies. It also said the gunmen made away with some blood-stained delivery wrappers belonging to some of the women who newly put to bed in the hospital. The report said the incident took place in Nkpologwu, a community in Aguata Local Government area, the council of the State…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The new cash withdrawal  guidelines recently released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has continued to receive reactions from stakeholders in Enugu State. The stakeholders bared their minds in separate interviews with Ikengaonline in Enugu. Mr Ambrose Eze, a Professional Banker, said there was nothing wrong with the new guidelines but the timing and the urgency was not in order. He also said that, cashless policy should be gradual due to many factors which include ignorant of the people; low level awareness and lack of internet access in the rural communities. “To me that policy rather than improving business and…