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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, has sacked Chief Emeka Atuma as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Abia Central senatorial district in the 2023 election. Justice Justice Rita Pemu, who presided over the court, held that Chief Sam Onuigbo is the authentic candidate of the party, and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise him as such. Chief Onuigbo who scored the highest number of votes in the primary was shortchanged by the party which did not submit his name to INEC, but instead, submitted the name of Atuma who…
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the next poet destined to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lovers of intellection are thrilled that on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, Professor Niyi Osundare will deliver his Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) Winners Lecture in Abuja. The lecture which is taking place within the context of the Annual Forum of NNOM Laureates is entitled “Poetry and the Human Voice”. The significant event that is happening physically and virtually calls for celebration because Niyi Osundare…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Attempt by one of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, General Ijioma Nwokoro Ijioma (Rtd.), to stop the party’s flag bearer, Professor Greg Ibe from flying the APGA flag in 2023, has been quashed by the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia. The court presided over by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, Wednesday, dismissed the suit filed by the retired General, saying it lacked merit. Gen. Ijioma, had sought the relief of the court to cancel the May 29 APGA governorship primary that produced Professor Ibe alleging irregularities in his election. He claimed that the state Chairman of…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A former police officer attached to the defunct State Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) has been arrested by the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) at Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspect identified as Ejima was arrested over alleged serial defilement of minors in the state. The suspect, who hails from Ebonyi State, and now in police custody, is accused of defiling five under-aged children from four different parents and between the ages of five to eleven. Narrating their ordeal, one of the victims said the suspect had requested they come over to his house to rest…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The women of Eha-Amufu in Isi Uzo Local Government Area on Wednesday allegedly booed the Governorship candidate of PDP and his campaign team. Our source told Ikengaonline that Peter Mbah and his campaign team stormed the troubled community in a bid to campaign but the campaign ended abruptly when Mbah tried to plead for support. The PDP campaign train included Barr. Obiora Obeagu, Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Jideofor Ebeh, Chief Augustine Nnamani and other PDP stakeholders. Our source said that the people, particularly women in their numbers vehemently rejected and booed the campaign team inside the Eha-Amufu…
Our Reporter, Abuja The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Gambo Aliyu, has said that the potency of the dreaded HIV/AIDS has been subdued in the country to the extent that it is now just a chronic disease like diabetes and other regular diseases. He made the declaration Tuesday while fielding questions on Kakaaki, a breakfast show on African Independent Television (AIT). According to the NACA DG, in 2021, the records show that about seventy-four thousand new infections were reported compared to about one hundred and ten thousand new infections in 2019, saying that…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday alleged that the presidential campaign vehicles of Atiku Abubarkar/Ifeanyi Okowa have been confiscated by suspected agents of the State Government. PDP made this allegation in a statement it issued to newsmen in Owerri, through the state publicity secretary, Collins Opurozor. The statement read in part: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has condemned in the strongest terms the brutal assault on our members and violent confiscation of the campaign vehicles belonging to our presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by agents of the infamous regime…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Professor Greg Ibe, has challenged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, to explain to Abians how he deployed the over N4 billion, which represents the state’s share of the 13% Oil Derivation Fund. Professor Ibe also challenged Ikpeazu to publicly account for the funds and palliatives he received during the COVID-19 lockdown. “Ikpeazu should also come clear about how the tons of food items and money he received from different donor agencies, the Federal Government, corporate organisations and public-spirited individuals during the COVID-19 lockdown were distributed,” Ibe demanded. Ibe who was…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Labour Party (LP) in Enugu State, has disowned billboards with the party’s logo mounted in some areas of Enugu with the picture of Capt Everest Nnaji as LP Governorship candidate. The State Publicity Secretary, Mr Titus Odo, said this in Enugu on Tuesday in a statement obtained by Ikengaonline. Odo said that the reaction becomes necessary in order to disabuse the minds of its supporters that the party has factions in the state. “The attention of the leadership of Enugu State Labour Party (LP) has been attracted to a billboard conspicuously mounted along Airport Road, Emene, bearing our…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Nigeria Police Command, Enugu State, says it has arrested 17 suspects including a native doctor for different offences in various parts of the state. This was contained in it’s bulletin of Tuesday November 29th, 2022, signed by Mr Daniel Ndukwe, (DSP), the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO). According to him: “Police Operatives of Enugu State Command have arrested a total of seventeen (17) criminal suspects, including one (1) female, for the offences of conspiracy, murder, armed robbery, truck snatching, abduction and unlawful possession of firearm. “Amongst the suspects is a native doctor that shot and murdered his client, while…