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Ike Nnachi Abakaliki The Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ebonyi State Chapter, Charles Ofoke; and the Coordinator of Nnodo Development Centre in Izzi Local government Area, Mr Chijioke Nwuzor, have been arrested by the police for allegedly attacking one John Nwiboko. The arrest follows a petition written by Mr Iboko through his lawyers to the police accusing the duo of orchestrating the said attack on him and his family earlier in the year during which his car was set ablaze. The attack, it was gathered, was as a result of a lingering leadership tussle in Igweledeoha Ezza-Inyimegu village, in…

By Osmund Agbo “If we are in the habit of practicing the opposite of what we preach, our admonition will not only lose its force and cogency, but also, we ourselves will forfeit every claim to credibility. An ounce of example, it has been widely said, is far better than a ton of precepts,” according to Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Not too long ago, I had cause to strike up a friendship with someone whom I considered a co-traveler in my ‘Save Nigeria Project.’ I have always reasoned that for a beleaguered nation to rise above the ashes of the current…

A woman of Igbo origin, Amanda Azubuike, was elevated from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General in the United States Army. Azubuike, whose ancestry is connected to Nigeria, received her new rank during a ceremony held at a military installation in Fort Knox, Kentucky, in the United States. General James Rainey, commander of the US Army Futures Command, said of Azubuike’s leadership abilities that she “makes everyone around her better.” Azubuike, a citizen of the United States, was born to Nigerian parents in London, United Kingdom. She enrolled in the Army’s Aviation Officer Basic Course in 1994 to train…

By Nnamdi Elekwachi There is nothing wrong with the CBN redesigning banknotes in Nigeria. Elsewhere, this exercise is a necessary monetary policy intervention which happens periodically. Normally, the CBN, which issues all Nigerian banknotes, has the statutory powers to recall or withdraw them from circulation to, among other things, control inflation, reduce counterfeiting and control liquidity – money in circulation – as being adduced. But the problem is the cost implication of doing this at a time when the naira faces the worst form of currency crisis (weak purchasing power parity, PPP, vis a vis the dollar and other hard…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The on-going dismantling of the Eastern rail line has drawn the ire of Anglican Bishops as well as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as the duo cry foul over the “suspicious development.” Ikengaonline observed that the rail track connecting Enugu with Port Harcourt is being dismantled and carted away to unknown destinations with the aid of security personnel. This development has been raising dust among locals, and the silence of the Railway Authorities and the Federal Government has not helped matters. Irked by the development, Anglican bishops who spoke at the 13th Diocesan Christian Men Fellowship Conference held  in…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A group, Odimma Awka North People’s Assembly, has awarded a scholarship to one hundred indigent pupils in Awka North  Local Government Area, Anambra State. Odimma Awka North People’s Assembly, is a non-governmental organisation that is made up of men and women who are worried by the deplorable condition of infrastructures and other developmental challenges in the food producing area. Ikengaonline gathered that the beneficiaries were drawn from ten communities in the council area and the scholarship covered tuition fees for the students’ one-year academic session in their respective schools. Distributing the cheques to the beneficiaries at Achalla, the headquarters of…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Senatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ebonyi North District, Ebonyi State, Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi, on Monday lamented the perennial crises in the four local governments that make up the zone. This was as he blamed National Assembly members in the senatorial zone and the National Boundary Commission(NBC) for inability to find solutions to the crises which he said had claimed many lives with properties worth billions of naira destroyed. He disclosed that few months ago, over 100 lives were lost in the crisis between Ngbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state and neighbouring Agila, Ardo…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in  Anambra State, has declared operation win your ward and polling units to its campaign council members ahead of the 2023 general election. The order was given by PDP chieftain, Chief Ben Obi, while inaugurating PDP Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 general election in Awka, the state capital on Tuesday. He said, “This is the time for sacrifice. Our party is in opposition hence, whatever we need to deliver our party should be judiciously utilized for the success of the party in the state.” “The task before us is onerous, bearing in mind that about…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Pioneer Head, Department of Mass Communication, Abia Polytechnic Aba, Dr Uwaoma Uche, has been promoted to the rank of professor of Mass Communication ( Broadcasting Management). He was one of the resource persons at a training workshop for Abia journalists organized recently by Ikenga Media and Cultural Awareness Initiative, IMCAI, publishers of Ikengaonline. The promotion was conveyed to him by the Gregory University Uturu where he was a Reader until the latest promotion. This was contained in a letter dated October 28, 2022, with a reference number: REF:GUU/REG/SARP/UU/PRM/10/2022. Professor Uche is currently the Dean, College of Social and…

By Owei Lakemfa Adigun Agbaje is as good as they come. A Professor of Political Science and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, UI, he bestrides multiple worlds. Even as a veteran journalist, when he speaks on the media, I listen. It is not just because after earning a First Class degree in Political Science from UI he went on to take a Masters degree in Mass Communications with distinctions from the University of Lagos. It is more because he was so good as a practising journalist that we young reporters in the Guardian Newspapers were told to emulate…