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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, has called on Nigerian leaders to use the 2025 Lenten season to seek true repentance and shun corrupt practices. Onaga made the call in Enugu in his Lenten message to Nigerians. The Lent is the 40-day period of fasting and prayers by Christians all over the world leading to Easter celebration. This year’s Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of Lent, is on March 5 and the Lent ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, which holds on April 20. “The 40 days of Lent…
Ugo Nosiri, Owerri As part of efforts to rid the state of criminal elements responsible for the recent surge in abductions and other violent crimes in the area, Operatives of the Imo State Police Command has conducted a well-coordinated operation at a forest in Irete, Owerri West LGA. According to a statement signed by the command’s spokespersons Mr Henry Okoye, the operation led to the arrest of four suspected kidnappers. The apprehended suspects are Sulieman Ahmed (26), Mohammed Salisu (31), and Gambo Jefta (26), all from Jigawa State, and Gabriel Ogbuzuru from Ebonyi State. Searching the suspects and their hideout,…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has said Police in the state have intensified operations against the illegal Sit-At-Home order. In a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the CP expressed concern about how the illegal act has negatively affected the social and economic growth of the state. The CP emphasised the need to educate the public about the negative impacts of the order and promised to promote a return to normalcy in the state. “This is part of the strategy under the new leadership of the…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Labour Party (LP) has given reasons why Valentine Ozigbo, its former governorship aspirant in Anambra State, joined rival All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the governorship election in the state. The party claimed that the politician’s defection was motivated by financial difficulties. According to the party, Ozigbo’s decision to join the APC was driven by his desire for financial gain, and that he has been financially challenged since the 2021 election. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, stated that Ozigbo’s interest is pecuniary, and that he does not have the interest of the nation or Anambra…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The unfolding political drama in Rivers State has taken a new dimension following the order on Sunday by Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, that fresh Local election would be conducted in the state. This is as the Governor has ordered the Heads of Local Government Administration to immediately take over the administration of the 23 local government areas by Monday, pending the conduct of fresh elections by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission. Fubara directed the outgoing local government chairmen to formally hand over to the Heads of Local Government Administration by Monday, March 3, 2025. The Governor gave…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Governor Alex Otti has said that the agitation for Biafra is not about the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but about giving equal opportunity to Ndigbo in Nigeria. Otti who spoke during the 70th birthday ceremony of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (APGA), representing Abia South, urged the Nigeria State to stop excluding the Igbo but give the people a sense of belonging. He said that if the Igbo cause as championed by Abaribe and others were addressed, the renewed agitation for Biafra restoration would not be gaining momentum. He said: “Abaribe told…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, South-East Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in this theatre from open source records but unofficial estimates suggest that there may be up to five killings missed for each counted. The worst of the killings have occurred since 2019 and the worst hit state in the zone over that period is Anambra. Many erroneously date the origins of this to the radicalization of the Indigenous People of…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called for a thorough investigation into the allegation of sexual harassment between incumbent Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central. Akpoti-Uduaghan had publicly accused Akpabio of making unwanted sexual advances during a visit to his home in Akwa Ibom. The alleged incident has sparked a heated debate, with Akpoti-Uduaghan filing a lawsuit against Akpabio for defamation and seeking N100 billion in damages. The dispute between the two lawmakers has been ongoing, with Akpoti-Uduaghan resisting her reassignment to a new seat in the Senate chamber. In…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Abia State High Court has stopped the enforcement of the alleged suspension of the Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Adolphus Wabara. Ikengaonline had reported that Wabara was two weeks ago, purportedly suspended by a former Spokesman of the PDP in Abia, Elder Abraham Amah, who is claiming the chairmanship of the party in the state. Amah accused the former Senate President of anti-party, citing his commendation of Gov Alex Otti for awarding contract for the reconstruction of Port Harcourt Road Aba as anti-party. Justice LTC Eruba, who presided over the court…
Ngozi Mbachu, Umuahia A former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji; his son and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji: and three others were Friday arraigned before the Abia High Court sitting in Umuahia for alleged financial crime. Other persons arraigned with the duo by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were a former Commissioner for Finance, Dr Philp Nto; former Director of Finance, Government House, Mr Romanus Madu; and a local contractor, Mr King Obioma. The anti-graft agency through its legal team led by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, slammed 16 counts of…