Author: Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu is based in the eastern region of Nigeria. She covers politics, news writing, feature stories, among others. She has multitasking skills and can easily adapt to any working condition. She enjoys reading and writing.
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Again, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has appealed to the United Kingdom authorities to grant bail to Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu has been in detention for months now after he was charged alongside his wife for alleged organ harvesting. The court granted bail to Beatrice but ruled that the former Deputy Senate President was a flight risk. On Monday, the lawmaker’s daughter, who has been down with kidney disease, cried out to the world, soliciting for a kidney donor. She went ahead to reveal that her father was also battling kidney ailment…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has held a private meeting with the Presidential Candidate of the Action Alliance, Hamza Al-Mustapha, at his residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. Al-Mustapha was a Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha who ruled as Military Head of State between 1993 and 1998. Like in many of the recent visits by presidential candidates to Wike, the agenda for the governor’s meeting with Al-Mustapha and his team was not revealed as of press time. After the meeting, none of them equally spoke to journalists. However, the…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Delta State Police Command has confirmed the abduction Frank Esiwo, Vice-Chairman of the Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. Mr Esiwo was on his way to Patani when he was abducted by armed men on Sunday. The incident occurred at Ogor town in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. The Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident said the police were working to rescue the victim. The abductors were said to have left behind the car and phones of the victim and were…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Mr Essien Ndueso, the media aide to governor Udom Emmanuel on Research and Documentation, on Monday said it is not the responsibility of the Akwa Ibom State Government to pay compensation to those affected by the construction of the federal government’s Calabar-Itu road. This is came following the purported assertion by the former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, to stakeholders of Itu Local Government that the project is being delayed due to the state government’s inability to pay compensation. The governor’s aide wondered how a federal government could…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Ohanaeze Ndigbo has described Sunday’s attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, during which about six of his aides and police escort were killed, as “very disturbing”. National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Alex Ogbonna, said that killing was alien to Igbo culture in the past. He wondered if those behind the ongoing senseless killings in the South-East are truly Igbo, and described the dastardly act as unacceptable and called for action. His said: “This is very disturbing. I feel so sad about it. In Igbo land in the past, killing was an abominable act, a…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Lagos State chapter, has inaugurated new executive members, at the Muson Centre in Lagos. Betty Akeredolu, wife of the Ondo state governor; and Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu were present at the event. Others include Secretary-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okey Emuchey and other leaders of the organisation across the country and in diaspora. Speaking at the event, Sunday Ossai, the new President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Lagos, said he would reposition the organisation to serve the interest of Igbos in the state and foster a good relationship with the…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- There is palpable tension in Iwollo community in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State as suspected herdsmen invade farmlands in the community. The villagers, since after the invasion of their farmlands, said they have been counting their losses. They therefore called on the state government to intervene and save them from the destructive activities of herders in the community. They also asked the leadership of the Hausa/Fulani community in the state to intervene and put an end to the invasion and destruction of their farms. A video of the invasion seen on Monday, shows…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has reacted to the attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy by suspected Assassins. The attack which took place at Enugwu Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of Anambra state on Sunday, September 11th, 2022, lead to the death of about 7 persons including the police officers attached to him (Senator Ubah). Reacting to the development, Obi, the Presidential Candidate and former Governor of Anambra State on Monday, calls for arrest of the criminals behind the attack. In his words “I deeply commiserate with my…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has labelled his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, the former Minister of Transportation a “total failure”. He said the former Rivers Governor (Amaechi) no longer has access to Aso Villa in Abuja, as he commissioned a remodelled former RivBank Building in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Monday. He said, “This should be the last time that you (Amaechi) will talk about this state because you are a total failure as far as this state is concerned. A total failure. Even what is supposed to come to us, you blocked it…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Senator representing the Anambra South Senatorial Zone, Ifeanyi Ubah has confirmed the attack on his convoy on Sunday. Also the Senator who is seeking reelection on the ticket of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), confirmed the deaths of some of his personal and security aides during the attack on his convoy. They were attacked on Sunday evening, around Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu Market axis of Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra while the lawmaker was on his way to Nnewi his country home. The armed men suspected to be assasins opened fire on Ubah’s convoy leaving…