OVER 300 PUPILS BENEFIT FROM EWURU EDUCATION INCENTIVE PROGRAMME Over 300 pupils of Uweifo Primary School and Hope Comprehensive Nursery and Primary Schools, Ewuru, Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area…

NIGERIA WHERE LAWLESSNESS IS GRADUALLY BECOMING A LAW By Chucks Dominic Morsi The other day, I read an article with a caption “Edo Deputy Governor Locked Out Of Govt Office”…

The True Meaning Of 100 Days In Office By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi As a background to this piece, the ‘culture’ of celebrating first 100 days in office is traceable to…

NDDC WILL ACHIEVE ITS CORE OBJECTIVE UNDER CHIEDU EBIE LEADERSHIP, – Steve Ashien, Ika Weekly Newspaper Publisher …Describes the Legal Luminary As The Best Man For The Job The Publisher,…

RNoEPOSITION YOURSELF THROUGH BETTER IMAGE-LAUNDERING TO EARN VALUE By Chucks Dominic Morsi In an attempt to explain or quantify what your worth is, there is need taking a dive first…

LAND CASES BETWEEN OWANTA AND OWA-EKEI By Chief Dr. Onyekpeze It was inevitable that sooner or later, a dispute was bound to arise among the people of Owa, who have…

SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND OTHER MATTERS ARISING By; Augustine Omilo Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over as the president of Nigeria on the 29th of May, 2023, the country has…

THIRTY-EIGHT BULLETS REMOVED FROM MY BODY, Motorcycle Theft Victim Narrates Ordeal By Patrick Gbuchanye The victim of motorcycle theft, Mr. Patrick Monday who narrowly escaped death after a gunshot attack,…

NWABUOZOR FAMILY WELCOMES TRIPLETS, EXPRESSES GRATITUDE TO GOD, SEEKS ASSISTANCE The family of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Nwabuozor has expressed gratitude to God Almighty for the safe delivery of. their…

EBONKA, TATAOBUZUOGWU CONDEMNS JUNGLE JUSTICE ON THIRD MOTORCYCLE THIEVES AS 3 BURNT ALIVE WITHIN A WEEK By Patrick Gbuchanye The Chairmen of Ika North East and Ika South LGAs Hon.…

Farmers in Idumu Oba community in Umunede Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State are said to be recounting their woes following the recent invasion of…

EDUCATION, BEST LEGACY FOR YOUR CHILD – Proprietress, Comforter International School Offers Free Medical Test For Parents, Guests Holds Its 8th Annual Graduation Ceremony Education has been said to be…

OWA-ALERO SECONDARY COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, RENAMED AFTER ERIGBUEM By Patrick Gbuchanye Owa-Alero Secondary Commercial School, Owa-Alero, Ika North East Local Government Area has been renamed after the Late Keonyerinieze of Owa…

UN Charter and Delta state Born Physically Challenged Keke Operator In Lagos By; Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi Acting on a recent emotional words and compassionate description by a professional colleague of…

OLDEST WOMAN IN UMUNEDE DIES AT 122 The oldest person of Umunede extraction, Mama Ruth Ijenwa Nzemeke Adagbon nee Onyekpe, fondly called Nne-Nta from the Idumu-Ishiorji in Obi Quarters of…

SUBSIDY IS GONE! PALLIATIVES GONE!! WHAT NEXT? By; Augustine Omilo In the days of the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon, Nigerians were greeted with the notion that the country…

DR. EHIJENE 18TH SCIENCE COMPETITION HOLDS, DECRIES POOR STUDENT’S PERFORMANCES By Sunday Memeh The Dr. Ifeanyi S. Ehijene’s 18th Annual Science Competition, an event that has been organizing for the…

VIEWPOINT: PUMP PRICE OF FUEL GOES UP! By Boniface Chizea The reality today in Nigeria is that pump price of fuel which was selling at 195 Naira per litre before…

HIGH COST OF LIVING IN AGBOR AND OTHER ATTENDANT UNDERLINED FACTOR BY Chucks Dominic Morsi For any rapid developing town or city anywhere, it comes with an attendant consequences and…

Mothers of all kinds and types hold honoured place in our society and traditional roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers are quite burdensome. Female gender roles are majorly patterned for…

FIRE OUTBREAK RENDERS FAMILIES HOMELESS, DESTROYS PROPERTIES WORTH MILLIONS OF NAIRA By Sunday Memeh It was a pathetic situation to behold as fire outbreak rendered families homeless at the early…

YOU ARE NOT RECOGNISED IN OUR LAND, Ekuku-Agbor Community Tells Anioma Security Watch Network By Sunday Memeh The Uboh, Ezehamosi Ezeriohaye 1 and Elders in Council of Ekuku-Agbor Community in…

Our Mother’s departure, creates a vacuum in our lives -Celestine Okwuazu As they laid their mother, Late Maria Okwuazu to Rest Amidst Celebration By Judith Atorough The remains of late…

SUSPECTED CABLE VANDAL ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH IN UTE-OKPU By Amos Chukwuekwu Residents of Ute Okpu Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, woke up in the…

FAMILY OF 3, DIES MYSTERIOUSLY FIRST NIGHT IN NEW HOUSE By Nicholas Ebegboni Tragedy struck Monday, July 10, 2023, as family of 3 was found dead in Alijemisi, Agbor, Ika…

Federal universities and Hike In fees By; Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi It is pedestrian information that while Nigerians were waiting for the commencement of governance, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the…

GLORY WEDS HEARTTHROB, TIMOTHY IN GRAND STYLE By Sunday Memeh Saturday, May 6 2023, will remain remarkable in the hearts of the family members of Mr. Christopher Ukpere of Agbor-Obi…

FIRE OUTBREAK AT BOJI-BOJI MAIN MARKET (GARAGE), VICTIMS CRY FOR AID By Sunday Memeh Victims of the Sunday, June 18 2023, fire outbreak at the Boji-Boji Main Market, (Garage) have…

WHY I WANT MY SON TO PLAY FOR NIGERIA – Mother of German-Born Player By Sunday Memeh Augustina Stockbrink, the mother of the FC Monchengladbach Football Academy and a Nigerian-German…

OUR FATHER WAS A HERO, AN EPITOME OF TRUTH – Erigbuem Family By Sunday Memeh Family members and friends of Chief Ignatius Igabor Erigbuem, the Keonyerinieze of Owa Kingdom, have…

TWO LOVERS FOUND DEAD, STARK NAKED It was a bizarre sight to behold on Tuesday June 20, 2023, when a man and a woman believed to be lovers were found…

EMETANJO/AKUMABOR/OGBU FAMILIES GIVE SUCCOUR TO OVER 200 WIDOWS, AGED WOMEN, MEN IN UMUNEDE God Will Surely Reward Them Handsomely, Widows Pray For Emetanjo/Akumabor/Ogbu families By Amos Chukwuekwu About 200 widows…

LATE EZINNE VICTORIA OBIAGELI ONYEKPEZE LAID TO REST By Sunday Memeh The remain of a retired Headmistress, Ezinne (Mrs.) Victoria Obiageli Onyekpeze, (Nee Dunkwu) was laid to rest on Friday,…

NIGERIAN HUNTERS, FOREST SECURITY SERVICE IKA NORTH-EAST CHAPTER, INAUGURATED By Sunday Memeh Members of the Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service, Ika North-East Chapter, have been officially inaugurated. Leader of…

JUBILATION AS BEDC DISTRIBUTES PRE-PAID METERS TO UMUNEDE RESIDENTS By Amos Chukwuekwu Many customers of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) in Umunede in Ika North East Local Government Area of…

BISHOP ELUE CONFIRMS 275 CATHOLIC FAITHFUL By Judith Atorough The Bishop of Issele-Uku Diocese, Most Rev. Dr.  Michael Odogwu Elue, on Pentecost Sunday, May 28th, 2023, conferred the sacrament of…

IKA WEEKLY NEWSPAPER BROUGHT IKA LAND TO LIMELIGHT-Osabohien By Patrick Gbuchanye An Abavo born and lover of Ika Weekly Newspaper, Mr. Andrew Hope Osabohien said that the place of the…

MONSIGNOR UZOR CONDOLES WITH FAMILY OF EMMANUEL OBUH Says Tomorrow Exists Only By Faith By Judith Atorough The Parish Priest of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church Agbor, Ika South…

St John the Baptist Catholic Church, Agbor thrown into deep mourning as a parishioner, the multi-talented instrumentalist; Emmanuel Obuh shockingly passed on to glory after he slumped on a football…

Wife of the Executive Governor of Delta State, Her Excellency, Dame, Mrs. Edith Okowa, on Friday, May 26 2023, commissioned a Cottage Hospital, built at Ute-Erumu Community in Ika North-East…

The Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, Ika Chapter, on Saturday, August 1, 2021, held their annual outreach at the Golden Cocktail Hotel, Ime-Obi which received a massive turn up…

Ika Weekly Newspaper views as saddening the development that in the past few months, the Senator Ahmed Lawan led 9th National Assembly has been in the news for the wrong…

Monday, May 24, 2021 was a troubled day for the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Agbor Business Manager, Engr Amos Bamgboye as some residents who were extorted for a free…

The people of Ime-Oyibu Quarters in Owa-Oyibu Community, the headquarters of Ika Northeast Local Government Area, have during a peaceful protest on morning of Wednesday, May 26, 2021 warning against…

The mother of Miracle Nwafor, the 13 year-old girl who was murdered on Thursday 20th May, 2021 and dumped behind School of Nursing Agbor, by some suspected ritualists, Mrs. Queendalene…

On 15 December 2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) directed that all phone Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) should be registered with valid National Identification Numbers (NINs) failing which such…

From available records, there are but two major religions practiced by the people of Ika nation. They are; Christianity and Traditional Religions. While a gorge of difference exists in their…

Our personality for this week is Miss Onyekachukwu Ojumah; a banker by profession, from Agbor, in this interesting and inspiring interview with IKA WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Crew, reels out her young…

The recent communication dated Tuesday, January 26, 2021, by the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led Delta State government, sent to the Delta State House of Assembly, seeking upgrade/establishment of three state…

The General Overseer, Divine Faith Evangelical Mission, Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area, Prophet Igbodo, has said the grace of God upon his ministry is sufficient, saying that in his…

The General Overseer, Wind of Change Deliverance Ministry with headquarters situated at the end of Queen Street by the New Lagos/Asaba Expressway, Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area, Apostle (Dr.)…

Democracy they say, is a government of the people by the people and for the people, Good governance on its part, entails the diligent exercising of the economic, political and…

An 82-year-old man in Akumazi Umuocha in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Hitler Nwabude has cried out over the destruction of his cassava farm land…

It is indeed a sad black day for residents of Agbor. There was an explosive sound ripped through parts of Agbor in the late evening of today when Osadebe Gas…

Since independence there has been an intense struggle by the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria: Hausa/Fulani, the Yorubas and the Ibosor Ndigbo to capture power at the center and…

A 65-year-old man, Mr. Augustine Ehianu Ugbom from the Umu-Osi Quarters of Ekwuoma in Ika North East Local Government Area, has cried for justice over the gruesome murder of his…

A native of Igbanke and a businessman, Hon. Chief Monday Ottah Osunbor, the Ikpeazu Wu Okwu of Igbanke, has disclosed that one of the reasons why youths are dying in…

The general public has been warned to desist from building permanent structures along the banks of Agha Kun – Stream, popularly known as Orogodo river as 300 ft away from…

The General Overseer, Wind of Change Deliverance Ministries headquarters at the end of Queen Street off New Benin/Asaba Expressway, Agbor, Apostle Dr. Chuks Elisha Okenye, also known as Baba Fire…

A 66 – year old and Deacon at Church of God Mission, Morka branch, Dcn. Augustine Iwezu slumped while teaching Sunday school. He usually teaches as one of the assignments…

Festus Igumbor, also known as Ikaboy Empire is an illustrious son of Ika land based in Indian. He is the Chief Executive of Officer (CEO), Ikaboy Music Entertainment and one…

At last, the father of late Mr. Ezeji Sopuruchi who was shot dead during the Igwe Festival held on Friday July 10, 2020, at Umunede in Ika North East Local…

IMr. Lawrence Egun Onyeche, popularly known as Larry Onyeche, President-General, Agbor Community Union (ACU) the umbrella body for all Agbor people, worldwide has in a press conference held on Wednesday,…

I get so dumbfounded when I hear people or read their write-ups saying that Ika extraction as far as language is concerned has no connection or any relationship with Ibo…

A 79 year- old- man who has been blind for over 30 years regained his sight after he attended Prophet Michael Onairo’s Programme. The blind man who gave his name…

A displaced trader at the former Boji Boji Owa Main Market, popularly known as Garage, Mrs. Edith Samuel is crying out to the Human Right Activist Groups and the general…

Our Personality of the Week is Rev. Fr. (Barr.) Steve Dumebi Chukwuma. He is the present Parish Priest of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Agbor. He is a writer, a Lawyer,…

Members of Rotary Club Agbor on Wednesday August 12, 2020 went on an inspection tour for progress achievement assessment on the ongoing Agbor Renal Centre, at Central hospital, Agbor. Recall…

Following the recent claim by some group of persons from Umunede in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State over the land sold to Prince Paradise Estate by…

Palm Centre, a gigantic centre for all occasions, events and performances located at 7, Ogala Street, off Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa Way (former Owa-Ekei Road) is now open. The magnificent edifice…

It is now a common knowledge that the Delta State House of Assembly in response to a petition dated Wednesday, December 5, 2019, submitted by one Mr. Edwin Adjeke, about…

Tragedy on Friday 20, 2020 quashed the ecstasy of Igwe festival celebration in Umunede, Ika North East LGA of Delta State on Friday, July 10, 2020, as a 28 year…

This write up is NOT an attempt to show hatred for the Igbo people, rather it is an attempt to set the record straight. The problems we are facing in…

Following the recent murder of Mr. Daniel Osafile and the frequent encroachment into their farmlands by the people of Emuhu community, residents of Ileje community in Umunede kingdom in Ika…

‘Agbor Kingdom never oppressed any kingdom and I will not force people to do anything in my time; I try to live by example’. ‘I don’t know how any leader…

Members of Owa-Alizomor Community in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State are have apologized to His Excellency, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi A. Okowa for saying that he has…

The five abducted College of Education (COE), Agbor staff on Monday, June 22, 2020 regained their freedom. Ika Weekly gathered that the kidnapped staff of the College Dr. Kenneth Ughamadu…

The Okparan-Uku of Owa-Alizomor community in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, Elder Jonathan Ebeh, on Saturday, June 20, 2020 invited sons and daughters of Owa-Alizomor community…

The rumour of the demise of the father to the Delta State Governor, Sir, Chief Arthur Okorie Uzorma Okowa, the Okparan Uku of Idumebor , Owa Alero, has for some…

The wedding planning process includes finding the perfect dress, getting the perfect reception hall, making sure you have got the right flowers, caterer, cake, music, and, DJ, photographer, centerpieces, invitation…

The world was awoken to the exhilarating news of the development of ScenicPlots, an international social media app developed by multi-talented and highly gifted Chinazor Onianwah. The Nigerian American-based Filmmaker,…

A 26 year old man and a native of Idumusogban, Igbogili Abavo, Ika South Local Government Area Ewere Ihirie popularly known as “Butter,” and his parents were on Saturday May…

Our Personality of the Week is His Royal Majesty, Barr. Ikechukwu Nkeobikwu Osedume I, the Obi of Igbodo Kingdom. He has in this interview expressed his mixed feelings on his…

In a bid to properly enlighten members of the public, particularly Ika residents on all they need to know about the lifestyle, achievements and political leadership of Dcn. Moses Iduh,…

In our CHAT ROOM this week, we have the young, ambitious and highly talented MR. ATUNURE GODSLOVE EJIRO, a musician cum businessman who is preparing to make his mark in…

Our Personality of the Week is Dr. (Mrs.) Ukamaka Patricia  Akumabor, an educationist and a retired lecturer from Yaba School of Technology, Lagos. She is the current Chairperson of FAFUNWA…

Our personality of the Week is Chief Norbert Ike Dan Akumabor, the Ojisi of Umunede Kingdom and one time both Financial Secretary and Treasurer of Onu Ika Nigeria; a position…

Residents of Ika have been warned that they can spread the dreaded Corona Virus by wearing face mask as the face mask can trap bacteria and spread same if not…

The old saying “ boys will one day become men” was re-echoed and came into play on Friday 27th of September 2019 as class of 1973 Old Boys Association of…

The news about the appointment of Barrister Felix Morka, a Harvard trained Lawyer, Development Specialist, Human Rights Advocate and an illustrious son of Ika Nation as Senior Special Assistant on…

A bereaved father and an indigene of Mbiri Kingdom, Ika North East Local Government area Mr. Simon Okonkwor, has declared that he missed his late son, Ojura Okonkwor who died…

The recent re-appointment of Jonathan Onwuka as the Special Assistant on Community News Media by the Executive Governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, can only be described as…

In a season when Nigerians are being killed daily abroad, such period has also become a time when Ezekiel Osiele, an indigene of  Alihame, Ika South Local Government Area, Delta…

The Principal State School of Nursing Agbor, Mrs. Tessy Onwuka has disclosed that the State School of Nursing Agbor would soon become a degree awarding Institution. She made this disclosure…

Late Inspector Godwin Eboh, was born in Egwechime, Obi Quarters of Umunede, Delta State. He joined the Nigerian Police, in the year 2000 and was posted to Enugu State, where…