Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged transparency and accountability in the utilization of the $1.07 billion allocated to the health sector in the 2025 budget proposal. He warned against the mismanagement of funds, referencing past incidents where public funds were allegedly swallowed by animals such as snakes, termites, and monkeys. In a statement…
The outgoing President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, has hinted at running for the position of Nigeria’s president. The AfDB boss affirmed he is available for national service after his tenure at the bank concludes, specifically stating, “he will be available to serve in any capacity, globally, in Africa, anywhere,…
The South-East Zonal Director of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Martins Iluyomade, has raised alarm over mind-boggling manufacture and sale of fake and expired drugs in popular “Ogbo Ogu Market, otherwise, known as, “Head-bridge Drug Market, Onitsha, Anambra state. Iluyomade raised the alarm after he and his team members…
INTERPOL arrests 36 in Nigeria criminal raid, recovers $3m The International Criminal Police Organisation says it arrested no fewer than 36 suspects for offences bordering on fraud and human trafficking in a coordinated operation with security agencies in Nigeria. In a statement obtained on the INTERPOL’s website on Monday that the operation…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed concern over the growing trend of governors abandoning their states to live permanently in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. This lamentation was made by the NLC President, Mr. Joe Ajaero, during a town hall meeting with workers at the NLC Secretariat in Lokoja, Kogi State. Ajaero noted…
The ruling All Progressives Congress on Monday declared that a possible alliance between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, posed no threat to President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. The National Secretary of the APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru, said this in an interview while…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Some agents of the Anambra State government, led by the Anambra State Physical Planning Board (ANSPPB), have been accused of demolishing some property belonging to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Onitsha and also brutalizing journalists. The incident, which reportedly happened over the weekend, saw large number of officers of…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The new Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has charged his officers to be courageous and professional in the discharge of their duties, as the fight against crime in the state intensifies. CP Orutugu, who officially assumed office on Monday as the 35th Commissioner of Police in…
Senatorial aspirant for Anambra South District under the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA Chief Ebuka Onunkwo,, has lamented that South East business community loses billions yearly due to the absence of Sea Port in the area. To this end, Onunkwo has described the abandonment of the good old Oseakwa Sea Port forgotten by…
The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, has expressed hearty felicitations to Sir Emeka Offor, a foremost Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist, on the occasion of his birthday today. In his goodwill message, Governor Soludo commended Sir Offor’s journey from his humble beginnings in Oraifite to becoming one of Nigeria’s most successful entrepreneurs as…
