Expands Services Via PPMVS, Pharmacies. In a bold move to improve women’s access to family planning services in Lagos State, the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, May 14, 2025, inaugurated the SWIFT Project — an initiative which stands for ‘Supporting Women’s Increased Access to Family Planning Through Pharmacies and Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors’. The…
President Bola Tinubu will on Saturday depart Abuja for Rome, the capital of Italy, to attend the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV. According to a release by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, the President would be at the ceremony to honour an invitation by the Pope. Accompanied by top Catholic leaders, the President would attend a…
The remains of the former Commissioner for Labour and Productivity in Abia State, Comrade Sunny Okebugwu Nwanganga Onwuma, have been laid to rest in his country home, Ihie-Obuaku, Isiala Ihie Autonomous Community in Ugwunagbo LGA. Speaking at the burial ceremony conducted by the Anglican Church at the Community Primary School, Mbaso Ihie-Obuaku, the Abia State…
The Court of Appeal Enugu Division has affirmed the judgement of Justice R O Riman of the Federal High Court Abakaliki, nullifying the conduct of Local Government election in Ebonyi State. Justice Joseph Ekanem, who read the lead judgement of the Appeal court, gave the ruling while dismissing the three appeals filed by Ebonyi State…
The Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah has said that there is an urgent need to massively invest in vocational education in order to tackle the rising wave of unemployment in Nigeria. Mbah made this known yesterday, during the South East and South South Interregional technical and vocational education and training (TVET) forum organized by the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra lawyer, Barr. Ifeanyi Iloakasia, who was gruesomely murdered by gunmen in Anambra State, has been officially identified as the President General of Aguleri community in Anambra East Local Government Area. Barr. Iloakasia, popularly known as Rolex, was reportedly assassinated alongside his client on Thursday morning by yet-to-be-identified assailants…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has launched a manhunt for unidentified gunmen who gruesomely murdered two persons in Nanka, Orumba North Local Government Area of the State on Thursday, May 15. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday while…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka What has been described as uncertainty has gripped some residents of Anambra State following the alleged renewed activities of unknown gunmen, who on Thursday morning, launched a gruesome attack near the Agulu-Nanka boundary in the state, killing two individuals in cold blood and fleeing unchallenged. Reports have it that the…
A group of traders at Agboedo United Market F Line Nnewi have taken to the streets to protest alleged extortion and intimidation by officials of the Nnewi North Local Government Area. The traders, who have been operating in the market for over 30 years, claim they are being subjected to unlawful levies and possible eviction….
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has urged the public to be alert because the operators in the crime-business of buying and selling of children, also know as “baby factories”, now adopt unsuspected tactics to get their crime-business running in Abia State. NAPTIP Head of Operations in Abia, Peter…
