The Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA) has commended the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, for making the bold move to rename Anambra International Airport after the celebrated global author, Chinụa Achebe. Renaming the airport after the Ogidi-born literary giant can’t be seem as a small decision because of it high considerable impact….
15 participants from Anambra State have won the MTN ICT and Business Skill Equipment Grant. The top participants totalling 315 will be supported with an equipment grant worth N90 million. Dr Nelson Omenugha, Special Adviser to the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, on Youth Empowerment Programme, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He…
Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have foiled a planned robbery and kidnap operation by gunmen in Awka North Local Government Area. A press release by the Police Public Relations Officer of Anambra State command of the police, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga stated that the operatives from Rapid Response Squad, Awkuzu were on patrol in…
Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the last presidential election Mr. Peter Obi, said the high rate of poverty in the country is avoidable with good and focused leadership. Obi in a message to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, stated that no nation can develop with more than half of its…
Protesters on Tuesday stormed Abuja’s Streets, condemning the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC). The group, under the umbrella of the Centre For Democracy and Human Rights, held several placards, calling on President Bola Tinubu and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio to immediately discount the…
The Senate, on Tuesday, inaugurated its standing Committee on Legislative Compliance, to enforce its resolutions on all its standing Committees as well as all the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government. The committee, chaired by Senator Musa Maidoki (Kebbi South), was inaugurated by the Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele. Speaking…
National leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA has taken the former gubernatorial aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party PDP Dr Obiora Okonkwo to the cleaners over his comments on the Mmiri John road in Idemili South local government area of Anambra state. In the said comments Obiora Okonkwo was quoted to had accused…
Former Super Eagles player, Emmanuel Emenike, has expressed displeasure over the demolition of houses on waterways by the Lagos State Government. Emenike urged the Igbo people whose houses were demolished to take their investments back to the South East. Taking to Instagram, Emenike urged the Igbo people whose houses were demolished to take their investments…
Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra State has stated that the duo of National Inland Water Ways Authority NIWA and the Julius Berger Construction Company PLC are owing the council N5,299 Billion tax arrears. The Onitsha South Council said, that it had approached the Revenue Court in Onitsha which has already delivered judgement in…
Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Kingsley Moghalu, said he would not allow any government official to drive an imported vehicle if he were to be the president of Nigeria. Prof Moghalu said, Nigerian politicians, instead of driving foreign-made vehicles, should invest in and patronise local alternatives. “He said this in…
