A Magistrate’s Court in the Yaba area of Lagos State has arrested two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, in a correctional centre for killing their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 bags of rice. The duo appeared before Magistrate Linda Balogun on Tuesday on two counts bordering on murder. It was gathered in court that…
Gregory University, Uturu (GUU), Abia State, has offered to employ eight out of the 217 graduating students of the school, who made first class honours. At the eighth convocation ceremony of the university recently, 217 students graduated from the school in various courses, including 19 pioneering medical doctors, who, at the ceremony, were inducted into…
Abia State Government has directed all local government chairmen in the State to ensure that all political billboards used during the last general elections are pulled down. In a statement signed by Okey Kanu, the commissioner for information and culture, the government directed that all the 2023 election billboards be pulled down before Christmas. The…
The national secretariat of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, has observed with great displeasure the continuous leadership crisis in the Abia State chapter of YPP. It advised Uzodinma Nwoko, who was recently appointed as the acting Chairman by the SWC, to stop parading himself. It advised that the status quo before the crisis should be…
A renowned family medicine consultant and fistula surgeon, Professor Sunday Lengmang, has linked the alarming prevalence of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, VVF, to poverty. Lengmang, serving as the Project Director of the Evangel VVF Center at Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Plateau State, said this in an interview with journalists in Taraba State. Asserting that poverty…
In a move towards social reform, the Amurie Omanze community in the Isu Local Government Area of Imo State has set January 4, 2024 as the date for abolishing all forms of obnoxious cultural practices, including the Osu, Ohu, Ume, and Diala caste systems. In a statement made available to journalists, on Tuesday, HRH Eze…
Abia State government has declared war against cultism, drug addiction and other forms of criminality in the State. The declaration was made in Umuahia by Governor Alex Otti during a one-day sensitization campaign against cultism and drug addiction, organized by Abia State Orientation Agency. He condemned the rate at which youths are involved, lamenting that…
The Head of Service (HoS) of Abia State civil service, Mrs Ngozi Obioma has said that some civil servants posted out of their offices have refused to go to their new places of work. To this end, the office of the Head of Service has threatened to deal with those refusing to comply. The HoS,…
In a shooting tussle between Taraba State Police and suspected bandits on Tuesday, the Assistant Superintendent of Police Aminu Nuhu lost his life alongside three bandits on the hills of Yorro and Mararaba Kunini in Yorro and Lau Local Government Areas. The clash occurred during an Anti-Kidnap operation led by the State Command’s team to…
The House of Representatives has tasked the National Security Adviser, NSA, and other security agencies to take urgent/maximum steps to stop continuous killing of individuals, destruction of property and kidnapping in Enugu State. The call followed the adoption of a motion moved by Paul Nmamchi, on the “urgent need to intervene in the incessant killing…
