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…
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…
Keke tricycle riders in Anambra state has protested the profiling of their members as touts and hoodlums insisting that the body is poised to stamp touting out of the state. The riders under the umbrella of Anambra Tricycle Riders Association ANTRA led by its state Chairman Comrade Chigozie Okafor during it’s inaugural meeting in…
Establishment staff of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have called for the end of the crisis in the party, which they said, pose serious threat to the stability and survival of the party and the credibility of its internal processes. The staff at a press conference at the end of their meeting in Abuja on…
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo has passed a damning verdict on the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last 10 years, since 2015, saying the party has taken Nigeria 10 steps backwards. Adebayo in a statement told Nigerians that the simplest way to…
The Federal Government has appointed a journalist and public servant, Arabinrin Aderonke, to the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 3rd African U18/U20 Athletics Championship, scheduled for July 16–20, 2025, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The National Sports Commission announced in a statement that Atoyebi will join a 15-member committee responsible for staging what is expected…
