The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has handed over sixteen thousand, one hundred and thirty thousand-fifty-kilogrammes bags of maize and three thousand nine hundred and forty-eight-twenty-five kilogrammes bags of garri to Anambra State Government for onward distribution to vulnerable persons in the state to help cushion the effect of economic crunch in the country. The…
AvFormer Manager Of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Onitsha Branch, Mr Nwachukwu Placidus, has been sentenced to121 years in prison for diverting fixed deposit funds of a customer amounting to N112,100,000 for personal use. Justice S. N. Odili of the Anambra State High Court in Onitsha handed down the judgment on Friday following Placidus’ arraignment…
The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, said on Thursday that only one million out of the 3.6 million applicants for the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme will be beneficiaries. The scheme, which started March 9, 2024, offers financial grants of N50,000 without repayment obligations to eligible small business owners operating in…
Sophia Nkwor, a 24-years-old woman, has allegedly killed her one-year old son in a well at Araya community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State. According to Delta State Police Command who paraded the suspect on Thursday, May 2, Sofia Nkwo, without mercy, drowned her one-year-old son. The woman said she killed her son because…
President Tinubu has been wooing foreign investors with a promise of high returns on investment. Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, the CEO of QatarEnergy, has turned down the proposal to invest in Nigeria despite the recent visit by President Bola Tinubu to the Middle Eastern country to seek foreign investment. President Tinubu has been wooing foreign investors…
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, announced a groundbreaking partnership with Hassan Allam Holding and Punz Limited to construct a 200-Room Marriott Hotel in Owerri. Facilitated by a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, the project is set to be completed within an impressive 24-month timeframe. This ambitious endeavor receives substantial financial backing from renowned institutions such as…
…..Urges Parents To Be Calm With Their Wards Nigerian actress, Real Warri Pikin has sent a message to parents on how to treat their children who didn’t do well in the recently released JAMB results. The actress said she’s speaking from a personal experience after writing JAMB three times. About 76 percent of applicants had…
Nigeria’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Ifeanyi Uche, has emerged chairman, INTERPOL’s African Heads Of Cybercrime Units. CP Uche emerged after a week-long meeting of the cybercrime heads across the world in Abuja on Friday. While delivering his speech, the Commissioner of Police said: “Cybercrime poses a significant threat to our societies, economies, and security, and…
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, has restated the Command’s unwavering commitment to reducing cultism to the barest minimum in the State. SP Ikenga gave the assurance in a statement issued to newsmen over the weekend under the initiative of the Police Campaign Against Cultism & Other…
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have stormed a factory producing fake alcoholic drinks in Bomadi, Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State and made several arrests The command also arrested a 45-year-old man who allegedly produced fake alcoholic drinks at the makeshift factory. The suspect, Chiemenam Adigwe, 45, a native of Akpo community in…
