The Chairman, Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB), Dr Gabriel Ajah, has dismissed allegation of unjust sacking of five teachers in the board’s employ, saying the agency always ensures strict adherence to due process in meting out sanctions to errant academic and non-academic staff. This was even as the dismissed teachers tendered written and…
The Abia State government might not borrow as much as the N400 billion loan projected to fund the 2024 budget, following new strategies being put in place to engender exponential growth of the state’s internally generated revenue (IGR). Governor Alex Otti dropped the hint over the weekend as he charged heads of the various ministries,…
A Lagos-based non-govÂernmental organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged PresiÂdent Bola Tinubu to emulate the good example of GoverÂnor Alex Otti of Abia State by immediately obeying the judgment ordering the FedÂeral Government to recover pensions collected by former governors, and to challenge the legality of states penÂsion laws permitting those…
Former Senator Dino Melaye has built an automated car port to house his luxury cars. Melaye has made no secret of his love for luxury cars and power bikes. The carport, built outside his mansion, currently houses at least 13 cars. The construction of the carport is said to have cost him 35 million Naira….
A peace panel report on the three-year-old war, emanating from the Bishop Emeritus of Abakiliki Diocese, Rt. Rev. Fr. Michael Nnachi Okoro, has been rejected by the people of Effium, in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The two communities of Ezza-Effium and Effium have been at war since January 21, 2021, which led…
A man did the unthinkable when he swallowed his phone to prevent his wife from going through it Trouble, however, started when the wife insisted on going through her husband’s text messages and then decided to drag her husband’s phone with him. Sensing danger over his wife’s insistent demand to go through his phone, he…
“In an important announcement, the throne of the Traditional Ruler of Akwuukwu Community in Idemili South LGA, Anambra State has been declared vacant. This declaration comes after the community came together to celebrate the last offala for the Late Igwe Thomas Offorkaja (Ijilija 1 of Akwuukwu) after almost three decades. The official declaration was made…
The Abia State Government has assured the residents of the government’s commitment towards reviving all abandoned farm settlements in the state for increased food production. Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu, the state deputy governor, gave the assurance during an inspection tour of Ukwa Nkporo Palm oil Plantation on Saturday, where he decried the lack of attention by…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has flagged-off the 30Km Arochukwu-Ndi Okereke- Ozu Abam Road, with a pledge that no part of the state will be left behind in road infrastructural development. Otti, who stated this at Amuvi, Arochukwu, during the flag off ceremony, said that one of the most important commitments of his government…
The federal government and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are set to ban syringe imports in in Nigeria in other to boost manufacturing the syringes locally. The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Tunji Alausa, emphasized the need to stop the importation of medical syringes into Nigeria to bolster…
