Chief Akai Egwuonwu, Chairman of Stine Industries, makers of Anambra Rice, has thrown his hat to contest the Anambra South senatorial by-election, to replace the zone’s deceased senator, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah. Emerging information suggests that the by-election primaries will be conducted sometime in December 2024 by participating political parties, while the main election will be held in January of 2025. During his declaration on Sunday at his home in Amichi, Nnewi South local government area,...

Anambra businessman and entrepreneur Chief Akai Egwuonwu is set to declare his interest in the upcoming Anambra South senatorial by-election. Chief Akai, who had maintained near neutrality over the by-election until the funeral of his late friend Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah last Friday, is now set to join the race, which is gathering momentum from every possible standpoint. By the end of the week, Chief Akai Egwuonwu, would formally join the Anambra South senatorial by-election with...

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of Benue State University, Makurdi, Sir Paul Chukwuma, spontaneously granted full scholarships to seven undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, on Wednesday, while he was presenting his keynote speech at the 6th International Conference of the Nigerian Association of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. The conference which featured Professor Thomas Li-Ping Tang, a renowned global scholar, who came in from the United States for the conference, was well attended...

On Tuesday, the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, presented a budget of N606.9 billion to the Anambra State House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. Again, this is the largest budget size ever to be presented to the Anambra State House of Assembly by any governor of the State in the past. Only last year, Governor Soludo presented a budget size of N410 billion, which was then the highest budget size the...