Violence Against Women And Girls…An Epidemic Within A Pandemic Says WACOL Chief

Crime & SecurityGender & EquityViolence Against Women And Girls…An Epidemic Within A Pandemic Says WACOL Chief

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 22, 2021

ENUGU — Professor Joy Ezeilo has associated the increasing rate of sexual and gender-based violence, SGBV, in Nigeria to the patriarchal nature of her society fueled by victims being trapped with their abusers during the covid19 lockdown. Speaking in Enugu during the maiden press week of NOA NUJ chapel, Ezeilo, founder of Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL, called on the secondary school students and other participants present not to feel inferior because of their gender. “In...

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Seven Persons Dead In New Artisan Market Enugu, Cholera Outbreak Suspected

HealthWellnessSeven Persons Dead In New Artisan Market Enugu, Cholera Outbreak Suspected

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 16, 2021

ENUGU –-Nineteen critically ill persons and seven dead bodies were discovered at the early hours of Friday at the livestock market popularly known as New Artisan market situated along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, near NNPC Mega Filling station. The Chairman of the Livestock Market, Alhaji Danladi Abubarkar, disclosed that all the affected persons were stooling and vomiting. “Residents of the market woke up to discover seven dead bodies, four men and three women,” Abubarkar revealed. He...

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Enugu State Audit Sections in Both State And Local Governments Becomes Independent

Local GovernmentMoneyEnugu State Audit Sections in Both State And Local Governments Becomes Independent

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 8, 2021

ENUGU — In a bid to sanitize the system and make audit sections of Enugu State and her local governments’ independent, the Enugu State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill for the establishment of the State Audit Service Commission. The bill for a law to provide for the establishment of the Audit Service Commission, the office, powers and functions of Auditor-General of Enugu State, Auditor-General for Local Governments, and for connected purposes (HB.3)...

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BREAKING: Professor Ndubuisi Director SEDI, Police Orderly Assassinated In Enugu

Crime & SecurityBREAKING: Professor Ndubuisi Director SEDI, Police Orderly Assassinated In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 7, 2021

Three days after the gruesome murder of an entrepreneur, CEO AutoEase Services Limited in the presence of his 7 years son, the Director of Science and Equipment Development Institute, SEDI, was today assassinated alongside his police orderly. Prof. Samuel Ndubuisi, Director SEDI, and former Dean, Faculty of Engineering ESUT were assassinated on Wednesday by gunmen on the Port- Harcourt Express Road Enugu around 4 pm on his way home. His driver who sustained injuries was...

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Covid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

CoronavirusCovid-19 Vaccination: Less Than 100k Persons Fully Vaccinated In South East Nigeria By Q2 2021

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2021

ENUGU — The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has revealed that 2, 495, 632 eligible Nigerians have been vaccinated with the first dose while 1,370, 130 vaccinated with 1st dose have received their 2nd dose as of July 5th, 2021, the beginning of the third quarter of the year. In the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, from the breakdown on the state to state vaccination, while 184,715 persons have received the first jab...

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Insecurity: 7 years Old Boy Witness Death Of His Father, AutoEase CEO

Crime & SecurityNewsInsecurity: 7 years Old Boy Witness Death Of His Father, AutoEase CEO

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2021

ENUGU — The spate of insecurity in Nigeria has become worrisome as cases of kidnapping, gruesome murder in broad daylight are on the increase. In Enugu, South East of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Okeke, an entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of AutoEase Services Limited located in Independence-Layout, Opposite Guaranty Resort Hotel, by Winners Road, Asata, Enugu, Nigeria was murdered in the presence of his son; AutoEase specializes on car repairs and maintenance. Ifeanyi Okeke’s car was hit...

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Enugu State House Of Assembly Set To Enjoy Financial Autonomy

PoliticsEnugu State House Of Assembly Set To Enjoy Financial Autonomy

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)July 5, 2021

ENUGU — Enugu State House of Assembly has re-enacted the Enugu Legislative Funds Management Law to make provisions for the management of funds of the Assembly and for other related matters. Speaking at the plenary shortly after the passage of the bill, the Speaker of House, Edward Ubosi described the expedited hearing and passage as paramount towards ensuring the financial autonomy of the legislature even as the bill is not contentious; the members voted unanimously...

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Enugu State Legislative Funds Management Bill Scales Through First Reading

NewsPoliticsEnugu State Legislative Funds Management Bill Scales Through First Reading

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 30, 2021

ENUGU — For more than two months, the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, was on strike over financial autonomy tussle. The strike action which commenced on 23rd of March 2021 was called off on 14th June, 2021 to allow the passage of necessary legislation as contained in the Memorandum of Action accepted before the call off of the strike. In light of the above, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, Leader of the Enugu State House of Assembly...

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Five Dead As A Nigerian Police Officer Opens Fire On Innocent Citizens In Enugu

Accidents and SafetyFive Dead As A Nigerian Police Officer Opens Fire On Innocent Citizens In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 22, 2021

ENUGU — The Commissioner of Police Enugu, Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu has called on eyewitnesses of the unfortunate dastardly act by a police officer on Sunday to volunteer useful information to aid swift conclusion of the investigation and ensure justice prevails. The CP ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (State CIID), to carry out a thorough investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the sporadic shooting incident. A...

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Insist On Power Rotation To Southern Nigeria In 2023, Prof. Moghalu Calls On Ndigbo

NewsPoliticsInsist On Power Rotation To Southern Nigeria In 2023, Prof. Moghalu Calls On Ndigbo

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)June 21, 2021

ENUGU — Professor Kingsley Moghalu at the inauguration ceremony of Igbonine, a socio-cultural organization called on Ndigbo to look beyond political party and focus on the emergence of a competent and visionary Nigeria President from South-East extraction capable of moving Nigeria and all its component parts and peoples forward. This is one of the eight needs enumerated by Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria and 2019 Presidential Candidate in his keynote address;...

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