By David W. Virtue, DD More than 500 mostly Nigerian Anglicans packed Holy Trinity Cathedral Church in Houston on Saturday for an African style dedication of a new cathedral. Abuja-based Nigerian Primate, Henry Ndukuba, archbishop of the largest province in the Anglican communion, officially dedicated the new $5 million structure. The Rt. Rev. Bill Atwood, Dean of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) for International Affairs, said there were about 15 bishops present, plus...
ENUGU — Six inmates at the Enugu Correctional Service on Tuesday bagged different degree certificates from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the six inmates, all male, are currently serving their jail terms with the exception of one who had regained his freedom. Performing the ceremony, the Desk Officer, NOUN Enugu Correction Centre, Mr. Kelvin Iloafonsi said the convocation was to celebrate six students of the Enugu...
AWKA — To mark the 40th anniversary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) which Africa’s greatest raconteur and novelist founded at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, the Anambra State Government has endowed a one-million naira (N1 million) worth Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing. The Prize is to be administered by ANA founded in 1981. The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C. Don Adinuba, made the endowment known in Awka, the...
AWKA — Mr. Jude Onwuzulike, an inmate at the Awka Correctional Centre, Anambra State, on Tuesday bagged two certificates from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Awka Study Centre. Onwuzulike was issued the certificates of Post Graduate Diploma and Masters of Science degrees in Information Technology. Mr. Felix Edoka, Registrar, NOUN, while presenting the certificates at the Awka Correctional Centre, said the programme was targeted at impacting lives, including providing education to the inmates....
ABAKALIKI –The Ebonyi Fire Service on Thursday trained 98 members of the state chapter of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGRA) on proper handling of fire fighting tools and risk control measures. The retailers are members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. The state Chief Fire Officer, Mr. Raphael Ibiam, said the training was designed to reawaken the consciousness of the participants on safety. According to Ibiam, the sensitization will also help...
NEW YORK — The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed the growing number of countries that have offered COVID-19 vaccines to refugees, urging others to do the same. “Beyond the moral imperative, this is in our collective self-interest,” Ann Burton, Chief of UNHCR’s Public Health Section, said in a statement on Thursday. According to her, as long as the pandemic remains out of control somewhere, it is a threat for everyone everywhere. ”To...
UMUAHIA — The Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, says the party has fully repositioned its structures to take over power in 2023. Ehiemere said this on Thursday in Umuahia, while briefing newsmen on the recent developments in the party at the national and state levels. He said: “God has a definite time for every event that takes place on planet earth. “APGA is destined to take over...
NEW YORK — United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, up by 22 per cent from 2010. That is among the key findings of the latest annual report launched on Thursday by UNODC, which also provides an overview of global drug markets, as well as their impact on people’s health and livelihoods. The launch...
ENUGU — Solidaridad West Africa – Nigeria, a solution-oriented Civil Society organization, on Thursday, inaugurated a Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) for Sustainable Climate-Smart Oil Palm production among communities in Enugu. Senior Climate Specialist, Africa and County Technical Lead, Nigeria, Dr. Sam Ogallah, said the effort was part of the National Initiative for Climate-Smart Oil Palm Smallholder (NISCOPS) project. Ogallah said that the setting up of the MSP was informed by the result of the studies the organisation...
By John Campbell, Guest Columnist and Blogger Against a backdrop of growing calls for ethnically based separatism, including in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s native Yorubaland, the former president in a speech laid out the arguments for maintaining Nigeria’s unity—though not at any cost. Speaking June 9 in the Yoruba heartland city of Abeokuta, where he lives in retirement, Obasanjo argued that Nigerians will fare better staying together: “it is better for Nigeria to remain as one indivisible nation...
