ENUGU — Prices of some foodstuffs, particularly eggs, beans and crayfish have continued to rise in Enugu State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. NAN correspondent, who conducted a market survey in Enugu on Saturday, reports that the prices of foodstuffs had increased significantly between January and March. A 4.5 litre bucket of beans now sells for between N1,000 and N1, 200 as against N800 and N1, 000 sold in January, depending on the...
ENUGU — Enugu State has recorded its first rain of the year 2021 on Sunday, thus easing the excruciating heatwave. The West African Pilot News learned that the rain started at about 3 a.m. and lasted for over two hours. Almost all parts of the Enugu metropolis monitored witnessed the rain, which came with a cooling effect on the dry weather occasioned by heatwave. Reacting, a resident of Achara Layout, Mr. Obi Nwosu, said that...
ABUJA, FCT — Digiteam, the Presidential Implementation Committee on Digital Switch Over, has assured residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Plateau of full coverage of FreeTv digital signal in areas yet to be covered. Digiteam, a critical stakeholder in the process of the nation’s transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, gave the assurance on Sunday in Abuja. The Chairman of Digiteam, Mr. Edward Amana, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that with...
By Okechukwu Anarado The Anambra International Cargo Airport, Umueri stands out as the most auspicious (cynics would prefer ambitious) singular physical infrastructure capable of significantly enhancing the face of commerce and the entire economy of Anambra State embarked on by the Governor Willie Obiano administration. It will equally propel the international trade interests of the South East to Olympian heights. Hardly can anyone credit any project of such consummate economic influence to any state government...
ADO-EKITI — The Ekiti State Government has welcomed the recent truce between the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in the state. The West African Pilot News learned that the truce was at the instance of the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State, Mr. Babatunde Mobayo, on the directive of the Inspector-General of Police. A statement on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti signed by Mr. Akin Omole,...
ABUJA — Mr. Olalere Olatunji, the President of the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), says Nigeria will be good again if Nigerians continue to contribute their quota. Olatunji said this during a news conference organised by a property developer at its signing and partnership with NAPS on Saturday in Abuja. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the signing and partnership with NAPS is a project initiated by Domak Shelter Limited seeking to enable...
The administration is now seven years old and with only one year to go; it’s therefore, fair that the administration is evaluated on the basis of what it set out to do during the celebration of its one hundred days in office ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Nigerian governors, steeped in a culture of fanfare both for good or bad, for little or big accomplishment, has now established celebrating their one hundred days in office, as a mark...
ABUJA — Long queues have appeared in Abuja for the purchase of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol, few days after normalcy returned to the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that long queues returned to retail outlets in Wuse, Gwarimpa, Wuye and Kubwa expressway on Friday, while other areas were not selling the product. Meanwhile, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, National Public Relations, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) advised the public...
ABUJA — After a successful tenure as the first vice-chairman of West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA), Mr. Aliu Aboki of Nigeria has emerged as Chairman of WATRA for 2021. Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), announced this in a statement on Friday. He said that Aboki was elected at the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the assembly on Thursday. Adinde said that the Nigerian candidate also emerged as executive...
ABUJA — The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, held that the request by Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), seeking it to compel some persons to testify in his ongoing trial was done in haste. Justice Okon Abang, while delivering a ruling on the oral application filed by Sani Katu, SAN, to withdraw from Maina’s suit, also said Maina should have himself to blame over the development on the subpoena he...
