… sponsored 30 bills, 18 motions The senator representing Anambra Central in the national assembly, Senator Uche Ekwunife on Saturday gave account of her four-year stay in the Senate, to her constituents. The senator who addressed her constituents during a townhall meeting convened by her at Senator Uche Ekwunife Centre in Awka, said she is leaving the Senate as a proud politician, after performing very well. She said: “This is my fourth and last townhall...
Up against the wall, Tinubu will need his famed political savvy—and more—to stanch rising discontent in Nigeria. Twice in the past two-and-a-half years, it had seemed all but certain that Bola Tinubu would be denied the object of all his political labors. The first time was in October 2020 when some #EndSARS protesters in Lagos took out their frustration with the Nigerian political establishment on investments and properties believed to be owned by Tinubu, including Television...
A sitting Commissioner in Anambra State, Mr. Sly Ezeokenwa has emerged the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Okenwa, a legal practitioner, defeated his co-contestants to emerge victorious in the election that held at the Party’s Regional Secretariat in Awka on Wednesday. The new APGA National Chairman is the Commissioner for Special Duties under Governor Chukwuma Soludo as well as the National Legal Adviser of APGA. Shortly after emerging the winner...
The President, Christian Association of Nigeria Most Reverend Daniel Okoh has, extended warm congratulations to the new President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as he assumes office today. In a release signed by the president, “This is a momentous occasion for Nigeria, and we wish President Tinubu well as he takes on the responsibilities of leading our great nation.Nigeria is facing a number of challenges that require strong and decisive leadership. From security concerns...
Most well-meaning Nigerians are of the opinion that for Nigeria to progress, she needs a New Constitution that we can call our own. A “We-The-People” Constitution. I most respectfully disagree. As radical as it may sound, very mindful of the multiplicity of our Ethnic Nationalities with the attendant sensibilities, we don’t really need a new we-the-people constitution to progress if we can reboot our National Assembly through a well-conceived Constitutional Amendment that is much easier...
Muslim community under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), South East Zone, have held a special Juma’at prayer session for a peaceful transition and successful inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29, 2023. West African Pilot News gathered that the prayer session which took place on Friday, at Ugwuoba, a boundary community between Anambra and Enugu, in Oji Local Government Area of Enugu State, was also offer...
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has desribed President Muhammadu Buhari as a hero to the people of the South East following the commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge. He stated this in Onitsha, the commercial nerve of Anambra State, during the official commissioning and handover of the bridge renamed after President Muhammadu Buhari, and the federal secretariat complex built in Awka named after the first female engineer and Head of Civil Service, Mrs Ebele...
Adhoc staff of Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, Anambra State, have staged a peaceful protest over non-payment of salaries after the just concluded general elections. The adhoc workers who include collation Officers, SPOs among others staged the protest at the state headquarters of INEC in Awka. The group who were visibly angry at the delay in payment of their dues after the election,besieged the INEC headquarters long before the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr.Mrs Queen Elizabeth Agwu...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned and opened the Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta States for public use. President Buhari commissioned the project named after him virtually six days to the end of his administration. The bridge is one of the legacy projects of the Buhari administration, hoped to decongest the existing Niger bridge and connect South-East with the rest of the country and as well boost economic activities of Southern region. The main...
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has said Nigerians will remember President Muhammadu Buhari legacies including the ongoing commissioning of the second Niger bridge in Onitsha and Ebele Okeke Federal Secretariat Awka respectively, when he leaves office May 29, 2023. Soludo disclosed this visually, on Tuesday, in Onitsha during the official commissioning of the two above-mentioned Federal projects in Anambra State. The governor said the Second Niger Bridge will attract more social-economic activities in the...
