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...

Over 150 adhoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who worked in Anambra during the just concluded elections have protested non payment of their allowances. The visibly angry protesters who thronged the INEC Headquarters in Awka on Tuesday, carrying placards, called for the immediate release of their allowances. The protesters carried placards that inscriptions that depicted their disenchantment with the commission such as; ‘pay us our money’, ‘INEC you can not eat out...

The synod of the Diocese of Awka (Anglican Communion), yesterday, rated President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year rule very low, saying that he failed Nigerians. Bishop of the diocese, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim, disclosed the position of the diocese while presenting the Archbishop’s Charge to the 1st Session of the 13th Synod at St. Peter’s Church, Agulu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. Ibezim, who doubles as the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the...

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in this year’s elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he would be president of Nigeria if God has endorsed him to be. Obi, who spoke on Friday during a public presentation of a compendium on him entitled: Peter Obi: “Many Voices, One Perspective” at Finotel Hotel, Awka, Anambra State, said that he was not desperate to be president of the country. He said that he was confident that...