By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) AWKA — Gunmen operating in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State have abducted a former member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Benson Nwawulu. Sources said Nwawulu, a two-term lawmaker in the state assembly was abducted in his house in Ihiala on Sunday. Nwawulu left Anambra Assembly in 2019, and had also contested for a seat in the House of Representatives, but failed. Though details...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) The Actors Guild of Nigeria has confirmed the release of two of its members, Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel (Agbogidi), who were abducted in Enugu State. In a release shared by Monalisa Chinda Coker, the Guild’s Director of Communication, on Wednesday, the association informed the public that the abductors were “touched by the spirit of God” and set the Thespians free. The statement read in part, “This is to...
By Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent) With the recent flooding being recorded in some parts of the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has predicted flooding in 233 local government areas in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory to experience flooding in 2022. Mr. Mustapha Ahmed, Director General of the agency disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at a National Consultative Workshop on 2022 Flood Preparedness, Mitigation and Response, organized by the agency....
The contending scenarios as social order breaks down. In a different context, the deadly attack on the 7 Guards Battalion of the Nigerian Army Presidential Guards Brigade on the evening of Friday, July 22nd would have set alarm bells ringing in the upper echelons of Nigerian intelligence. Among the many puzzles raised by the attack, which reportedly left three soldiers wounded and eight dead, is the question of how the assailants got wind of the elite unit’s...
Why does it make sense to you and to your principal that the only route to his vaulting presidential ambition must be one that sunders two ethnic groups that have since before the amalgamation been living together in amity, harmony and peace, two peoples that have always, in peace or in peril, lent each other a helping hand? Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are...
The Deputy Chairman House Committee on Anti-Corruption and Member Representing Jos South/Jos East Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos has decried over the killing of seven of persons by suspected Fulani bandits in his constituency. The killing is coming barely 24 hours after 18 people lost their lives during a clash between bandits and members of a vigilante group in the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau state. Recall that suspected Fulani...
A member of All Progressive Congress representing Bauchi North Senatorial zone has reviewed that majority of the APC senators are in total support for the impeachment of the Major General Muhammad Buhari. Senator Bulkachuwa a member of the ruling APC said almost all members of the senate support the move after they had a closed-door executive session last Wednesday. A six week Ultimatum was given to Muhammad Buhari to address the security crisis lingering and...
“The duo of Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed remains the most qualified team that could steer this country in a different direction. However, a possible victory hangs on how this movement could strategically circumvent a dysfunctional balloting process and navigate past the finish line of electoral victory.” ―Anthony Obi Ogbo ________________________ During a strategic group meeting of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held shortly before the 2015 election at a castle on Puerta Vista Lane in...
By Anastasia Mbaebie (Staff Reporter) Governor Chukwuma Soludo has promised to do everything humanly possible to end all activities of human trafficking in Anambra State. He said his administration through the State Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, was already in partnership with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), to achieve the said purpose. Soludo, who made the promise through his Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Hon. Ify...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Saturday, says as of 25th July 2022, a total of 276,767 have so far been registered in Anambra State, on the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter’s Registration (CVR) exercise. The West African Pilot News gathered that the exercise is expected to end today, 31st July 2022. The INEC National Commissioner in charge of Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye, who...
