The ambition of Dr. Pat Asadu representing Nsukka/Igboeze South Federal constituency to return to the House of Representative in 2023 for the fifth time suffered a setback on Sunday. He was beaten to third place at the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary election held at Nsukka. Chief Vita Abba emerged as the winner having polled 91 votes out of the 111 votes casted at the election. The runner up Mr Clinton Isiwu scored 11 votes...
By Anastasia Mbabie and Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporters) The head of the lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 2, at the Anambra State House of Assembly, which is also Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s constituency, Hon Okechukwu Okoye, who was kidnapped last week was found on Saturday 21st May, 2022, at Nnobi in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State. His body was not there and indications were that the killers removed the body. Okoye and his aide...
By Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) Finding the right one to spend life with, is something many people have been so unlucky with, while others have continued to search for their soulmate. But such case was different for two physically challenged couple who walked down the aisle and professed love for each other at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Nkwelle, Awka. The holy matrimony of Thankgod Ohaeri, a native of Ohokobe Ndume Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government...
The dialogues in the Horn of Africa inspire little confidence to resolve the region’s crises while U.S. diplomatic efforts seem insufficient in an area of strategic interest. It’s a matter of conventional wisdom that the crises gripping the Horn of Africa are fundamentally political, and that viable, sustainable solutions can be found only through inclusive political dialogue. But in both Sudan and Ethiopia, current dialogues—one internationally-backed and one a domestic project—inspire little confidence. The United...
LAGOS — SmartCash Payment Service Bank Ltd., (SmartCash PSB) will revolutionise the financial services landscape as it becomes operational in the country, says Airtel Africa. Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, the Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Africa made this known in a statement made available to Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) on Thursday in Lagos. Ogunsanya said that the services would initially be available at selected retail touch-points, while the operations would be expanded gradually across the country...
KANO — Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (APC -Kano) has defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Shekarau said this at a news conference in Kano. He said that he defected alongside his supporters, saying that he would seek re-election to the Senate on the NNPC platform. Shekarau said that he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the leadership of the party in the state failed to fulfil its promises of carrying alongside his supporters...
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Thursday on condolence visit to United Arab Emirates (UAE). Buhari will meet with the new President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to convey his condolences on the passing of the former president and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. According...
By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter) AWKA — Anambra State Police Command says it has rescued a kidnap victim, Jideofor Attama aged 32yrs M’ from Igboetiti of Enugu State. In a statement signed by Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Mr. Attama was abducted on May 14th, 2022 at about 10 pm along Nnewi road in his Rava 4 jeep, by a gang of five armed men operating with a Toyota Sienna vehicle,...
The brutal murder of college sophomore evokes conflicting visions of citizenship and political identity in Nigeria. Last week’s gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu, a home economics sophomore at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, comes at a time of escalating social and economic tension in Nigeria, and will most certainly raise the political stakes as the country enters electioneering season in preparation for next year’s presidential election. Ms. Yakubu was thought to have...
Google on Tuesday said that 60 eligible black-founded start-ups would receive a total of four million dollars in the second cohort of Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund (BFF) Mr. Folarin Aiyegbusi, Google’s Head of Start-up Ecosystem, Africa, made this known in a statement announcing the opening of applications for Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund for Africa. Aiyegbusi said that following the success of the first cohort in 2021, Google increased its commitment in 2022 with additional...
