The 27 European Union member states have agreed to send another 500 million Euros in military aid for Ukraine, top EU Diplomat, Josep Borrell, announced on Wednesday in a statement. Borrell said it was crucial the EU increased military support to Ukraine as Russia gears up for a new assault in the country’s east as “the next weeks will be decisive.’’ It is the third package of military aid the EU has agreed to send...
ABUJA — The Chief Whip of Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu says he has 13,000 Nigerians under his employment across different sectors of the economy. The former governor of Abia made the disclosure in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday. Kalu, who was responding to questions on presidential aspirants, said anyone aspiring to become Nigeria’s president should be an individual with capacity to improve the economy, security and make all Nigerians happy. He reiterated...
By Emannuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Governor of Anambra State Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has praised the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), for its efforts in controlling erosion in Nigeria. The governor who spoke through his deputy, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim described Anambra as the erosion capital of Africa but stated that NEWMAP’s intervention has helped to reclaim areas that would have ordinarily been lost. Soludo spoke during the additional financing implementation...
By Anastasia Mbabie and Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporters) ABUJA — The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Friday 15th and Monday 18th April 2022, Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively, as Public Holidays, to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the government in Abuja, urged Christians to emulate the attributes of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace, and patience, which were the...
By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter) The increase in cost of diesel, collapsed national grid and other operating challenges may have influenced banking giant, First Bank of Nigeria to announce reduction in operation hours at most of its branches nationwide. In a statement made available on its official website on April 10, 2022, the bank said that the new development will take effect from Monday April 11. “We have revised our banking hours across all our...
Governor El-Rufai’s threat to import mercenaries to help with Nigeria’s security crisis reveals cracks in the security sector and waning state power. A rare positive note as Nigeria spirals into a state of lawlessness is the unintended return to the front burner of longstanding issues around governance at the subnational level. Until now, such issues have bubbled under the surface, receiving fleeting attention only when the country’s perennial crisis threatens to boil over, only to...
By Emmanuel Chigbata, Staff Reporter AWKA — Archbishop Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger and Bishop, Diocese of Awka, Anambra State, Most Revd. Alexander Ibezim, on Saturday, declared that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be released next month. He said God would touch the leadership of the country to release the IPOB leader in order to end the growing calamity in the southern region of the country....
By Emmanuel Chigbata, Staff Reporter AWKA –– Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has sworn in twenty Commissioners, to serve in Anambra State Executive Council in accordance with the 1999 constitution of Nigeria The Commissioners were sworn-in at the Anambra State Executive Council Chambers at the Government House, Awka. The Commissioners with their portfolios are: Mr. Ifeatu Onejeme- Finace Professor Offornze Amaucheazi-Lands Mr. Ifeanyi Okoma-Works and Infrastructure Miss Chiamaka Nnake-Budget and Economic Planning Dr. Afam...
Compaore’s conviction is good news for the rule of law and democratic consolidation in Africa. Former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore’s sentence of life imprisonment by an Ouagadougou military court for complicity in the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, marks an important victory for the rule of law in the country and the region as a whole. In exile in the Ivory Coast since his ouster from power following a popular uprising in 2014,...
By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter) AWKA — Anambra State Police Command says it has arrested a culprit who attempted to rape a 12-year-old house girl at Ifite Awka. The unidentified house girl had jumped from a storey building, fracturing her leg in the process, while trying to avoid rape by her master. Though details of the incident are still sketchy, it was gathered that the incident took place at Ifite Awka on Thursday. A journalist,...
