Soludo Presents 2024 Budget Of N410 Billion To Anambra State House Of Assembly

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has presented the state’s 2024 budget proposal of Four hundred and ten billion, one hundred and thirty-two million, two hundred and twenty-four thousand, two hundred and seventy-two naira to the State Assembly. Governor Soludo made the presentation at the State Assembly Complex in Awka. Ninety-six billion, two hundred and one million, nine hundred and thirty-six thousand, seven hundred and forty-six naira (₦96, 201, 936, 746) that is 23% of...

NDLEA nabs wanted Abuja drug dealer 7 years after prison escape

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has captured a notorious drug peddler in Abuja, Ibrahim Momoh seven years after he escaped from prison. Momoh, who goes by the moniker Ibrahim Bendel, was initially arrested in 2014 with 385.1 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa. He was convicted and got a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence in July 2015, but he fled the prison in May 2016. The NDLEA declared him wanted in November 2022 after he narrowly slipped...

Rivers’ Assembly Speaker, Ehie Edison alleges threat to life

An assassination attempt targeted at Ehie Edison, the factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, was aborted by the lawmaker’s security escorts on Sunday night. The lawmaker, at a press briefing yesterday, said two senior police officers led the gunmen who stormed his residence from the state police command. The gunmen, he said, attempted to force themselves into his residence but his security men warded them off. The State Assembly spokesperson Ken Uchendu,...

Ministry Of Women’s Affairs Vows To Protect The Rights Of Children

In commemoration of the 2023 Universal Day of the Child, the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, says the ministry is committed to aligning with international treaties for the protection of children’s rights. The minister disclosed this during a school symposium to commemorate the day held at Government Science Technical School Garki, Abuja. Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye urged schoolchildren to use proper channels to draw the government’s attention to their challenges for appropriate actions. “In...

Abia State Government Spend Over N397m On Feeding, Welfare In Third Quarter

The Abia State government has spent a total of N397,520,734.84 on meals, refreshments, feeding, and welfare in the third quarter period. Kazie Uko, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Alex Otti, in a press statement, debunked the reports in some social media that the government had spent close to one billion naira on meals and welfare within the period. The press release captured figures of expenditures of all the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), not...

Security: Scavengers Banned From Entering Wuro-chekke Community

Following the recent abduction of an Architect and a Journalist in the Wuro-chekke community of Yola South local government area of Adamawa state, scavengers have been banned from operating in the community. It was gathered that heavy sums of money were paid as ransoms before the victims were released after spending five days in the kidnappers’ den. The Village Head of the community, Alhaji  Sa’ad Mohammed gave the order while addressing the community, and explained...

Security operatives rescue kidnapped 10-year-old in Oko

A 10 years old boy has been rescued from kidnappers in Oko community, Orumba North Local Government Area, close to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko. An eyewitness, Comr Edwins Arinzechukwu John who narrated the incident on Facebook said he was at Total filing station, when security men rescued the boy from his kidnapers, who they put in the trunk of their ash Toyota Camry car. He said: “Just this evening as I was buying yam at...

Bode George mourns Gen. Opaleye’s, says his death is shocking

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George  has described the death of former Military Governor of Old Ondo State, Major General Ekundayo Babakayode Opaleye (rtd), as shocking. The late General took over from the late Admiral Mike Akhigbe as old Ondo State Governor in 1986 and handed over to George who governed the state from 1987 to 1990. George, who said death is the end of all mortals, however declared that...

Federal Government Releases 4,068 Inmates Nationwide

As part of an effort to decongest custodial centers nationwide, the Federal Government has flagged off the release of 4,068 inmates sentenced to various terms of imprisonment with the option of a fine and compensation. Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister of Interior, who performed the symbolic release of the inmates at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, Abuja, on Saturday, said the aim was to decongest custodial centers across the country and make them humane...

Women Affairs Minister Sue Couple Over Defilement Of Minor

A lawsuit against an Enugu couple, Mr. Ifeanyi Enwelum and Mrs. Christabel Enwelum, over the defilement of their nine-year-old daughter, was instituted by the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uju Ohanenye. It was reported that Mr Enwelum, step-father of the minor had several unlawful carnal knowledge of her between Jan. 1, 2022, and June 10, 2023, at his 13/15 Onoh Crescent, GRA Enugu residence in Enugu North Local Government Area. The minor’s biological mother, Mrs...

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