Anambra Investment Summit Set for September

Organizers say participants with bright pitches can win as much as $10, 000 Mark Okoye, the Managing Director- MD, of Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency – ANSIPPA, on Friday during a media roundtable at the ANSIPPA office in Awka, announced that Anambra Investment Summit 2023 would hold in three months time, precisely on September 7 and 8, 2023. During the summit he said, participants with bright pitches can win as much as $10,...

Attempt to Abduct Nnewi North House Member-Elect in the House of Assembly, Foiled

It was melodramatic as some men later to be identified as officers of the Department of State Services – DSS, stormed the premises of Anambra State House of Assembly in Awka, around 2pm on Thursday, and attempted to abduct Sir Onyedikachukwu Ike, House of Assembly member-elect, Nnewi North constituency. But luck ran out of the abductors when the House of Assembly security, the clerk, members of the House, media, staffers, and others withn the complex...

Day of Tribute as Anambra State 7th House of Assembly Holds its Final Session

It was a day of glowing tribute and eulogies as Anambra State 7th House of Assembly draws its curtains after its final plenary session on Thursday. The session which started at about 11am with a Church service presided over by Rev. Raphael Onyekwelu of Government House Chaplaincy and other priests, was immediately followed by plenary at the legislative chambers. The plenary commencement time was a bit disrupted by attempted abduction of Nnewi North House Member-Elect,...

Governor Mbah, Stakeholders To Deliberate On Sit-At-Home Order In Enugu

The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah invites stakeholders to a town-hall meeting to chart the way forward in ending the Monday sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, all over the 5 states of the South East geographical region of the Nigeria which includes Enugu state. In a public service announcement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the meeting scheduled to hold by 10:30am on Saturday...

Implementing World Population Report Recommendations: FG set to work with UNFPA

To implement the recommendations of the 2023 State of the World Population Report in the country, the Federal Government has promised to work with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), National Population Commission (NPC) and other critical stakeholders The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Engr. Adebiyi Olufunso stated this on Thursday in Abuja on the occasion of the launch of the State of the World Report [SWOP], 2023 edition. Olufunso said the launch of...

Enugu Gov. meets Tinubu, seeks Nnamdi Kanu’s release 

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State on Thursday, met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, and sought the release of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Mbah, while addressing journalists after the meeting  noted that his discussion with the President was in agreement with the demand by the South-East, which according to him is in tandem with Tinubu’s promise in his inaugural address to engender national healing...

NASS Leadership Election: Opposition parties will deploy their strength maximally – PDP vows

…Demands transfer of Ogun, Nasarawa election tribunals to Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed that the opposition parties will set the pace during the election of the leadership of the parliament on the 13th of June, and would deploy their strength maximally. While addressing journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, the spokesman of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba said that the opposition will deploy its strength maximally during the inauguration...

11Million farmers adopt tingo mobile, tintech app for daily operations

All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has said that about 11 million of its members have adopted Tingo Mobile’s smartphone and fintech applications, including the Nwassa platform, as part of their daily operations. Dr.  Farouk Rabiu Mudi, National President of AFAN disclosed this in a letter he signed and made available to journalists on Thursday. AFAN in the letter announced the manifested progress in its partnership with Tingo Mobile,” a subsidiary of the group. The...

APC expels its chieftain,  Cairo Ojougbo

…Insists decision is irreversible The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed its door against Dr Cairo Ojougbo, a chieftain of the party over alleged violation of provisions of the party’s constitution. Recall Ojougbo, through his counsel, FS Jimba had appealed his expulsion by the chairman of Ika South  Local Government Area of Delta State, and demanded a retraction of the decision. However, Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq, the APC National Legal Adviser who had initially sided the...

President Tinubu Raises Retirement Age Of Judicial Officers

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, performed his maiden act of assenting a bill to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) (No.37), 2023 presented by the outgoing 9th National Assembly. With the signing of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, all judicial officers of superior courts of record will now retire from service at 70 instead of 65 and pension rights of judicial officers have been effectively...

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