Eha Amufu Crisis: Truck Burnt, Persons Killed At Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo LGA, Enugu State

The Joint Security Team set up to combat the nefarious activities of suspected herders in Eha-Amufu community in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area, Nigeria has confirmed the killing of persons and burning of goods and truck conveying those persons at Umuhu in Eha-Amufu community of the Local Government Area, along Eha-Amufu/Nkalagu Road, Enugu State; the number of deceased persons unspecified. Visiting the scene of the attack, the team confirmed that the burnt truck was conveying goods...

ARTMA Dismisses Five of its Enforcement Officers

The Anambra State Road Traffic Management Agency- ARTMA, has dismissed five of its ad-hoc enforcement team members, as a result of extorting money due to road users, which amounted to gross misconduct. The five officers dismissed were indicted in a N25, 000 extortion of an innocent road user in Onitsha. Upon reaching the ARTMA customer care line and making her complaint, the extorted road user gave the engagement number of the officers, written on their...

Ekwueme Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Holds Memorial Lecture for Ekwueme

The Ekwueme Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, today marked the 90th posthumous birthday of the late statesman and former Nigeria’s Vice President, during a lecture series organised in honour of Ekwueme’s gracious memory. Roundtable discussions at the event focused on power sharing and rotation of public office, with various speakers emphasising the relevance of Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s contributions in the subject matter. In attendance were Dr. Ekwueme’s wife, Madam Beatrice Ekwueme....

Enugu State Govt. Immortalize Zik of Africa, Inaugurates Nnamdi Azikiwe Centre

The Enugu State Government has renovated the old premier lodge, the former residence of the great Zik of Africa, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, and furnished it with personal effects of the legend; the Nnamdi Azikiwe Centre. Inaugurating the Centre on Friday, Governor Ugwuanyi disclosed that the multi-purpose monument was developed by his administration to immortalize, propagate and perpetuate the leadership ethos, patriotic ideals, and scholarly insights of the legend, the Nigerian statesman, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. In...

Eha-Amufu Crisis: Desperate Measure to Safeguard Life Turned Awry As Man Drops Dead

The persistent crisis between herders and farmers in Eha-Amufu community in Isi-Uzo Local Government of Nigeria has led to loss of lives, properties and destruction of farmlands and farm produce which is the major source of livelihood of indigenes of the community. Fears of attack has not only crippled farming in the community but left several women widows and children fatherless; the fear is palpable and understandably so. Government interventions seem to suspend the evil...

Ikpeazu Signs Bill Allowing Women to Inherit Properties into Law

Women can now inherit properties in Abia State as the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Thursday signed the ‘female person inheritance of property’ bill into law. While assenting to the bill at the government house in Umuahia, the governor commended the House of Assembly for facilitating the passage of the bill, describing it as the most important legislation passed by the seventh assembly. Stressing that it had become unacceptable to continue “to treat women as...

Enugu State Govt. Allocates 36 plots of Land to 2015/2016 NPFL Winners

Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi also approved a waiver of all land charges and immediate issuance of certificate of occupancy of the allocated plots of land to the players. The Ministry of Lands and Urban Development, Enugu calls on all the year 2015/2016 winners of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to collect their respective allocation letters to a plot of land each as approved by the State Government. The 36 Enugu Rangers International Football Club players...

Ibadan Poly Bans Pregnant Students, Nursing Mothers from Staying in Hostels, Bringing Babies to Classroom

The Polytechnic, Ibadan, also known as Poly Ibadan, has banned pregnant female students and nursing mothers from residing in the school hostel and nursing mothers from bringing babies to the classrooms. According to a notice signed by the institution’s governing council on behalf of the management on Tuesday, defaulters would be suspended for one semester. The school management also banned students from hugging publicly, sitting on the opposite sex’s laps in public and driving tinted...

Fire Razes 14 Classes, 12 Offices In Tsangaya Boarding Pry Sch In Kano

Fire has razed a Tsangaya model boarding primary school, in Kiyawa village, of Bagwai local government area of Kano state, razing 14 classes, 12 offices from the administrative block, and 21 toilets by the inferno. Saminu Abdullahi, Public Relations Officer Kano State Fire Service explained that following a distress call received by the Bichi fire station from one Ghaddafi Sani, on arrival, the rescue team discovered that a building was engulfed by an inferno. ”We received...

UNOPS, NEDC To Build Two Oxygen Plants In Borno State

The United Nations Office of Projects Services (UNOPS), Deputy Regional Director to Africa, Dalila Goncalves, said the office will collaborate with the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to upscale activities at the two oxygen plants in Borno State. Goncalves disclosed this during a meeting with officials of the NEDC in Abuja and explained that the plant would serve more people in the region as part of the UN’s mandate to ensure major activities rebound in...

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