The Anambra State Federal Secretariat built and completed by the Federal Government in Awka has been commissioned today, by the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige. The Secretariat named after Engr. Ebere Ofunneamaka Okeke, who was Nigeria’s first civil engineer and the first female Head of Service of the Federation, is now open for use by federal government Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Anambra State. During the commissioning of the secretariat, the Nnewi born Engr....
Adhoc staff of Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, Anambra State, have staged a peaceful protest over non-payment of salaries after the just concluded general elections. The adhoc workers who include collation Officers, SPOs among others staged the protest at the state headquarters of INEC in Awka. The group who were visibly angry at the delay in payment of their dues after the election,besieged the INEC headquarters long before the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr.Mrs Queen Elizabeth Agwu...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned and opened the Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta States for public use. President Buhari commissioned the project named after him virtually six days to the end of his administration. The bridge is one of the legacy projects of the Buhari administration, hoped to decongest the existing Niger bridge and connect South-East with the rest of the country and as well boost economic activities of Southern region. The main...
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has said Nigerians will remember President Muhammadu Buhari legacies including the ongoing commissioning of the second Niger bridge in Onitsha and Ebele Okeke Federal Secretariat Awka respectively, when he leaves office May 29, 2023. Soludo disclosed this visually, on Tuesday, in Onitsha during the official commissioning of the two above-mentioned Federal projects in Anambra State. The governor said the Second Niger Bridge will attract more social-economic activities in the...
Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command on Friday, 19/5/2023 had arrested two inmates who escaped from Kuje Correctional Centre, following an attack on the facility that freed over 500 inmates on 5/6/2022. The escapees, Atiku Ibrahim 37 years and Adamu Ibrahim 40 years were arrested by the Command Operatives attached to Crack Squad. A Press Statement by the Command Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje that the escapees were arrested for Cattle Rustling...
South East/Igbo APC Progressives Roundtable, SIAPRO, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge, which was commissioned on Tuesday. SIAPRO, in a statement jointly signed by its Director General, Dr Uche Diala; National Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Molokwu; and the National Publicity Secretary, Mr Charles Kaye Okoye, described the Bridge as the “biggest and most significant singular infrastructural project in the Eastern region since after the civil war.” The group recalled...
…Second Niger Bridge is named after Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, commissioned eight projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing across the country. The projects which consist of three major bridges, three federal secretariats, a road and a new headquarters are part of the current “administration’s determination to upgrade and expand the nation’s stock of infrastructure”, according to Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the President on media and publicity. The federal...
Uncertainty over Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on Monday, May 29 looms as the Supreme Court has fixed Friday, May 26 to deliver its judgment in a suit seeking the nullification of the President-elect and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima’s candidature in the 2023 presidential election. The suit was filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on July 28, 2022. The party challenged the validity of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket for the February 25, 2023, presidential election because...
United States President Joe Biden has released a list of officials to represent him at the upcoming inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, on Monday, May 29. This is according to a press release by the White House on Monday. The nine-member presidential delegation are as follows: Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, secretary of the United States department of housing and urban development; Mr. David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy, Abuja; The Honorable Sydney Kamlager-Dove,...
….Supports Atiku to push appeal to Supreme Court Former second Vice President Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and chairman of the NBA Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL), Monday Ubani has lamented lack of readiness by the Nigerian judicial system to embrace technology. In a chat with our reporter on Monday about the rejection of a request by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the just concluded 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar...
