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…File application with the African court on human and peoples’ rights  Our Reporter, Port Harcourt African environmental justice advocates have taken demands for climate change crisis a step higher with the submission May 2, 2025 of a demand by the lawyers to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Tanzania. The advocates are a coalition of African civil society organisations, front-line communities, defenders, feminist groups, youth groups, public interest environmental and human rights lawyers, and indigenous communities for an advisory opinion on African states’ human rights obligations in the context of climate change in Africa. In a release…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, says that there is the urgent need for the diversification of Nigeria’s  economy from mono-oil economy through the emerging Information Technology (ICT). He said this during the official commissioning of the South-East Zonal Office of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, in Enugu. After performing the official tape-cutting to declare the office structure open, Mbah said that there was compelling need to diversify the Nigerian economy. According to him, investment in the Information Technology space would do the magic. He also said that the gesture would open more horizon for the…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka An 18-year-old boy sent to learn a trade has reportedly impregnated 10 girls including his master’s daughter in Anambra State. The randy apprentice who also impregnated his masters salesgirl, carried out the dastardly act within five months. Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, disclosed this in a trending live video on Wednesday. The teenager, whose identity remains unknown, was sent to learn a trade but impregnated the daughter of his boss and a salesgirl within three months of learning. His master dismissed him after learning of this. “This boy was sent to learn a trade…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Mr Peter Obi, former Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, has called on Catholic faithful across the world to pray and ask God for a Pope full of compassion, humility, and steadfast commitment to serving humanity. Obi made the call in his X social media handle on Wednesday May 7, 2025. He said: “As Christians and Catholics, we join our hearts in earnest prayer with all people of goodwill, as the conclave begins today. “May God, in His infinite wisdom, guide the Cardinals in their sacred duty for a most fruitful and blessed outcome.…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Governor Peter Mbah, has approved the release of N290.8 million for the payment of gratuities and pensions of 37 workers, who retired in the month of February 2025 from the services of the Enugu State Government. According to the state government, the payment of the gratuities and related pension entitlements would help to improve the living standard of the senior citizens, raise their purchasing power, and promote strong and sustainable economic growth in the state. “It will also help to build workers’ faith in the system, knowing that they will get their benefits to live a decent…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The old Lagos of the yellow molue bus is the Lagos of my adoration. It’s not in my constitution to make so much mouth in celebration of modern gizmos such as yellow or blue line or the BRT or whatever. I am an impossible Luddite, a proud apostle of Ned Lud, the irrepressible early 19th century worker who destroyed machinery and sundry technologies in factories because he believed they would take away the jobs of workers.    It breaks my heart no end that Lagos is fast losing its beans to all the fickle never-lasting appendages of the…

Our Reporter, New York  US-based Nigerian Professor of Journalism, Farooq Kperogi, has warned that only hell and inferno await Nigerians at the end of the tunnel of Tinubu’s so-called economic reforms.  He made the remarks during an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90MinutesAfrica on Sunday. The social commentator gave his views on President Tinubu’s two years in office, saying it is “so far so bad.” He said the removal of oil subsidies and the simultaneous devaluation of the naira has created a hyper-inflationary conflagration in the country. During his inauguration speech on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu infamously declared: “Subsidy…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Ahead of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s visit to Anambra State on Thursday, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Anambra State Command has intensified efforts to ensure airtight security in the state. The command says it has mobilized no fewer than 1,531 operatives to ensure adequate security in the state both before, during, and after the President’s visit. The command made this known in a statement by the Head of Media and Tactical Unit of the Command, Superintendent of Corps Okadigbo Edwin, issued on Wednesday, shortly after a high-level strategic meeting held at the Command’s headquarters…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu  A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF), has called on government at all levels and health stakeholders to cover widening gap in asthma treatment and management in Nigeria. Founder of the Foundation, Prof. Chiwuike Uba, made the call in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Enugu, on the 2025 World Asthma Day with theme: “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for All.” Uba, who is a development economist said that in Nigeria, Asthma was becoming increasingly prevalent, with studies indicating general prevalence ranging from 5.12 per cent to 14.7 per cent, and some projections expecting to rise…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has said investigation has begun into the murder of a pregnant woman in the state. Ikengaonline reports that the woman’s body was found hanging on a cashew tree along the Uke/Ideani road in Idemmili North Local Government Area. A release by the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said Police in the state have begun investigation into the death. Ikenga said the Commissioner, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has called on stakeholders in the area to provide relevant Information to unravel those behind the murder. “The incident is unfortunate and a…