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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has placed a fine of N500,000 on anyone found to be disturbing public peace through open gospel preaching. In a viral video trending on social media, Governor Soludo describes open gospel preaching in parks and markets as noise pollution. Soludo, who in the video, confronted a preacher in a market warned the preacher to desist from the act, stating that it contravenes the law. According to him, one cannot exercise their fundamental rights by disturbing others with noise pollution. “If you want to preach, go to your church and preach.…
…Gives reasons for operating from private home Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, has hinted that the 5.6 kilometer Port Harcourt Road Aba, awarded by his administration in 2023, would be ready for inauguration before May 29, 2025. Otti had in the first quarter of his administration, awarded the contract to Julius Berger Construction Company amid public ovation as it was the first time the construction giant would undertake any road project in the state. The Governor who spoke during a media parley in Umuahia, Friday night, reiterated his administration’s commitment to driving massive infrastructural development, saying…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki President Bola Tinubu on Saturday flagged-off the ultra-modern Cancer Centre of Excellence at the David Umahi University of Health Sciences (DUFUHS). He also flagged-off a Comprehensive Medical Outreach Initiative and Tailoring Empowerment for citizens of South-East under the Renewed Hope Agenda. The free Free Medical Outreach and empowerment programmes is powered by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement Southeast, Chioma Nweze in partnership with the University. Represented by Minsiter of Works, David Umahi, the President expressed delight at the programmes. He hailed the institution for the Cancer, Renal and Eye Centers of Excellence,…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Wife of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, and former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, have called for gender equality and empowerment of women in Nigeria. The duo made the call in separate statements they issued to mark this year’s International Women’s Day. They also called for concerted efforts to eradicate Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the country. Anyim in his statement noted the strength, resilience, and brilliance of every woman and girl in Nigeria and across the world. He described women as the heartbeat of every home and the backbone of our economy “On this International…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer than 100 women have taken to the streets of Anambra State to demand for the elimination of gender-based violence, child abuse and other fetish practices in their communities. The women, during their rally in Idemmili North Local Government Area, urged the leadership of communities to institute measures that ensure women inclusion and equality, end child abuse, domestic violence and other fetish practices like ritual killings, among others. The rally was organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs in collaboration with VAPPLIC with support from the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption programme, and powered by Supporters…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu A corps member serving in Enugu State, Chidubem Okafor, has emerged winner of Fidelity Bank entrepreneurship grant meant for members in Enugu. Presenting the grant to Okafor, at a ceremony entitled “1st Quarter NYSC GAIM Season 6 Promo Winners,” Mrs Ivuoma Nwosu, the Sales Coordinator of the bank’s Enugu Region, said the grant was to help him start something after service. According to her, the gesture cuts across states in Nigeria to empower benefiting youth corps members. She disclosed that aside Okafor in Enugu State, eight other youth corps members across eight states also benefitted, stressing…
The celebrated thinker and writer is at her best not in the realm of fiction, but of fact Dream Count. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 416 pages; $32. Fourth Estate; £20 Can you be a good polemicist and a good novelist? To judge by the accolades offered to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, you can. Her novels have been lavished with awards and praise: “Americanah,” her third novel, won a National Book Critics Circle award in 2013 and was named one of the New York Times’s 100 best books of the century. Meanwhile, her polemics have been acclaimed by readers and, better…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State is reportedly unhappy with the insecurity at the Jerome Udoji Secretariat, Awka, the state capital. Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, disclosed this Thursday when he played host to DSC Chioma Nnaewuru, the new Civil Defence Officer in charge of the Secretariat Complex. Addressing the new officer, Mefor, who decried the security challenges in the secretariat, charged her to be ambitious, analytical, and clear about what is needed to ensure full security in the state secretariat to be sent to the governor. He said the security situation in the secretariat…
By Azu Ishiekwene The live drama staged in the Oval Office on February 28 between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was such that Zelenskyy might never have rehearsed in all his former life as a comedian. Except that it wasn’t funny. It was unprecedented. You would need to go back 64 years to find anything nearly as nasty as the Trump-Zelenskyy shouting match, with Trump’s deputy, JD Vance, enthusiastically fanning the flames. The showdown between John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev before the Cuban Missile Crisis was hair-raising, but it wasn’t before a global…
Our Reporter, Abuja Dr Doyin Okupe, former spokesman to President Olusegun Obasanjo, has died, aged 72. According to Arise TV, he died in a private hospital in Victoria Island, Lagos, Lagos State. Dr Okupe who had made public his battle with prostrate cancer, served as special assistant on media and publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. When President Goodluck Jonathan was having it tough with the media, Okupe was brought in as a senior special assistant on public affairs to the former President. Interestingly, Dr Okupe was the director-general of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation in 2023. He later…