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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Federal Government has reconstituted the Governing Council of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra State, with Prof Joseph Essien as Chairman. According to the statement released by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Didi Esther Walson-Jack, the inauguration and retreat of the Councils would hold on May 30 and 31, 2024 respectively. Professor Essien had served as Research Advisor with SPDC, Nigeria and undergone Science and Technical Training for Water Quality Monitoring and Management of Sustainable Water Resources at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju-Korea. He is a Research Fellow for…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Dr Ben Nwoye, former Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, has hailed President Bola Tinubu’s administration on massive road infrastructure and students’ loan initiatives within a year. Nwoye gave the commendation while speaking to newsmen in Enugu on impactful projects and programmes embarked on by Tinubu’s administration as he marks his one year in office. He said that the present administration had set in motion massive and legacy road constructions such as the Lagos-Calabar Super Coastal Multi-Carriage Highway. According to him, this Coastal Multi-Carriage Highway will traverse most states in the South-West and South-South…

By Azu Ishiekwene It wasn’t five months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took office when folks started asking, how far? In middle class and elite social circles in Nigeria, that question, or its variant – how market? – is often reserved for people whose sympathy for a cause or person is imperiled. I often pushed back by saying that given the enormity of problems that the Tinubu government faced at inception, five months or so were inadequate to judge. And that was not just a convenient deflection.  There are, of course, American presidents who made a mark after 100 days…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Contrary to what many Nigerians would have thought, the Pilgrims Welfare Board was not set up by the Sardauna of Sokoto and his party, the Northern People’s Congress (NPC). Many Nigerians do not know that the Pilgrims Welfare Board was set up at first in the old Western Region in the 1950s when there was fierce contestation of power between the Action Group (AG) and the National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC). The AG felt that the way to counter the estimated 70 percent of the Muslim votes then going to the NCNC was to appease…

…Promises more developments Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, has said that he would submit himself for audit after the end of his administration. Otti who made the disclosure during a town hall meeting for Abia North senatorial zone at Ohafia Council headquarters, said that he was not afraid of probe. He also asked his appointees to get prepared for probe, saying that any honest leader should not be afraid of probe. The Governor wondered why some people are criticising him for engaging an audit firm to scrutinise the accounts of the state under the previous administration.…

Ugo Nosiri, Owerri The Director General National Biotechnology Research Development Agency, Professor Abdullahi Mustaph says that the Federal Government is intensifying efforts to increase the accessibility of genetically modified organisms. Professor Abdullahi Mustaph who stated this in Owerri at a one day agricultural biotechnology workshop organised for early careers and young farmers in Imo State, said that the programme was to encourage the youths to embark on research that would help find solutions to poor agricultural yield, environmental degradation and pollution. He noted that scientists in the country had started producing organisms and supplying the same to farmers to improve…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki One Favour Ùgwùka, a final-year student of the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, has allegedly committed suicide. It was learned that she committed suicide in her hostel at the Ishieke Campus of the university in Abakaliki, the state capital. Sources in the area alleged that her action may not be disconnected with victimisation by a particular lecturer in her department. It was alleged that the deceased, a final year student in the Department of English, passed all her courses but was repeatedly failed in a particular course by the lecturer who vowed she would never pass. A video…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Nigeria is to return to the era of reciting the old National Anthem as the House of Representatives, Thursday passed a bill to that effect. The bill sponsored by the Leader of the House, Julius Ihonvbere, was passed for second and third reading on the floor of the House during plenary in Abuja. It is to be forwarded to the Senate for concurrence before being sent to the President for his assent.

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police operatives in Anambra State have arrested most wanted robber and cultist terrorising people of Uruagu in Oba community, Idemili South Local Government Area. The Police also foiled a kidnap attempt in Aguata, rescuing an abducted victim and recovered his vehicle in the process. Spokesperson of Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement he released to Journalists on Thursday. He said the suspect, Anichede Akachukwu, popularly known as ‘Star B,’ aged 18, during interrogation, confessed to be the leader of Vikings Secret Cult Confraternity and Armed Gang terrorising Ogbaru LGA and Asaba…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested and arraigned a popular ‘Oriokpa’ Masquerader, identified as Ebube Ugwuoke, who is notorious for assaulting women, in Nsukka Local Government Area. A statement by the Enugu Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said the masquerader was arrested by Operatives serving in the Nsukka Sector of the Enugu State Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad, on May 12, 2024, around 3.45 p.m. According to Ndukwe, the operatives intercepted and arrested a masquerade (popularly called Oriokpa) while the wearer was sighted physically assaulting a female victim (name withheld) at Ugwuoye Junction,…