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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Theophilus Danjuma Foundation has inaugurated a multi million Naira Goodwill Medical Centre (GMC) in a community in Enugu State to help rural dwellers. The centre which is located at Umuchigbo, Iji Nike, in Abapka Nike community, Enugu East Local Government Area, is fully funded by the TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF). The GMC project is the brainchild of Prof. Uche Amazigo, Nigeria’s renowned Pro-Poor Public Health Specialist, and former director, World Health Organisation (WHO). Amazigo was one of the few female Africans to have led a specialised United Nations Agency, overseeing a highly successful multilateral partnership in…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Immediate past Commissioner for Education in Anambra State, Professor Kate Omenugha, has emerged as the new acting Vice-Chancellor of Chuwkwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Uli and Igbariam campuses, Anambra State. A statement by Press Secretary to the governor, Christian Aburime, disclosed the appointment by Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Wednesday. Prof Omeugha, who is a member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) replaces Professor Greg C. Nwakoby following the expiration of his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of COOU. Also appointed was Professor Louis Chukwuemeka Orakwue, as the State Project Coordinator, Anambra State Rural…

…David Anyaele, Ajemba take centre stage Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The November edition of the monthly IkengaOnline townhall meeting holds Thursday (Tomorrow), November 30 with special focus on the plights of Persons Living With Disabilities, PWDs in the South-East geo-political zone. Two Disability Rights Activists and Motivational Speakers, David Anyaele, of the Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD); and Chidinma Ajemba of JONAPWD, Anambra State chapter, will feature on the show. The duo will be speaking on the theme: “Stigma, Struggle and Support: Living with Disabilities in the South East.” According to a press release by the Editor-in-Chief of the South-East flagship…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The family of Inspector Lucky Okey, Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s orderly who fell from the governor’s convoy, has debunked allegation the governor abandoned their son to die miserably. Before his death, Mr. Okey was a police officer who served as part of the governor’s security convoy until he was involved in an accident in August this year. A statement from the family signed by Chukwudi Okey, dissociated itself from a report that surfaced online insinuating neglect on the part of Governor Soludo, alleging abandonment and a lack of proper medical care leading to Inspector Okey’s tragic passing. The…

By Aloy Ejimakor In 2016, the ‘United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’ published a scholarly project document in a 691-page colorful compendium, titled ‘Cases and Materials on Extradition in Nigeria.’ This highly celebrated publication was accomplished with the assistance of the European Union, the Federal High Court and several top lawyers from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation. Other project participants included eminent jurists who intellectually dwelt on ‘Extradition’ which, in the final analysis, they contrasted with ‘extraordinary rendition’ with evident disapproval. Former AGF Abubakar Malami, who had endorsed the project, wrote in the Foreword to the…

…Everything including furniture in gov’s office looted – Aide Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Chief Press Secretary, CPS, to Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, Mr Kazie Uko, has given reasons his principal is still operating from private residence six months after assuming office. According to the CPS, Otti is much more interested in tackling the pressing challenges of the state instead of wasting scarce resources to renovate the Government House. The CPS who was reacting to a recent media report that Gov. Otti abandoned the multi billion Naira Government House and operated from his private residence, said the report was mischievous and…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Scores of persons were feared missing while several houses with property worth millions of naira were lost in a communal clash which occurred in Ikolo community in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State on Monday. A source from the community said that youths from neighbouring Aku community invaded the community at about 2 am with dangerous weapons including guns, machetes and petrol bombs and set many buildings ablaze while the people were asleep. The members of the community who appeared helpless have appealed to the Enugu State Government to intervene in the face of the unprovoked carnage. Some of the…

Ugo Nosiri, Owerri The police command in Imo State says a total of 18 suspects have been arrested and are currently undergoing investigation following the attack and killing of the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ahiazu Mbaise and an Inspector of Police  at BOEK Petroleum Filling Station, Ahiara Junction, in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of the State. A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Command says the Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, had deployed the Command’s Special Tactical squad  equipped  with  operational assets in collaboration with the Military to hunt down the hoodlums responsible for the dastardly act. The report…

By Patrick Mokogwu I am a believer in Christ! And this is incontrovertible. But beyond this kind of faith, i.e the saving Faith in the atoning blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I also have this confidence, trust, hope, or call it assurance, that though my Nigeria and, specifically my Igboland, is troubled, things can still get better.   Unfortunately, on a daily basis, this my hope of a better tomorrow for my fatherland is being threatened. If the threat is like that of our brethren in Israel (Middle East) the story would be different. For them in Israel,…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Enugu State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Lloyd Ekweremadu, has said the state government was determined to improve its sporting records. Ekweremadu made this disclosure at the grand finale of the Sports Writer’s Assocation of Nigeria (SWAN), Enugu chapter Week at the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) press center Enugu. The Commissioner, who was represented by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ministry, Dan Onwuegbuna, said the government will bring back school sports and other grassroots sports programmes with collaboration of private sectors. He said the result is due to the new state sports policy…