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Foundation advocates use of multi-sporting activities to reduce stress Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Chairman, Rangers International Football Club Foundation, Coach Ebere Amaraizu, has advocated the use of multi-sporting activities and engagements to reduce stress and worries that usual occupy the human mind. Amaraizu made the advocacy while giving a presentation on “Coping with Life Challenges as Teeenagers” during an interface with children and young persons at the ongoing Catch-Them-Young Holiday Table Tennis Clinic at the Indoor Hall of Enugu State Sports Council, The two week-long event is being organised by Enugu State Table Tennis Association in partnership with state’s Ministry…

Rotary club of Awka installs new president Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Rotary Club of Awka, GRA District has installed Rotarian Martin Nzeocha as its new President. Rotarian Nzeocha became the club’s 23rd President, taking over the baton of leadership from Rtn. Ugo Benitez Ibeanu, who served out his 2023/ 2024 tenure as the 22nd President of the club. The installation ceremony which was held in Awka, Anambra State capital, attracted eminent personalities and friends from diverse fields, who trooped in to show love and support to the new leadership. In his inaugural speech, Nzeocha said the new Rotary year is…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has confirmed the release of the State Commissioner for Youth Development, Hon Patrick Aghamba, and his wife, who were kidnapped on Friday. The release was confirmed by Christian Aburime, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Chukwuma Soludo. He stated that Aghamba and his wife were released on Saturday night after spending a day in captivity. He said no ransom was paid for their release. “The commissioner and his wife have been released by the special grace of God. We were able to secure his release,” he said. Some gunmen had kidnapped the commissioner, alongside his…

By Stephen Obidike Of recent, there has been rising cases of the Monkey Pox infection. The Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared this outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Most cases started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it has since spread to other countries in Africa and Europe with about thirty-nine cases reported in Nigeria already. Although M-Pox is not new to our heath sector, the new variant has some peculiar features. It is more infective and is sexually transmitted as well. M-Pox is caused by a Deoxyribonucleic (DNA) virus belonging to the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court  dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week old decision to judicially install Hope Uzodinma as the Governor of Imo State, citing as its main reason the need to preserve the authority and finality of decisions of the apex court. The court issued what appeared to be a principled defence of the finality of its judgments, declaring somewhat ostentatiously that once it had issued a decision, “it shall remain forever.” Olukayode Ariwoola, who delivered the judgment of the majority in the review was also a member of the…

Our Reporter, Abuja Political Economist and public intellectual, Professor Pat Utomi, has recounted his own bitter experience with the former Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, similar to Chinese firm Zhongshan, leading to the seizure of the three Nigerian presidential jets in France after a court judgment. Taking to his  X handle on Sunday, Utomi detailed how Amosun left him with a N200million debt by giving him a runaround after disregarding a contractual agreement he had with the previous state government like he did to the Chinese firm. Utomi in a lament said Amosun went ahead to deceive him despite meeting…

The Igbo community in the midwestern state of Michigan, USA, will hold its Igbo Day and the first New Yam Festival in Detroit City on Saturday, August 17. The festival will feature “authentic Igbo cuisines, masquerades, cultural music, and a cultural competition,” according to the president of the Igbo Cultural Festival of Michigan (ICAM), Gabriel Ugwu. Sponsored by Mabel Hotel in Asaba, headquarters of Nigeria’s Delta State, the 2024 ICAM will be held at the northwestern campus of the Wayne County Community College, West Detroit. “We are lucky to have as our special guest, Professor Bart Nnaji, the chairman of…

Women with disabilities seek eradication of barriers in Anambra healthcare system Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Women under the aegis of Association of Anambra State Women with Disabilities (AASWOWD) have called for the removal of barriers and discriminations that limit them from accessing reproductive health care services in the state. The call was made at Amawbia, during their 2024 Annual August Meeting tagged: “Ensuring an Accessible and Inclusive Reproductive Healthcare System for Women with Disabilities.” Speaking at the meeting, AASWOWD Chairperson,  Comrade Ncheta Nwanokwara, lamented that despite reproductive healthcare being a fundamental for all, women with disabilities have long been denied the…

Full list of abducted UNIJOS, UNIMAID medical students Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The list of 20 medical students of University of Jos, and their colleagues from University of Maiduguri abducted last Thursday, at Otukpa in Benue State on their way to Enugu State, has emerged. The victims were travelling to attend the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students Annual Convention in Enugu when the incident occured. General Secretary, University of Maiduguri Chapter of Medical Students Association, Lawrence Abwa, confirmed the list of the victims on Saturday. According him, eight of the students are from Maiduguri while others are from…

….Testify before mock tribunal Constance Meju, Port Harcourt  The push for environmental justice by highly deprived and traumatised Niger Delta community women, who are victims of pollution from oil and gas operators in the region, has deepened following a capacity building on seeking justice through legislation via a mock tribunal  conducted by a frontline women organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center. The mock tribunal conducted August 7, in Port Harcourt, witnessed presentations of petitions by aggrieved community women from four host communities seeking redress from oil majors – Agip, Shell, Total E &P – for years of unaddressed pollution…