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Stephen Ukandu, News/Features Editor The Federal Government, Friday, inaugurated National Council on Animal Welfare, NCAW. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar said the Council was inaugurated to provide clear road-map for successful implementation of animal welfare policies and programmes. Membership of the Council was drawn from the military, para-military, veterinary Teaching Hospitals, Deans of Faculties of Veterinary Institutes in Nigeria, among others. The Minister charged members of the Council to ensure regulation of animal welfare in Nigeria in tandem with global best practices. This is coming less than two months herdsmen allegedly killed a ‘bus conductor’ in Lagos after two…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Anambra State Government has assured the people of the state that there would be equitable distribution of mosquito-treated nets in the state. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, gave the assurance in Awka at a media orientation on insecticide treated nets distribution by the government in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), Malaria Consortium (MC) and Give Well Open Philanthropic funding. Speaking at the event, Obidike, represented by the Head of Department, Public Health and Disease Control, Afam Anaeme, said there would be no case of political interference in the exercise. According to Obidike, over 3.8…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sought to know why South-East Governors and political elite have decided to shy away from talks concerning his brother. He also expressed dismay at the tactful avoidance of comments on a serious issue like the existential security threat posed by the menacing activities of herdsmen in the zone. Kanunta who spoke at Ikengaonline virtual town hall meeting, regretted that instead of boldly championing the cause of the zone, South-East Governors and political elite have rather chosen to be taciturn for…
By Owei Lakemfa In Nigeria, there are people who traditionally rejoice at the prospect of war. They are uncomfortable when there are no wars or new territories to conquer, plunder or destabilise. The United States establishment has this same psychological make-up. It appears allergic to peace, and as one conflict drags to a bloody close, it is instigating a new one. The US, since its painful birth by its surrogate British mother which it turned round to fight, has been perpetually at war. In fact, since its 1777 independence, it has been at war for 90 per cent of the time.…
Michael Onwuka, Enugu A former Nigerian High Commissioner to India, Maj.-Gen. Chris Eze (rtd.), from Udenu Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu State, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Eze disclosed this in a letter dated Aug. 4, 2022, addressed to the Chairman, APC, Udunedem Ward in Udenu LGA and made available to newsmen on Friday in Enugu. The retired major general said that his decision to quit the party was due to the controversy that had trailed the nomination of the party’s flag-bearers in the 2023 presidential election. Eze, who was the first elected secretary of…
By Law Mefor An obituary is for the dead, not for the living. So, no matter how one looks at Sam Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’ on Peter Obi and the movement Obi’s entry into the 2023 presidential race has become, it is all about a death wish. It rhymes with nothing else. Yes, death for the Peter Obi movement and possibly for its progenitor, Peter Obi himself is Omatseye’s underlying deep psychological wish. To clear the doubts, a death wish is a desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, toward whom one has unconscious and terminal hostility. Out of the abundance…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The Archbishop, Province of the Niger, Most Reverend Alexander Ibezim, has blamed over-reliance on prayers as the major factor contributing to the loss of talents in Nigeria. He decried that Christians no longer work hard due to the belief that God through fervent prayers can enrich humanity and make man prosper. The Archbishop who is also the Anglican Bishop of Awka Diocese made this known while laying the foundation stone in commemoration of his 60th birthday at Mary Summer Vocational Institute, Awka, the Anambra State capital on Thursday. Delivering his homily at the event, the Archbishop told Christians to…
By Osmund Agbo On May 2, 2011, a few minutes past 1:00 a.m. Pakistan Standard Time, a US Navy SEAL Team Six left the Bagram Air Base, in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan and headed for the compound of a high value target in Abbottabad, Pakistan located just a few miles away from that nation’s Military Academy. It was an operation that lasted for precisely 38 minutes, following which, U.S. forces returned to Afghanistan with the slain body of Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, a Sunni Islamic extremist global network, composed of Salafist jihadists. The raid was code-named Operation…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo state Police Command on Thursday said it had gunned down an alleged serial killer and crime kingpin, one Osita Ogbuiri ‘male’ aka Shina Rambo, a native of Mmahu in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State at a boundary between Abia and Cross River State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Michael Abattam, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. The Police said Shina Rambo, was serving life imprisonment until he (Shina Rambo) among others escaped from the Owerri jailbreak, April, last year since and then has been on the wanted list of the police for allegedly killing, a town union president, Charles Mgbarahu, ‘male’…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, has disclosed the reason the Federal Government of Nigeria has refused to release leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, despite advice from the United Nations. The United Nations working group, in one of their opinions, had condemned the continued detention of Kanu and had called on the Nigerian government to release him unconditionally. Despite the call by the international organization, the Nigeria Government has been adamant. The development has also triggered reactions from Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora. In a recent exclusive interview with…