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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Nigerian Union Teachers (NUT), Enugu State chapter has called on the State Government to implement, in full, the N30,000 minimum wage to its members. The Chairman of NUT in the state, Mr Theophilus Odo, made the demand during the celebration of the 2022 World Teachers Day in Enugu. Odo lamented the poor working conditions of teachers in Enugu State. He stated that, apart from the non-implementation of 30,000 minimum wage, the teachers were faced with other numerous challenges. He called on the State Government to immediately, release all outstanding promotions and payment of terminal benefits to retired teachers in…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State High Court Abakaliki Division, has sentenced a man, Lucky Godwin,  to death by hanging for stabbing a woman to death inside a hotel room in Abakaliki, the state capital. He also stole a baby belonging to the deceased after stabbing her to death in a hotel and sold the two year old baby girl in Akwukabi, Etche, Rivers State. The accused was said to have brought the deceased and her 2 year old child from Enugu State and lodged them at Crown Garden Hotel, Abakaliki. He allegedly killed the woman with a knife provided for him by the hotel…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Abakaliki Division  of the Federal High Court sitting on Wednesday, affirmed the former leader of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Honourable Joseph Nwobasi, as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency in the 2023 general election. In a judgment delivered by Justice Fatun Riman, the Court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish the name of the Plaintiff, Mr Nwobasi as the candidate of APC for Ezza North/Ishielu Federal Constituency. The Court agreed with the plaintiff that Edwin Nwonu who is the incumbent member,…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A 37-year old woman has been arrested for allegedly flogging a three-year old child to death in Anambra State. The suspect, Udeogu Chinelo, was apprehended by the operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command on Wednesday. A report by NAPTIP Anambra State command said the suspect was apprehended when she visited an unnamed primary school in Awka, where the victim was enrolled, to collect back the school fee she paid for the deceased. The report signed by the Public Relations Officer, Anthony Okafor, said “a female suspect was…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu They no longer make politicians like Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, otherwise known as KO, the man of timber and calibre. The bombastic man from Arondizuogu in present-day Imo State had more poetic license oozing out of his political agbada than all the poets of the world writing in English language. On a fine morning, after greeting KO, you are likely to get this reply: “Let all cementers cement all cementables!” When one poor journalist hailed KO by way of his favourite mantra as “a man of timber and calibre,” the irrepressible politician announced that he had grown…

By Cheta Nwanze A few months ago, the governor of Kaduna State, in his typically blunt manner, said that Lagosians should get a free pass to heaven because they live in hell on earth. His exact words: “I don’t know how people in Lagos survive. Everyday, four hours in traffic for five days. I don’t know if Saturdays and Sundays are enough for them to rest. That is why I feel that all those that have lived in Lagos for 20 years should just go straight to heaven because they have already lived in hell. Honestly, they have paid their dues…

A Federal High Court in Lagos today granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to proceed with its  the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for refusing to disclose details of payments of license fees by broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria and the amount owed the Commission by stations as license fees. Justice Ambrose Lewis Alagoa paved the way for the suit to proceed upon a preliminary motion brought by MRA’s lawyer, Mr. Alimi Adamu, asking the Court to grant the organization leave to mount a legal challenge to NBC’s failure to provide it with the information it requested through a…

By Maxwell Ngene INTRODUCTION There is no disputing the fact that we now live in an era of enlightened media audiences. The seeming heightened level of knowledge or enlightenment of media audiences is a consequence of their access and exposure to the mass media and the accompanying technological innovations. Technological developments have increased our range of choices-from the number of broadcast or cable channels we can select to the publications we can read that cater specifically to our individual interests and needs (Alexander & Hanson 1997: 1). From the expert opinion offered by these scholars, it is obvious that media…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) in collaboration with Nigerian Export Processing Council (NEPC) has carried out a One-Day training programme for 100 entrepreneurs in Enugu State In his keynote address, the Director General of SMEDAN, Mr Olawale Fasanya, said that the training was aimed at impacting them with entrepreneurship and export facilitation skills. He said the Federal Government realizes the importance of export economies as well as the strategic role MSMEs play towards job creation; wealth creation; and poverty alleviation. According to him, export economies across the world now depends on efficient export…

By Jude Eze “When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.” – James McGreevey The sensibility of an average Nigerian voter has been serially wounded by untoward grandstanding of our political elites that it beggars question if there is anything the people would ever consider offensive to their psyche again. The elites prey on the naivety of the masses and their gullible tendencies, just to…