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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka  Traders in Ajassa Market Onitsha have called on Anambra State Government to come and prevail over unidentified groups that continuously storm the market to collect inexplicable levies from them.  The traders explained that the unknown persons claimed that they were sent by the State Government for collection of revenue.  The traders told officials of the state Ministry of Commerce and Industry who were invited by the market Chairman, Mr Chima Ohia, also that people from Ose are claiming ownership of Ajassa area. “Traders of Ajassa have been in existence and have occupied the market since 1960 and…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The President, Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Prof. Mohammed Ajiya, alongside other panelists, Tuesday, called for investments in capacity development as a way of building digital economy in Nigeria. The call was made at a workshop in Abuja with discussion on the development of digital skills and complementary capabilities in the country’s digital economy. A statement by the Head of Public Affairs Unit, Digital Bridge Institute, Akin Ogunlade, said the panelists unraveled facts beyond the surface of digital economy at International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Technical Workshop on Building Capabilities for Sustainable and Inclusive Digital Transformation…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra residents who benefited from the free Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) mass campaign by Malaria Consortium have called on government to adopt use of technological devices in distribution of resources in the state. Respondents bared their minds in separate interviews with Ikengaonline, during a visit to fast check how the ITNs distribution was executed across the 21 Local Government Areas in Anambra state. Malaria Consortium, an International Non-governmental Organisation, had embarked on free distribution of 3.8 million ITNs across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state, a measure aimed at eliminating the malaria scourge. The material was shared on…

Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has decried the condition of workers in parastatal agencies of Enugu State government. The Chairman, AUPCTRE, Enugu State Council, Mr Timothy Ojielo, disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu during the State Delegates Conference of the association. According to Ojielo, most of the parastatal agencies of the state government have no scheme and condition of service, thereby, their workers are not scheduled for pension. “It is regrettable that the situation in the state is now both systemic and endemic. Hence, no amount of demonstrations…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State House of Assembly has reportedly lost another sitting lawmaker barely three months after the loss of member representing Aguata II constituency, Hon Okechukwu Okoye, in the hands of kidnappers. Yet-to-be-confirmed reports currently trending online have it that the Majority Leader of Anambra State House Of Assembly and Member representing Awka South Constituency 1, Hon. Nnamdi Okafor collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday. The reports have it that Hon. Okafor slumped in a hotel at Sandton City Johannesburg, South Africa, and was confirmed dead hours later. As at the time of filing this report, the cause of Hon.…

Our Reporter, New York Veteran journalist and author, Sonala Olumhense says that the government of Muhammadu Buhari has failed because the president thought he could govern by issuing directives as he did as a military Head of State. The journalist made the remarks while fielding questions at the online interview programme 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah on Sunday. General Muhammadu Buhari was elected president in 2015, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan whom many Nigerians accused of corruption. Buhari promised to eliminate corruption, revamp the economy and defeat the Boko Haram terrorist group ravaging the North-East. But seven years later…

Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The four Catholic church Reverend Sisters who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen last Sunday at Okigwe-Umulolo axis in Okigwe local government area of Imo State were on Tuesday freed. The Secretary-General of Sisters of Jesus The Saviour (Generalate), Zita Ihedoro, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri. The freed Reverend sisters were kidnapped on their way to a thanks-given mass of one of their colleagues. The names of the sisters include; sisters Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu. According to Sister Ihedoro,  “With hearts full of joy the Sisters of Jesus the Saviour wish to announce the unconditional…

By Jude Eze “De mortuis nihil nisi bene” (say nothing but good about the dead) – ancient Latin adage Of late, there has been an upward trajectory in the spate of social media backlash over lies being told of the dead in funeral eulogies and farewell tributes, especially among elites (VIPs and Celebrities). One of the smileys read “live a just life so that we don’t have to lie in your funeral oration.” Because the world had inordinately became obsessed with that medieval Latin adage cited in the opening quote of this piece; every dead man is by default, deemed a…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Member representing Orumba South and North Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, has disclosed the main reason he decamped from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to later join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Hon Ezenwankwo, earlier this year around April, announced his defection to PDP after he was said to have had a stint at the All Progressives Congress (APC), which he joined after he failed to win APGA primary ticket for the November 6, 2021, governorship election in the state. Speaking to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, recently, Hon Ezenwankwo said his decision to dump the ruling party…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, will build a modern rehabilitation center for people with substance abuse disorder in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, announced this while performing the inauguration  of the state technical  working group for adolescent health and development at Jerome Udorji State Secretariat, Awka. The technical working group in the state Ministry of Health is an inter-ministerial committee that identifies and implements programmes aimed at addressing challenges facing adolescent health and development in the state. Members of the group are drawn from the academic community, the media, line ministries and agencies, civil society organisations,…