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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Activities at the four campuses of Ebonyi State University (EBSU) were completely crippled on Thursday as all workers in the institution embarked on indefinite strike. The University Joint Action Committee locked all the entrance gates to the campuses and placed an inscription on them announcing to staff, students and visitors that they were on strike. The students and staff who came to school turned back and returned to their homes. A strike monitoring committee was on hand to ensure compliance. The Joint Action Committees of Trade Union (JACTU) said the decision was taken to press home their…
By Azu Ishiekwene It started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction. Later, he vowed revenge. Not in a pound of flesh, but by venturing to make his own success where he had been ambushed. At issue was the decision of the government of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 to reverse the sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna Refineries (two of Nigeria’s moribund refineries) to Blue Star, the Dangote-led consortium. Blue Star had paid about $670million for the plants in the twilight of the Obasanjo administration, and gone…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka An European Investment Bank has offered to assist Anambra State Government in tackling over one thousand erosion sites in the State. Ikengaonline reports that the Commissioner for Environment, Engineer Felix Odimegwu, disclosed this while speaking to journalists after the assessment of the 2023 budget performance of the Ministry of Environment by Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation in Awka. Engineer Odimegwu who enumerated efforts of the Ministry towards achieving the clean, green and sustainable Anambra initiative of Governor Chukwuma Soludo revealed that by July this year, the European Investment Bank will assist the state…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Anambra State Government has vowed to scale up efforts at stemming the tide of child trafficking, child abuse, and other crimes against children in the State. Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, disclosed this in Awka, Wednesday. She also said that the state government is working towards ensuring that there is no hiding place for such acts and other obnoxious practices against women in the State. Mrs Obinabo who disclosed that undiscovered child breeding centers still exist in the State and that her office presently has a lot of cases, maintained that…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has said it will soon embark on massive enforcement of compulsory insurance cover for residents of the South-East geopolitical zone. Mr Cliff Chukwuani, Head, South-East Zonal Office, NAICOM, said this in Enugu, adding that the idea was one way of making the people of the region to register for insurance cover. Chukwuani added that the enforcement was part of its core mandate to ensure that Nigerians abide by its compulsory insurances as stipulated under Insurance Act 2003. He explained that the compulsory insurances were those made mandatory by the Nigerian law, and urged…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Sen. Ayogu Eze (Enugu) and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). This followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs at plenary on Wednesday. Others confirmed as Federal Commissioners of RMAFC included; Peter Opara (Imo) Hauwa Umar Aliyu (Jigawa), Rakiya Tanko Haruna (Kebbi). Also confirmed were Ismail Mohammed (Kwara) and Kolade Abimbola (Oyo). Senate also at plenary confirmed the appointment of Mr Abdu Abubakar as Non-Executive Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). His…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia British Senior Court of Appeal Judge, Lord Justice Lewis, has granted permission to the family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to appeal an unfavourable court judgment against the British Government. Kanu’s family had earlier sued the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO for abandoning Kanu, a British citizen who was “abducted and illegally renditioned from Kenya and detained illegally in a solitary confinement since 2021.” But a British High Court in an unconventional ruling on 23 March 2023, dismissed the Kanu family’s claim for judicial review of the…
The Whistleblowing Advocacy Coalition (WAC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for transmitting the draft whistleblower protection bill approved by the Federal Executive Council last December to the National Assembly for further consideration and passage before the end of this administration. The coalition notes that a whistleblowing protection law for Nigeria is long overdue, being a conversation that has been on among different interest groups over the last two decades, and more importantly given that the whistleblowing policy which has been in operation for more than six years is not backed by a legal framework that should strengthen implementation and boost…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police operatives in Anambra, Tuesday, foiled an armed robbery attack targeted at a commercial bank at Ihiala, Ihiala Local Government Area of the State. Ikengaonline gathered that the hoodlums stormed Nkwo market, Ihiala around 12 pm, disrupting commercial activities and vehicular movement going on in the area. It also learnt that the gunmen arrived the area on motorbikes and shot sporadically in an attempt to rob a bank located in the area but were dislodged by security operatives in the area. Confirming the incident in a statement, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the…
Our Reporter, New York The White House Correspondent for Today News Africa in Washington DC, Simon Ateba, has said that the major challenge confronting Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency will be rebuilding Nigeria’s international reputation. The Cameroonian-born journalist spoke during an interview with 90Minutes Africa hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo on Sunday. Ateba said that though the election that produced Tinubu as President-Elect was far from perfect, the nation would have to move on after the likely swearing-in of Tinubu on May 29 so that he will begin rebuilding the reputation of the country. “The question is, he has been elected and is likely to…