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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Oraifite Community in Anambra State has pledged to give full support and special assistance to the raising of quintuplets delivered at Life International Hospital Awka, recently. The babies were delivered by 28-year-old Mrs. Chidinma Amaechi who is a wife to Mr. Tochukwu Amaechi, an indigene of Umunakwa Ifite Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area, Anambra State. Mrs. Amaechi who finished her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mid-last year, gave birth after almost a decade of marriage to Amaechi who is an Onitsha-based petty trader. But what was supposed to be a blessing seemingly turned out a nightmare for…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Piqued by the controversial anti-imigration bill against medical doctors in Nigeria, the umbrella body of Nigerian medical doctors and dentists practising outside the country,  the Diaspora Medical Associations, has petitioned the National Assembly over the ‘toxic’ bill. The controversial bill seeks to compel medical and dental graduates to render five-year compulsory services within Nigeria before being granted full licence to practise. But the Nigeria doctors in the diaspora consider the bill obnoxious and in bad taste. Their letter entitled ‘Re: A position statement from diaspora medical associations – Bill seeking to restrict newly-qualified medical doctors and dentists…

Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in the just concluded 2023 general election, Dr Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, have asked the election petitions Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Capital, to mandate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return issued to the Governor-Elect, Right Honourable Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, on the ground of non-qualification. They also asked the Tribunal to declare Dr Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, the winner of the election and return him as the elected Governor of Ebonyi State in the March 18, governorship election. These were some of the prayers…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Enugu State Multi-Door CourtHouse (ESMDC) has held a workshop for Ogbete Market traders on the need to embrace Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as the best way to settle disputes. The Workshop took place inside the Ogbete Main Market Traders Association (OMMTA) with the theme, “Nabata Udo.” In her opening remarks, the Director ESMDC, Mrs Caroline Nene Etuk, said that the CourtHouse came into existence in 2018 under Former Chief Judge, Precilia Emehelu. She said the programme offers a variety of ADR processes with the mission of providing speedy, cost-effective and user-friendly access to justice through ADR mechanism. The Director said that the…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Soldiers from the 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu in the early hours of Wednesday stormed a Retired Colonel’s House, Col. Emeka Ugwuoke, and ejected him out of his apartment at an Estate in Trans Ekulu, area of Enugu State. It was learnt that the heavily armed  soldiers invaded the house at about 1:15am on Wednesday and rough handled the wife and the children before throwing them out of the apartment without a court injunction. The troops suspected to be acting on directives of General Officer Commanding, GOC, Nigeria Army, 82 Dvision, Enugu, Major General, Aminu Chinade, destroyed the properties and threw them…

By Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, on Wednesday, emerged as the governorship candidate of the PDP, for Imo gubernatorial election on November 11, 2023. Anyanwu’s emergence was announced by the chairman of the seven-man panel of the election led by Kenneth Okon, at the venue of the primary, the state secretariat of the PDP at  Okigwe Road, Owerri. According to Okon, “Anyanwu who is the sole aspirant for the election polled 802 votes which had 915 members as accredited delegates.” Reacting, Senator Anyanwu, said: “I appreciate Emeka Ihedioha for his sacrifice, his sacrifice for…

 Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Labour Party has raised the alarm over how its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was harassed, questioned and detained by the United Kingdom’s Immigration authorities during the Easter holidays over offences believed to have been committed by an impostor. LP Presidential Campaign Council, which disclosed this on Wednesday, said that but for the swift reactions and uproar by Nigerians at the Heathrow Airport where the embarrassment took place, Obi would not have been left off the hook. The LP PCCC, in a statement by the Head of the Obi-Datti media team, Diran Onifade, said Obi was detained…

Our Reporter, Abuja with Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Africa’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has knocked Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka over his critical stance on the comment by the Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed which he (Soyinka) described as “fascist.” Adichie also also had a line or two in subtle reply to the avalanche of criticisms of his open letter to the United States President, Joe Biden, by the spokespersons and some supporters of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. The prolific writer who featured on Arise Television programme, said she had  a lot of respect for…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The construction firm handling the reconstruction of Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal road, Heartland Construction Company, has blamed the slow pace of work on the road on scarcity of bitumen and diesel. Project Manager of the company, Hisham Yassin, who disclosed this while fielding questions from newsmen during an inspection tour of the project by the Member representing Ikwuano-Umuahia federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Sam Onuigbo, said that shortage of construction materials had been the major setback for the N13.3 billion project. Umuahia-Ikoto Ekpene federal road serves as the major link between Akwa Ibom and Cross River States…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia At last, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has admitted that its presidential candidate and the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, truly forfeited the sum of $460,000 to the Government of the United States of America, in 1993 following a drug trafficking allegation. The admittance was in response to the petition by Peter Obi of the Labour Party at the Election Petition Tribunal. Obi who came third at the February 25 presidential poll according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the contest,…