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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in Enugu State has suspended its 30 days old strike. The president of the Union, Mr Kenneth Ugwueze, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Enugu. Recall that local government workers in the state had on July 28, 2022 proceeded on strike following the inability of the government to pay the N30, 000 minimum wage to workers in that tier of government. However, Ugwueze said that the industrial action was suspended after due negotiations with the local government chairmen and other critical stakeholders. The NULGE president said that the…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Ebonyi State Government and serving Councillors in the 171 wards in the 13 Local Government Areas of the state have disagreed over the recent court ruling which annulled the recently held council elections in the state. This is as the State Government has vowed to go ahead with the swearing-in of new councillors and chairmen for the councils and wards. The state House of Assembly had reduced the tenure of Council Chairmen from three years to two years paving the way for fresh elections in the councils. But some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had gone…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer than two hundred persons have been arrested and tried for flouting Anambra state environmental laws. The individuals were arrested and tried at Magistrate Court, Awka and other mobile courts that sat in different parts of Awka. Their arrests were as a result of failure to participate in the August edition of the monthly sanitation exercise, which is carried out every last Saturday of the month. Those found guilty were either fined or compelled to perform one community service, or both. The state-wide sanitation exercise was remarkable as enforcement was intensified in many parts of the state and…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Lecturers of Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra State, on Monday protested over six years unpaid allowances, warning the provost and management of the institution to stop intimidating their members over the development. The chairman, FCET Umunze chapter of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Dr Churchill Okonkwo, led the protest. It was reported that the lecturers had about a week ago declared a three-week warning strike against the management of the college, asking parents to withdraw their children and wards from the college in their own interests. But the management of the college in…
Our Reporter, Abuja Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit instituted by the Federal Government seeking to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP, Abba Kyari to the United States of America. The Judge in a judgment on Monday held that the extradition request filed by the Attorney General of the Federation AGF on behalf of the Federal Government lacked merit. The Federal Government filed the extradition charges against Kyari to pave way for his extradition to the US to answer fraud allegations there. Justice Ekwo, however, held that the Federal Government…
By Owei Lakemfa The year 2018 was one of self-examination for Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari who flew in on the wings of change had been in power for three years and the situation had simply become far worse. The inflation rate when he came in was 9.01 per cent, shooting up to 15.68 per cent the following year, and 16.52 in 2017. Virtually all the over 165 integrated special schools for the Almajiri out-of-school children established by his predecessor had been closed. The government had deliberately exacerbated the ethno-religious challenges in the country by appointing almost all the security chiefs…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Armed youths suspected to be thugs of one of the governorship candidates from Old Aba division, Sunday disrupted the on-going free medical outreach by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Professor Greg Ibe. The fierce-looking violent youths armed with weapons, prevented the 50-man team of medics sent by Prof. Ibe from gaining entry into the Abayi Council Hall, venue of the free medical and surgical outreach. They claimed that they had earlier booked the venue for a celebration of New Yam festival but upon inquiries, it was gathered that the said event by the…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As intrigues and political re-alignments over the 2023 polls continue across the country, the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has declared that he has no preferred candidate but national agenda to push. The ex-President who stated this in Minna on Sunday when he visited former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, said he is concerned about pushing an agenda that would benefit Nigeria most. According to him, “I don’t have a special candidate, I have a national agenda.” On why he was in Minna, Obasanjo said he came to visit the former Head of State who had been indisposed. Obasanjo…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Monarchs in Anambra State have declared their commitment to eradicating norms and practices encouraging violence against women and the girl child in the state. Their resolution was made known in a communique they issued at the end of a one-day multi-stakeholder strategic conference organised by Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL) in collaboration with the Anambra State Ministry of Local Government Area and Chieftaincy Affairs. The communique signed by the Secretary of the Council on behalf of the Council Members condemned violence against women and the girl child in the various communities and assured their hard-work and collaboration in eliminating the harmful practices. The…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Suspected gunman have invaded a hotel, popularly known as “Galaxy” in Isu community, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and killed three persons. Mr Igwe Nwaokorie, a resident in the area, told reporters on Sunday in Abakaliki that the incident happened on Thursday Night. Nwaokorie said that among the three persons killed were the owner of the hotel, Ogbonnaya Nwadibia, also known as “Galaxy” and two others. “The incident occurred in the night of Thursday, August 25. The suspect came with motorcycles armed, and about three of them and entered the hotel. “Before we could know what was…