…as communities pledge massive votes, dismiss opposition …We have adopted you sole as sole guber candidate – Igwe Agubuzu In his determination to reposition the economy of the state and make it less dependent on the monthly federal allocations when he wins in the March 11, 2023 general election, the governorship candidate of the Peoples … [Read more…]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Suzman, has announced that it will spend $8.3 billion in 2023 to continue its work fighting poverty, disease and inequity. He also shared examples of how the Foundation uses its resources, voice, and convening power to call attention to and help find solutions for problems … [Read more…]
Banks have informed customers through text messages that these channels can no longer be used to access cash for the time being. In compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) currency redesign and cash withdrawal policy that limited withdrawals across all channels to N500,000 weekly, banks have suspended further cash disbursement via customers’ Naira … [Read more…]
Frank Nweke Jr, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, on Monday, January 16, 2023, restated his commitment to the welfare of retiree workers and pensioners in Enugu State. He said this while interacting with residents of Ugwu Aaron, a hilltop settlement, located off Aria Road, G.R.A, Enugu, on Monday evening. Responding … [Read more…]
The unions appealed to the government to pay their withheld salaries, saying their members were not on strike with ASUU last year. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has presented certificates of registration to the Congress Of University Academics (CONUA) and the National Association Of Medical And Dental Academics (NAMDA), two breakaway labour … [Read more…]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has hinted that talks with his political allies in the G5 on the preferred presidential candidate to support in the February 25 election will soon be concluded. The governor also said the 2023 elections is a fight to finish. Wike spoke on Tuesday during a rally of the Rivers State … [Read more…]
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Peter Mbah has sent his sympathies to the victims of the fire incident which gutted many shops and goods worth millions of naira at Agu Nwede Plaza, Agbani Road, Gariki-Awkunanaw in Enugu metropolis. In a statement issued by his media office on Tuesday, the governorship … [Read more…]
With barely three days after Reverend Isaac Achi of the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Kafin Koro Deanery was gruesomely murdered by yet to be identified gunmen in Kaffin-koro, Paikoro local government area of Niger state, some angry youths on Tuesday morning set the Kafin-koro police station ablaze. The Police was also said to … [Read more…]
About 15 shops with goods worth millions of naira have been completely razed down at Agbani Road, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened on Monday night. The affected shops were situated at Agu Nwede Plaza, Agbani Road, Gariki-Awkunanaw in Enugu metropolis. Eyewitnesses told our correspondent … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has maintained that the Permanent Voters Cards, PVC, is a critical document in the forthcoming general elections and registered voters yet to collect theirs before the deadline would not be allowed to vote. The Commission explained before the Abuja division of the Federal High Court that PVC is critical … [Read more…]
The intervention of one of the Service Chiefs yesterday saved Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Mr. Godwin Emefiele, from arrest upon return to Nigeria from his annual vacation abroad. This is coming at a time the Directorate of State Services (DSS) denied ever storming the CBN headquarters to arrest Emefiele, with the … [Read more…]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and commodities increased by 5.72 per cent to 21.34 per cent year on year in December compared to 15.63 per cent in December 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated yesterday. Month-on-month inflation also rose to 1.71 per cent … [Read more…]