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As the yuletide draws closer, the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC) has renewed its stride in sensitizing its customers on the need to be more vigilant during the season as activities of vandals is on the rise, a situation that if not checked will result to customers being subjected to darkness during the festive period. Recounting that over 20 vandals were apprehended within its network between the month of October and November, 2021. The warning was made by the Head of Corporate Communications, EEDC, Mr. Emeka Ezeh while interacting with newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday, following the arrest of two suspected vandals on Friday by the vigilante team of Nri, in Aniocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspects, identified as Ugochukwu Nweri and Eugene Azali were arrested for vandalising the Ugwuokporo D7 distribution substation located at Agukwu Nri.  Having lifted the transformer from the plinth, the duo went ahead to drain the oil, cut some parts of the upriser and...

  .....Vows to deal with corrupt officials  The sector commander of the FRSC in Anambra, Mr. Adeoye Irelepwuyi has hinted on the move to deploy surveillance cameras for effective patrol in the state. He made this known while addressing Newsmen at the command headquarters in Awka Anambra state.  He said when deployed the surveillance cameras will go a long way to protect their personnel and road users as well, as it will transmit real time to the command headquarters in Abuja.  In the same vein, the sector commander stated that the FRSC was  set up as an agency against corruption and stated that the arms of the law will deal decisively with any of it's personnel found culpable. Furthermore he said that in the past 7 months of his assumption of duty as the Sector Commander Anambra State, the Command had grappled with several challenges which hindered their operations.  However, during this period, he said that the Command collaborated with other agencies to c...

The State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo State chapter ably led by *Hon. Macdonald Kelechi Ebere, PhD, KSJ,* has received with joy and satisfaction the news of the official recognition of  the Kingsley Ozumba ( K.O ) Mbadiwe University by National Universities Commission (NUC) as Imo State Government owned University. At the official presentation ceremony, which took place at the National Secretariat of NUC in Abuja, our dynamic and result-driven governor, His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, was presented with the letter of recognition and operational license of the institution, by the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, making it the 42 State-owned university and 143 university in Nigeria. This development underscores the Governor's dispassionate commitment to the recovery of all public and private properties illegally converted to personal uses by public office holders, in line with the policy t...

The Honorable Minister of State Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba yesterday in Kaduna represented H.E Muhammad Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Kaduna Centre for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations. The Centre is the brain child of The Most Reverend Josiah Idowu-Fearson. It is hoped that the Centre through its activities will help eradicate religious crisis in the nation by teaching the younger generation to see other religions from a world view, to be more tolerant towards one another. Delivering his speech, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba commended Rev Idowu-Fearson for dedicating his life to this noble cause, while calling on citizens of Nigeria to imbibe tolerance towards one another. He stated that ignorance is a major factor that keeps pushing us back." It is through proper education about people, their ways and history that we begin to appreciate the many things that we have in common." The event was graced by ...

By Engr. Chris Amadi  +2348109558218 Senator Hope Uzodinma had gone to school to pick Prof. Placid Njoku as a running mate in the 2019 gubernatorial election, Imo State. As a principal partner in the election, political players and observers had expected Prof. Njoku to lead the party, or galvanise it, or contribute his own quota to its victory. And that he would start by recording a rounding victory in his immediate constituency, Ikeduru LGA. Does "charity" not begin at home? But, to the erudite professor, that was not to be. Infact, the reverse was just to be. On the election day proper, Prof. Njoku was to be roundly defeated by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in his Ikeduru LGA beginning with his own polling booth. His unpopular outing and candidacy, like gangrene, festered and culminated to a convincing defeat of APC in all the breaths and lengths of Owerri Senatorial District.  The rude shock was that on the said election day, the academic professor was nowhere ne...

The attention of the Honourable Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Imo State has been drawn to the malicious, procured and orchestrated news item being circulated by media outfits suggesting that the Honourable Attorney General of Imo State is subverting Justice in a case of child trafficking for which he has been summoned by a Magistrate Court for explanation. We are also aware that this is a fall out of a Press Conference granted by one Igboayaka O. Igboayaka of the acclaimed Ohaneze Youth Council, who made the erroneous and unfounded allegations against the Chief Law officer of Imo State. While the Attorney General is not surprised over the continued evil orchestration against his person by opposition elements with parochial intent to serve, he is however surprised that responsible media establishments could go to town with such false and malicious news without first seeking clarification from the office of the Attorney General. It is important to note that the office of ...

The Honorable Minister of state for Education,Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has called for sustainable solutions in tackling the many challenges bedeviling the country as a way out of the many problems we have today in Nigeria. He made this call at the 33rd convocation ceremony of the federal university of technology (FUTO).    He stressed that apart from producing skilled manpower, which is rhe bedrock for providing sustainable solutions to challenges confronting us as a nation.  The Honorable Minister charged the citadel of learning to take the lead in championing researches that are germane in solving specific societal problems. He reiterated Federal Government's readiness to improve the standard of education by increasing research funding to the tune of #8.6b under his watch as the Executive Chairman of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFUND. Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba however urged universities to make good use of these funds as well as collaborating with research insti...

The Honorable Minister of State Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba today 27th November 2021, presided over the 5th & 6th Combined Convocation of the Federal University Dutsin Ma, Katsina State. While congratulating the graduands and the staff of the University, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba charged them to make good use of what they have learnt not just for their own benefit but also for that of the society they find themselves in. The Minister also commissioned some lecture blocks and the University Farm, where he expressed his delight with the school's ability to look inward and produce what the eat as well as sling to the public.  He encouraged students to take advantage of all platforms created by the Federal government to boost entrepreneurship and diversification from crude oil. Present at the event was the Emir of Katsina and the Amayanabo of Opobo King Dandeson D. Jaja

In fulfillment of an agreed memorandum, the Imo State Government through the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC), has released the counterpart fund of N114million for the Projects by WATERSMITH PETROMAN LTD in some Oil Producing Communities of the State. Prior to the release, the critical Stakeholders from all the affected Communities held series of meetings where it was resolved that the Money should be channelled to other Projects that will help in alleviating the sufferings of the People since some other Oil Companies Operating in the areas have taken over the Electrification of the Communities. Part of the projects includes the provision of adequate security of lives and properties in the area and to this, security check posts, operational vehicles and other necessities to facilitate an improved security network in these areas. HRH Eze Emmanuel Assor, the Eze of Assa Autonomous Community who handed the Patrol Vehicles over to the Imo State Police Commiss...

Given the recent scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS), commonly known as ''fuel" in Nigeria, Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a pro-democracy, human and environmental rights advocacy group calls on the federal government and its Corporation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC to desist, at least in the time being, from any act capable of causing increase in the price of the essential item (oil), including hoarding.  This fear, FENRAD says, becomes even more palpable after the product recently became scarce Some weeks ago FENRAD recalls that there was a plot to increase the price of the product to over ₦380 allegedly by the Governors Forum which the NNPC did not accept then, a plot which now becomes relatable whenever the position on oil subsidy removal is made. Also, the Corporation's group managing director had hinted at possible deregulation or total subsidy removal in March during the fifth edition of the so-call...