By Samuel Prince-Nnaji Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) governorship candidate for the Anambra election, Yul Edochie, has made public his running mate. The Nollywood actor presented Emeka Okonkwo, a graduate of Mechanical and Production Engineer of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka as his running mate at a ceremony held at the Central School field,
Read MoreBy SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI The Federal High Court has ordered the Nigerian Police force and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to pay a N40m compensation to the President of Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori over his unlawful arrest and detention between February 17 and 18 2017 and March 10, and 13,
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By SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI After the ‘No victor, no vanquish’ terms of the Nigeria civil war that ended about 47 years ago, the federal government on Monday agreed to compensate the victims of the war with the sum of N88 billion for their losses. ECOWAS Community Court of Justice adopted a breakdown of
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By SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said the examination body would return unspent money to the Federal Government’s coffers. He said the controversies trailing the huge amount returned to government’s coffers this year was unnecessary. Oloyede said on Thursday that JAMB is not
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By SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI Mrs Olufumilayo Olotu, the Calabar Port Manager, has revealed that the dredging of the Calabar Channel will commence in a few weeks. She gave the assurance on Wednesday in Calabar when the management team of Calabar Port paid a courtesy visit to the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon
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By SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI In a quick response in tackling the outbreak of Monkey pox in Bayelsa State, the Government of the day on Friday set up a 12-member rapid response team consisting of top medical practitioners and public health experts to quell the epidemic. Another sub-team charged with the responsibility of preventing
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By SAMUEL PRINCE-NNAJI The Osun State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) was alleged to have on Wednesday destroyed destroyed 16.8 hectares of Indian hemp farm located in Ikoyi community in the state The Commandant of the agency, Samuel Egbeola told newsmen that the farm was destroyed on September
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By ORU LEONARD, Abuja The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) has dedicated 10 Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) to NiMet out of the 50 earmarked for the West African region. This is in fulfillment of its mandate to support countries in all areas related
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Samuel Prince-Nnaji The Igbo socio-cultural group under the aegis Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that the agitation for the restoration of Biafra is not an Igbo agenda. John Nwodo, the President general of the organisation, made this known in Umuahia, Abia state capital, at the third inauguration of the state and local government
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By CHRIS EKEKE, Abuja The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has said the invaluable health benefit of the Nigerian home grown rice cannot be overemphasized saying that it contains all the vital food nutrients that the body requires to stay healthy and strong. He said comparatively the foreign
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