The Anambra State’s Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue, on Saturday, 20th February, 2021 at Unizik Temporary Site Junction, Awka, apprehended two notorious begging syndicates using under age children to seek for alms. The two women from Nasarawa and Enugu States, with six children, four girls and two boys, were among some
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A federal high court in Abuja on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to declare Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as an illegal organization.In the ruling, Justice Inyang Ekwo, also dismissed a request to arrest, investigate and prosecute the association’s president, Professor George Obiozor and other leaders of the group for alleged contempt.Justice Ekwo said the appellant, a registered
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Indiscriminate disposal of waste in Owerri, the Imo State capital, will no longer be tolerated as the government has put in place measures to check the excesses of those who deliberately violate environmental rules with wastes they generate from the businesses with its concomitant health hazards. Specifically, the Imo State Government has frowned seriously at
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Senator Abaribe is one of those citizens who speaks out without fear or favor. He agreed to speak explicitly to Garba Shehu while speaking today as he was being questioned on Channels Television, after he reportedly claimed that Enyinnaya Abaribe stood for the chief of the Indigenous People of Biafra, MaziNnamdi Kanu, whom he considered
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Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Friday, inaugurated the 272 Special Constables from the 17 local government areas, recently recruited and trained at Oji River Police College, for Community Policing in the state. It would be recalled that Gov. Ugwuanyi, on July 9, 2020, inaugurated the 17-man Enugu State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC),
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The people of Ahiazu Mbaise local government of Imo State have commended Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state for his effort in rehabilitating impassable roads across the local governments. Newsmen visited to know the feelings of the people on the ongoing road maintenance, which were hitherto in very bad shape. Touring the strategic economic roads,
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Youths of Ogulogu Olo autonomous community in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State, through self-help effort, have embarked on the construction of a 3.7 kilometer road in the community to ameliorate the hardship their people go through on their dilapidated roads. Flagging off the road construction, the chairman, Ezeagu Council area, Chief Marius Ani
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Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-political organisation, has said no Fulani or Northerner has been given a quit notice in the South-Eastern region, contrary to widespread rumours making the rounds that herdsmen have been ordered to leave Igboland. The group also called on the elite in the North and South to “desist from inflammatory comments
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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Monday said videos making the round on social media purporting that members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were responsible for burning of houses belonging to herdsmen were not the handiwork of the separatist movement. According to Umahi, communities, rather IPOB were responsible for the acts.
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The Abia State Government has accused herders of being responsible for the various kidnapping activities in the state. The Commissioner for Information in the state, John Kalu, said this in a statement made available to journalists on Monday. He said that the Abia State Government condemned “without reservations, the activities of criminal herdsmen suspected to
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A former Commissioner for Diaspora affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism, Dr Christian Madubuko, who was declared missing after resigning his appointment with the state government, has been reportedly rescued by soldiers in Abia State. His rescue was announced via a Facebook group page, APGA Interactive Forum, by one Eneh Victor Chigozie, claiming that he
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Anambra State government says it has concluded plans with a Private firm to build an Ultra-Modern International Market at Isiagu in Awka South Local Government Area. The Market with ten thousand shops on an expanse of land of about twenty point eight hectares will be under the Private Public Partnership arrangement. Inspecting the site to
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Governor of the Ebonyi State and Chairman South-East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi, on Monday, said governors in the zone have banned open grazing and movement of cows by foot into the zone. Umahi made this known during APC stakeholder meeting held at the Christian Ecumenical Centre Abakaliki. He then enjoined leaders to exhibit patriotism in
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The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has called on governors of Sout-East states to back the Eastern Security Network (ESN) established by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), so that criminals masquerading as herdsmen could be flushed out. The OPC, in a statement issued at the weekend by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, also threw its
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The Imo State Government, led by Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has dissolved the Interim Management Committee (IMC), of the Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri after not been satisfied by their performance, In a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), J. O. Njoku made available to The Guardian yesterday, the
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