Justice Fred Njemanze of the Imo State High Court, Owerri, has ordered an interim forfeiture of all the properties illegally acquired by a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, who was in office from 2011 to 2019. The order Read more…
Month: February 2021
Amid a slow vaccine rollout in the European Union, several of the bloc’s member states say they were contacted by middlemen who offered to sell them some 900 million doses of Covid-19 jabs, EU anti-fraud agency OLAF has revealed. The “alleged Read more…
The Acting Chief Medical Director of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Dr. Ugboaja Joseph, has been promoted to an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The University Senate made the announcement during its meeting held on Wednesday, 24th February Read more…
By Cmrd Uzo Jiagbogu As Nnewi Crown Prince, PG Nzukora Nnewi (Ifeneti), others supervise the medical activities of Nauth perm-site. Following the tenure expiration of Prof. Anthony Igwegbe as the Chief Medical Director of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi Read more…
A former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has said that the governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma, was attacking him out of “hatred and vendetta.” Okorocha, in a statement issued in Owerri the state capital on Wednesday by his Read more…
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has pleaded with Fulani herders not to carry AK-47 riffles but remain peaceful. The governor, who made the plea in his speech at the launch of the 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign held at the Read more…
The first daughter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Fatimah Abubakar has denied media reports that she revalidated her membership with the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former commissioner for health in Adamawa State in a statement said the report Read more…
The Benin monarch, Ewuare II, on Wednesday, approved the appointment of Mr Igbinoghodua Edebiri as the new presiding priest of Holy Aruosa Cathedral, Benin. The approval of the new Ohen-Osa of Benin national church by the Oba is sequel to Read more…
…Says Everything Must Not Be Party Affairs Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted the Senate for confirming Ex-Service Chiefs as Ambassadorial designates despite public outcry that trailed their nomination as non-career Ambassadors by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor disclosed Read more…
Four female hawkers have been confirmed dead in an accident involving a truck on Upper Iweka Flyover in Onitsha, Anambra. Mr Andrew Kumapayi, the state Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), who confirmed the incident to the News Agency Read more…
• Says senator requires psychiatric evaluation Abia State government, yesterday, alleged that senator representing Kogi West Smart Adeyemi, is either suffering from a protracted case of mental illness or battling with occasional fits of schizophrenia which manifests in making careless, Read more…
A man described as the head of Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS) recruiting network in Germany has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in a high-profile case that took more than three years to try. An Iraqi man Read more…