Friday, 22 November, 2024

Month: November 2021


The Anambra State Ministry of Lands, Physical Planning and Rural Development yesterday said it generated N1.3 billion from January to October. The commissioner, Mr Bonaventure Enemali, made the disclosure during the ongoing 2021 budget assessment and 2022 budget defence before Read more…


China’s strict COVID-19 quarantines are making it difficult for ships to change crews, contributing to lags in the shipping process that could worsen the supply chain crisis. The country has a zero-Covid policy and is imposing ever more stringent containment measures as it Read more…


The costs of a possible war between Russia and Ukraine far outweigh the benefits. The war is fraught with significant risks to the economy, political stability and Russian foreign policy. It fails to solve key security problems, while it creates many new ones, writes Valdai Club Programme Read more…


A video of Nnamdi Kanu, head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), leaving a Nigerian courthouse has been shared thousands of times on Facebook as evidence that the separatist leader was recently bailed following his arrest abroad. This is Read more…


Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal Lagos has dashed the hope of the embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke on her attempt to recover her $40million worth of jewelery forfeited to the Federal Government. Justice Nicholas Oweibo Read more…


The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in-charge of Zone 13, Ukpo-Dunukofia Anambra State, AIG Muri Umar Musa, has approved the dismissal of Inspector Edem Ebong from the Nigeria Police Force and his prosecution for murder. His approval of the recommended punishment Read more…


Nineteen persons accused of being members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and held in detention for 15 years, has been discharged and acquitted by Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court Read more…


Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to properly demarcate their border, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, following Sochi talks with the leaders of each nation, aimed at bringing the decades-long conflict to an end. Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan and Read more…


Three weeks after the Santa Barbara wellhead failed, it is still blasting water, gas and oil across Nembe in Nigeria’s Delta, littering the shoreline and water with yellow-brown clumps of waste as cleanup crews and booms struggle to contain it. Read more…


Five U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to meet with government officials, defying an admonition from Beijing to stay away from the hotly contested democratic island. “When news of our trip broke yesterday, my office received a blunt message from the Chinese Read more…


The Committee of Friends (COF) Nnewi formally extended congratulations to the CMD, NAUTH, Dr. Joe Ugboaja, for his recent appointment as the chief medical director Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi. The COF felt particularly happy that one of Read more…


“they are renegades, non members – chairman insists By Ifeama Ejiofor Nov 25,2021 A new bout of crisis is brewing in the Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a section of the party’s stakeholders has announced Read more…