…as community cries for govt’s intervention
The Ogbogba-Iga Otukpa Primary School reminds one of what probably obtained during the stone age or better still the colonial era when formal education was more of a luxury. The primary school is situated at Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area and less than 20 minutes drive from the Otukpa country home of the Benue State Deputy Governor, Chief Steven Lawani.
IVO local government area unlike Afikpo, Izzi, Ikwo, Ezza North, Ezza South, Ishielu and Ohaozara council areas of Ebonyi State has in recent past been prone to violence, especially during elections or whenever there was need to pick a candidate for an elective position.
The Lagos State government-owned recycling plant situated at the Olusosun Landfill site at the Ojota area of the state has commenced full capacity operation with several installed odour neutralizers and mobile atomizers to douse the erstwhile poignant odour oozing from the site, especially when it rains.
Night activities in the ever busy Bayan Gari area of Bauchi metropolis may never be the same again. This is sequel to a bomb blast which rocked the town recently.
LITTLE Miss Patience Abey (not her real name) of State School, Okoronu Odo on Ikwerre Road in Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State said they were in classroom at about 10.30 a.m. on Thursday when they heard a deafening sound.
In line with the efforts of the Lagos State Government to bring sanity to the environment, the Amuwo-Odifin Local Government Councilhas begun moves to ensure that Festival Town popularly called FESTAC, where the council secretariat is located, is given a face-lift.
The feeling in many quarters in Imo State presently is that these certainly are not the best of times in the Eastern Heartland against the backdrop of the prevailing security challenges bordering on armed robbery and kidnapping. The security situation in the state worsened Monday night, May 7, 2012, following the brutal murder of Eze Stanley Akuneto, the traditional ruler of Umueze-Abazu, Ogwa, Mbaitoli local government area of the state.
The family members of a 12-year-old girl, Chisom Iheancho, who left home six months ago and has not been seen or returned home till now, are still running around to unravel the mystery surrounding her disappearance. Chisom was at the time she went missing, a Primary 6 pupil of Saint Francis Primary School in Maryland. No one had seen or heard from her since she went missing six months ago.
First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has expressed confidence that the driving culture within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, would change when the first batch of 200 trainees of the Lady Chaffeur Training Scheme begin to drive within Abuja.
CREATOR of television serial, Heaven’s Gate, Pastor Eskor Mfon, first of five children of Mr. Asuquo Ima Mfon, was a dynamic spiritual leader, devoted philanthropist and an innovative entrepreneur whose illuminating light was unceremoniously extinguished on Monday, April 30, 2007 at the age of 54.
…displaces illegal immigrants, criminals under bridges
The Joint Task Force, comprising the state security agencies and the military, led by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, last Monday swooped on Apapa and its environs, removing over 60 trucks and other articulated vehicles, parked indiscriminately around the area, following the expiration of a 72-hour ultimatum issued by the state government to remove them.
WHEN, recently, medical doctors in Lagos State embarked on a three-day warning strike to protest what they described as government failure to fulfill its promises to them based on an agreement reached between the two parties, few could have predicted that their action would result in their being sacked by their employers.
Relief has come the way of the families of school children who lost their lives in a boat mishap on February 13, 2012 as the Lagos State Government at the weekend gave cash as compensation to them. The children, who were ten in number, were on their way to school in Igbede in Ojo Local Government Area when they met their untimely end during a heavy rainstorm.
Saturday, April 7, 2012 will remain a remarkable day in the lives of indigenes of South Ibie, Etsako –West Local Government Area of Edo State. On that day the Aidonogie’s Royal Palace, Iyakpi, South-Ibie council was filled to capacity by a large crowd of indigenes as well as friends, relations, well wishers, who came from far and wide to celebrate the maiden edition of South Ibie Day Celebration. The day also provided them an opportunity to categorically demand from the state government a staff of office to the newly appointed Aidonogie which will translate to a substantive king.
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