APPARENTLY trying to firm up top position in the Nigerian transportation business, ride hailing App, Uber has decided to drop the price on a category of its services, called UberX in Lagos.

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UMUAHIA—AFARA community in Ibeku Land, Umuahia, Abia State was electrified last Friday when their son and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, returned to his ancestoral home after he was released the Kuje Prisons on bail.

ENUGU——THE Ohanaeze Ndigbo has frowned at the exclusion of the South East in the Federal Government’s modernisation policy of railway projects in the country, describing the action as the height of injustice against Ndigbo

VICE Chairman of First Guaranty Pensions Limited, FGPL, Nze Chidi Duru, yesterday, said the company should have achieved an asset base of more than N400 billion based on the strategic plan developed for the company in 2010.

GOVERNOR Muhammed Baduru may be said to have continued the quirky tradition of his predecessors of doing the unusual in Jigawa State. Governor Aminu Turaki who governed the state between 1999 and 2007 won a national reputation of governing the state mostly from outside the state and projecting surreal scientific scenarios for the largely agrarian state.

ABA-Abia State government has flagged off the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt road in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state. The dilapidated 11-kilometre federal road which is one of the two major entry points into the city from the Enugu – Port Harcourt expressway, had been in very bad shape for over 10 years, prompting motorists to abandon the road even as traders shut down their shops due to lack of patronage.

The immediate past Chairman of Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Chief Michael Johnny has been urged to contest for Warri Federal Constituency in the 2019 general elections.

ABA- Abia State deputygovernor, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, has donated a church to the St. James Catholic parish, Nkporo, in Ohafia Local Government Area of the state.

ONITSHA – THE protracted Igweship imbroglio which had hitherto disrupted peaceful co-existence in Nanka community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State appeared to have been over , following a declaration to that effect by His Royal Highness, Igwe Godwin Ezeilo, shortly after he was issued a certificate of recognition and staff of office by Governor Willie Obiano.

ONITSHA – IT was a cultural affinity and fanfare at Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, as an illustrious son of the area, Dr. Emmanuel Kandudi Monago, and his wife, were conferred with chieftaincy titles of Igweoba Akalam and Enyi Nwanyi Ifeka Oledo of Obosi kingdom respectively, by the traditional ruler of Obosi, Igwe Chidubem Iweka.

ENUGU- THE Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku/Ozalla, Dr. Christopher Amah, has asked Nigerians seeking heart surgery to come to the health institution instead of going on medical tourism abroad as the referral hospital offers state of the art facilities that meet the needs of patients.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA- RICE farmers in the Adani-Omor platform of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme, ATASP Phase 1, under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, covering Enugu and Anambra states, have bemoaned the challenges facing them in the course of growing and marketing the crop. The phase 1 of the platform, […]

By Aare Afe Babalola “Those who posit that Local Governments play the most important role in the day to day administration of a country cannot be faulted. However, evidence abound across the country that most Local Governments have failed to perform the functions stated above. They have been mostly interested in other aspect of their […]

It’s shocking that after all they have seemingly done downgrading the capacity of the insurgents for further terror, 82 girls can still be brought out of that place of horror. Where were they being kept?