Ugwuanyi appoints Okwor as MD of Water Corporation
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has appointed Engr. Onyeka Martins Okwor as the Managing Director of the State Water Corporation, with effect from Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Announcing the appointment, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, disclosed that the decision was the outcome of the recent rigorous interview process […]
MHWUN mourns as Secretary General,Adamu dies with wife, daughter in car accident
ABUJA-THE Secretary General of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria,MHWUN, Dr Silas Adamu, has been reported dead in a car accident.
Labour leader to FG: Treat gender-based violence as pandemic
NLC seeks castration of rapists By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin The Vice President, Industrial Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, has criticised the rampancy of gender-based violence in the country, calling on the federal government to treat the menace as a pandemic. He specifically urged the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the […]
Bandits kidnap villagers in Niger state
A criminal gang has kidnapped 25 villagers in two separate incidents in Niger state, an area notorious for banditry and abductions, a local official said on Tuesday. Dozens of bandits, sneaked into Kutunku village in Wushishi district around 0030 GMT on Monday while residents were asleep and abducted 24 people, Ismail Modibbo Kagara, political administrator […]
FG kick-starts reforming of Federal Civil Service
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja began a two-day sensitisation workshop to transform the Federal Civil Service for effective service delivery. Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF) declared open the workshop on “Key Implementers of Reforms Programme”. Yemi-Esan said the workshop was to chart a new plan for […]
Messi congratulates new Barcelona president
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has congratulated Joan Laporta after he emerged as the club’s president. The new president told Catalunya Radio yesterday. Members of the club voted for the new president on Sunday with first-team players like Messi, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets spotted at Camp Nou to cast their votes. ALSO READ: Nigeria ranks 14th […]
Covid worsening already alarming rate of violence against women ― WHO
One in three women have already suffered physical violence or sexual abuse, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that the coronavirus pandemic was deepening the problem. In a report, the UN health agency found that around 30 percent of all women and girls over the age of 15 — around 736 million people — […]
Alleged Taraba kidnap kingpin, Wadume, others to open defence to charge May 18
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Tuesday, slated May 18 for the alleged Taraba kidnap kingpin, Bala Hamisu (aka Wadume) and his six co-Defendants, to open their defence to the 13-count charge the Federal Government entered against them. Other Defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/30/2020, which borders […]
OGUN: Gov Abiodun, Osoba, commissioners receive COVID-19 vaccines
…It’s very safe, says ex-Governor Osoba By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, his deputy, Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele, and other members of the State Executive Council have received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. They took the first jabs of the vaccine on Monday at a brief ceremony, a couple of hours after taking […]
Man 22, parents docked over alleged conspiracy to rape 6-year-old girl
By Onozure Dania A 22-year-old man, Ebuka Nwobodo and his parents were Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Ebute- Metta, over alleged conspiracy to rape a six-year-old girl. The defendant and his parents Juliet Nwobodo 45 and Boniface Nwobodo 57, are facing a two-count charge, bordering on conspiracy and defilement, preferred against […]
We’ll rather die in IDPs camps with our children than surrender our land to herdsmen – Benue displaced farmers
By Peter Duru They are women who have seen it all in life. They are within the age bracket of 73 and 90 years. An encounter with these group of women who have spent the last three years in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps that dot the landscape of Benue state was quite revealing. Without […]
