By Anayo Okoli Umuahia – Governor Theodore Orji has promised that his administration had concluded plans to offset the backlog of salaries of teachers and other workers in the state in the next one month. Meanwhile, Governor Orji has blamed the rising rate of kidnapping and other criminal acts on poverty. The state has meanwhile […]

Onitsha -The proposed Onitsha Trade and Tourism Fair, billed to take place between November 27 to December 7 will no longer hold at the Chuba Ikpeazu Memorial Stadium, Onitsha as scheduled. Mrs Chinwe Anowai, Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, told newsmen in Onitsha that the state executive council had resolved not to use the […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna – The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says the trafficking on women and children is the greatest violation of human rights in the world today. UNICEF said that thousands of women and children are trafficked across borders throughout the world, pointing out that no individual country can curb the […]

Edo State government has threatened to shut down one of the foreign firms in the state, Okomu Oil Palm Company, unless it paid the over N300 million realised from illegal felling of trees in the state’s government forest reserve.

Foreign in vestors have faulted the downgrading of Nigeria’s credit rating by Standard and Poor’s, saying that on-going banking reforms are a positive one for the nation’s economy.