Enugu: Echoes from the past
Though the 2015 governorship election in Enugu State, has been concluded and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi sworn-in, yet there are insinuations that echoes from the 2011 governorship election before it may still be haunting political stakeholders in the state. This is because of a 2011 gubernatorial pre-election case filed by Dr. Chukwuemeka Obechina of the PDP still pending at the Supreme Court which is due for hearing on Wednesday, April 6. Obechina was an aspirant who filed a court case who filed a case against the PDP governorship candidate for that election, Chief Sullivan Chime who he claimed was not validly nominated.
Enugu: Labour unions want FG to release bail-out funds
The Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, Enugu State has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN, to release the approved bail-out funds to Enugu State government to enable it offset the arrears of salaries for non-permanent staff, pension and subventions for government parastatals, boards and agencies.
Brother kills own sibling in Enugu
The sleepy town of Umuokara,Orba in Udenu Local Government of Enugu State was midnight, last Friday, thrown into morning following a fight which ensued between two belligerent brothers that led to the killing of the younger one.
Rivers, Lagos, Enugu lead BudgIT’s Fiscal Sustainability Index on Nig. states
BudgIT, a civic organization which aims to simplify government’s finance data for easy understanding among Nigerians recently revealed that Rivers, Lagos and Enugu led the chart out of the 36 states in the country on the grounds of fiscal sustainability performance.
Enugu govt laments delay on bail-out funds release
Perturbed by Federal Government’s delay in the release of N14.2 billion bail-out funds to the Enugu State,Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi,yesterday, disclosed that the construction of eight roads embarked upon by his administration will proceed smoothly even though the state is yet to receive the funds.
Afenifere’s threat to secede from Nigeria: Open letter to Sultan of Sokoto
PRESIDENT Buhari’s silence and inaction on the issue of Fulani herdsmen seems to have poured petrol on the long smoldering embers of the Fulani menace in Nigeria. So there is a need to raise two questions: (a) Is Buhari’s inaction part of his Caliphate hidden agenda? (b) Is the Sultan of Sokoto, as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MACBAN, the cattle breeders association, not the Grand Patron of a criminal enterprise – an enterprise that uses, for its economic gain, the crimes of trespassing, destruction of other people’s property, kidnapping, arson, murder, ethnic cleansing etc.?
