FREETOWN — Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has returned to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria, following the discontinuation of treason and other criminal proceedings against him. Koroma arrived at the Freetown International Airport on Sunday, accompanied by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs,…
ENUGU — Prof. George Ugwu, Enugu State Commissioner for Health, has advocated a Community Health Stewardship model under which individuals, professional groups, organisations and community leaders would adopt public health facilities to strengthen supervision, oversight and service delivery. Ugwu, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), made the proposal…
ACCRA— Ms. Edith Dzigbordi Baku, has expressed optimism that Ghana can overcome its challenges and build a better future for its citizens. Baku said this in a statement in which she urged Ghanaians to confront the truth about the country’s challenges and potential, stressing that a new chapter for Ghana was possible. She said Ghana’s…
ENUGU— The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), Enugu State Chapter, has declared full mobilisation of persons with disabilities across the 17 Local Government Areas of the state to defend the Enugu State Persons with Disabilities Commission. The association made the declaration in a statement issued on Sunday by its Publicity Secretary, Mr…
AWKA— The Anambra Government is considering a Public-Private-Community Partnership (PPCP) to tackle the Odu Ukpaka gully erosion site at Akabor Obiofia Nnewichi, Nnewi. The Commissioner for Environment, Dr Clem Aguiyi, disclosed this during an inspection of the site to assess erosion control works being undertaken by Solid Cephars Ltd, an indigenous real estate company and…
AWKA— The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man, Kosisochukwu Edward Ibekwe, over the alleged murder of 23-year-old nursing student, Chiamaka Vivian Chilaka, in Alor, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued in Awka and made…
ENUGU— The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, CP Mamman Giwa, has received the 2025 Best Crime Busting Police Chief in West Africa award, while the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Daniel Ndukwe, received the Best Police Public Relations Officer in Nigeria award. The awards were presented on Sunday at the Enugu State…
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death by hanging after convicting them in a major drug manufacturing and trafficking case. The Cairo Criminal Court delivered the verdict on Saturday, Sept. 5, following the court’s consideration of the opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti, a required step…
ENUGU— As seven political parties prepare to contest the Sept. 26 local government elections in Enugu State, the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) has urged candidates and their supporters to focus on issues and avoid personal attacks capable of heating up the polity. The election will produce chairmen for the state’s 17 local government…
|By Franklin Ebuka Something worries me about Anambra State—not because the state is not making gains in infrastructural development, and not necessarily because the government of the day is not performing. My concern is about the democratic credentials of the state and the growing tendency of government to interfere in institutions and structures that ought…
