Thailand legalises cannabis trade but still bans
PEOPLE IN THAILAND CAN NOW GROW CANNABIS PLANTS AT HOME AND SELL THE CROP AFTER THE NATION REMOVED MARIJUANA FROM ITS BANNED NARCOTICS LIST.
Court rules in favour of Odii, nullifies Ebonyi PDP gov primary …
EBONYI STATE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, IFEANYI ODII HAS RE-EMPHASIZED THAT THE PRIMARY ELECTION OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), OF 29TH MAY 2022 WHICH HE PARTICIPATED IN AND SUBSEQUENTLY WON TO EMERGE HER GUBER CANDIDATE, DOES NOT HAVE ANY BACKLASH TO WARRANT AN APPEAL COMMITTEE
IN A LETTER HE SIGNED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO JOURNALISTS, ODII WANTED TO KNOW WHICH PRIMARIES THE PANEL WANTS TO RECONCILE.
HE REVEALED THAT HIS EMERGENCE WHICH IS LEGITIMATE ACCORDING TO A JUDGMENT FROM A FEDERAL HIGH COURT SITTING IN ABAKALIKI THAT DECLARED HIM AS THE DULY ELECTED CANDIDATE OF THE PARTY, IS TOTAL IN THE MATTER. SAYING THE PARTY HAS NO REASON TO TOIL WITH THE ORDER OF A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION.
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI REPORTES THAT ODII CALLED ON PDP NATIONAL WORKING COMMITTEE TO STOP TAKING SIDES, AND ENSURE THAT THE RIGHT THING IS DONE TO HALT THE DANGER OF THE PARTY NOT HAVING A CANDIDATE IN THE STATE.
WASSCE 2022: WAEC expresses concern over activities of rogue website
THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (WAEC), YESTERDAY, EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF ROGUE WEBSITE OPERATORS IN THE ONGOING MAY/JUNE 2022 WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE).
THE COUNCIL IN A STATEMENT SIGNED BY ITS ACTING PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER, MOYOSOLA ADEYEGBE, CONDEMNED CANDIDATES AND PARENTS FOR PATRONISING ROGUE WEBSITE OPERATORS.
ADEYEGBE DREW THE ATTENTION OF STAKEHOLDERS AND THE PUBLIC TO THE UNWHOLESOME ACTIVITIES PERPETRATED BY UNSCRUPULOUS ELEMENTS IN THE CONDUCT OF THE 2022 WASSCE.
ADEYEGBE SAID THESE UNPATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS SEE WASSCE AND OTHER EXAMINATIONS AS A BUSINESS VENTURE, AND AN AVENUE TO MAKE MONEY, THEREBY DECEIVING INNOCENT AND GULLIBLE CANDIDATES, AND THEIR PARENTS.
SHE SAID EXAM FRAUDSTERS LURE CANDIDATES AND THEIR PARENTS BY PROPOSING SHORTCUTS TO EXAMINATION SUCCESS BY LYING TO THEM THAT WAEC QUESTIONS CAN BE ACCESSED EARLIER THAN THE DUE DATE.
THE IMAGE-MAKER SAID THE COUNCIL ASSURED THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ROGUE WEBSITE WOULD NOT GO UNPUNISHED AS THEY WILL BE BROUGHT TO BOOK AND MADE TO PAY FOR ALL THEIR CRIMES, NOTING THAT “THE COUNCIL WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO ENSURE THAT THE FIGHT AGAINST THIS SOCIETAL ILL IS WON AT ALL COSTS.
Man arrested for vandalising EEDC transformer
A SUSPECTED VANDAL IDENTIFIED AS SOLOMON IGWE, WAS ARRESTED OVER THE WEEKEND BY SECURITY GUARDS, OPERATING AT THINKERS CORNER AREA OF ENUGU, ENUGU STATE, FOR VANDALIZING A TRANSFORMER, PROPERTY OF THE ENUGU ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY PLC (EEDC).
THE SUSPECT, IN COMPANY OF TWO OF HIS GANG MEMBERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY AT LARGE, VANDALIZED THE THINKERS GUEST HOUSE TRANSFORMER LOCATED AT THINKERS CORNER, ENUGU, AND DRAINED THE TRANSFORMER OIL. THEIR TOOLS AND JERRICANS WERE RECOVERED AT THE SCENE.
SOLOMON GAVE THE NAMES OF HIS FLEEING GANG MEMBERS AS SUNDAY AND ONYEMA, WHILE HE NAMED ONE ONYEDIA OBASI, ALIAS BISHOP, AS THEIR MASTER.
THE HEAD OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, EEDC, EMEKA EZEH, WHO MADE THIS KNOWN ON WEDNESDAY, IN ENUGU, CONFIRMED THAT THE APPREHENDED SUSPECT HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO THE POLICE AREA COMMAND, ENUGU, FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND POSSIBLE PROSECUTION, WHILE THE FLEEING GANG MEMBERS ARE BEING TRAILED BY THE POLICE.
THIS ARREST IS COMING JUST FEW WEEKS AFTER THE DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LAMENTED THE INCREASING RATE AT WHICH ELECTRICITY INSTALLATIONS WITHIN ITS NETWORK ARE BEING ATTACKED BY VANDALS, AND CALLED FOR CUSTOMERS TO BE MORE VIGILANT.
THE COMPANY HAD SAID THAT THE COMPANY RECORDS CASES OF VANDALIZED SUBSTATIONS ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS, MOST OF WHICH HAVE BEEN VANDALIZED MULTIPLE TIMES, LEAVING THE COMPANY IN PERPETUAL REPLACEMENT OF VANDALIZED PARTS OF THESE EQUIPMENT.
IT WENT FURTHER TO DISCLOSE THAT VANDALS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR POWER GENERATION EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE SECTOR, WHICH HAS IMPACTED THE DAILY ENERGY ALLOCATION TO THE COMPANY, AND ITS SUPPLY AVAILABILITY TO CUSTOMERS.
WHILE COMMENDING THE EFFORT OF THE SECURITY GUARDS IN APPREHENDING THE SUSPECT, EEDC CALLS ON ITS CUSTOMERS TO BE MORE VIGILANT IN ENSURING THAT ELECTRICITY INSTALLATIONS SITED WITHIN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE PROTECTED AGAINST ATTACKS BY THESE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS IN THE SOCIETY, AND SAVE THEMSELVES THE STRESS OF BEING OUT OF POWER SUPPLY.
THE COMPANY’S SPOKESMAN SAID THE ORGANIZATION HAS COMMITTED MILLIONS OF NAIRA RESTORING VANDALIZED INSTALLATIONS, A SITUATION HE DESCRIBED AS NO LONGER SUSTAINABLE, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING ITS CURRENT FINANCIAL POSITION.
AFCON qualifier: Eagles vow to beat Leone Stars
Despite failing to win a game in their last five matches, Super Eagles stars have promised to end their winless run with a victory over Sierra Leone on Thursday (today)
SEVERODONETSK: ZELENSKY TIES FATE OF EAST UKRAINE TO BATTLE FOR CITY
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY HAS SAID THAT FIGHTING FOR THE CITY OF SEVERODONETSK MAY DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF THE WAR IN THE EAST OF THE COUNTRY.
AS COMBAT RAGED IN THE INDUSTRIAL BELT WITH RUSSIAN AND SEPARATIST FORCES ZELENSKY SAYS IN MANY RESPECTS, THE FATE OF THE DONBAS IS BEING DECIDED THERE,”.
HE SAYS HIS TROOPS WERE INFLICTING MAJOR LOSSES ON ENEMY FORCES.
BUT A UKRAINIAN TOP OFFICIAL SAYS UKRAINIAN FORCES HAVE BEEN PUSHED BACK TO THE OUTSKIRTS AFTER RUSSIA “STARTED LEVELLING THE AREA WITH SHELLING AND AIR STRIKES ALTHOUGH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY THE RUSSIANS COMPLETELY CONTROL THE CITY,” HE ADDED.
2023: EBONYI PDP GUBER CANDIDATE, DR. IFEANYI CHUKWUMA ODII WRITES PARTY’S GUBERNATORIAL APPEAL PANEL.
AN EBONYI STATE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE CONTESTING ON THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY PDP PLATFORM IFEANYI ODII HAS RE-STATED THE PRIMARY ELECTION OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), OF 29TH MAY 2022 WHICH HE PARTICIPATED IN AND SUBSEQUENTLY WON TO EMERGE ITS GUBER CANDIDATE DOES NOT HAVE ANY BACKLASH TO WARRANT AN APPEAL COMMITTEE.
2023 POLL: INEC BOSS VISITS CHIEF OF AIR STAFF, SOLICITS SUPPORT TO AIRLIFT ELECTION MATERIALS TO REMOTE AREAS
THE CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTROAL COMMISSION (INEC) MAHMOOD YAKUBU HAS VISITED THE CHIEF OF AIR STAFF (CAS), AIR MARSHAL OLADAYO AMAO TO SOLICIT THE SUPPORT OF THE SERVICE IN DEPLOYING PERSONNEL AND AIRLIFTING ELECTION MATERIALS TO AREAS AFFECTED BY INSECURITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY
OWO MASSACRE: DEATH TOLL HITS 40, AKEREDOLU PLANS MEMORIAL PARK
2023 POLL: INEC BOSS VISITS CHIEF OF AIR STAFF, SOLICITS SUPPORT TO AIRLIFT ELECTION MATERIALS TO REMOTE AREAS
Sports Minister Ban NPFL from Using Moshood Abiola Stadium
Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has ordered clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to desist from using the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja for the meantime.