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You must do the job you worked so hard to get, Ohanaeze, MBF, Aka Ikenga, others tell Buhari

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) and others have described the statement by president Muhammadu Buhari that governing Nigeria is a tough job and he cannot wait to finish his tenure on may 29, 2023, to retire to his Daura, Katsina state home, as confession that he has been overwhelmed.

Ebonyi LG Election: we will not participate, says PDP Scribe

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has said that they will not participate in the forthcoming Ebonyi State Local Government Elections.

Akwa Ibom Police to Deploy More Security Personnel to Correctional Centres

The Commissioner of Akwa Ibom State Police Command, Olatoye Durosinmi, has ordered the deployment of more security personnel to all Correctional Centres across the state.

Man sentenced to 5 years for sexually assaulting 10 year old girl

A Family Magistrate Court sitting in Onueke in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has sentenced 51 year-old Joseph Nguta, to a 5-year jail term with hard labor for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old minor.

Soludo Dismisses Allegation of Budget Padding

Anambra state governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has dismissed allegations of budget padding for some projects by margins as wide as 300 per cent in some ministries.

This is contained in a statement released this Thursday, by his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime.

Soludo attributes the allegations to criminals of different types displaced by his government who are fighting back with propaganda.

He said the claims that the commissioner for works refused to appear before the House of Assembly to defend his ministry’s budget on June 29 is false.

Soludo went further to provide the cost trend of road projects executed in the state which he said ranged from above N200 million to as much as N1 billion per kilometer in 2018 when diesel was N120 per litre and a tonne of asphalt, N18,000.

Obaseki can’t ban union activities in AAU – ASUU

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, on Wednesday, said the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has no constitutional right to proscribe union activities in the state-owned institution, Ambrose Alli University.

The ASUU president, who disclosed this when he led other national delegates of the union in solidarity protest to the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, over their unpaid salaries and other sundry issues, said ASUU is a registered body that has the right to operate in the country.

Corroborating the national president, and the immediate past president, Biodun Ogunyemi, says the union needs to rise up against the action of the state governor for proscribing union activities in the university in order to deter other state governors for emulating the bad gesture.

Police declare manhunt over lynching of two men in Nsukka

POLICE IN ENUGU STATE HAVE STARTED A MANHUNT OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLEGED MOBBING AND LYNCHING OF TWO PERSONS AT EDE-OBALLA COMMUNITY IN NSUKKA AXIS OF THE STATE ON JULY 4.

ENUGU STATE POLICE SPOKESMAN, DANIEL NDUKWE, WHO MADE THIS KNOWN TO NEWSMEN IN ENUGU THIS WEDNESDAY, SAID THE TWO PERSONS WERE ACCUSED OF BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOR RITUAL PURPOSES.

NDUKWE SAYS PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT THE GIRL WAS INITIALLY REPORTED MISSING ON JUNE 28 AT ABOUT 1P.M, AND HER DECOMPOSING BODY WAS FOUND IN A BUSH IN THE COMMUNITY ON JULY 2, WHICH LED TO THE ACTION OF THE ANGRY MOB.

HE URGED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO DESIST FROM RESORTING TO SELF-HELP OF THIS NATURE, AND KEEP SUPPORTING THE POLICE TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE AND SET THE GROUND FOR THE DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Bread scarcity looms as southeast bakers announce strike

THE SOUTH-EAST CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MASTER BAKERS AND CATERERS OF NIGERIA (AMBCN), SAYS IT IS SET TO WITHDRAW ITS SERVICES FROM JULY 13, AS DIRECTED BY ITS NATIONAL BODY.

THE ZONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION, DOMINIC NWIBE, WHO MADE THIS KNOWN TO NEWSMEN THIS WEDNESDAY, SAID THE ZONE DECIDED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIVE OF THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF AMBCN, MANSUR UMAR FOR MEMBERS TO BEGIN A TWO-WEEK STRIKE FROM JULY 13, OVER AN INCREASE IN PRICES OF BAKERY MATERIALS.

NWIBE SAID ALTHOUGH AUTHORITIES BLAMED THE HIGH COST OF MATERIALS ON THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE INVASION OF UKRAINE BY RUSSIA, THE MEMBERS FEEL IT IS UNNECESSARY TO KEEP INCREASING THE PRICES OF BAKERY PRODUCTS SUCH AS BREAD TO THE DETRIMENT OF CUSTOMERS.

ALSO SPEAKING, THE SOUTH EAST ZONAL SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION, OKEY EZEANATA URGED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW MASS PARTICIPATION IN THE IMPORTATION OF BAKING MATERIALS AS IS OBTAINABLE IN OTHER SECTORS.