NBA Presidential Aspirant Seeks Improved Welfare For Judges
A SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN), MIKYAU YAKUBU, HAS CALLED FOR IMPROVED REMUNERATION FOR JUDGES IN THE COUNTRY TO AVOID THEIR BEING TEMPTED INTO ENGAGING IN ACTS OF CORRUPTION.
YAKUBU MADE THIS KNOWN IN ABAKALIKI THE EBONYI STATE CAPITAL, WHERE IT HAD HUNDREDS OF LAWYERS FROM THE THREE BRANCHES IN THE STATE IN ATTENDANCE.
THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (NBA) PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT LAMENTED THAT THE SALARIES OF JUDGES INCLUDING THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT HAVE REMAINDED THE SAME SINCE 2007, AND CALLED FOR ITS UPWARDS REVIEW.
HE COMMENDED THE JUDGES IN THE JUDICIARY FOR STRIVING TO LEAVE ABOVE BOARD DESPITE THE CHALLENGES OF POOR REMUNERATION AND WELFARE.
YAKUBU PROMISED TO CARRY ON WITH THE POLICIES OF THE OLUMIDE AKPATA ADMINISTRATION. ADDING THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL LOOK AFTER THE INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY.
OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI, REPORTS THAT AT A PARLEY WITH THE STATE CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION WHERE HE WAS ADOPTED AS ITS CONSENSUS CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT, YAKUBU SAID THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL WORK TO ENSURE THAT THE WELFARE OF YOUNG LAWYERS IS ADEQUATELY PROTECTED AND IMPROVED.
Anambra To Build Tourism, Leisure Park At Agulu Lake
ANAMBRA STATE COMMISSIONER FOR CULTURE, TOURISM AND ENTERTAINMENT, DON ONYENJI HAS SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF CHUKWUMA SOLUDO PLANS TO BUILD A WORLD-CLASS TOURISM AND LEISURE PARK AT AGULU LAKE IN THE ANAOCHA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE STATE.
ONYENJI SAYS THE TOURISM AND LEISURE PARK WHEN IT IS BUILT WILL BE A MAJOR TOURIST DESTINATION, AND WOULD ALSO BE A VERITABLE SOURCE OF CLIENTELE FOR THE GOLDEN TULIP HOTEL SITUATED IN THE AGULU LAKE ENVIRONMENT.
HE SAID THE GOVERNOR IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE PROJECT, AS IT IS IN LINE WITH THE VISION AND MISSION TO CREATE A LIVEABLE, LOVABLE AND PROSPEROUS NEW ANAMBRA CONDUCIVE, AND CONGENIAL FOR EVERYONE, ADDING THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS IN THE TOURISM SECTOR YET UNKNOWN, WHICH HE SAID WOULD BE UNRAVELLED BY THE SOLUDO ADMINISTRATION.
Primary: Court rulings mere distractions, Ebonyi PDP gov aspirant says
The Senator Representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial District, Obinna Ogba, Has Reassured Ebonyians That He Is Not Relenting In His Effort To Return Happiness And Unity Of Purpose In Ebonyi State Through His Legitimate Quest To Occupy The Governorship Seat Of Ebonyi State Come 2023.
Ogba Made This Known In A Statement Signed And Made Available To Journalists Through His Special Assistant On Media Godfrey Chikwere.
According To Him, The Current Event Ranging From The Primary Election To Judicial Processes Is No Doubt A Calculated Political Distraction, But Anybody Conversant With His Political Trajectory Will Understand That He Has Fought, And Walked For Any Of His Victory And Political Position.
Our Correspondent In Ebonyi State, Emmanuel Nnaji, Reports That Ogba Has Assured Ebonyians That He Will Continue To Use Legal Means To Overcome.
USAID partners reiterate commitment to combat malnutrition in Nigeria
United States Agency For International Development, Usaid-Integrated Health Program, Ihp, In Ebonyi State, Have Said They Are Targeting Over Six Hundred And Eight Thousand Children To Receive Vitamin A, Deworming Drugs, And Health Education For Malnourished Children In That State.
The Program Manager Of The Integrated Health Program And Focal Person For This Year’s Maternal Newborn Child Health Week In Ebonyi State, Ogbu Miracle, Made This Know During A One-Day Training, With Staff Of Primary Health Centers In Ebony State.
Ogbu Said Ihp In Ebonyi State Will Provide Vitamin A Drugs And Every Child That Is Less Than 5 And 5 Years Will Benefit From The Supplementation Including Deworming Tablets, During The Maternal Newborn Child Health Week.
Ogbu Said The Agency Will Also Check For Nutritional Status, Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Measurements To Check Children Who Are Malnutrished. Saying That They Will Provide Iron-Folic To Pregnant Mothers, And Educate Caregivers On Issues Regarding Family Planning, Lasser Fever Prevention, And Covid-19 Prevention.
Up Sot To End
NYSC DG URGES CORPS MEMBERS TO EMBRACE SKILL ACQUISITION
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig-General Mohammed Farah, has called on the 2022 Batch B stream 1 corps members nationwide to ensure they utilize the opportunity given to them as corps members by participating actively in all camp activities.
The DG who was represented by the Ebonyi State Coordinator of NYSC, Bamai Mercy implored the Corps Members to sustain the high level of discipline and enthusiasm demonstrated in the camp so far, by remaining compliant with the camp rules and regulations, to key into Skill Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development for self-employment and to adhere strictly to COVID-19 Safety Protocols.
Our Correspondent in Ebonyi state, Emmanuel Nnaji, gathered that a total of 1337 corps members, took the NYSC Oath of allegiance in Ebonyi state, administered by Justice Vincent Nwancho, who represented the Chief Judge of Ebonyi state.
Strike: Labour appeals to ASUU to shift ground
The Trade Union Congress (Tuc) Has Appealed To The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (Asuu), To Shift Ground In Their Demands By Making Some Concessions, So That Students Can Return To School After Being Forced To Stay At Home Since February.
The Chairman Of The Cross River State Chapter Of The Union, Monday Ogbodum, Made The Appeal On Tuesday In An Interview With News Men In Calabar, The State Capital.
Ogbodum Said Asuu Had “Clearly” Made Their Points Known To The World With The Prolonged Strike And Advised The Government Not To Always Allow Issues To Degenerate To Strikes Before Taking Necessary Actions.
The Labour Leader Further Added That The Government Should Always Put A Human Face To Its Action Or Inaction In Dealing With Labour Unions To Avoid Prolonged Industrial Action In The Country.
The Tuc Chairman Said It Would Be Difficult To Regain The Lost Ground In Nigeria’s Tertiary Education System Because Of The Industrial Action By The University Lecturers In The Last Two Years.
Gunmen bomb Imo market, scores injured, vehicles burnt
GUNMEN ENFORCING THE SIT-AT-HOME ORDER OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB) YESTERDAY BOMBED THE POPULAR IZOMBE MARKET IN OGUTA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE.
THE GUNMEN WERE SAID TO HAVE STORMED THE MARKET AND WARNED THE TRADERS OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMING OUT ON A MONDAY FOR THEIR BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
ANGERED BY THEIR DEFIANCE, THE GUNMEN SET TWO VEHICLES ABLAZE IN THE MARKET, WHICH CAUSED SERIOUS PANDEMONIUM BEFORE BOMBING THE MARKET.
Three Killed, Others Injured As Gunmen Attack Imo Community
AT LEAST THREE PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED WITH SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED IN AN ATTACK IN ORLU, IMO STATE.
THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER IN THE STATE, MICHEAL ABATTAM, CONFIRMED THE ATTACK ON SUNDAY, SAYING THAT THE COMMAND RECEIVED A DISTRESS CALL THAT GUNMEN, WHO WERE OPERATING IN A RED TOYOTA SIENNA VEHICLE WITHOUT A REGISTRATION NUMBER, SPED OFF TO UMUEBELE OKPORO COMMUNITY IN ORLU.
ABATTAM SAYS THE GUNMEN STORMED THE AREA, SHOT AT SOME RESIDENTS WHO WERE HAVING A MEETING IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE, KILLING THREE PERSONS ON THE SPOT WHILE TWO OTHERS SUSTAINED VARIOUS DEGREES OF BULLET WOUNDS AND WERE RUSHED TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
THE POLICE SPOKESMAN HOWEVER ASSURED THAT THE COMMAND IS WORKING WITH OTHER SECURITY AGENCIES TO ENSURE THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF THE DASTARDLY ACT ARE ARRESTED AND MADE TO FACE THE FULL WRATH OF THE LAW.
ON HIS PART, THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MOHAMMED BARDE, APPEALED TO IMO RESIDENTS TO GO ABOUT THEIR LAWFUL BUSINESSES WITHOUT FEAR OR MOLESTATION AS CALM HAS BEEN RESTORED IN THE COMMUNITY.
MBAKA’S PROTEST: Police barricades entrances of Enugu Catholic cathedral, residence of Bishop
SECURITY OPERATIVES HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ENTRANCES OF HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL, ENUGU AND RESIDENCE OF BISHOP CALLISTUS ONAGA AT INDEPENDENCE LAYOUT, ENUGU OVER PROTEST BY SUPPORTERS OF REV FR EJIKE MBAKA.
THE PROTEST FOLLOWED THE BAN ON CATHOLIC FAITHFUL FROM WORSHIPPING AT THE ADORATION MINISTRY OF MBAKA IN ENUGU.
THE DEPLOYMENT OF SECURITY OPERATIVES TO THE TWO PREMISES WAS TO AVOID A REPEAT OF LAST YEAR’S INCIDENT.
HUNDREDS OF THE FOLLOWERS OF FR MBAKA LAST YEAR STORMED THE HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL, ENUGU AND DESTROYED VALUABLES WORTH MILLIONS.
PRESENTLY THREE PATROL VANS FULLY LOADED WITH POLICE OPERATIVES BARRICADED THE TWO ENTRANCES TO THE STREET.
AT THE OLD MARKET ROAD, ENUGU WHERE HOLY GHOST CATHEDRAL IS SITUATED, SECURITY OPERATIVES WERE STATIONED AT VARIOUS ENTRANCES TO THE CHURCH.
THEY ARE AT THE VENUE TO FORESTALL ANY BREAKDOWN OF LAW AND ORDER
AS MEMBERS OF MBAKA’S ADORATION MINISTRY ON SUNDAY HAD TROOPED TO THE STREETS OF UMUCHIGBO TO PROTEST THE BAN ON THE ADORATION MINISTRY ENUGU, HEADED BY THE PRIEST.
THE BISHOP OF ENUGU CATHOLIC DIOCESE, MOST. REV. CALLISTUS ONAGA ON SATURDAY BANNED ALL PRIESTS AND CATHOLIC FAITHFUL FROM ATTENDING MBAKA’S ADORATION MINISTRY, FOLLOWING THE PRIEST’S SCATHING REMARKS ON LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, PETER OBI.
USAID-IHP engages Ebonyi govt on mass COVID-19 …
THE UNITED STATES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT-INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAM (USAID-IHP) HAS SAID IT HAS CONCLUDED PLANS TO BEGIN MASS COVID-19 VACCINATION IN EBONYI STATE
USAID-IHP MADE THIS KNOWN IN A MEETING HELD IN ABAKALIKI THE EBONYI STATE CAPITAL, ALONG WITH THE NEW MEMBER OF THE CONSORTIUM, SYDANI INITIATIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ENGAGED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH EBONYI STATE DR. DANIEL UMEZURIKE.
THE PROGRAMME OFFICERS CHUKWUEMEKA NEBE AND EZINNE OBETA SAID THAT THE VACCINATION WILL USE TWO STRATEGIC APPROACHES WHICH INCLUDE MASS VACCINATION, AND MOBILE/BUS OUTREACH.
CHUKWUEMEKA SAID THAT THE MASS VACCINATION TEAM WILL CONDUCT FIVE MASS VACCINATION SESSIONS PER DAY, AND 20 MASS VACCINATION SESSIONS WEEKLY FOR 5 AND A HALF MONTHS, WHILE THE MOBILE VACCINATION TEAM WILL VISIT 2 SETTLEMENTS PER DAY FOR FIVE WORKING DAYS IN THE SAME PERIOD.
HE SAID IT IS EXPECTED THAT WITHIN 22 WEEKS, THE TEAMS WOULD HAVE CONDUCTED 440 MASS VACCINATION AND 220 MOBILE OUTREACHES TARGETING A MINIMUM OF 50 PERSONS WITH COVID 19 AND 6 PERSONS, WITH ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION DAILY.
33,000 PEOPLE WILL BE REACHED WITH COVID-19 AND 3960 WITH ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION BY THE END OF THE EXERCISE.
RESPONDING, OUR CORRESPONDENT IN EBONYI STATE, EMMANUEL NNAJI, GATHERED THAT THE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH IN EBONYI STATE, DANIEL UMEZURIKE, URGED THE TEAM TO CARRY-OUT OUT THE ADVOCACY, TO THE CLERGY, TRADITIONAL RULERS, COMMUNITY MOBILIZERS, AND TOWN CRYERS AS THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO 60% OF OWNERSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY.