Anambra State Govt To Establish Special Courts For Children
COMMISSIONER FOR WOMEN AND SOCIAL WELFARE, IFY OBINABO SAYS PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL COURTS FOR CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN THE STATE.
UNTH Resident Doctors decry attack by patients’ relatives
THE ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENT DOCTORS, ARD, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA TEACHING HOSPITAL HAS CONDEMNED THE RENEWED ATTACK ON DOCTORS ON DUTY BY PATIENTS’ RELATIVES.
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.
NEMA advises south-east residents to relocate from river banks
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised South-East residents in low lands, river banks and flood plains to relocate before the peak of the rainy season to escape the menace of flooding.
Soludo Marks World Environment Day
AS ANAMBRA STATE JOINED THE REST OF THE WORLD TO COMMEMORATE THE 2022 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, GOVERNOR CHUKWUMA SOLUDO HAS CALLED FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONS ON A GLOBAL SCALE TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT.
EMBATTLED STATE PDP PARTY CHAIRMAN IN EBONYI STATE, SAYS HE REMAINS STATE CAHIRMAN:
THE EMBATTLED STATE PDP CHAIRMAN OF EBONYI STATE, SILAS ONU HAS CALLED ON MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO IGNORE ANY LETTER WRITTEN TO THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION, (INEC), PURPORTING THAT THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT THAT DECLARED HIM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PDP, IN EBONYI STATE HAS BEEN OVERTURNED.
Okorocha Denies Suing FG over Rights Violation
Meanwhile, Okorocha, has debunked reports saying that he has sued the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and demanded N1bn damages over the invasion of his home in Abuja by the operatives of EFCC, last week.
Court grants Okorocha bail
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted N500m bail to a former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okoroch
ANAMBRA AGRIC COMMISSIONER CAUTIONS FARM INPUTS BENEFICIARIES AGAINST CONTAMINATION
THE ANAMBRA STATE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER FOSTER IHEJIOFOR HAS CHARGED BENEFICIARIES OF THE FGN/IFAD-VCDP FARM INPUTS UNDER COVID-19 RURAL POOR STIMULUS FACILITY GRANT TO PUT THEM TO WORK ACCORDING AS GUIDED BY EXTENSION WORKERS.
ANAMBRA STATE GOVT CONSOLES HUSBAND OF HARIRI JUBRIL KILLED BY GUNMEN ALONGSIDE FOUR CHILDREN
THE ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT HAS CONDOLED WITH JUBRIL AHMED, THE HUSBAND OF LATE HARIRI JUBRIL WHO WAS KILLED ALONGSIDE HER FOUR CHILDREN BY YET-TO-BE IDENTIFIED GUNMEN IN ANAMBRA.