Author: Saint Augustine

…Says allegation handiwork of political propagandists                  The Anambra State Government has described as untrue the allegation that it has expended a whooping two billion Dollars ($2,000,000,000.00) on the ongoing Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport located at Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Anambra State, Mr. C. Don Adinuba who denied the allegation in a statement in Awka on Tuesday noted that since the test-landing of two commercial aircraft belonging to Air Peace and a corporate jet belonging to the Chairman of the Anambra State Investment Promotion and…

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is seeking direct and effective engagements between Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and regulatory agencies for enhanced transactions, communication and responsive feedback mechanism. Dr. Muda Yusuf, Director-General, LCCI, made this known in a press statement made available to the media following a study by the Chamber and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). The study was titled: “Transactional Accountability, Process Consistency and Operational Transparency.” Yusuf said the study was administered on business owners, senior managers and personnel responsible for interfacing with the regulatory agencies in three cities- Aba, Kano and Lagos…

…Set to begin Local Government Area tour All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) 2021 Gubernatorial Aspirant, Hon. Nonso Smart Okafor has hosted the Chairmen and Secretaries of the party in the 21 Local Government Area of Anambra State. Hon. Nonso Smart Okafor who hosted the Chairmen and Secretaries on Sunday 2nd May, 2021 to intimate them of his Governorship ambition, said that the executives of the party at all levels remain the conscience of the party. According to him, their efforts and commitment to the party is what has continued to position APGA for electoral victory, noting that every effort should…

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command have intercepted 753 live ammunition of General-Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) concealed in a sack being transported in a commercial vehicle from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to Umuahia in Abia State. In a statement signed by Frank Mba, Force Public Relations Officer and made available to the National Association of Online Security Reporters (NAOSRE), the intelligence-driven covert operation, which led to the interception and recovery of the deadly ammunition, is part of efforts by the Force to identify and crack down on criminal networks and supply chains for weapons…

By Vincent Gerald Onwudinjo Professor Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, OSA presented his Inaugural Lecture on 18th February, 2021, at Tansian University, Umunya–a University that was the brain child of the late but evergreen Monsignor Prof. John Bosco Uchechukwu Akam. The Inaugural Lecture was the first of its kind in the history of the University. Professor Kanu is a man of many parts. Born in the early 80s, the Arondizuogu native was ordained a priest for the Augustinian Order in Nigeria, more than a decade ago. As a lover of academics and a gifted scholar, he quickly did his postgraduate studies at…

By Emmanuel Obe It is my most audacious project. That is how Governor Willie Obiano described Anambra International Passenger and Cargo Airport, the newest airport in Nigeria located at Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area. True. It is the most ambitious project ever executed by the government of Anambra State since it was created in 1991, and I dare say the old Anambra State created in 1976. And Governor Obiano has good reason to congratulate himself and his government for this rare feat. And it is not because of the fact that it is the first time a state government…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), as part of efforts to implement the Nigerian Port Process Manual (NPPM) through collaboration, paid a courtesy visit to the Port Health Services (PHS), in Abuja. Speaking at the event, Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Office of the Council, Mr. Hassan Bello emphasized the need to clean up the ports by embracing orderliness, efficiency and zero corruption. He described the NPPM as a useful and important manual that all relevant agencies in the port system should abide by. He stated that since doing business at the ports is tied to time, there is a need for the…

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone B, Kaduna in its usual tradition has presented a record of its stewardship in the last three weeks of April, 2021. Comptroller Al-Bashir Hamisu in a briefing with newsmen in his office in Kaduna today yesterday, revealed that his Unit made one hundred and twenty-two seizures within a period of three weeks of its operations from 9 – 29 April, 2021. Items showcased to the press during the briefing include one thousand, seven hundred and eleven (1, 711) bags of foreign parboiled rice, five hundred and ninety one (591) cartons of foreign spaghetti and…

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has called on the Lagos House of Assembly to immediately review and amend the ‘Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law 2021’ which was recently signed into law by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. HEDA said the law which on the surface looks like a progress in the fight against corruption, is actually an attempt to cripple the anticorruption campaign. The law establishes a new anti-corruption agency in Lagos, namely, Lagos State Public Complaints and Anticorruption Commission, which will have the exclusive rights to investigate financial crimes and corruption cases involving the…

…Directs closer ties between NAGAFF and ITMT The founder of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam was yesterday conferred and decorated as a grand Fellow of the Institute of Transport and Management Technology (ITMT). The event which took place at the Neni Hall of the popular Rockview Hotels, Apapa in Lagos witnessed the NAGAFF leadership, members of NAGAFF, friends of NAGAFF including the National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Iju Tony Nwabunike and the media in attendance. Dr. Aniebonam is the third Nigerian after Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni…