Author: Saint Augustine

A non-governmental organization, Anioma Youth Network for Development (AYND) has called on Delta State Government to urgently save communities being ravaged by erosion in the state from further destruction and also fix roads that are fast becoming impassable as a result of poor drainage system. In a statement issued by the National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Odita Sunday and the National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Frank Oshanugor, the organization wondered why the government has continuously paid deaf ears to cries of communities in Delta State whose roads have become impassable in recent years. According to them, such include Issele-Uku/Onicha Olona…

Just as the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced to the entire world that Nigeria has exited economic recession, the Managing Director of the Cowry Assets Management Limited, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has said that the real estate and the trade sectors are still in recession. It will be recalled that the Nigerian economy last plunged into recession, a development which saw many states unable to meet their obligations to civil servants. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos on Nigeria’s exit from the economic recession, Chukwu said,”Let us look at what happened in the last of quarters, you…

…Arrests an officer, terminal clerk for complicity Determined to rid the nation of illegal arms importation, the Tincan Island Customs command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted a total of one thousand, one hundred (1,100) rifles falsely declared as wash hand basins and water closets. It will be recalled that two previous cases of six hundred and sixty-one (661) pump action rifles from the Apapa ports and four hundred and forty (440) pump action rifles from the Tincan Island ports, all in Lagos, were intercepted by the customs earlier this year and were already in court. The present…

Echoes from the successful Mothers’ Summit 2017 continues with the call by the wife of the governor of Anambra State, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano on Anambra women not to go in pursuit of career and neglect the important task of motherhood. Mrs. Obiano gave the advice in her address during the fourth edition of Mothers’ Summit held at Prof. Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka during the week. Represented by the Commissioner for Social Welfare, Children and Women Affairs, Dr. Victoria Chikwelu, Mrs. Obiano called on mothers to make out time for proper upbringing of their children. According to the…

By Kayode Farinto I read with consternation and disbelief the claims by NCS Tincan Island command ,that Compt. Bashar has directed that the Customs Intelligent Unit (CIU) stoppage of containers at the exit gates be discontinued in line with the federal government Presidential Directives on Ease of Doing Business.This is fallacy of the century because CIU stoppage of dully released consignments was the invention of Compt. Bashar ‘s administration. It was not part of clearance procedure in Tincan before the advent of his administration. This was introduced at the inception of his administration. I wouldn’t have reacted ordinarily but because…

The Anambra state government has described as incorrect and misleading a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) which listed the state as one of the states owing arrears of salaries, pension and gratuities. A statement signed in Awka by the Honourable Commissioner for Information and Communication Strategy, Anambra state, Ogbuefi Tony Nnacheta noted that the state was not owing workers’ salaries, pensions and gratuities. “On the contrary, since the inception of the Obiano administration, Anambra has been more alive to its obligation to workers including retirees and pensioners. “It is on record for instance, that in year 2015,…

Following the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that Nigeria has exited recession, a financial expert, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has said that the exit of the country out of recession does not necessarily translate to improved standard of living for citizens or to low cost of living. Chukwu who made this assertion in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos observed that”if people are waiting, expecting that their fortunes would have improved because the economy improved by 3.5%, I think that that expectation will be dashed until the economy begins to grow at materially above the population…

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edgal Imohimi has ordered the officer in charge of ‘X’ SQUAD to arrest three police officers who were caught extorting motorists along Surulere area of the State. A statement issued in Lagos Friday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police disclosed that the Commissioner had also ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCP) in-charge of Administration of Lagos command to issue the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in-charge of the area a query as well as report the conduct of the DPO to higher authorities for poor supervision…

… Vows to fight for his 2nd term … We have adopted Gov. Obiano as our son – Igwe Onyido The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano was earlier today honoured by the Ogidi Community in Idemili North Local Government Area, at the Palace of their traditional ruler, Igwe Pharm A. Onyido during the 2017 Ilo Mmo festival. Expressing happiness over the turn out of the people of Ogidi to witness the conferment of the title on him, Gov. Willie Obiano, the “Dike Eji Eje Mba” 1 of Ogidi promised to work very hard to “fit his feet into…

…As NGO donates school materials to the less privileged At a time Nigeria’s universities are shut down as a result of strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); a former member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Honourable (Prince) Ned Nwoko has described the youths as hope of the future if their potentials could be harnessed through quality education. This assertion was made during a recent Back to School Programme organized at Onicha-Ugbo in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State by Anioma Youths Network for Development (AYND); a non-governmental organization(NGO). The former lawmaker was chairman of the…