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RAYMOND OZOJI reports
The Nigeria Forest Security Service (NFSS) says that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda on forest security is a task that must be pursued with the vigor and vitality it truly deserves inorder to secure as well as protect the forests from brigands and undesirable elements.
By UCHE Nworah PhD
This past week, the former Governor of Old Anambra state, Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, clocked 85 years. I was in secondary school at the College of Immaculate Conception (CIC) Enugu when Jim was governor. This was before the creation of states. Anambra state then included today’s Ebonyi state, Enugu state, and the new Anambra state. This means that Jim, as he is fondly called, had a larger territory to govern.
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Festus Adedayo
A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was Providence’s own way of anticipating Nigerian Aso Rock’s nauseating historical revisionism. History’s embrace had come by the way of a terse mail I received from foremost online medium, Premium Times. The newspaper had been sent an enquiry from a South African British author on February 7, 2025, “wanting to make contact with one of your Op-Ed writers, Festus Adedayo.” The enquirer described himself as “an old Africa hand (who) lived and worked in Nigeria…(who) also wrote (a book) on the Nigerian civil war”. I immediately proceeded to make contact with the British author. One thing led to the other and the enquirer and I were glued together by Thoth, the Egyptian mythological god of writing. He then couriered to me a copy of his recent book with the title, Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African Correspondent’s Story (2022).
In a significant electoral event held today, Innocent Okoli has emerged as the winner of the Uruagu Community President-General election, securing 130 votes to lead the community for the upcoming term. Additionally, Mbazuluike Iloka was elected as Vice President-General, promising to support the President in bolstering leadership and development efforts across the 15 constituent communities.
… _As Mbah extols Speaker Abbas for compassionate leadership style_
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, Tuesday, presented a cheque for N18 million to the Enugu State Government as support to the victims of the January 25 petrol tanker explosion at Ugwu Onyeama on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, which claimed several lives.
Enugu State Government and the Management of the Lion Business Park have signed a novation Memorandum of Understanding for the new Enugu Lion Business Park Limited.
Performing the function in his office, the State governor, Dr Peter Mbah said the project will leverage the incentives associated with doing business in a Free Trade Zone to attract foreign direct investments, promote human capital, innovation and technology development as well as create jobs for shared economic prosperity for Enugu State, the South-East Geo-political Zone and Nigeria at large.
By Christian ABURIME
If charity, as they say, begins at home, then accountability as a governance virtue must also be shown first at home before being trumpeted to the world.
Since last month, when his administration clocked three years, the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has been regaling Ndi Anambra with reports of his scintillating performance.
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Festus Adedayo
On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist, compared Nigerian politics to con artistry. Their practices, he said, were not different from acts of fabulists and fraudsters. Ellis’ take on Nigerian leaders synchronizes with a Henry Louis Gate’s The New Yorker piece of September 25, 1995. With the title, “Powell and the Black Elite,” the piece quoted ex-American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, as saying, “Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvellous scammers… I mean, it is in their natural culture.”
There is crisis currently in Ihite community in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State over plan to crown a monarch for the community.
It was gathered that a section of the community loyal to the President General, Mr George Madu plans to crown chief Timothy Ifurunwa as king on Easter Saturday, a move that members of the traditional council of the community has vowed to vehemently reject, describing Ifurunwa as an illegal monarch.
RAYMOND OZOJI reports
The Executive Governor of Anambra State His Excellency Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has assured the people of Umueri community in Anambra-East Local Government Area of the state that Ugwu-Oyi road will be constructed in no distant time.
