… _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.
The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Recall that Edeoga had met with the leadership of Enugu State PDP behind closed doors on January 31, fueling speculations about his possible return to his former party.
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Festus Adedayo
"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above.
In Nigeria of a little more than a week ago, they all came in quick successions: A National Assembly where libido ran riot; a son who said his father was Nigeria’s best president; a corps member who condemned that same father as terrible and that president, when he wakes up and looks at the mirror, like Banda, sees himself as “the law”. In the hands of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria appears to have become one complex, complicated web of mess and intrigues. When a people suffer such plague of multiple, endless afflictions, my people deploy a phrasal description to denote it. So, they compare such situation to an “egbinrin òtè”. Egbinrin òtè is a situation that defies solution. It scorns the biblical exhortation that affliction would not rise a second time. Under Tinubu’s egbinrin òtè Nigeria, afflictions come in multiple folds. Literally, egbinrin òtè is leaves of conspiracy. In usage, however, it is a scary, endless tale of repetitive sorrow. The affliction is sustained by a coldblooded-ness or bloodlessness. When you cut a leaf out of the branch of this tree, another sprouts immediately. In manifestation, you can compare an egbinrin òtè situation to the biblical cursed fig tree, doomed to bring out a sap of sorrow.
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By Ejike Anyaduba
Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, a.k.a Ebube Muonso of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra state, does not need introduction. He is a household name with an Adoration Ministry that is venerated for years as solution ground by Catholics and non-Catholics in search of spiritual and physical needs. The number of worshippers that throng the Uke Adoration ground every Friday from across the states, excluding virtual participants, bespeaks of the priest as a man of unusual charisma.
By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
Following Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s efforts geared towards reclaiming major parts of Anambra State lands ravaged by gully erosion, a team of experts from the European Investment Bank (EIB) assisted Nigeria Climate Adaptation Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP-EIB), led by the National Project Coordinator, Engr. Anda Ayuba Yalaks, on Tuesday, 11th March 2025, visited some designated sites in the state to ascertain the level of the environmental degradation caused by the menace.
