EEDC notifies of planned prepaid meter upgrade, urges customers not to panic

 

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has notified its customers that by Nov. 24, 2024, all prepaid meters in its network will cease to accept credit tokens unless they are upgraded.

Lawmakers mourn colleague murdered in Enugu, demand improved welfare, security

Lawmakers in Enugu State under the aegis of the Forum of 260 Ward Councillors In Enugu State, on Tuesday mourned and held a candle light procession for late Mr Sylvester Ofunwa.

It would be recalled that Ofunwa, the Councillor representing Eha-Ulo Ward in Nsukka Local Government Area, was murdered by suspected hoodlums within his house at his home-town in Eha-Alumona community on Sunday, July 16

NEMA calls for proactive communities’ involvement in flood mitigation in South-East

 

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called for proactive communities’ involvement in mitigating flood disaster in the South-East as communities remained critical stakeholders in checking flood disasters and losses.

The Zonal Coordinator of NEMA South-East, Mrs Ngozi Echeazu, made the call while speaking with newsmen  in Enugu on Wednesday on proactive steps taken by the Agency before now.

We Have Gotten Approval To Float Anambra State Owned Football Team - Iloenyosi

 

  Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu

The Chairman of Anambra State Football Association (ANSFA), Gen Chikelue Iloenyosi, says that approval for Anambra State to own a football team just like other States in the country has been granted.

 Iloenyosi made the announcement at Awka City Stadium during a press conference which preceded the round of 16 match between Awka Capital Elite Football Club (ACE FC) and Nkpor Veterans Recreation Club.

NUJ, Anambra Govt bicker over alleged shut down of National Light Newspapers

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has criticized Gov. Chukwuma Soludo led administration in Anambra for allegedly shutting down the Anambra State-owned National Light Newspapers without any reason made public.

Tinubu as "Sobia" in need of Oluganbe leaf

 

Festus Adedayo 

Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political party panegyrists and their hirelings, in response to the harrowing pains that accompanied the policies, lapped up the time-worn cliché of “Rome was not built in a day” as requests for national patience. Why not allow a window into the counterpoise of that cliché, to wit that Rome was not destroyed in a day? With my eyes of metaphor, I see an unfolding disaster of Sobia that is afflicting villagers and townsmen.

Breakfast with Yebo Gogo, Kole Omotoso

 

Festus Adedayo 

In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of the lot. I had read Omotoso’s works with doting wonder and imagined if he wasn’t a gnome or some genie. So, this day in September, as we drove towards the then pot-holes ridden Oda road to honour an appointment given us by the professor, I fantasized that I would meet a hippo. We waddled through a forest-like jungle into his home. We were later shocked to see that it lacked electricity but Omotoso didn’t mind.

APGA Government Shutdown School without investigation.

 

By Karen James 

As the report of an alleged incident at Blessed Wisdom Model School Onitsha, claiming that the school flogged a child one miss Ifechkwu Egnuniwe of 2 years has come to light, we the Pechilly Investigative Channel team conducted an investigation to examine the veracity of these claims. That leads to the shutting down of the school. 

Sexualising Minor: Ibadan prankster, TrinityGuy released on Bail

 

Popular Ibadan-based prankster Abdullahi Mahruf, also known as Trinityguy has been released on bail from detention at the Agodi correctional centre in Ibadan.  

One of his colleagues Abdul Gafar Ahmad Oluwatoyin, popularly known as Cute Abiola confirmed this on through a Facebook post on Friday.

Ending sit-at-home: CP charges police personnel to maintain tempo of commitment

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has charged police officers and men to maintain the current tempo of commitment in order to end illegal sit-at-home in the state.