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The governor of Enugu State, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi(left), in a warm handshake with the Methodist Bishop of Agbani, Rt. Rev. Udo Meregini during the New Year prayer for Enugu State civil servants at the state's secretariat, yesterday.   Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has assured workers in the state that despite the present economic challenges in the country that he would continue to pay their salaries to ensure service delivery among the work force. Governor Ugwuanyi in a brief remark on the occasion of a prayer session to usher in New Year, organized by labor in the state for civil servants at the state new secretariat complex observed that constant payment of civil servants’ salaries would also continue to activate the economy of the state. “We will continue to pay salaries, it is only when we do that, we can activate the economy of the state,” he said. The governor thanked the state organized labor and workers of Enugu   State for initiating...

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has condoled with the government and people of Oyo State on the demise of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, describing the late royal father as a patriot and sage.   Reacting to the sad development, Senator Ekweremadu said the Olubadan had left a big void that would be difficult to fill.   He said: “There is no doubt that the Olubadan was a man of integrity who spoke his mind and was always ready to defend the truth. He was a patriot and detribalized Nigerian who worked for the peace and development of the nation”.   “Although we all have to take solace in the fact that the respected royal father lived to a ripe age and led a life of service to God and humanity, we certainly would have been glad to continue to benefit from his fatherly counsel”.   He prayed God to grant the soul of the Olubadan a peaceful repose, and the nation, especially the government and people of Oyo State t...

The Member representing Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency of Lagos State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Emmanuel Oghene Ego has condemned the attempt being made by the Lagos State Government to relocate petrol tankers from Apapa to International Trade Fair Complex in his  constituency.  Egoh, is of the opinion that the trade fair and its environ was already over congested and that the vehicular traffic between Orile-Mile 2,Trade-Fair and Okokomaiko was so heavy that it would be a big mistake to compound the traffic problem by bringing tankers as well trailers to that location.  He further expressed his displeasure over this development, noting that there had been an endless agony on Lagos-Badagry Expressway on daily basis as well as a lot of robbery activities and accident due to the gridlock in that area.  Ego said: "The road is already congested by Lagos State University students, Iyanu-oba Market Traders, Vehicles a...

*Lures Nigerians In the Diaspora, Others To Invest In Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi  Ugwuanyi of Enugu State being presented with an award of international outstanding leadership from the Deputy president of Dublin City University during an awards night organized by Metro Eireann, a multi-cultural newspaper in Dublin Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state has been honored in Dublin, Ireland for his outstanding leadership both as governor of the state in the past months and his role as chairman of Nigeria’s House of Representatives committee on Marine Transport for eight years. The governor garnered an international leadership award along with other awardees, including a female Irish professor and  rights activist, Fionnuala Waldron, former Charge d’Affaires of Nigerian Embassy in Ireland and a former Nig at Radison Blu Hotel in the capital city came two days after scor erian ambassador, Benedict Onochie Amobi, among others at the event put together by ...

  The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, on Monday, told former President Olusegun Obasanjo that “Biafra is not dead and will never die”. Obasanjo, while presenting a paper entitled: “Resurgent Biafra Agitation: Born in Error, Ignorance and Frustration,” at a public discussion on Biafra, organised by Nextier Advisory in Abuja, on January 15, had said Biafra was a dead issue. The former president dismissed the current agitation for the resurrection of the Biafra secessionist agenda as a hopeless and futile exercise. Advising Nigerians, especially the people of the South-East, not to take the pro-Biafra agitators seriously, Obasanjo said, “No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror of war will ever agitate for more war. “Nigeria cannot afford to go from Boko Haram insurgency to any other insurgency under any guise. “And on no account should we wittingly or unwittingly allow this to happen again.” However, ...