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Monday, September 16th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its contribution in enthroning credible Chairmen and Councillors in the upcoming Enugu state local government areas election slated for 21st, September, 2024, ActionAid Nigeria, in partnership with her implementing partner in the state, South Saharan Social Social Development Organization (SSDO) have trained 120 youths as election Observers ahead of […]
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Sunday, September 15th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State, Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has given security agencies in the state 48 hours to fish out killers of the Chairman of Ogbete Main Market Traders Association, OMMATA, Chief Stephen Aniagu, vowing that no one would commit such heinous crime in the state under his watch and go scot-free. He equally […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Enugu city as unknown gunmen suspected to be hired assassin’s Saturday night murdered President of the Ogbete Main market Traders Association OMMTA, Enugu, Chief Stephen Aniagu. He was said to have been killed by his assailants who shot him at close range at Top land area of Enugu while […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN – EXAMINER) – Barrister Vincent Okafor, a Lagos, South-West, Nigeria based senior lawyer has been arraigned and remanded in Enugu correctional Center custody by the police over alleged promotion of local war in his hometown, Agunese Mmaku community in the Awgu Council Area of Enugu State. The legal practitioner’s arraignment brings to three natives […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of 4 substantive Commissioners of Police for Abia, Lagos, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom state Commands A statement by the Commission’s Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, made available to newsmen Friday said the appointments followed the recent promotion of some senior Police Officers by the commission which […]
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Monday, September 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government has issued a stern warning to butchers and poultry farmers in the state to desist from the unwholesome practice of sale of animals and chickens that died under mysterious circumstances. Our correspondent reports that the warning was contained in a press statement jointly signed by the Commissioner for […]
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Saturday, September 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo Government has announced an indefinite postponement of resumption of all schools in the state over the hike in fuel price. The government announced this, in a memo by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Ojo Akin-Longe, in Benin on Saturday. The permanent secretary said the resumption, scheduled for Sept. […]
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Thursday, September 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Natives of Ikolo Community in Igbo-Etiti Council area of Enugu State, South East Nigeria, have called on the state governor, Dr. Peter Mbah to as a matter of urgency, expedite action in demarcating the disputed boundary between them and sister community, Aku Community in same local government area, saying the disputed boundary […]
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the All progressives Congress (APC) has warned its recently suspended former Chairman, Mr. Ugochukwu Agballa, against dragging name of the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Abdulahi Umar Ganduje into the current political mess he is currently facing. Recall that Agballa, who defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the low level of exclusive breastfeeding practice among nursing mothers continues unabated in Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has stressed the importance of such natural food to newborn babies, saying it’s their fundamental right to be exclusively breastfed for six months and upward of two years. While urging nursing […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In line with his administration’s promise to reverse the flow of medical tourism, the governor Peter Mbah led administration in Enugu State has announced that it is embarking on the construction of a 250-bed, ultramodern quaternary health facility to be known as the Enugu International Hospital. This was disclosed by the Commissioner […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants and parents of one hundred youths of Enugu state that took part in the just concluded 3- day youth boot camp organized by the Custos Care Foundation (CCF), founded by Wife of then state governor, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, have applauded the organization for the kind gesture. The programme held at Nike […]
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Thursday, August 29th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Community leader, and Igweship Aspirant for Ishienu Amofu Nkerefi Community in Nkanu East Council area of Enugu state, Hon. Ogbuefi Sunday Mbah (SMC) has applauded governor Peter Mbah over the appointment of their kinsman, Barrister Chimaobi Okorie as the new state Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development. The Monarch hopeful, in […]
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Monday, August 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the incessant harassment and intimidation of journalists in Nigeria, saying recent incidents of abductions, arbitrary arrests, detention and other forms of attacks against media professionals by security and law enforcement agencies have reached alarming levels and posed a grave danger to media freedom and democracy in […]
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Monday, August 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nsukka local government area on Sunday emerged overall winner of the just concluded U- 15 Enugu youth games held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, with a total 21 gold 11 silver and 11 Bronze just as they smiled home with one Million naira. Oji River the first runners up went home […]
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Monday, August 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the age long traditional practices that denies widows, girl-child, orphans, and other vulnerable persons rights to inheritance in Igbo land, a non governmental organization, Women and Orphans Rights to Family Assets Foundation WORFAF, has taken a sensitization campaign to the church as part of measure to change the ugly narrative. […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug law Enforcement Agency NDLEA Enugu state command has vowed to fight drug abuse in the state through traditional rulers and town union president Generals (PGs) across the 17 local government areas in the state. State commander of the Agency, Mr. Abel Sanu Wadashi who stated this noted that the […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu-based non governmental organization NGO, Custos Care Foundation, (CCF), founded by Wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, is set to host the biggest youth Boot Camp event in Enugu State under its Enugu Youth Aspire (E-ASPIRE) Project. The project is targeting 100 youths from across the state, made up […]
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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Internal Revenue Service, ESIRS, has hinted that it’s application of disruptive innovation in tax collection has yielded tremendous dividends in the past one year, saying it generated N35.9 billion within seven months of 2024, as against 33.9 billion that the state collected in the whole of 2023. Recall that […]
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Thursday, August 22nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Determined to rid the state of criminal elements, the Enugu State Police command has disclosed that it apprehended a total of 123 suspects between July and August 2024. The state commissioner of police CP, Kanayo Uzuegbu who made this known while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters on Thursday, said the operational […]
