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Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
As the forthcoming 2011 general elections in Nigeria draws nearer, the President , Dr. Goodluck Jonathan , has reminded the youth of this country as stakeholders in the contest of their responsibility to ensure that the will of the people prevail by ensuring the availability of a peaceful atmosphere for them to cast their votes [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has urged two governors to see their conferment with honorary doctorate degrees by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as a call to greater service to humanity.
The Governors are Chief Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Alhaji Danjuma Goje of Gombe State.
Jonathan made the call in Nsukka in Enugu State on Saturday [...]
Chief Ikechi Emenike, a PDP Governorship aspirant in Abia, said in Umuahia that Governor Theodore Orji’s defection from PPA to APGA had not liberated the state from bondage.
“It is not enough for Orji to say that Abia has been liberated from bondage because nothing has changed,” Emenike, the ANPP governorship candidate for Abia in 2007, [...]
Journalists practicing in the South East Zone of the country have expressed worry over the state of insecurity in the zone occasioned by the increasing rate of kidnapping and arm banditry.
In a six-point communiqué issued at the end of a one-day meeting of the Zone C of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) comprising Abia, [...]
Prof. Dora Akunyili, the Minister of Information and Communication, has urged Nigerian universities to restore the sanctity of examinations.
Akunyili said while delivering the UNN 39th convocation lecture at Nsukka, Enugu State, on Thursday that the call was necessary for the Nigeria Re-branding Project to be meaningful in the universities.
She said in the lecture titled, “Rebranding Nigerian Universities”, that there was need to restore the sanctity of examination [...]
All staff-based unions in Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) have embarked on indefinite strike action over non-payment of the Consolidated University Academic Staff Salaries (CONUASS) agreed between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last year, by the state government.
Besides the salary impasse, the unions are also bitter that their members [...]
All staff-based unions in Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) have embarked on indefinite strike action over non-payment of the Consolidated University Academic Staff Salaries (CONUASS) agreed between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last year, by the state government.
Besides the salary impasse, the unions are also bitter that their members [...]
The Chairman of the Association for Comprehensive Empowerment of Nigerians with Disability (ASCEND) in Anambra, Ms Hope Ngwube, has called on the state government and corporate groups to assist people with disability.
Ngwube made the call in Awka last Friday at a Wheelchair Nigeria Pageant ceremony.
She said issues concerning physically challenged persons in Nigeria had always [...]
The National Industrial Court sitting at Abuja has issued orders restraining the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) Enugu State Branch and all those they represent from embarking on any form of industrial action regarding their duties as employees in the State Judiciary, pending the hearing of the motion on notice brought against them by [...]
The Enugu State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Hyginus Foumsuk, has appealed to the state government to assist the commission with a 50-ton tow truck.
Foumsuk said that the truck would assist the commission in evacuating vehicles and clearing traffic at the Onyema Hill portion of the dual carriage in Enugu.
Speaking [...]
