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By Johnson Nwankwo Senator Ben Obi, chairman of the Central Burial Committee for the burial of the late president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has said only the central burial committee set up by the Southeast Governors' Forum is authentic. Obi stated this in Abuja during the inauguration of sub-committees and the Local Organizing Committees (LOC) at the Imo State Lodge, Asokoro, ahead of the burial. The outcome of the meeting was contained in a release issued by the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Alex Ogbonnia. Senator Obi therefore advised other bodies planning to…

By Johnson Nwankwo Daniel Sunday Onuoha, founder of Peace of Yahweh Synagogue and Eastern Judaism, Monday, wrote to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to free the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, "to avoid the impending catastrophe waiting to occur". Onuoha stated this in an open letter he addressed to President Tinubu. He said Kanu is "a prophet of the most high God on a mission". Quoting him, "There is no need telling you the details of how Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was arrested/kidnapped by the previous administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The warning mandated to me…

By Jonathan Okpanachi President Bola Tinubu will soon launch the 1,500 Renewed Hope housing units at Unguwar Rimi in Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, stated this while inspecting the new site for the second phase of the Kano City project on Sunday. Dangiwa said the president had approved the project and would personally inaugurate the groundbreaking ceremony soon. Quoting him, "This initiative marks a major expansion following the commencement of 500 housing units in Lambu, also within Tofa Local Government Area. “The Renewed Hope housing scheme is…

By Johnson Nwankwo Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has announced this September as the commencement of the N70, 000 minimum wage in the state. Nwifuru announced this during the grand finale of the Ojiji Izhi New Yam Festival 2024. He said he had directed concerned government authorities to draft out modalities for the payment of the new minimum wage. He frowned at the way government projects awarded as contracts to prominent leaders of the state were handled. He mentioned the housing estates at Izo Autonomous Community in Ishielu Local Government as one of such. He ordered the state…

By Johnson Nwankwo Gov Babajide Sanwolu of Lagos State has ordered investigations into the death of the commissioner of police, Akwa Ibom State, CP Waheed Ayilara. The CP died after a prostrate cancer surgery on Wednesday. It was conducted at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Thursday. Lagos Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, Saturday, said a medical panel had been constituted to probe the death of Ayilara. According to him, “In the light of the circumstances surrounding his passing, happening some hours after an apparently uneventful surgery, the ministry of health, following a directive from Mr Governor, has constituted a…

By Johnson Nwankwo Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Wednesday, described the video calling for food poisoning of Yoruba and Benin natives as a product of "a depressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestration." The viral video, @Anyi_anambra on tiktok, is asking the Igbo to put poison in the foods of Yoruba and Benin people, with a lady character promising "to encourage other Igbo to poison Yoruba and Benin people”. She urged Ndigbo to "get heart of wickedness and to start poisoning Yoruba and Edo; to put ota pia-paia, eat and die sniper; I…

By Hadiza Suleman About 810,726 mangrove seedlings have been planted by the Hydrocarbon Carbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to restore the degraded Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. The Project Coordination Office (PCO) of HYPREP stated this in a release. It added that it targets to restore 560 hectares of lost mangrove areas destroyed by oil extractive activities in Ogoniland. The body revealed that it had contracted nine companies that are currently carrying out the mangrove planting in Bomu in Gokana LGA, adding that the restoration also involved the removal of Nipa palms which are threatening mangrove vegetation in the shorelines.…