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Prominent personalities of Southeast extract have continued to pay glowing tribute to the late British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who died last week Thursday at the age of 96, describing her as a great woman and world-class leader whose legacies as British monarch would remain indelible in this century. The Chairman, Imo Traditional Rulers’ Council, Eze Emmanuel Okeke, described the Queen as a great mother, whose memory would remain indelible […]

The former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu has asked the Federal High Court Abuja to dismiss the suit by David Ukpo seeking to stop the release of his bio-data to the London Court in the alleged organ harvesting case. In a counter affidavit, Ekweremadu, who denied the allegations that he demanded Ukpo’s bio-data, said Ukpo has no basis to entertain any fear in the release of his visa […]

The lead counsel to the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, yesterday said that the case between Nnamdi Kanu, and the Federal government has been brought forward to 13th September 2022 from the earlier date of 11th October 2022 at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Ejiofor who made this known in Owerri, attributed the change of date to the continuous prayers by the members […]

The Federal Executive Council FEC yesterday in Abuja approved the sum of 829.8 million Naira as the revised estimated cost for the rehabilitation of the Nkwo-Inyi-Akpugoze road linking Anambra and Enugu States which was originally awarded in 2018 because it is a strategic interstate road that had heavy traffic. Minister of State for Works and Housing Umar El-Yakub, revealed the revised contract figure to newsmen at the end of the council’s weekly […]

Some members of the Nkerehi community in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State have rejected the change of their community’s name from Nkerehi to Umuchukwu. The protesters who were at the Government House, Awka to lodge their complaints and grievances to the knowledge of the governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo said they have been in bondage in their land, alleging that a certain influential member of their community was […]

A development scientist Chigozie Anarado, says the completion of the second Niger Bridge connecting Asaba from the west to Onitsha from the east, would be of immense benefit to the development of trade and commerce in the Southeast. Anarado, who spoke as a guest yesterday on the Urban Radio political program The Parliament, noted that the new bridge would ease the traffic density on the first Niger bridge as well […]