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A High Court in Owerri Imo State has struck out an application by Chinyere Amuchinwa (née Igwegbe), against the hearing of Chief Ohakim’s fundamental rights case against her and the Nigeria Police Force. In the application, Lady Amuchinwa, who accused Chief Ohakim of some wrongdoings for which Ohakim had sued her, applied to the court to refer Ohakim’s case against her from the High Court to the Court of Appeal. The originating case bears Suit No HOW/717/2020. Ms Amuchinwa, in her application, argued that under the constitution, the High Court could refer a case concerning an issue of interpretation and application of the constitution.  However, Barr Aloy Ejimakor, the counsel to Chief Ohakim, argued that the case before the court concerned enforcement of fundamental rights, and not the interpretation and application of the constitution. The presiding judge, Justice I.G. Chukwunyere, upheld Ejimakor’s arguments and ruled that, “This application is pre-emotive and is therefore refused.

  The long-awaited AstraZeneca – Oxford Covid-19 vaccines have arrived Nigeria. The vaccines arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport, Abuja around noon on Tuesday, onboard an Emirates airline. At the airport to receive the vaccines were the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary General to the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha. Also present were the Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Director General, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, and the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu among others.

...As OPOCA Commences Ex-Governor's Recall Process  The recall of the former governor of Imo State and senator representing Orlu Senatorial District (Imo West), Senator Rochas Okorocha, has been endorsed by Orlu Zone stakeholders comprising the traditional rulers, Council of Elders and 12 Interim Management Committee (IMC) Chairmen from Orlu Zone. Recall that OPOCA, an apex political body in Orlu Zone has last week slammed a 48-hour ultimatum to Okorocha to apologise to Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, who is also a prominent son of Orlu Zone and Ndi Imo for "shamefully leading thugs and his domestic hoodlums to unseal a property known as Royal Spring Palm Estate located along Akachi Road, Owerri, purportedly owned by his wife that was hitherto sealed by the State Government following a gazetted White Paper emanating from a Judicial Panel of Inquiry".  But, Okorocha, appears to have dismissed the ultimatum as he neither apologised to Gov. Uzodimma nor to Imo peo

Valentine Ozigbo, the immediate past President and Group CEO of Transcorp Plc, on Saturday, February 27, 2021, commiserated with the family of late Bishop (Dr) Arthur Nwachukwu, a celebrated clergyman who was the founder and Bishop of Rhema Deliverance Mission International. Bishop Nwachukwu passed away at the age of 78.  During the condolence visit to the Nwachukwu's at their family home in Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr Ozigbo eulogized the late Bishop, describing him as "a gospel legend". "If you consider what the late Bishop Nwachukwu has achieved in this world, you can't but pay homage," the respected business leader and philanthropist said. "I am confident that Bishop's legacy of leadership and service to humanity will continue for generations to come. He was a gospel legend who has left an indelible mark in the history of Nigeria and Africa," Ozigbo added.  Ozigbo consoled the bereaved family and encouraged them

  Valentine Ozigbo, a frontrunner in the 2021 race for Anambra governorship, has submitted a feasible roadmap for "the actualisation of an Africa that helps youths reach their full potentials and by so doing, takes her rightful place in the world". Mr Ozigbo, a respected Nigerian business leader and philanthropist, offered his ideas on the liberation of the Black race on Thursday, March 26, 2021, when he received the Focus Africa Award for Service.  While speaking at the event held at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja, Ozigbo maintained that the key to rewriting the story of the Black race is in Nigeria.  "Nigeria is uniquely positioned as the most populous black nation. Nigeria has the highest number of black people living outside Africa. If we can set Nigeria on the right path of development, it would have a significant rippling effect on Africa," Ozigbo remarked.  "This is why I am offering to play a larger role in actualising the liberation of the black race

The Minister of state for Education, Hon.  Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba(PhD) has tasked the participants of the just concluded, 23rd National Junior Engineers, Technicians & Scientists (JETS) Competition to improve on the experience they gained from the competition, which he said had the vision of developing talents throughout the country. In his closing remarks, Hon Nwajiuba stated that " I have been fully briefed about the wonderful hospitality of the director/CEO and the entire staff of the center, right from the pre visit by the officials of the ministry to the centre up to this moment, I was not expecting anything less, we are all one in the federal ministry of education" He however thanked all resource persons, coordinator, accompanying teachers and students from all the states and FCT for their untiring efforts towards making the competition a great success. He commended them for their forthrightness and hardwork, which he said will go a long way in advancing science, tech