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By Ezeafurukwe Paul Ihunanya On various occasions, His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma has made it clear that the welfare of the youths remains the bedrock of the states future and to this end, the Shared Prosperity administration has continued to engineer processes to place Imo youths on the path of progress. The recent harvest by the 3R government for Imo Youths is the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF)for Young African Leaders - a flagship program of the US Government's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), open for only Imo State youths across the 36 State of the federation. This is loud considering the fact that on Wednesday  August 18th, 2021, the US Consultant in Lagos would conduct a virtual outreach to prospective applicants from Imo State. This close and direct arrangement is one of those impacts of tripod strategy of the Imo State Government under His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma. The youth-friendly Governor had ea

A total of 21 health institution across the six geopolitical zones on Thursday benefitted from Sir Emeka Offor Foundation 2021 National distribution of medicine/medical supplies at Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra state. During the presentation, the Coordinator of the foundation, Sir Tony Obi said the equipment, worth approximately N1bn was distributed based on judicious use of the items by the beneficiaries after close monitoring. He said, "Since our 18 years existence, Emeka Offor foundation, has focused on education, health and empowerment. Today is the second time we're distributing drugs to 21 selected health institutions within the six geopolitical zones. "It has become an annual event. We're not biased, we sampled opinion of people around where the institutions were located, before distribution. We have ways of monitoring the usage and those who were judicious and didn't monitized theirs were on advantage for another round.  O

Three suspected vandals were recently arraigned at the Federal High Court of Enugu State of Nigeria in the Enugu Judicial Division Holden at Enugu for their involvement in vandalizing high tension cables and insulators belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC), along Enugu-Port Harcourt Express way. The suspects identified as, Njoku Onyeka, Anayochi Onuigbo and Sunday Ude, were slammed with a four count charge of conspiracy to commit felony, unlawful damage and removal of about four rolls of high tension wires, unlawful removal of three insulators from electricity poles and unlawful meddling with about four rolls of electricity high tension cables and insulators. In a release issued today (Wednesday) by the Head of Corporate Communications, EEDC, Emeka Ezeh, he stated that the offences are punishable under Section 1(9) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap. M17 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. He equally confirmed that the suspec

Dr Godwin Maduka, the renowned Anambra born, US based Pain specialist has finally dumped the PDP for Accord Party ahead of the Anambra Gubernatorial election coming up on the 6th of November 2021. He made his intentions known in a world press conference held on the 11/08/2021 at his campaign office in Awka Anambra state. Dr Maduka, a former PDP governorship aspirant under the PDP was formally received into Accord Party by the National and state executive of the party.    While addressing newsmen, Dr Maduka said that he has come to Anambra on a mission to restore sanity and trust in Goverment and governance. He said that if elected governor that his first three priorities will be to ensure financial stability of Ndi Anambra, beef up security in the state, and ensure even development of the state to the envy of others in the country.  Dr Godwin Maduka however explained that he left the PDP for his new Party Accord, because the PDP were very unserious about the Journey to Agu

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal high court in Abuja on Wednesday refused to grant order of interim injunction sought by former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha against the  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFFCC and Imo State government to stop them  from further interfering and confiscating his properties located in various parts of the country.  The Judge held that granting the order during various challenges to the court jurisdiction in the matter will not been in the interest of justice.  Okorocha on Wednesday in Abuja had asked high court to issue a  restraining order against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFFCC and Imo State government from further interfering and confiscating his properties located in various parts of the country.  Okorocha currently representing Imo West  Senatorial district in the Senate sought the order of the Court to preserve his properties pending the resolution of court cases on-going in the matter. He comp

Rochas loses again as federal high court Abuja refused to grant order of Interim injunction to stop the absolute confistication of his illegally acquired properties by the Imo state Government and the Economic and financial crimes commission. Senator Okorocha filed the suit against the Ino state Government, Efcc and 46 others. More details loading.