Day: May 29, 2024

An Enugu-based Company, Second Coming Nigeria Ltd, has offered 30 per cent price reduction in cooking gas to 4,000 residents of Enugu State to celebrate Governor Peter Mbah one-year in office. The company cut the prices of cooking gas from N960 to N672, which amounts to over N20 million subsidy, for 4,000 residents coming with their 12kg gas cylinders patronizing its four branches scattered within the state. Declaring the reduction of prices of cooking gas open at the company’s plant on Wednesday in Abakpa-Nike, along Enugu-Nsukka Road, Gov. Mbah said…

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The Nigeria Air Force, NAF, says the air component of operations Hadarin Daji and Hadin Kai have eliminated 30 terrorists in airstrikes in their hideouts in Katsina and Borno. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Gabkwet said the airstrikes undertaken by the air component of Operation Hadarin Daji in North West on May 27, eliminated several terrorists loyal to a notorious terrorist kingpin known as Babura. He said the strikes were conducted around Bakai, Bakarya, and…

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By NewsBits The President of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Students Union, Comrade Oshim Nwankwagu has claimed that the final year student of the institution, Miss Favour Ugwuka, who earlier was said to have committed Suicide, was after all murdered by some persons yet to be identified. Comrade Nwankwagu further insisted that the deceased had been beaten in her hostel by the same accused individuals prior to her death. The EBSU Students Union President made the disclosure to reporters at the permanent site of the University in Abakiliki the state Capital…

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By NewsBits The judiciary may be attempting to cause more tension and confusion in Kano state as courts of coordinate jurisdiction sitting in different states have issued conflicting orders on who should remain as Emir of the ancient city. Few hours after Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano High Court sitting on Miller Road issued an order restraining the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and Nigerian military from evicting the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, another court, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano ordered the eviction…

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By Tony Adibe As the world celebrated this year’s Childrens’ Day, an Abuja-based Non-governmental Organization (NGO), the Queen Precious Nwodo Foundation (QPNF) has celebrated over 300 indigent children with huge fun, including singing and dancing, spelling bee, sack race, egg race competitions, among others. NewsBits reports that the fun-filled, thrilling event was the maiden edition – the first of its kind in the neighborhood of SS Simon and Jude Nursery and Primary School, Agu Abor, Trans Ekulu, Enugu – sponsored by the QPNF, in collaboration with other partners. The event…

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A professor in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Head of Department (HOD) Special Needs education Prof Mrs Victoria Onu have stumbled on a family in Eha-Alumona community Enugu State, where members are physically challenged without any means of livelihood for decades of their health challenges. Prof. Mrs Onu first female Professor of Creativity in Africa said that she has been shouldering the challenges of the family for the past eight years she came in contact with the family at Umabor village Eha-Alumona, Nsukka local government area, Enugu State. Professor Onu…

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The UK Home Office has been faulted for the death of a Sri Lankan man identified as Sudharsan Ithayachandran after he was deported to his home country. The 41-year-old, who admitted to the use of false documents and working illegally at a British multinational retailer -Tesco, was sent packing from the UK on December 24, 2019, leaving behind his deaf wife, Subatra; and his two children, aged eight and nine. According to the UK Guardian on Monday, all three are British citizens. The said date of deportation, however, marked his…

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The Hon. President of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice Benedict Kanyip, PhD, OFR has declared the tenure policy of the Federal Government that provides that a Director or its equivalent by whatever nomenclature described in MDAs shall compulsorily retire upon serving eight years on the post; and a Permanent Secretary shall hold office for a term of four years and renewable for a further term of four years, subject to satisfactory performance as contained in the Public Service Rules as valid. The Court ruled that the assertion of the…

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