Category: ARTS & LIFESTYLE

By Tony Adibe The Rwandan High Commissioner-Designate, Christopher Bazivamo has encouraged the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA) and indeed, the business community in the southeast zone of Nigeria to take advantage of the abundant business opportunities in Rwanda. Ambassador Bazivamo said that the investors in southeast needed a larger space for their business expansion. He said the ease of doing business in Rwanda is so guaranteed that the Rwandan government has a free-visa policy for all Africans travelling to Rwanda. “This is to ensure free movement…

The Federal Government has initiated a process to resolve challenges bordering on the supply and pricing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in the country’s domestic market better known as cooking gas. A statement by Louis Ibah, spokesman for the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, said the minister waded into the issue following a rise in the price of LPG per kg from about N700 to above N1,100 in some parts of the country. He said the meeting, at the instance of the minister, which was held at the…

An Awka Chief Magistrates’ Court, otherwise known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, has remanded a Catholic Priest, “Rev”. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen to the Nigerian Correctional Center, for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager. The priest was also accused of forcefully taking the pregnant minor to Benin City, Edo State, where she was delivered of her baby, but police investigation revealed that the whereabouts of the said baby is still unknown. The offence of sexual intercourse with a minor, is punishable under section 34(2) of…

By NewsBits The founder of Christ High Commission Church, Araromi-Ugbesi, in Omuo-Oke, Ekiti State, Pastor Noah Abraham, has been accused of snatching and impregnating the wife of his choirmaster. The church choir coordinator, Dare Ikuenayo alleged that Abraham announced in the church that he had taken his wife and there was nothing anybody could do. Ikuenayo said the cleric deceitfully snatched the mother of his three children when he told him that she had the gift of prophecy, and she should allow her to stay with him. “I joined the…

By Tony Adibe Enugu State Government has said that it was targeting no fewer than 1.1 million infants between the ages of 0 and five years for polio and other routine immunisations in the state. Flagging off the National Immunisation Days in Enugu State at Abakpa-Nike Health Centre, the Commissioner of Health, Prof. Emmanuel Obi, said that the state government was specially focusing on sound health and education development of every child. Obi noted that this special focus was to realize the government vision of having well nurtured children for…