Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 5 years of experience covering metro, government policy, and international events Abakaliki, Ebonyi state Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has approved the payment of N75,000 new minimum wage to civil servants in the state. Nwifuru made this known shortly after a Holy Mass at Government House Chapel, Abakaliki on Sunday, October 27. He also disclosed that implementation of the new minimum wage for civil servants in the state would commence on Monday, October 28, 2024. The governor said the decision to increase the minimum wage followed a…
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Caregivers Training/ Intensive Institute, Imo State, Holds Graduation Ceremony
By Nkechi Ojukwu In accordance with the school’s curriculum and a caterer to be certified as a student of the school, CAREGIVERS TRAINING/INTENSIVE INSTITUTE has graduated it’s second batch of students last weekend in Owerri, Capital of Imo State. Chatting with Journalists after the graduation ceremony, the Rector of the Institute, His Lordship, Bishop Athan Azubike , reaffirmed that, the Institute is thea first of it’s kind in the entire South East of Nigeria. He explained that as the school stands out because of it’s policy of giving one…
Read More11 Year-old Girl Survives US Home Shooting By ‘Playing Dead’ As Brother Guns Down Five Family Members
15-year-old boy has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder after allegedly killing his parents and three siblings in a tragic shooting at their home in eastern Seattle. The victims, identified by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office as Mark Humiston, 43, his wife Sarah Humiston, 42, and their children Katheryn, 7, Joshua, 9, and Benjamin, 13, were all found dead at the scene. According to an affidavit of probable cause filed by King County Sheriff’s Detective Aaron Thompson, the family’s 11-year-old daughter survived the massacre by playing dead…
Read More‘Illiterate Population’ – Soludo Speaks On Failed Campaign Promise Of Making Anambra Dubai-Taiwan
The Anambra State Governor, Charles Chukuwma Soludo, has explained why he is yet to fulfil his campaign promise of making the state ‘Dubai-Taiwan of Nigeria.’ Naijaonpoint reports that Soludo, while speaking at a recent event, said some people feel making Anambra ‘Dubai-Taiwan’ is being able to see skyscrapers spring up everywhere overnight. However, Souldo said that is not the case, as he cannot do that with an ‘illiterate population.’ Soludo emphasized that education is needed to bring his campaign promise to reality. In other news, the ongoing crisis between Anambra…
Read MoreOru East LG Boss Swears in Councillors.
By Joseph Nwachukwu The new Executive Chairman of Oru East LGA, Imo state, Chief Nnamdi Okwaraigwe last Tuesday, October 15, swears in the ten newly elected Councillors of the ten wards in Oru East. Performing the ceremony,Hon Nnamdi Okwaraigwe thanked the executive Governor of Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma for conducting the Local Government election that ushered them in. He assured the people of Oru East of adequate dividends of democracy as he urged the new Councillors to make good bye laws that would improve the economy, social and political…
Read MoreAfter 5 Months In Maternity: Imo Journalist, Takes Twin Babies Homes, Donates Cash, Food Stuff To Family.
An Activist journalist and a Human Rights defender, Chidiebube Okeoma, has helped a set of twin boys to go home after their delivery since May 4, but were unable to go home because their parents’ inability to pay the hospital bill. Okeoma, in a statement in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Saturday, said that the state Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, should be commended for his professional and fatherly intervention which ensured that the twin boys who were delivered over five months ago went home despite the doctor’s insistence…
Read MoreBIAFRA: Kanu’s Reps Member- Aguocha Meets Him, Resolves DSS Restriction On Lawyers.
…Kanu has now received private medicare,lawyers now see him” The House of Representatives member from Ikwuano, Umuahia North and South Federal constituency, Obi Aguocha,in response to the blockade imposed by the Department of State Security,DSS has met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Hon. Aguocha physically met with Kanu on Thursday, October 24,at the DSS facility in Abuja. Recall that Kanu had challenged his trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court to recuse herself from his trial. Kanu had expressed…
Read MoreIPOB: Nigeria Has An Igbo Problem,Says Sowore On Kanu’s Detention
Omoyele Sowore, Sahara Reporters’ publisher, has accused some Igbo elites of complicity in Nnamdi Kanu’s prolonged detention. He said that Kanu’s incarceration proves “Nigeria has an Igbo problem,” showcasing post-civil war marginalization. Speaking on 90Minutes Africa, Sowore stated, “Nigeria has an Igbo problem. It’s like when a father is dying, they will tell their children, I have a problem with Igbo people; please continue from there.” Sowore expressed disappointment in President Bola Tinubu’s administration for not releasing Kanu. “I expected Tinubu’s first act to be Kanu’s release. But the worsening…
Read MoreOFOROLA EZESHIP STOOL: OKORAFOR DISCLAIMS OKORIES DENOUNCEMENT ON EZE-ELECT
(1) This clarification to disclaimer by Mr Okechukwu Okoroafor on his purpoted Crowing as Eze-Elect by my humble self, Elder Ozuocha Emmanuel Okorie, former Onye Isi Ala Oforola, now known and addressed as Evangelist Ozuocha Emmanuel Okorie has become necessary due to his response rooted in emotional and psychological blackmail against my personality as seen in the maner he deliberately cut corners, misinformed and misrepresented issues to confuse the general public to disbelieve a reality I published as former Prime King Maker of Oforola, on Star Post Express dated Monday…
Read MoreImo CP Orders Release Of Twin Boys Seized In Exchange Of Unpaid Hospital Bill By Doctor.
…Orders probe of doctor, maternity The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate release of twin boys, Chidindu and Chijindu, who were held in a maternity since May 4, they were delivered through a cesarean section over their parents inability to foot their medical bill. The CP who gave the order in his office at the command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday, also ordered that the Medical Director of Goodwill Maternity at Obinze in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the…
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