By Ovat Abeng Many people are still trapped after a three-storey building known as Elite Five Star Lodge, located beside Tonimas Filling Station in Amokpala, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, collapsed on Sunday night. Several occupants are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble as rescue operations continue. The incident was…
By Emmanuel Edok It is remarkable how quickly people forget both historical milestones and personal experiences. This tendency is illustrated in a recent article by Linus Obogo, Chief Press Secretary and Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor of Cross River State. In his commentary, The Ghost of a Vanquished Ambition, Mr. Obogo…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has forecast sunshine, cloudiness and thunderstorms across the country from Sunday to Tuesday. In its weather outlook released in Abuja on Sunday, NiMet predicted sunny skies with patches of clouds over the northern region on Sunday. It also forecast thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rainfall over parts of Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna…
By Sylvia Okoi The Cross River State Government has intensified its environmental sanitation campaign with a crackdown on illegal structures obstructing drainage channels, ordering an immediate clean-up of markets and warning that activities capable of worsening flooding will no longer be tolerated. The Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Moses John Osogi, gave the warning during the…
By Ovat Abeng The wife of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has urged women across the state to use this year’s Annual August Meetings as a platform to confront the disturbing rise in cases of violent abuse, molestation, neglect and inhumane treatment of domestic workers, insisting that the silence surrounding such acts must end. In…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Government through the Executive Chairman of Idemili North Local Government Area, Hon Stanley Nkwoka, has evacuated a 14-year-old toxic waste products discovered at Owelle Aja in Obosi community within the council area. The evacuation exercise that took place between Wednesday, July 23rd, and Thursday, the 24th, 2026, in the…
By Ovat Abeng The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), Dr Ndagi Alhassan, has commended former Anambra State Governor and presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Peter Obi, for his commitment to healthcare education and human capital development, as Millennium College of Nursing Sciences,…
By Ovat Abeng The President General of Nzuko-Ora Nnewi Town Union, Hon Prince Jude Osumuoh, has dismissed a publication making the round that the Anambra State industrial city is currently engulfing in a serious leadership crisis over the longevity of the present Executive Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area, Hon Echezona Anazodo. He urged…
By Kelvin Obambon Environmental experts, legal practitioners, conservationists, and community leaders gathered in Calabar on Thursday for the 4th Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Deforestation in Cross River State, issuing an urgent call to action against illegal logging, destructive mining, and agricultural encroachment threatening Nigeria’s primary rainforest ecosystem. The event, organized by civil society group We The…
Senator Gershom Bassey, a prominent member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and immediate past representative of the Cross River Southern Senatorial District, has voiced strong optimism regarding the transformative potential of the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project for Cross River State. Speaking during a media chat, the two-term senator urged all stakeholders to support…
