INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2960,1,'2020-11-17 07:03:34','2020-11-17 07:03:34','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2653 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" />\nUzodinma, Okorocha, Orji Kalu, others reaching out to opposition governors\nWe aren’t disturbed, gale of defections will soon hit ruling party, boasts PDP\n\nThe All Progressives Congress has stepped up moves to persuade more governors from the South-East region to join it following the decision of the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to dump the Peoples Democratic Party.<!--more-->\n\nThe PUNCH gathered on Monday that the APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee led by the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, had directed the party’s leaders in the South-East to reach out to more governors and National Assembly members in the region.\n\nIt was learnt that among those being targeted by the APC leaders were the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu; his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; and Willy Obiano of Anambra State.\n\nBut the PDP, the party on whose platform both the Abia and Enugu State governors were elected, told The PUNCH that it was not disturbed by the APC’s moves.\n\nThe PDP insisted that the country’s constitution guaranteed freedom of association, adding that a gale of defection would soon hit the APC.\n\nIt noted that it had not reached a time when zoning of the presidency and other political offices would be decided.\n\nRecall that Umahi, at a meeting held with the PDP National Working Committee in Abuja last week, reportedly told the leaders that he could only remain in the party if the 2023 presidential ticket was zoned to the South-East, a condition that the party leaders could not agree to.\n\nBut on Monday, a top-ranking member of the APC confided in one of our correspondents, “Apart from Umahi, who is coming in a matter of days, we are preparing to receive more governors from the South-East. Our people are discussing with more governors from the South-East.\n\n“For now, we are reaching out to the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, and the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, as well as their Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Our leaders in the South-East, including Hope Uzodimma, Uzor Kalu and Rochas Okorocha, are also talking to people in the zone.\n\n“Apart from the governors, we are also expecting members of the state and National Assemblies to also come on board.”\n\nUzodinma, South-East APC chairmen, ministers in crucial meeting\n\nAhead of the planned defection of Umahi, Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, APC state chairmen from the South-East zone and some serving ministers held a crucial meeting with the Ebonyi State governor, at the Imo State Governors’ Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Monday.\n\nThe meeting, which started around 8pm, had in attendance the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu; Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; and former APC National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso, among others.\n\nOnu, who addressed journalists after the meeting said, “We are here as leaders of the APC in the South-East; we have representatives from all the states in the South-East we met to review the situation of the party in the South-East. We have one governor now and we are working so that by 2023, we will have five.”\n\nIn response to a question on Umahi’s defection, a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani said, “I think it is work in progress; we are not definitive about what’s going to happen; we are trying to say that our party is a very large one. Like Dr Ogbonaya Onu said, we are trying to rebuild our party; our gate is wide open. We are expecting many more people.”\n\nAfter Umahi, more opposition governors’ll join APC, says Uzodimma\n\nSpeaking to journalists at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja on Monday, Uzodinma said the party was prepared to receive Umahi “within a few hours.”\n\nHe spoke after a closed-door meeting with Buni and other members of the committee.\n\nAccording to him, apart from Umahi, more governors from the South-East are being expected to join the APC.\n\nHe, however, declined to name the governors involved.\n\nUzodinma said, “If you recall when I addressed you here a couple of months ago, I told you that the moment I resumed office in Imo State as the governor that the impression and perception of our party in the South-East would change and the resultant effect would be that more credible individuals and governors would even join the party.\n\n“Today, I am being vindicated because we are hearing it and I’m sure that in a few hours from now, we will get confirmation that one of our best will be joining the party and is the governor of Ebonyi State. Of course, I will be very glad and it will be my joy to welcome a governor and more governors, not only him, we are still talking about more governors to join.\n\n“The APC is the ruling party and for the interest of national integration and cohesion, Imo and the South-East need to become part and parcel of the ruling party to make the Nigerian project a complete project.”\n\nSpeaking on the reason for his visit to the APC secretariat, Uzodinma stated, “I’m at the headquarters of our great party to meet with the critical stakeholders and officers of our party as to the status and ongoing events in our great party, and I had a private audience with the National Chairman and some members of the NWC (caretaker) and also touched base on our preparedness for the upcoming bye-election.\n\n“Of course, you know that any moment from now, there will be a senatorial bye-election in Imo State for the Imo North Senatorial District, and I think our party is prepared. The APC is the party to beat in Imo State.\n\n“The most important thing is for the APC to win the election. The party has an internal mechanism of confirming who the candidate is. The Supreme Court has said it; the Electoral Act has said it. Every party has the right and it is only the party that sponsors a candidate. Of course, we have our candidate; there are some few legal issues going on. I don’t want to go into that now because the matter pending in court is sub judice, but at the end of the day, we have a candidate.”\n\nWhen contacted, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, said, “The defection of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State is just the beginning; more high-profiled Nigerians from across the board have indicated interest in joining our great party. Nigerians have now seen that the APC is a moving train and the PDP is a sinking ship. Don’t forget that the governor is a governor, who is on the ground and is not coming in alone; he is coming with people.\n\n“More and more people are coming in because they have seen the progress being made by the APC under the leadership of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee.”\n\nWe’re not worried by APC’s plot in South-East, says PDP\n\nIn response to a question on if the PDP was worried that its traditional stronghold in the South-East was being decimated, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbodiyan, told The PUNCH, “We are not worried; as a democratic party, we respect the democratic right of Nigerians to freedom of association. We are also aware that some people, who are unhappy about happenings in the ruling party, will be joining us as time goes on.\n\n“Our main focus is to strengthen our party and rebuild our brand. We met with the governor of Ebonyi State and he told us his concerns; as a party, we are looking into those concerns. The PDP, under the leadership of Prince Uche Secondus, is determined to ensure that our processes and procedures are respected in decision making. The issue of zoning for 2023 has not come in any of our official discussions yet; we have not reached that stage.”\n\nUgwuanyi might dump PDP, says ex-Enugu gov\n\nIn Enugu State, sources told one of our correspondents that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi might dump the PDP if the leadership of the party fails to address the concerns of the South-East zone and allow Umahi to defect to the APC.\n\nA former governor of the state, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ugwuanyi had been nursing the ambition of dumping the PDP after the 2019 elections, but he was being prevailed upon by stakeholders not to dump the party for whatever issue he might have had with it.\n\nHe stated, “My brother, if not because our people, especially the young men, have passionate hatred for the APC stemming from the marginalisation of the zone by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), Ugwuanyi would have defected to the APC long ago.\n\n“Although I don’t know his plans now since some stakeholders advised him against dumping the PDP, but looking back, all the governors in the South-East are at their terminal terms in office and naturally, it is expected that some, who are not sure of their next political journey, will start making plans and forming alliances.”\n\nBut, when the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mrs Kate Offor, was contacted on the development, she said it would be unkind of her to start commenting on what the national leadership of the party was hatching.\n\n“For me and the APC in Enugu State, we are not aware of this development, but it is possible. But like I said, I am not aware of such a move for the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to defect to my party.”\n\nWhen the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Chidi Aroh, was contacted on the telephone on the alleged plan of the governor to defect to the APC, he said, “We don’t talk about that. The government doesn’t comment on rumours.”\n\n‘Ikpeazu joining APC will be good for Abia’\n\nCommenting on the alleged move by Ikpeazu, to join the APC, the Abia State Chairman of the party, Donatus Nwakpa, said the doors of the APC were open for anyone, who wanted to join it.\n\n“That (Ikpeazu’s defection) will be good and there is the need (for it) so that Abians will reap the dividend of democracy”.\n\nBut the state Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi, said the governor did not have such a plan.\n\n“He has no such plans. People should allow him to deliver the dividend of democracy to Abians,” Okiyi said.\n\nObiano has no plans to leave APGA – Aide\n\nThe Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has no plans to leave the All Progressives Grand Alliance.\n\nThe Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, described the rumour of the planned defection as “arrant nonsense.”\n\nHe described those circulating the rumour as self-seeking.\n\n“There is nothing like that, and there can never be something like that. It’s just arrant nonsense and self-seeking propaganda,” he stated.','Umahi’s defection: PDP dodges zoning as APC woos  Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi, Obiano ‌','','publish','open','open','','umahis-defection-pdp-dodges-zoning-as-apc-woos-ugwuanyi-ikpeazu-obiano','','','2020-11-17 07:03:34','2020-11-17 07:03:34','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2960',0,'post','',0),(2961,1,'2020-11-17 07:01:17','2020-11-17 07:01:17','','images (2)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2','','','2020-11-17 07:01:17','2020-11-17 07:01:17','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-2.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2969,1,'2020-11-17 07:10:31','2020-11-17 07:10:31','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2970 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605596845548-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" />\n• Uzodinma, Okorocha, Orji Kalu, others reaching out to\nopposition governors\n• We aren’t disturbed, gale of defections will soon hit ruling party,\nboasts PDP\nPunch reports\nThe All Progressives Congress has stepped up moves to persuade more governors from the South-East region to join it following the decision of the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to dump the Peoples Democratic Party.<!--more-->\n\nThe PUNCH gathered on Monday that the APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee led by the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, had directed the party’s leaders in the South-East to reach out to more governors and National Assembly members in the region.\n\nIt was learnt that among those being targeted by the APC leaders were the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu; his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; and Willy Obiano of Anambra State.\n\nBut the PDP, the party on whose platform both the Abia and Enugu State governors were elected, told The PUNCH that it was not disturbed by the APC’s moves.\n\nThe PDP insisted that the country’s constitution guaranteed freedom of association, adding that a gale of defection would soon hit the APC.\n\nIt noted that it had not reached a time when zoning of the presidency and other political offices would be decided.\n\nRecall that Umahi, at a meeting held with the PDP National Working Committee in Abuja last week, reportedly told the leaders that he could only remain in the party if the 2023 presidential ticket was zoned to the South-East, a condition that the party leaders could not agree to.\n\nBut on Monday, a top-ranking member of the APC confided in one of our correspondents, “Apart from Umahi, who is coming in a matter of days, we are preparing to receive more governors from the South-East. Our people are discussing with more governors from the South-East.\n\n“For now, we are reaching out to the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, and the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, as well as their Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Our leaders in the South-East, including Hope Uzodimma, Uzor Kalu and Rochas Okorocha, are also talking to people in the zone.\n\n“Apart from the governors, we are also expecting members of the state and National Assemblies to also come on board.”\n\nUzodinma, South-East APC chairmen, ministers in crucial meeting\n\nAhead of the planned defection of Umahi, Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, APC state chairmen from the South-East zone and some serving ministers held a crucial meeting with the Ebonyi State governor, at the Imo State Governors’ Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Monday.\n\nThe meeting, which started around 8pm, had in attendance the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu; Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; and former APC National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso, among others.\n\nOnu, who addressed journalists after the meeting said, “We are here as leaders of the APC in the South-East; we have representatives from all the states in the South-East we met to review the situation of the party in the South-East. We have one governor now and we are working so that by 2023, we will have five.”\n\nIn response to a question on Umahi’s defection, a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani said, “I think it is work in progress; we are not definitive about what’s going to happen; we are trying to say that our party is a very large one. Like Dr Ogbonaya Onu said, we are trying to rebuild our party; our gate is wide open. We are expecting many more people.”\n\nAfter Umahi, more opposition governors’ll join APC, says Uzodimma\n\nSpeaking to journalists at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja on Monday, Uzodinma said the party was prepared to receive Umahi “within a few hours.”\n\nHe spoke after a closed-door meeting with Buni and other members of the committee.\n\nAccording to him, apart from Umahi, more governors from the South-East are being expected to join the APC.\n\nHe, however, declined to name the governors involved.\n\nUzodinma said, “If you recall when I addressed you here a couple of months ago, I told you that the moment I resumed office in Imo State as the governor that the impression and perception of our party in the South-East would change and the resultant effect would be that more credible individuals and governors would even join the party.\n\n“Today, I am being vindicated because we are hearing it and I’m sure that in a few hours from now, we will get confirmation that one of our best will be joining the party and is the governor of Ebonyi State. Of course, I will be very glad and it will be my joy to welcome a governor and more governors, not only him, we are still talking about more governors to join.\n\n“The APC is the ruling party and for the interest of national integration and cohesion, Imo and the South-East need to become part and parcel of the ruling party to make the Nigerian project a complete project.”\n\nSpeaking on the reason for his visit to the APC secretariat, Uzodinma stated, “I’m at the headquarters of our great party to meet with the critical stakeholders and officers of our party as to the status and ongoing events in our great party, and I had a private audience with the National Chairman and some members of the NWC (caretaker) and also touched base on our preparedness for the upcoming bye-election.\n\n“Of course, you know that any moment from now, there will be a senatorial bye-election in Imo State for the Imo North Senatorial District, and I think our party is prepared. The APC is the party to beat in Imo State.\n\n“The most important thing is for the APC to win the election. The party has an internal mechanism of confirming who the candidate is. The Supreme Court has said it; the Electoral Act has said it. Every party has the right and it is only the party that sponsors a candidate. Of course, we have our candidate; there are some few legal issues going on. I don’t want to go into that now because the matter pending in court is sub judice, but at the end of the day, we have a candidate.”\n\nMore Nigerians are joining us – APC\n\nWhen contacted, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, said, “The defection of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State is just the beginning; more high-profiled Nigerians from across the board have indicated interest in joining our great party. Nigerians have now seen that the APC is a moving train and the PDP is a sinking ship. Don’t forget that the governor is a governor, who is on the ground and is not coming in alone; he is coming with people.\n\n“More and more people are coming in because they have seen the progress being made by the APC under the leadership of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee.”\n\nWe’re not worried by APC’s plot in South-East, says PDP\n\nIn response to a question on if the PDP was worried that its traditional stronghold in the South-East was being decimated, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbodiyan, told The PUNCH, “We are not worried; as a democratic party, we respect the democratic right of Nigerians to freedom of association. We are also aware that some people, who are unhappy about happenings in the ruling party, will be joining us as time goes on.\n\n“Our main focus is to strengthen our party and rebuild our brand. We met with the governor of Ebonyi State and he told us his concerns; as a party, we are looking into those concerns. The PDP, under the leadership of Prince Uche Secondus, is determined to ensure that our processes and procedures are respected in decision making. The issue of zoning for 2023 has not come in any of our official discussions yet; we have not reached that stage.”\n\nUgwuanyi might dump PDP, says ex-Enugu gov\n\nIn Enugu State, sources told one of our correspondents that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi might dump the PDP if the leadership of the party fails to address the concerns of the South-East zone and allow Umahi to defect to the APC.\n\nA former governor of the state, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ugwuanyi had been nursing the ambition of dumping the PDP after the 2019 elections, but he was being prevailed upon by stakeholders not to dump the party for whatever issue he might have had with it.\n\nHe stated, “My brother, if not because our people, especially the young men, have passionate hatred for the APC stemming from the marginalisation of the zone by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), Ugwuanyi would have defected to the APC long ago.\n\n“Although I don’t know his plans now since some stakeholders advised him against dumping the PDP, but looking back, all the governors in the South-East are at their terminal terms in office and naturally, it is expected that some, who are not sure of their next political journey, will start making plans and forming alliances.”\n\nBut, when the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mrs Kate Offor, was contacted on the development, she said it would be unkind of her to start commenting on what the national leadership of the party was hatching.\n\n“For me and the APC in Enugu State, we are not aware of this development, but it is possible. But like I said, I am not aware of such a move for the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to defect to my party.”\n\nWhen the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Chidi Aroh, was contacted on the telephone on the alleged plan of the governor to defect to the APC, he said, “We don’t talk about that. The government doesn’t comment on rumours.”\n\n‘Ikpeazu joining APC will be good for Abia’\n\nCommenting on the alleged move by Ikpeazu, to join the APC, the Abia State Chairman of the party, Donatus Nwakpa, said the doors of the APC were open for anyone, who wanted to join it.\n\n“That (Ikpeazu’s defection) will be good and there is the need (for it) so that Abians will reap the dividend of democracy”.\n\nBut the state Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi, said the governor did not have such a plan.\n\n“He has no such plans. People should allow him to deliver the dividend of democracy to Abians,” Okiyi said.\n\nObiano has no plans to leave APGA – Aide\n\nThe Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has no plans to leave the All Progressives Grand Alliance.\n\nThe Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, described the rumour of the planned defection as “arrant nonsense.”\n\nHe described those circulating the rumour as self-seeking.\n\n“There is nothing like that, and there can never be something like that. It’s just arrant nonsense and self-seeking propaganda,” he stated.','UMAHI’S DEFECTION: PDP DODGES ZONING AS APC WOOS UGWUANYI, IKPEAZU, OBIANO','','publish','open','open','','umahis-defection-pdp-dodges-zoning-as-apc-woos-ugwuanyi-ikpeazu-obiano-2','','','2020-11-17 07:10:31','2020-11-17 07:10:31','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2969',0,'post','',0),(2970,1,'2020-11-17 07:10:03','2020-11-17 07:10:03','','FB_IMG_1605596845548','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1605596845548','','','2020-11-17 07:10:03','2020-11-17 07:10:03','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605596845548.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2972,1,'2020-11-17 07:18:11','2020-11-17 07:18:11','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2973 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605597357514-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />\n\nMinister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday assured that Nigerians will get used to the deregulation of the pump price of petroleum product just as they have become in the case of kerosene and diesel.<!--more-->\n\nThe Minister also said that the earnings of government has reduced by 60 percent including the resources generated by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, thereby pushing the nation’s economy under serious pressure.\n\nSpeaking to State House correspondents after his routine briefing of President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Chief Sylva said diesel and kerosene were even more important to the ordinary citizens than petrol, which he said was mostly used by the elite.\n\nHe explained that trucks that move food produce from one part of the country to another use diesel while kerosene also used by most of the Nigerian masses has since been deregulated.\n\nAccording to him, “Look at it, a situation where diesel has been deregulated long ago, a situation where kerosene has been deregulated long ago, and these are the fuels the poorest people in Nigeria interact with more. Why do I say that?\n\n“If you want to transport food from the north to the south, it will be by trucks that are run by diesel, not with petrol. Those trucks that transport food from the north to the south are usually run by diesel.\n\n“Kerosene is the preferred fuel at the lowest level of our society. These have been deregulated long ago. So, what is the problem with deregulating petrol, which is mostly used by the elite?\n\n“Let us be fair to this country, let us be fair to the poor people in this country.\n\n“If we have deregulated what they were using, then there is actually no reason why we should continue to subsidize petrol. I feel so. That’s my personal feeling.”','FUEL HIKE: NIGERIANS WILL GET USED TO IT ―SYLVA','','publish','open','open','','fuel-price-hike-nigerians-will-get-used-to-it-%e2%80%95sylva','','','2020-11-17 07:18:11','2020-11-17 07:18:11','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2972',0,'post','',0),(2973,1,'2020-11-17 07:17:32','2020-11-17 07:17:32','','FB_IMG_1605597357514','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1605597357514','','','2020-11-17 07:17:32','2020-11-17 07:17:32','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605597357514.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2976,1,'2020-11-17 07:33:21','2020-11-17 07:33:21','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2977 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605598235556-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" />\n\nBy Chioma Ugochukwu— Pennsylvania\n\nI am home today nursing a torn muscle from my treadmill workouts and thought that I should comment on something that happened recently.<!--more-->\n\nI noticed that a video was trending on Twitter a few days ago. It was a video of folks from a church in the Southeastern part of Nigeria holding a prayer walk for Donald Trump.\n\nWe saw reports earlier that another church in the region also held a parade for Trump. Those of you who follow me know that I have written about this strange phenomenon of Nigerians, particularly Igbos (my ethnic group), supporting and praying for Trump.\n\nIt started with the false meme that spread on social media that Trump supports Igbos (Biafrans). Some Igbos are pushing to secede from Nigeria due to their discontentment with the tensions between Christians in the North (Igbos are mostly Christians) and Muslims in the North.\n\nMany of us Nigerians in the United States are dual citizens. We have often found it baffling that our brothers and sisters back home don’t seem to fully understand who Trump is.\n\nMost of them truly believe that Trump is a devout Christian and some even call him a God-sent. Those of us who know Trump better find the claim to be ludicrous. Anyway, I have often tried not to be too critical of our folks back home, but seeing this video trending on Twitter and reading that Trump acknowledged it sent me over the edge.\n\nWhile I understand that we are all entitled to our opinions, beliefs, and values, I find myself in a position of using my own voice to express my opinion and disdain for what I am seeing.\n\nThis is personal to me. I recognize that I am about to take a harsh tone here, but sometimes you’ve got to take a stand for your own values. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump does not give a damn about Igbos or Nigerians. In fact, he has blocked visas and family reunification programs for Nigerians.\n\nHe has not spoken out against the issue of police brutality in Nigeria, which most of our Igbo folks are fighting against with the #EndSARS movement. Trump has also blocked the appointment of Nigerians to leadership positions within some international organizations.\n\nSo, if you are one of the Nigerians holding prayer vigils and parading for Trump, shame on you! You are actively praying for a man who is doing his best to make life harder for your brothers and sisters in the diaspora.\n\nI have not seen a prayer walk from any of you for the various issues we’ve encountered. We’ve had mass shootings in the United States and none of you held parades or vigils to pray for our safety. You pray for Trump and shamelessly tell us that we need to return home if we find his policies unbearable.\n\nMeanwhile, you are all too happy to receive the billions of dollars in remittances that we send to Nigeria every year. Your prayers for Trump are prayers against our welfare and the welfare of our children. So, shame on you!\n\nI don’t comment too much on events happening in Nigeria and it’s not because I don’t care; it’s just that I left Nigeria decades ago, which means that I can no longer draw on my lived experience for commentary.\n\nI can rely on research, but that means that I will miss some nuances because one’s lived experience will always trump what one can deduce from reading. Many of you Nigerians praying for Trump actually believe that reading memes and news articles make you experts on Trump and the American experience.\n\nYou see the things you hear on the 700 Club and TBN as non-partisan and true. You are often dismissive of your brothers and sisters in the United States who draw on their lived experience to form their opinion of Trump. It will be nice if you would give us the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that we may know this guy better than you do.\n\nTrump does not give a damn about you or any other African nation! Trump is not a Christian, so shame on you for believing otherwise! Shame on you for supporting someone who saw a black man sitting in his lobby as an eyesore.\n\nShame on you for professing to be Christians even as you support a conman who defrauds workers, sleeps with porn stars, separates children from their parents, denounces refugees fleeing war-torn locations, takes away food stamps from children, and who is actively working to take away health insurance from millions.\n\nThe Igbos pride themselves on being smart. Whatever caused you to parade for a man who is pushing the world toward anti-intellectualism? Were we not taught that God is love? What does your Bible say about lust, greed, wrath, envy, and pride? Are they still deadly sins or not?\n\nWe have a name for people who sympathize with their abusers. We need to see if this is a case of the Stockholm Syndrome or just another case of the regular, everyday colonial mentality.\n\nI recognize that I am being tough here, but if you are willing to support a white supremacist who spends all day sowing division, then rest assured that I have no problem distancing myself from you and your values.\n\nVanguard News','Shame On You, My Igbo People','','publish','open','open','','shame-on-you-my-igbo-people','','','2020-11-17 07:33:21','2020-11-17 07:33:21','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2976',0,'post','',0),(2977,1,'2020-11-17 07:32:39','2020-11-17 07:32:39','','FB_IMG_1605598235556','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1605598235556','','','2020-11-17 07:32:39','2020-11-17 07:32:39','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605598235556.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2979,1,'2020-11-17 07:39:20','2020-11-17 07:39:20','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2980 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605598626224-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" />\n\nBuba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned the clampdown on some #EndSARS protesters.\n\nThe CBN had secured a court order, directing some banks to freeze the accounts of 19 individuals and a company linked to the #EndSARS protests on allegations of terrorism financing.<!--more-->\n\nModupe Odele, a member of the feminist coalition who offered legal aid to persons arrested during the demonstrations, had also said the Nigerian Immigration Service seized her passport.\n\nSpeaking when he featured on Arise TV on Monday, Galadima asked Buhari to order that the affected bank accounts be unfrozen.\n\nGaladima described the move as unconstitutional, amd reminded the president that Nigeria operates in a democracy, not in a military regime.\n\n“What the government has done is not right. It has no such right or powers to block bonafide Nigerians from travelling out of the country or from accessing their (bank) accounts. Blocked for what? What have they done?” Galadima asked.\n\n“These young men were peacefully protesting the actions, omissions or commissions of government. Why do you, after you persuaded them or after agents of government allegedly attacked or killed them, follow this draconian disposition of blocking their accounts? That is not constitutional.\n\n“I’m sending this message to Mr President whether he knows or he doesn’t know, let him be shown what I am saying. His people have no right to do what they are doing.\n\n“Please, they should desist and unblock the accounts of these young people and allow them to carry on with their normal activities as Nigerians. You cannot harass them. We are in a democracy; we are not in a military regime.”\n\nhttps://www.thecable.ng/were-not-in-a-military-regime-buba-galadima-asks-buhari-to-unfreeze-accounts-of-endsars-promoters','We’re Not In A Military Regime’ — Buba Galadima Asks Buhari To Unfreeze Accounts Of #EndSARS Promoters','','publish','open','open','','were-not-in-a-military-regime-buba-galadima-asks-buhari-to-unfreeze-accounts-of-endsars-promoters','','','2020-11-17 07:39:20','2020-11-17 07:39:20','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2979',0,'post','',0),(2980,1,'2020-11-17 07:38:47','2020-11-17 07:38:47','','FB_IMG_1605598626224','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1605598626224','','','2020-11-17 07:38:47','2020-11-17 07:38:47','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605598626224.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2982,1,'2020-11-17 08:12:13','2020-11-17 08:12:13','<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2983\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Senator-Walid-Jibrin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />ambra 2021 will determine Igbo’s place in politics – PDP BoT chai\n\n</p>\nChairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People Democratic Party PDP, Senator Walid Jibrin, has declared the November 2021 Anambra governorship poll will determine the place of Igbo in national politics.<!--more-->\n\nHe said the party has all it takes to win the election while charging PDP leaders to begin grassroots mobilisation with immediate effect to make it a reality\n\nJibrin spoke at the weekend during the grand reception by the Anambra Central Senatorial zone for PDP Anambra chairman, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu.\n\nBut former Governor and 2019 PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi as well as Senator Uche Ekwunife and Stella Oduah shunned the meeting.\n\nNo reason was given for their absence at the meeting attended by other PDP big wigs in the state.\nLeading the seven governorship aspirants were Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, Hon Chris Azubogu, and Dr. Godwin Maduka.\n\nOther notable PDP chieftains at the reception were Prof A B C Nwosu, Sen Ben Obi, all the PDP House of Representatives and Assembly members among others\n\nJibrin said the reception was another strategy to unite the party ahead of the governorship poll.\n\nHe said: “All hands must be on deck as the next year’s gubernatorial election in Anambra state will determine the future of the state and the fate of Ndi-Igbo in the Nigeria political structure.”\n\nThe PDP BoT Chairman highlighted the achievements of former Governor Obi and the needs for continuity.\n\nHe challenged members of the party to should see 2021 in Anambra as a major project.\n\nNwobu, expressed satisfaction over the unity of the party, assuring PDP would produce a Governor who would understand governance and care for Ndi Anambra and the growth of the state.\n\nHe told the national leadership the party under his watch would do 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height=\"225\" />\n\nHundreds of artisans have protested alleged diversion of COVID-19 Survival Fund meant for them in the state.\n\nThe artisans who carried placards with various inscriptions marched to the office of the Ondo State Micro-Credit Agency to demand explanation why only few of their members received alert.<!--more-->\n\n[video width=\"640\" height=\"352\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/VID-20201119-WA0064.mp4\"][/video]\n\nThe protesting artisans accused the State Focal person for the Survival Fund, Mrs. Stella Kosemani Kolawole, of inputting names of her church members as artisans.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2989\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201119-WA0062-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nIn his remarks, President of the Ondo Artisan Groups, Komolafe Daisi, suggested that the money be paid in the bulk to the account of the association but he was shouted down as the 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Zone come 2023.\n\nAccording to Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Tony Nwachukwu, they sought to know the constraints stoping the PDP National Convention Committee (NEC) from Convening, to delibrate on their demands on Zoning of their National Chairman &amp; Presidential Candidate position to Northern and Southern Regions.\n\nThe group however called on the Governnors of Abia, Enugu and Anambra states to consider toying the line of their Ebonyi state counterpart, expressing hope in the ruling All Progresive Congress (APC) to zone their Presidential ticket to the South East Region.\n\nEND','NPP 2023 Commends Governor Dave UMAHI for Joining APC','','publish','open','open','','npp-2023-commends-governor-dave-umahi-for-joining-apc','','','2020-11-19 20:35:36','2020-11-19 20:35:36','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=2991',0,'post','',0),(2993,1,'2020-11-20 14:34:51','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2994\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0055-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nProtesting students have barricaded the entrance of the Federal Secretariat, Ikolaba,Ibadan calling for an immediate end to the lingering ASUU strike.<!--more-->\n\nThe angry students barring placards with various inscriptions berated the federal government for what they termed poor funding and insensitivity to the University system.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTheir demands are clear they want improved funding for tertiary institutions as well as a nod to the demands by the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities.\n\nThe students stood their ground and took their protest a step further by preventing workers from gaining access to their duty posts, they want the central authorities to take funding of universities seriously as well as providing a conducive learning environment.\n\nThe strike embarked upon by ASUU was largely triggered by the introduction of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, However, industrial action has become a norm with the Nigerian University system, trend this students strongly kick against.\n\nBoth parties seem not to be yielding ground but stakeholders have called on both parties to see reason and put the interest of the students first.\n\n[contact-form][contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\"  required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Email\" type=\"email\" required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Website\" type=\"url\" /][contact-field label=\"Message\" type=\"textarea\" /][/contact-form]\n\n[contact-form][contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\"  required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Email\" type=\"email\" required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Website\" type=\"url\" /][contact-field label=\"Message\" type=\"textarea\" /][/contact-form]\n\n[contact-form][contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\"  required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Email\" 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class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3002 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0055-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nProtesting students have barricaded the entrance of the Federal Secretariat, Ikolaba,Ibadan calling for an immediate end to the lingering ASUU strike.<!--more-->\n\nThe angry students barring placards with various inscriptions berated the federal government for what they termed poor funding and insensitivity to the University system.\n\nTheir demands are clear they want improved funding for tertiary institutions as well as a nod to the demands by the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities.\n\n[video width=\"640\" height=\"352\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/VID-20201120-WA0056-1.mp4\"][/video]\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe students stood their ground and took their protest a step further by preventing workers from gaining access to their duty posts, they want the central authorities to take funding of universities seriously as well as providing a conducive learning environment.\n\nThe strike embarked upon by ASUU was largely triggered by the introduction of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, However, industrial action has become a norm with the Nigerian University system, trend this students strongly kick against.\n\nBoth parties seem not to be yielding ground but stakeholders have called on both parties to see reason and put the interest of the students first.','VIDEO: COALITION OF STUDENT UNIONS PROTEST AGAINST ASUU STRIKE','','publish','open','open','','video-coalition-of-student-unions-protest-against-asuu-strike','','','2020-11-20 14:45:45','2020-11-20 14:45:45','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3001',0,'post','',0),(3002,1,'2020-11-20 14:43:26','2020-11-20 14:43:26','','IMG-20201120-WA0055','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201120-wa0055-2','','','2020-11-20 14:43:26','2020-11-20 14:43:26','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0055-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3003,1,'2020-11-20 14:45:08','2020-11-20 14:45:08','','VID-20201120-WA0056','','inherit','open','closed','','vid-20201120-wa0056-2','','','2020-11-20 14:45:08','2020-11-20 14:45:08','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/VID-20201120-WA0056-1.mp4',0,'attachment','video/mp4',0),(3005,1,'2020-11-20 19:27:27','2020-11-20 19:27:27','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3006 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0075-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe federal government has made a fresh N15 billion offer to striking university teachers as part of revitalization funds and earned academic allowances.<!--more-->\n\nThe government at the end of Friday meeting, shifted ground with the offer, which now raises the revitalization and earned academic allowances to N65 billion.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3009\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0082-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nSpeaking after the seven- hour long meeting, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said government has agreed to pay the lecturers\' withheld salaries from February, using the old payment platform.\n\nHe said the University Transparency Accountability System developed by ASUU as an alternative to IPPIS, was still being studied to make government make informed decision.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3008\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0077-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nIn his address, ASUU President agreed there was a headway but insisted the union would table government\'s offer to its members ahead of next Friday\'s meeting with the government.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3007\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0080-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nSOT Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment\nSOT Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President\n\nEnd','FG Makes Fresh 65B offer to ASUU as part of revitalization funds and earned academic allowances.','','publish','open','open','','fg-makes-fresh-15b-offer-to-asuu-as-part-of-revitalization-funds-and-earned-academic-allowances','','','2020-11-20 19:27:27','2020-11-20 19:27:27','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3005',0,'post','',0),(3006,1,'2020-11-20 19:22:37','2020-11-20 19:22:37','','IMG-20201120-WA0075','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201120-wa0075','','','2020-11-20 19:22:37','2020-11-20 19:22:37','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201120-WA0075.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3007,1,'2020-11-20 19:24:57','2020-11-20 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src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605955157163-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on Friday, led some governors elected on the party’s platform to visit former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 63rd birthday.<!--more-->\n\nThe team that visited Jonathan at his Abuja residence included governors Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), who all described the ex-president in glowing terms as the pressure for him to vie for the presidency in 2023 gathered momentum.\n\nAlso on the trip to the ex-Nigerian leader’s home was the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani.','APC CARETAKER CHAIRMAN, GOVERNORS VISIT JONATHAN IN ABUJA','','publish','open','open','','apc-caretaker-chairman-governors-visit-jonathan-in-abuja','','','2020-11-21 10:44:26','2020-11-21 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Gen. Ahmed Taiwo stated this when he resumed his cross examination at the Lagos State judicial panel of inquiry.\n\nJustice Doris okuwobi had ordered that the cross examination be initially stepped down today to allow for the viewing of the footage of the lekki tollgate of October 21.\n\nWith that done, she ruled that the panel believed that the nigerian army will be interested in the viewing first and ordered that his cross examination be concluded today.\n\nThe army officer also says the attacks on police stations and officers, which led to their being overwhelmed prompted the intervention of the army.\n\nBut the lawyer for the protesters, Olumide-Fusika, argued that there was no overwhelming evidence to prompt their presence at the toll gate and that the violence has nothing to do with the EndSARS protesters.','#Lekki Shooting: Officer of the nigerian army resumes his cross examination','','publish','open','open','','lekki-shooting-officer-of-the-nigerian-army-resumes-his-cross-examination','','','2020-11-21 15:05:45','2020-11-21 15:05:45','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3016',0,'post','',0),(3017,1,'2020-11-21 15:05:00','2020-11-21 15:05:00','','IMG-20201121-WA0025','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201121-wa0025','','','2020-11-21 15:05:00','2020-11-21 15:05:00','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201121-WA0025.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3019,1,'2020-11-21 21:43:22','2020-11-21 21:43:22','&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3020\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1605994634886-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\nA political interest group, No Alternative To Buhari-Osinbajo 2019 (NATBO 2019), has described the Cable News Network (CNN) acclaimed investigative report on the #EndSARS protests at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, as lopsided and unbalanced.<!--more-->\n\nA statement issued by the group on Saturday through its National Coordinator, Vincent Uba, noted that there were lots of unanswered questions in the CNN report which made it to be lopsided.\n\nUba stated that the group was totally against the activities of some Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) personnel, but wondered why the EndSARS protesters continued with their agitation even after President Muhammadu Buhari acceded to their requests.\n\nThe NABTO Coordinator added that CNN would have gone further to investigate if there were other motives behind the protests other than the call for the disbandment of SARS.\n\n“The questions now are, why restrict the investigations on the Lekki saga? Why did CNN not investigate what happened in other parts of the country, where prior to the Lekki episode, witnessed lootings, destruction of lives and property by the protesters?\n\n“Why didn’t CNN investigate the activities of the protesters who were ironically doing what they were protesting against prior to the Lekki issue?\n\n“Did CNN not know those innocent persons were denied their fundamental freedom of movement and prevented from carrying on with their businesses to fend for their livelihood?\n\n“Allegations abound that the protests were sponsored and financed by persons who wanted to destabilise the government. Why didn’t CNN beam its investigative searchlight in this direction?\n\n“Corporate organisations’ facilities, government parastatals and individual property destroyed, run into trillions of naira and a lot of persons rendered jobless as a result.\n\n“Couldn’t CNN have investigated this aspect as part of its corporate civic responsibility? They should conclude their investigations,” the statement quoted Uba as saying.\n\nAccording to Uba, the Federal Government’s swift disbandment of the SARS outfit and its promise of comprehensive police reform, in response to the demands of the protesters should have earned the government applauses rather than condemnations.\n\nUba added: “NATBO 2019 takes is that CNN should have undertaken a thorough and in-depth investigation of the #EndSARS protests across the country with a view to unraveling the real motives of the protesters.\n\n“Again, CNN only relied on the information supplied by some of the protesters with videos that are difficult to ascertain their authenticity.\n\n“Being in a hurry to broadcast such information could be interpreted as a ploy by CNN to smear the government and pitch the citizens against it, thus worsening the already precarious situation.”\n\nHe urged the CNN to always see itself as an unbiased media watchdog of the society and should also try not be seen as one of those outfits that take pride in half-baked investigations. 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Ugwuanyi that the entire people of Nsukka zone are united and proud of his remarkable achievements in the area and the state in spite of the nation\'s economic, security and public health challenges, reiterating their unalloyed support for him.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3026 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nThe leaders who spoke at the event include the Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District, Senator Chukwuka Utazi; the former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ayogu Eze; former governor of old Enugu State, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; the member representing Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Pat Asadu; the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo; the Bishops of Nsukka Catholic and Anglican Dioceses, Prof. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah and Most Rev. Aloysius Agbo respectively; the Nsukka Professors, 145 traditional rulers in the zone who came with their cabinet members, and the Chairman of Odinma Nsukka that organized the event, Chief Vita Abba, among others.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3027 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0018-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nSpeaking, Senator Ayogu Eze told Gov. Ugwuanyi that “this gathering is to reassure you that your people are solidly behind you” charging him to “march on” and “move on”.\n\nSenator Eze who stated that he was very happy to be alive to witness the event where every Nsukka man gathered in unity to show support and solidarity to one of their own, in the person of Gov. Ugwuanyi, also charged the governor to continue with his laudable vision for the zone and the state.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3028 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nAlso speaking, the Chairman of Odinma Nsukka, Engr. Abba, pointed out that the group felt that it was imperative that Nsukka people should unite and come together to support their own, encourage and offer prayers for his continued success till the end of his tenure, declaring that “our support for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is irrevocable”.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3034 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0000-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nOn his part, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General, Chief Nwodo, spoke in the same direction, reemphasizing the need for the people of Nsukka zone to unite and rally round the governor, saying: “We were marginalized in the past but Gov. 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Ugwuanyi, the 145 traditional rulers in Enugu North Senatorial District told the governor, who they described as a “worthy son”, that “we are solidly behind you” and pledged the consistent support and prayers, saying: “Wherever you are going, we will go with you”.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3030 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0008-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nSpeaking on behalf of the Nsukka Professors, Prof. Fabian Onah thanked Gov. Ugwuanyi for his massive infrastructural development in Enugu State, maintaining that “we are solidly behind you and we will continue to pray for you to realize more successes in this last lap of your tenure”.\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3035 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nOther speakers, such as Senator Utazi, Rt. Hon. 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If Rohr fails to meet the expectations of millions of Nigerians, then we will have no choice but to do the needful,” a ministry source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Sunday PUNCH.\n\n“The NFF must be ready to take the bull by the horns instead of hastily defending Rohr.\n\n“This poor result trend should not repeat itself, otherwise we shall review the entire team set up.\n\n“The Super Eagles represent more than 200 million people, they wear our national colour and sing the national anthem.\n\n“They don’t represent any individuals or federation, but the entire country.\n\n“The aspirations of millions of Nigerians cannot be mortgaged by an individual or small group of people.”\n\nThe sports ministry’s new position is coming on the trail of NFF President Amaju Pinnick’s defence of Rohr.\n\nPinnick had told the BBC “Nobody is happy about what happened against Sierra Leone in both matches. But it is not enough to sack the coach because his team is still top of the Nations Cup group after four matches.\n\n“His statistics speaks volume for him, so on what indexes do we want to sack him considering the contract recently signed by both parties.\n\n“No matter how emotional and disappointed the fans are, there’s no basis to sack him now and he deserves to keep his job.”','ROHR NOT BIGGER THAN NIGERIA — SPORTS MINISTRY','','publish','open','open','','rohr-not-bigger-than-nigeria-sports-ministry','','','2020-11-22 06:22:47','2020-11-22 06:22:47','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3037',0,'post','',0),(3038,1,'2020-11-22 06:22:13','2020-11-22 06:22:13','','FB_IMG_1606025933660','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1606025933660','','','2020-11-22 06:22:13','2020-11-22 06:22:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606025933660.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3042,1,'2020-11-22 06:27:03','2020-11-22 06:27:03','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3043 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606026191324-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />\n\nNational Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the nation’s economy has formally entered into recession as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted for the second consecutive quarter by 3.62 percent in the third quarter of 2020.<!--more-->\n\nEconomic recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Negative GDP growth is also referred to as a contraction.\n\nThe National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in its GDP report for Q3’ 2020 said that the nation recorded GDP growth of -3.62% in Q3’ 2020, though an improvement from the -6.10% growth recorded in Q2’2020.\n\nThe NBS stated: “Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) recorded a growth rate of –3.62% (year-on-year) in real terms in the third quarter of 2020.\n\n“Cumulatively, the economy has contracted by -2.48%. While this represents an improvement of 2.48% points over the –6.10% growth rate recorded in the preceding quarter (Q2 2020), it also indicates that two consecutive quarters of negative growth have been recorded in 2020.”\n\nALSO READ: Budget 2021: Brace up for another recession — Buhari\nThe NBS further stated: “Furthermore, growth in Q3 2020 was slower by 5.90% points when compared to the third quarter of 2019 which recorded a real growth rate of 2.28% year on year.\n\n“The performance of the economy in Q3 2020 reflected residual effects of the restrictions to movement and economic activity implemented across the country in early Q2 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n“As these restrictions were lifted, businesses re-opened and international travel and trading activities resumed, some economic activities have returned to positive growth. A total of 18 economic activities recorded positive growth in Q3 2020, compared to 13 activities in Q2 2020.”\n\nThe NBS further explained that, “During the quarter under review, aggregate GDP stood at N39.089 trillion in nominal terms. This performance was 3.39% higher when compared to the third quarter of 2019 which recorded an aggregate of N37.806 trillion.\n\n“This rate was, however, lower relative to growth recorded in the third quarter of 2019 by –9.91% points but higher than the proceeding quarter by 6.19% points. For clarity, the Nigerian economy has been broadly classified into the oil and non-oil sectors.”\n\nOn the performance of the oil sector, the NBS said: “The average daily oil production recorded in the third quarter of 2020 stood at 1.67 million barrels per day (mbpd), or 0.37mbpd lower than the average production recorded in the same quarter of 2019 and 0.14mbpd lower than production volume recorded in the second quarter of 2020\n\n“Real growth for the oil sector was –13.89% (year-on-year) in Q3 2020, indicating a sharp contraction of –20.38% points relative to the rate recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2019.\n\nFurthermore, real oil growth decreased by –7.26% points when compared with oil sector growth recorded in Q2 2020 (6.63%). Quarter on quarter, however, the oil sector recorded a growth rate of 9.64% in Q3 2020. The sector contributed 8.73% to total real GDP in Q3 2020, down from 9.77% and 8.93% respectively recorded in the corresponding period of 2019 and the preceding quarter, Q2 2020.”\n\nOn the performance of the Non-oil sector, the NBS stated: “The non-oil sector grew by –2.51% in real terms during the reference quarter, which is –4.36% points lower than the rate recorded in Q3 2019 but 3.54% points higher than in the second quarter of 2020.\n\nThe non-oil sector was driven mainly by Information and Communication (Telecommunications), with other drivers being Agriculture (Crop Production), Construction, Financial and Insurance (Financial Institutions), and Public Administration. In real terms, the non-oil sector contributed 91.27% to the nation’s GDP in the third quarter of 2020, higher than its share in the third quarter of 2019 (90.23% ) and the second quarter of 2020 (91.07%).”\n\nVanguard News Nigeria','BREAKING: Nigeria officially enters recession as GDP contracts by 3.62% in Q3’ 2020','','publish','open','open','','breaking-nigeria-officially-enters-recession-as-gdp-contracts-by-3-62-in-q3-2020','','','2020-11-22 06:27:03','2020-11-22 06:27:03','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3042',0,'post','',0),(3043,1,'2020-11-22 06:26:19','2020-11-22 06:26:19','','FB_IMG_1606026191324','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1606026191324','','','2020-11-22 06:26:19','2020-11-22 06:26:19','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606026191324.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3045,1,'2020-11-22 17:52:00','2020-11-22 17:52:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3046 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC ) in Nasarawa State, Philip Shekwo has been killed by gunmen who invaded his residence on Saturday night.<!--more-->\n\nThe gunmen had abducted the chairman at his residence in Bukan sidi in Lafia after rounds of sporadic shooting in the area.\n\nThe Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe who was brief, confirmed this to Ashiwaju Media via a telephone conversation.\n\nDetails are still sketchy where the remains of chairman is at the moment.','Gunmen killed Nasarawa APC chairman','','publish','open','open','','gunmen-killed-nasarawa-apc-chairman','','','2020-11-22 17:52:00','2020-11-22 17:52:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3045',0,'post','',0),(3046,1,'2020-11-22 17:50:33','2020-11-22 17:50:33','','IMG-20201122-WA0025','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201122-wa0025','','','2020-11-22 17:50:33','2020-11-22 17:50:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0025.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3048,1,'2020-11-22 18:03:47','2020-11-22 18:03:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3049 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Nigeria Police in Nasarawa State says the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress,(APC) died as a result of Injuries sustained from gunshots fired by gunmen who who invaded his residence on Saturday night.<!--more-->\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3050 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0056-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe body of the chairman was found within a distance of One Hundred and Twenty metres of away from his residence.\n\nCommissioner of Police Bola Longe who disclosed this to journalists, said the cell phone of the chairman was also discovered about three hundred metres from where is body was discovered.\n\nA team of homicide investigators have been constituted to unravel the mystery behind his death and track down the perpetrators.\n\nEnd','Death of Nasarawa APC Chairman: Police Say Philip Shekwo died from Gunshot Injuries','','publish','open','open','','death-of-nasarawa-apc-chairman-police-says-philip-shekwo-died-from-gunshot-injuries','','','2020-11-22 18:03:47','2020-11-22 18:03:47','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3048',0,'post','',0),(3049,1,'2020-11-22 18:02:35','2020-11-22 18:02:35','','IMG-20201122-WA0026','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201122-wa0026','','','2020-11-22 18:02:35','2020-11-22 18:02:35','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0026.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3050,1,'2020-11-22 18:03:13','2020-11-22 18:03:13','','IMG-20201122-WA0056','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201122-wa0056','','','2020-11-22 18:03:13','2020-11-22 18:03:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201122-WA0056.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3054,1,'2020-11-22 18:22:29','2020-11-22 18:22:29','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3055 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-41-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Nasarawa Governor, Abdullahi Sule says his government is committed to bring the perpetrators behind the death of the state Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to Justice.<!--more-->\n\nThe governor stated this in a press statement signed and made available to journalists by his Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Addra.\n\nThe governor who expressed shock over the death of the chairman, said investigation has already commenced by security agencies to fish out those responsible for his death.\n\nGovernor Sule urged all and sundry to remain resilient as his government fight those instilling fear on the people of the state.','Death of Nasarawa APC Chairman: Governor Sule To Bring Perpetrators To Justice','','publish','open','open','','death-of-nasarawa-apc-chairman-governor-sule-to-bring-perpetrators-to-justice','','','2020-11-22 18:22:29','2020-11-22 18:22:29','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3054',0,'post','',0),(3055,1,'2020-11-22 18:22:04','2020-11-22 18:22:04','','images (41)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-41','','','2020-11-22 18:22:04','2020-11-22 18:22:04','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-41.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3058,1,'2020-11-25 19:28:55','2020-11-25 19:28:55','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3059\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606332368202-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nThe current recession, which the Nigerian economy recently slid into, will be short-lived, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said.\n\nAhmed said this on Monday at the ongoing 26th Nigerian Economic Summit organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning.<!--more-->\n\nShe said the country would emerge from the recession in the fourth quarter of this year or by the first quarter of 2021.\n\nNigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, entered its second recession in five years in the third quarter of this year as the Gross Domestic Product fell for the second consecutive quarter.\n\nThe GDP dropped by 3.62 per cent in Q3 and 6.10 per cent in Q2, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.\n\nThe finance minister said the COVID-19-induced recession followed the pattern across the world where many countries had entered an economic recession.\n\n“Let me remind us that before the impact of COVID-19, the Nigerian economy was experiencing sustained growth, which had been improving quarter by quarter until the second quarter of 2020, when the impact of the COVID-19 was felt,” she said.\n\nAhmed said other countries also in recession, including the United Kingdom and the United States, recorded much deeper contraction than that of Nigeria.\n\n“Nigeria is not alone in this, but I will say that Nigeria has outperformed all of these economies in terms of the record of a negative growth.”\n\nAccording to her, South Africa, which recorded a decline of -50 per cent compared to Nigeria’s -6.1 per cent in Q2, will also record a deeper negative growth in Q3.\n\nAhmed said, “While the economy has entered into recession in the third quarter, the trend of the growth suggests that this will be a short-lived recession, and indeed by the fourth or, at worst, the first quarter of 2021, the country will exit recession.\n\n“Our expectation of a quick exit, which will be historically fast, is anchored on the several complementary fiscal, real sector and monetary interventions that have been proactively introduced by government to forestall a far worse decline of the economy and alleviate the negative consequences of the pandemic.”\n\nCopyright PUNCH','Nigeria Will Exit Recession Soon, Says Finance Minister','','publish','open','open','','nigeria-will-exit-recession-soon-says-finance-minister','','','2020-11-25 19:28:55','2020-11-25 19:28:55','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3058',0,'post','',0),(3059,1,'2020-11-25 19:28:35','2020-11-25 19:28:35','','FB_IMG_1606332368202','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1606332368202','','','2020-11-25 19:28:35','2020-11-25 19:28:35','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606332368202.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3061,1,'2020-11-28 12:42:16','2020-11-28 12:42:16','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3062 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0020-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe wife of the Chief of Staff to Ondo State Governor, Olugbenga Ale has regained her freedom.   Others released alongside Mrs Ale included her friend who was a co-occupant of the vehicle hijacked on Thursday night.<!--more-->\n\nMrs Ale and her friend were released this afternoon after a successful and extensive joint operation mounted by security agencies.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3063 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0019-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" />\n\nReports say security agencies initiated a manhunt for the criminals, following detailed intelligence  gathering spearheaded by the Amotekun Corps which indicated the location and track of the hoodlums.\n\nAfter sessions of hot exchanges of gunfire, the combined operations of joint security agencies were able to overpower the hoodlums and retrieved unhurt, the kidnapped individuals.\n\nMeanwhile Chief Olugbenga Ale while confirming the good news stated that his wife and her friend were rescued unhurt by the \"highly professional security forces\" and are currently in excellent condition.','Breaking : Abducted Ondo Chief of Staff\'s wife regained freedom.','','publish','open','open','','breaking-abducted-ondo-chief-of-staffs-wife-regained-freedom','','','2020-11-28 12:42:16','2020-11-28 12:42:16','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3061',0,'post','',0),(3062,1,'2020-11-28 12:41:26','2020-11-28 12:41:26','','IMG-20201128-WA0020','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201128-wa0020','','','2020-11-28 12:41:26','2020-11-28 12:41:26','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0020.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3063,1,'2020-11-28 12:41:52','2020-11-28 12:41:52','','IMG-20201128-WA0019','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201128-wa0019','','','2020-11-28 12:41:52','2020-11-28 12:41:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0019.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3065,1,'2020-11-28 13:29:18','2020-11-28 13:29:18','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3066 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0026-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" />\n\n*Ojoto Youths carrying placards during demonstration this afternoon.\n\nCrisis looms in Ojoto as youths protest over Monarch\n*seeks immediate spiritual cleaning of the land\n\nFrom Chuks Collins, Awka\nNov 26, 2020\n\nBarely a fortnight after the Elders and people of Ojoto community, headquarter of Idemili South Council of Anambra state stormed Gov Willie Obiano\'s office in Awka demanding official investigation of their Igwe Gerald Mbamalu over acts they said were unbecoming of a royal father, youths of the community Thursday, Nov 26,2020 joined their voice in the call.<!--more-->\n\nThe angry-looking youths led by Nwajimgbede Chukwuka took over the villages bearing placards with disturbing inscriptions that enumerated their apparent grievances. Some placards said, \"we denounce abomination(alu) in Ojoto\", \"ikpucha alu (cleansing/purification) must be done at once\", \"ichi Eze (crowning/enthronement) of Igwe Ojoto must follow tradition\". Others stated, Mbamalu, Ojoto is not a conquered territory\", ANSG please restore peace and liberty in Ojoto\", \"No more closure of churches again in Ojoto by Mbamalu\", and \"desecration of church alters, programmes/activities must stop\", amongst others.\n\nThe peaceful demonstration which coincided with the courtesy visit of Otu Omenana, Ojoto Akanasato to the community\'s President General, Ichie Donatus Anozie was used to distribute some leaflets detailing eleven(11) point issues they considered key to way forward in the community. They cautioned that anarchy might be looming if these issues were neglected further.\n\nAmongst other issues, they denounced abomination(alu) and \"Iri Ogholi\" in Ojoto. \"Ikpucha alu\" (cleansing/purification) must be done at once for all abominable acts against the customs, tradition and culture of the community\n\nThey also called for \"ichi Eze\" (crowning/enthronement) of Igwe Ojoto must follow the laid down principles, tradition and norms of the community. The concerned youths called for Ojoto leadership organize without delay a Peace Summit on way forward. They insisted that desecration of Ojoto values, culture and tradition in the community must stop.\n\nAccording to the youths, \"the closure and imposing of levies on Pentecostal churches by Igwe Gerald Mbamalu must stop. While all such churches should be opened at once. The desecration of church alters, programmes/activities must stop.\n\nAll illegal and forceful lands stripping/sales owned by the poor, widows, and the vulnerable must stopped, investigated and restituted immediately, while the illegitimate Taskforces/levies be disbanded immediately.\n\nAddressing journalists shortly after a meeting with the representatives of the community\'s town Union led by Ichie Anozie, the Otu Omenana leader -Chief Anthony Uzokwe called for prayers from all quarters for Ojoto to rise again from the present ashes of shame. He described their meeting as fruitful and heartwarming, as they were assured that all their initial letters that were ignored would now be considered alongside their submission in today\'s meeting.\n\nUzokwe expressed worries that before now all letters to Anozie\'s executive as well as Mbamalu were ignored but that they have been assured they would be addressed adequately. He called on Mbamalu to respect the spiritual eye and guide of his members, and should always seek their guide on issues of tradition, culture and values in Ojoto always.\n\nAnozie described the meeting as a step in the right direction meant to move the community forward, which he admitted was a collective responsibility. That all groups and stakeholders would henceforth be carried along.\n\nThe Assistant Secretary of the town Union, who incidentally is the spokesman to Igwe Mbamalu, Chief Romeo Anyisia commended the Otu Omenana for the views. He pointed out that no leader would do well without listening to plural views. He assured that the monarch would surely positively consider all the issues raised by Uzokwe and his members.\n\nChief Ifeanyichukwu Anadi, Ikenga of Ojoto insisted that views of key segments of the community like the Otu Omenana must matter on all issues, for the spiritual benefit of the citizens.','Ojoto Youths carrying placards during demonstration this afternoon.','','publish','open','open','','ojoto-youths-carrying-placards-during-demonstration-this-afternoon','','','2020-11-28 13:29:18','2020-11-28 13:29:18','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3065',0,'post','',0),(3066,1,'2020-11-28 13:28:30','2020-11-28 13:28:30','','IMG-20201128-WA0026','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201128-wa0026','','','2020-11-28 13:28:30','2020-11-28 13:28:30','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201128-WA0026.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3068,1,'2020-11-29 06:47:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Just In : About 43 killed in attack on farm workers in Born\n\nGunmen suspected to be Boko haram insurgents have killed about 43 farmers working in rice fields in Koshobe village of Jere Local Government of Borno state.\n\nThe gunmen were said to arrived the village on Saturday afternoon executing the farmers while working on their farmlands.\n\nEye witnesses say this might be the activity of the Boko Haram insurgents as they have frequently attacked farmers in the area.\n\nThe military is yet to confirm the incident as the remains of the farmers were brought to zamabarmari a community close to Maiduguri or funeral prayers.\n#','Just In : About 43 killed in attack on farm workers in Borno','','draft','open','open','','','','','2020-11-29 06:47:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3068',0,'post','',0),(3070,1,'2020-11-29 06:51:05','2020-11-29 06:51:05','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3071 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-69-300x165.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" />\n\nGunmen suspected to be Boko haram insurgents have killed about 43 farmers working in rice fields in Koshobe village of Jere Local Government of Borno state.<!--more-->\n\nThe gunmen were said to arrived the village on Saturday afternoon executing the farmers while working on their farmlands.\n\nEye witnesses say this might be the activity of the Boko Haram insurgents as they have frequently attacked farmers in the area.\n\nThe military is yet to confirm the incident as the remains of the farmers were brought to zamabarmari a community close to Maiduguri or funeral prayers.\n#','Just In : About 43 killed in attack on farm workers in Borno','','publish','open','open','','just-in-about-43-killed-in-attack-on-farm-workers-in-borno','','','2020-11-29 06:51:05','2020-11-29 06:51:05','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3070',0,'post','',0),(3071,1,'2020-11-29 06:50:48','2020-11-29 06:50:48','','images (69)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-69','','','2020-11-29 06:50:48','2020-11-29 06:50:48','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-69.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3073,1,'2020-11-29 10:12:31','2020-11-29 10:12:31','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3074 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0012-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nForty-three farmers in Koshobe village of Jere Local Government Borno State have been reportedly executed by suspected members of Boko Haram on Saturday.<!--more-->\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3075 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\nThe gunmen were said to arrive the village on Saturday afternoon executing the farmers while working on their farmlands.\n\nThe beheadings came weeks after the governor’s convoy was attacked, leaving several police officers and soldiers killed.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3076 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nZabarmari is about 20 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno capital where Nigerian military has used as headquarters in the ongoing war against insurgency.\n#','UPDATE: Boko Haram beheads 43 farmers in Borno','','publish','open','open','','update-boko-haram-beheads-43-farmers-in-borno','','','2020-11-29 10:12:31','2020-11-29 10:12:31','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3073',0,'post','',0),(3074,1,'2020-11-29 10:11:07','2020-11-29 10:11:07','','IMG-20201129-WA0012','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201129-wa0012','','','2020-11-29 10:11:07','2020-11-29 10:11:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0012.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3075,1,'2020-11-29 10:11:33','2020-11-29 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insurgents.<!--more-->\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3082 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nThe governor during his visit was told that death toll was yet to be fully ascertained.\n\nThe governor condole with residents of the village and condemned in totally the barbaric act.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3080 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0015-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nHe appealed to theFederal Government to ensure recruitment of more our youths in the CJTF and hunters into the Nigerian military and the Civil Defence so that they can form part of the agro rangers that will protect farmers.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3081 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0018-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\nEND','UPDATE on Slain Farmers *Zulum leads horrified kinsmen to bury 43 farmers killed by Boko Haram*','','publish','open','open','','update-on-slain-farmers-zulum-leads-horrified-kinsmen-to-bury-43-farmers-killed-by-boko-haram','','','2020-11-29 10:27:32','2020-11-29 10:27:32','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3078',0,'post','',0),(3079,1,'2020-11-29 10:24:56','2020-11-29 10:24:56','','IMG-20201129-WA0014','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201129-wa0014','','','2020-11-29 10:24:56','2020-11-29 10:24:56','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0014.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3080,1,'2020-11-29 10:25:42','2020-11-29 10:25:42','','IMG-20201129-WA0015','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201129-wa0015-2','','','2020-11-29 10:25:42','2020-11-29 10:25:42','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0015-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3081,1,'2020-11-29 10:26:27','2020-11-29 10:26:27','','IMG-20201129-WA0018','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201129-wa0018','','','2020-11-29 10:26:27','2020-11-29 10:26:27','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0018.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3082,1,'2020-11-29 10:27:14','2020-11-29 10:27:14','','IMG-20201129-WA0011','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201129-wa0011','','','2020-11-29 10:27:14','2020-11-29 10:27:14','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG-20201129-WA0011.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3084,1,'2020-11-29 12:34:12','2020-11-29 12:34:12','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3085\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606652839137-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" />I\nA 23-year-old man who claims to be a victim of Lekki Toll Gate shooting tells PUNCH that the subsequent amputation of his right leg is a nightmare he has been unable to wake up from\n\n<!--more-->\nTwenty-three-year-old Olalekan Faleye, a survivor of the shooting that attended the peaceful #ENDSARS protest at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, says he has become an amputee after the gunshot injuries he sustained to the leg on Tuesday, October 20, 2020.\n\nHe had undergone surgical amputation of his bullet-ridden right leg.\n\nThe shooting incident had attracted national and international outcry, with the Lagos State and Federal governments being urged to unravel the identity of the shooters and who deployed them.\n\nSpeaking exclusively with PUNCH HealthWise a few days after he was discharged from the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Olalekan said until the Lekki shooting, he had temporarily worked as a labourer with a construction company in Ikoyi to raise money for his ‘freedom’ as an apprentice cobbler.\n\nHe also planned to use whatever was left after his freedom ceremony to rent a shop where he could carry out his cobbler trade.\n\n“Any time we had little or nothing to do at the construction site, I would join the #ENDSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate to demonstrate against Police brutality and bad governance.\n\n“I recalled attending the protest on three different occasions (October 15, 16 and 17) before the soldiers’ invasion on October 20,” he said.\n\nStruck by soldiers’ bullet\n\nLooking pale and sad, he struggled to recollect the incident of the Black Tuesday, saying the whole episode still feels like a bad dream.\n\n“They (soldiers) arrived in a group and, without warning, started shooting at us. As people ran helter-skelter, I recalled hearing the protest coordinators screaming, ‘Don’t panic, sit on the floor together and keep waving the Nigerian flag.’\n\n“But it was too late. People panicked when they saw the soldiers advancing and shooting at us.\n\n“In the panic that ensued, I was hit on the right leg by a stray bullet. The force of the shot was so intense that I found myself on the ground, writhing in pain and with so much blood gushing out of my leg.\n\n“I was there for some seconds, feeling weak and fatigued, before some fellow protesters came to my rescue. I was held by both hands and legs as they continued running while also dodging the flying bullets,” he said.\n\nOlalekan disclosed that after his bullet-riddled leg was tied up with what looked like a shirt, he was rushed along with three other victims of the shooting to Vedic Hospital in Lekki.\n\n“At Vedic, I was denied admission when the medical official saw the state of my bloodied leg,” he alleged.\n\nThe 23-year-old said he kept getting weaker as he was being conveyed by the rescue team in search of another hospital.\n\n“That was how I ended up at Grandville Trauma Centre. After examining the leg, one of the doctors who attended to me announced that my limb was in a sorry state because the high-velocity projectile forcefully pierced through the muscles and blood vessels in my leg from one end before coming out at the other end.\n\n“Consequently, I was asked to drop the contact of my parent or guardian because of the complex nature of my case,” he said.\n\nOlalekan’s diagnosis at Grandville\n\nOlalekan’s medical statement, which was written on Grandville’s letterhead and secured by our correspondent, states, “To whom it may concern, OLALEKAN FALEYE MALE/23 years. The above-named patient presented to our facility four days ago (20/10/2020) around 23.28pm due to a gunshot injury to his (R) leg in about 2 hours after the incident.\n\n“He sustained this injury as a result of his involvement in the #ENDSARS protest that occurred at the Lekki toll gate.\n\n“He was initially taken to Vedic Hospital and then brought in here for further management.\n\n“On presentation, GCS 15/15 O2 Sat; 98% pain and severe bleeding from the gunshot site with a point of entry and exit of the bullet. He was unable to lift his leg and move his toes.\n\n“Diagnosis made was (i) leg injury from gunshot (ii) imminent compartment syndrome.”\n\nThe medical paper which was signed by a certain Dr. Adebayo and countersigned by Dr. Umukoro further reads, “An exploratory fasciotomy was done on the right lower limb to litigate severed blood vessels. Five units of packed RBCs were transfused over the course of admission as the patient came in with Hb of 5.6g/cll. No pulse (dorsal pedis, tibia post and ant. Arteries) was felt.\n\n“Patient was placed on antibiotics (IV Rocephin, IV Flagyl, treated for malaria (Im arthemeter 160mg) and analgesics.\n\n“Patients relatives have been counselled on the need for an amputation of the patient’s leg but they would need a second opinion. For further clarifications and enquiries, kindly call the hospital.”\n\nExperts say a fasciotomy or fasciectomy is a surgical limb-saving procedure when used to treat acute compartment syndrome.','MY LEG WAS AMPUTATED AFTER I WAS SHOT AT LEKKI TOLL GATE — 23-YEAR-OLD COBBLER','','publish','open','open','','my-leg-was-amputated-after-i-was-shot-at-lekki-toll-gate-23-year-old-cobbler','','','2020-11-29 12:34:12','2020-11-29 12:34:12','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3084',0,'post','',0),(3085,1,'2020-11-29 12:29:45','2020-11-29 12:29:45','','FB_IMG_1606652839137','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1606652839137','','','2020-11-29 12:29:45','2020-11-29 12:29:45','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FB_IMG_1606652839137.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3087,1,'2020-11-30 20:18:23','2020-11-30 20:18:23','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3088 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-76-300x223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" />\n\nThere is indications that the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, his predecessor, Senator Theodore Orji and erstwhile Deputy Speaker of Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha have perfected plans to defect to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in view of the 2023 elections.<!--more-->\n\nAn insider source revealed that the decision was reached Weekend after the trio emerged from a 2hours meeting with some top APC leaders in Abuja.\n\nThe source maintained that the meeting that held at the private resident of Chief Raymond Dokpesi in Asokoro, Abuja, the Federal Capital City was attended by Governors of Ebonyi, Imo, Kaduna and Lagos states, Chief Dave Umahi, Hope Uzodinma, Mallam Elrufai, and Babajide Sanwolu respectively.\n\nThe source further disclosed that former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio and Sirieken Dickson amongst others were in attendance.\n\nAkelicious gathered that part of decisions reached was to collapse the entire South East geopolitical zone from PDP to APC as the only way to cede the party’s Presidential ticket to the region.\n\nAccording to the insider source, the former Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Ihedioha was asked to lead delegation to woo other PDP leaders in the South East to APC, while Chief Dokpesi in collaboration with the former President, Goodluck Jonathan were to do a thorough underground work in the South South zone.\n\nWhen contacted on phone, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu confirmed the move, adding that the former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha would announce his defection to APC with his supporters immediately after their next meeting.','Breaking: Ikpeazu, Orji, Ihedioha, Dokpesi Conclude Plans To Join APC','','publish','open','open','','breaking-ikpeazu-orji-ihedioha-dokpesi-conclude-plans-to-join-apc','','','2020-11-30 20:18:23','2020-11-30 20:18:23','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3087',0,'post','',0),(3088,1,'2020-11-30 20:17:55','2020-11-30 20:17:55','','images (76)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-76','','','2020-11-30 20:17:55','2020-11-30 20:17:55','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/images-76.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3090,1,'2017-12-12 10:54:44','2017-12-12 10:54:44','','pennews-banner1-compressor','','inherit','open','closed','','pennews-banner1-compressor','','','2017-12-12 10:54:44','2017-12-12 10:54:44','',0,'http://pennews.pencidesign.com/pennews-default/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2017/05/pennews-banner1-compressor.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3091,1,'2020-12-03 12:43:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Ondo endars panel begins si\n\nThe Ondo State Judicial Panel Inquiry on Police Brutality and other matters has received thirty two petitions from members of the public.\n\nThe chairman of the panel, Justice Adesola Sadiq disclosed this in Akure at the inaugural sitting of the panel.\n\nHe sought the full cooperation of petitioners in ensuring the success of the panel\n\nHe noted that the panel would stick to its terms of reference\n\nOne of the petitioners is the nigeria correctional service.','Ondo endars panel begins sitting, receives 32 petitions','','draft','open','open','','','','','2020-12-03 12:43:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3091',0,'post','',0),(3092,1,'2017-12-12 10:54:54','2017-12-12 10:54:54','','pennews-banner3-compressor','','inherit','open','closed','','pennews-banner3-compressor','','','2017-12-12 10:54:54','2017-12-12 10:54:54','',0,'http://pennews.pencidesign.com/pennews-default/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2017/05/pennews-banner3-compressor.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3093,1,'2020-12-03 12:46:49','2020-12-03 12:46:49','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3095 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201203-WA0021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe Ondo State Judicial Panel Inquiry on Police Brutality and other matters has received thirty two petitions from members of the public.<!--more-->\n\nThe chairman of the panel, Justice Adesola Sadiq disclosed this in Akure at the inaugural sitting of the panel.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3094 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201203-WA0015-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" />\n\nHe sought the full cooperation of petitioners in ensuring the success of the panel\n\nHe noted that the panel would stick to its terms of reference\n\nOne of the petitioners is the nigeria correctional service.','Ondo endars panel begins sitting, receives. 32 petitions','','publish','open','open','','ondo-endars-panel-begins-sitting-receives-32-petitions','','','2020-12-03 12:46:49','2020-12-03 12:46:49','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3093',0,'post','',0),(3094,1,'2020-12-03 12:45:41','2020-12-03 12:45:41','','IMG-20201203-WA0015','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201203-wa0015','','','2020-12-03 12:45:41','2020-12-03 12:45:41','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201203-WA0015.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3095,1,'2020-12-03 12:46:09','2020-12-03 12:46:09','','IMG-20201203-WA0021','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201203-wa0021','','','2020-12-03 12:46:09','2020-12-03 12:46:09','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201203-WA0021.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3100,1,'2020-12-04 09:20:47','2020-12-04 09:20:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3101 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe court of Appeal sitting in Abuja is set to deliver judgment in the appeal filed Maryam sanda, challenging the judgment of an FCT high court Abuja, which sentenced her to death by hanging.\n\nJustice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT high court had on 27th January found her guilty of killing her husband Bilyaminu Bello.<!--more-->\n\nFollowing her conviction she approached the court of appeal for redress.\n\nIn her notice of appeal which is predicated on 20 grounds, she held that the trial judge was bais.\n\nThis she said led to the denial of her rights to fair hearing and her consequent conviction based on lack of confessional statement, absence of murder weapon, lack of corroborating evidence by two or more witnesses and lack of autopsy report to determine the true cause of her husband’s death.','Alleged homicide: Court of Appeal delivers Judgment on Maryam Sanda','','publish','open','open','','alleged-homicide-court-of-appeal-delivers-judgment-on-maryam-sanda','','','2020-12-04 09:20:47','2020-12-04 09:20:47','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3100',0,'post','',0),(3101,1,'2020-12-04 09:20:20','2020-12-04 09:20:20','','IMG-20201204-WA0005','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201204-wa0005','','','2020-12-04 09:20:20','2020-12-04 09:20:20','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0005.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3103,1,'2020-12-04 14:38:17','2020-12-04 14:38:17','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3104 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0041-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nMr. Sunday Dare Asefon has emerged the new ‘global’ President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), amidst sporadic shootings that rocked the contest.<!--more-->\n\nCAMUS GIST gathered that Afeson is a 48-year old postgraduate diploma (PGD) student of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), in Ado-Ekiti.\n\nThe new NANS president, a married man, is a former coordinator of the Association in Zone \'D\' comprising of schools in the Southwestern states.\n\nHe is said to be the \'anointed\' candidate of the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, who reportedly dished out N40 million to sponsor his candidature.\n\nAsefon polled 155 votes to be declared winner of the contest ahead of Momodu, 11 votes; Champion, 2 votes; Alopay, 7 votes and Ladoja, 100 votes. 7 votes were declared invalid in the contest marred with violence and alleged vote buying.\n\nEarlier, sporadic shooting rocked the venue of the election at the Old parade ground, Area 10, Garki in Abuja, as alleged cultists brought to the convention ground engaged DSS officials in a shootout.\n\nOutgoing Public Relations Officer of the NANS, who doubles as Special Assistant on Student Matters to the Ogun State Governor, Azeez Adeyemi was reportedly arrested in the process with live cartridge and ammunitions.\n\nWith the emergence of 48-year-old Asefoh as NANS president, he may be sworn in as the oldest president of the Association in recent time as the outgoing Bamidele Akpan, who got impeached recently, was sworn in at 42.','New NANS President Emerged ','','publish','open','open','','new-nans-president-emerged','','','2020-12-04 14:38:17','2020-12-04 14:38:17','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3103',0,'post','',0),(3104,1,'2020-12-04 14:37:42','2020-12-04 14:37:42','','IMG-20201204-WA0041','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201204-wa0041','','','2020-12-04 14:37:42','2020-12-04 14:37:42','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0041.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3106,1,'2020-12-04 15:03:34','2020-12-04 15:03:34','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3107 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-5-300x184.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Court of Appeal has affirmed the judgment delivered on 27th January by justice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT high court, which sentence Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for killing her husband<!--more--></p>','Breaking: Court of Appeal affirms judgment on Maryam Sanda','','publish','open','open','','breaking-court-of-appeal-affirms-judgment-on-maryam-sander','','','2020-12-04 15:03:34','2020-12-04 15:03:34','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3106',0,'post','',0),(3107,1,'2020-12-04 15:02:18','2020-12-04 15:02:18','','images (5)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-5-2','','','2020-12-04 15:02:18','2020-12-04 15:02:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-5.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3112,1,'2020-12-04 15:10:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nThe Federal High Court in Lagos has granted permission to an accused former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to embark on a foreign medical trip.\n\nThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Mr Fayose and a firm, Spotless Investment Limited, for an alleged N2.2bn fraud.\n\nJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted the Order following an application by the defendant’s lawyer, Ola Olanipekun (SAN).\n\nCounsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) did not oppose the application.\n\nThe judge adjourned further hearing in the case till January 22, 2021.\n\nThe EFCC alleges, among other things, that Mr Fayose, on June 17, 2014, \"took possession of the sum of N1, 219, 000,000 to fund your 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Ekiti State, which you reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act, to wit: criminal breach of trust/stealing.\"\n\nThe former governor was also alleged to have on the same day \"received a cash payment of $5,000,000 from Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the then Minister of State for Defence, which sum exceeded the amount authorised by law and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 1 and 16(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 16 (2)(b) of the same Act.”\n\nThe EFCC also alleged that Mr Fayose purchased a property known as No.44, Osun Crescent, Maitama, Abuja for N200m in the name of his elder sister, Moji Oladeji.\n\nBut the two defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges.','Alleged N2.2bn fraud: Court grants Fayose’s application to travel abroad for medical treatment','','draft','open','open','','','','','2020-12-04 15:10:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3112',0,'post','',0),(3113,1,'2020-12-04 15:13:40','2020-12-04 15:13:40','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3114 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-6-300x223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" />\n\nThe Federal High Court in Lagos has granted permission to an accused former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to embark on a foreign medical trip.\n\nThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Mr Fayose and a firm, Spotless Investment Limited, for an alleged N2.2bn fraud.<!--more-->\n\nJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted the Order following an application by the defendant’s lawyer, Ola Olanipekun (SAN).\n\nCounsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) did not oppose the application.\n\nThe judge adjourned further hearing in the case till January 22, 2021.\n\nThe EFCC alleges, among other things, that Mr Fayose, on June 17, 2014, \"took possession of the sum of N1, 219, 000,000 to fund your 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Ekiti State, which you reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act, to wit: criminal breach of trust/stealing.\"\n\nThe former governor was also alleged to have on the same day \"received a cash payment of $5,000,000 from Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the then Minister of State for Defence, which sum exceeded the amount authorised by law and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 1 and 16(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 16 (2)(b) of the same Act.”\n\nThe EFCC also alleged that Mr Fayose purchased a property known as No.44, Osun Crescent, Maitama, Abuja for N200m in the name of his elder sister, Moji Oladeji.\n\nBut the two defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges.','Alleged N2.2bn fraud: Court grants Fayose’s application to travel abroad for medical treatment','','publish','open','open','','alleged-n2-2bn-fraud-court-grants-fayoses-application-to-travel-abroad-for-medical-treatment','','','2020-12-04 15:13:40','2020-12-04 15:13:40','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3113',0,'post','',0),(3114,1,'2020-12-04 15:13:20','2020-12-04 15:13:20','','images (6)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-6-2','','','2020-12-04 15:13:20','2020-12-04 15:13:20','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-6.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3116,1,'2020-12-04 15:18:14','2020-12-04 15:18:14','&nbsp;\n\nArik Air operations have been grounded by the National Union of Air Transport Employees, over alleged poor working conditions.\n\nWorkers at the airline decided to down tools over unpaid salary and poor welfare.<!--more-->\n\nThe strike has brought hardship to passangers, who have been stranded for more than 2 days.\n\nHours after total shut down of activities of the carrier, the management announced the sack of more than 300 workers.\n\nAccording to the union, other airlines have called their workers back to their duty posts after the COVID-19 pandemic, but Arik Air decided to run on 20 per cent staff strength, while 80 per cent are still at home.\n#','ALLEGED UNPAID SALARY: Workers Ground Arik Air Operations, as Passengers Stranded','','publish','open','open','','alleged-unpaid-salary-workers-ground-arik-air-operations-as-passengers-stranded','','','2020-12-04 15:18:14','2020-12-04 15:18:14','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3116',0,'post','',0),(3118,1,'2020-12-04 15:57:47','2020-12-04 15:57:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3119 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607097319640-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" />\n\nThe Defence Headquarters has said the decision to engage mercenaries to assist the military in defeating the Boko Haram insurgency is for the Federal Government to take.\n\nIt noted that the security forces could not challenge the initiative, stressing that it was up to Nigerians and the government to contract the private army.<!--more-->\n\nFollowing the killing of over 43 rice farmers in Zabarmari, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents last Saturday, Governor Babagana Zulum and governors of the North-East states had called for the hiring of mercenaries to fight the insurgents.\n\nBut responding to a question from The PUNCH during the weekly briefing on the security operations across the country in Abuja on Thursday, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche said the military had no business debating the proposal.\n\nHe stated, “Request or proposal to engage mercenaries; that is at a very high level. The kind of armed forces and security agencies you have is normally determined by the people.\n\n”It (engagement of mercenaries) is not in our powers. It is a kind of force package; it is what the government wants. It is not for the military to begin to contend.”\n\nWhen asked if the military was overstretched and overwhelmed as stated by the Chairman, Nigerians Governors’ Forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi, Enenche said, “Our bosses that engaged us said we are overstretched, it is left to them.\n\n“It is not for the military to say we are overstretched; I am not overstretched. If I say, I am overstretched, that means, I don’t want to work. And if I say, I am not overstretched, that means, I am under-utilised.”\n\nThe media coordinator said the armed forces and other security agencies have continued to deal deadly blows to insurgents and bandits in the North-East and North-West regions.\n\nHe disclosed that the troops of Army Super Camp II Gamboru-Ngala killed two insurgents during clearance operations at Garal village and Bulankesa village in Borno State.\n\nThe DHQ further revealed that two suspected bandits, Ibrahim Umar and Ibrahim Sani, affiliated to a notorious bandit identified as Turji, were arrested by the troops of Operation Accord on November 26, adding that two other suspects, Iro Ibrahim and Umaru Abdullahi, from Daba village, were also apprehended on November 27.\n\nCopyright PUNCH.','Military Won’t Be Involved In Hiring Mercenaries – DHQ','','publish','open','open','','military-wont-be-involved-in-hiring-mercenaries-dhq','','','2020-12-04 15:57:47','2020-12-04 15:57:47','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3118',0,'post','',0),(3119,1,'2020-12-04 15:56:48','2020-12-04 15:56:48','','FB_IMG_1607097319640','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1607097319640','','','2020-12-04 15:56:48','2020-12-04 15:56:48','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607097319640.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3121,1,'2020-12-04 16:27:01','2020-12-04 16:27:01','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3122 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0072-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\nNice have confirmed Adrien Ursea as interim manager for their trip to Reims in Ligue 1 this weekend.<!--more-->\n\nFormer Arsenal midfielder Vieira has departed Nice after two and a half years in charge, with the club having lost their previous five games in all competitions and been eliminated from the Europa League at the group stage.\n\n*PRESTIGE*\n*SPORTS REFINED LIKE FINE WINE*','Patrick Vieira has been sacked from his position as manager of Ligue 1 club Nice.','','publish','open','open','','patrick-vieira-has-been-sacked-from-his-position-as-manager-of-ligue-1-club-nice','','','2020-12-04 16:27:01','2020-12-04 16:27:01','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3121',0,'post','',0),(3122,1,'2020-12-04 16:26:28','2020-12-04 16:26:28','','IMG-20201204-WA0072','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201204-wa0072','','','2020-12-04 16:26:28','2020-12-04 16:26:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201204-WA0072.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3132,1,'2020-12-04 17:28:35','2020-12-04 17:28:35','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3133 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DWj_SSYW4AAJNRI-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" />\n\nAnioma, a Delta-Igbo community in Nigeria prides in her age-long culture that crowns the Omu Anioma- a traditional title to a woman, the culture permits an Omu to marry a woman or as many women of her choice. The twist here is that her wife (she is the man in the marriage) is allowed to marry or consort a man of her choice and they both procreate and bear children for the Omu. Most people ask, does the Omu have sexual intercourse?<!--more-->\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3134 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11321009_omuobioromuaniomaandomuogwashiuku_jpeg4e32f1dfb7baae29f60ead204cccce5e-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\nHistory says the tradition of crowning an Omu is from Benin, Igara. Omu means palm front, which connotes fertility hence the stool of the Omu was constituted. Omu stands as Eze Nwanyi, female king in charge of women, female youths, markets, ancestral shrines, businesses. Delta communities that practice the omu system include Abala, Utchi, Aniocha, Oshimili, Nsukwa clan, Igodo, Ukwuani, Ubulu-Uku among others.\n\nIgbodo communities differ in their approach as they appoint a council of Omu made up of several Omu and a head.\n\nMore importantly, she is the spiritual custodian, the one who advises the male traditional ruler and the town spiritually. That is why they are not allowed to get married so she can maintain a state of chastity. If she is married, she is to leave her matrimonial home. An Omu is also allowed to visit her ex-husband for a given number of hours. However, this remains a grey area as the Omu has refused to discuss their sexual affairs either for or against. Another common question is- How is an Omu selected?\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3135 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" />\nOn the day of coronation after all due diligence has been done, the Omu is presented with her staff of office in the form of a knotted broom, an of, and a circular fan. The broom is a feminine marker but the ofo and the fan are symbols of her new male status and authority. It is widely believed that all Omus lose their femininity to masculinity on this day. They hereby become leaders of their households and the only difference between them and men is the absence of genitals.\n\nIn a community where there is an Omu, there is also a male traditional ruler who is recognized as the leader supreme, the Omu is subject to him. When an Omu is crowned, she leaves her matrimonial home, if married and moves to the palace to reign. At the point of coronation, as she is made a man and bestowed male rights; she can break the kolanut, she becomes a man in a woman.\n\nThe selection of an Omu is patterned in a way that they are different from male chiefs. There is no contest. You don’t aspire to it. God is said to reveal who will become the traditional ruler for women. In some communities, it is hereditary, while in others, it is rotational.\n\n<strong>Four Stages Of Traditional Marriage Process In Igboland</strong>\n\nThe names of prospective candidates are sent to oracles for confirmation and after the oracle approves, the chosen is informed through a symbolic process. She will either have an eagle feather stuck on her hair or be presented with the ugba-omu, a calabash and one of the official insignia of the office, or she is presented with a piece of nzu, a locally mined chalk. The eagle feather is an indication of an enhanced status, the ugba-omu is the traditional feminine symbol for female traders and signifies her responsibility to women, and the nzu, a ritual chalk, denotes purity and suggests her ritual role.\n\nThe recently crowned Omu is Omu Anioma- Obi Martha Dunkwu. Her reign has championed the abolishment of harmful burial rites, she Campaigns and advocates for women’s inheritance to properties. I know you think of Omu’s as traditional women sitting in a shrine disconnected from the rest of the world. Here is a shocker.\n\nOmu Martha Dunkwu is learned, she holds a degree in comparative religion in the United States. She managed the image of the immediate past Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa and Benin Palace and she is media savvy.\n\n<strong>An Omu has no tenure, another Omu can only be appointed when the current one passes.</strong>\n\nNo man or woman is allowed to raise their hand or beat an Omu, it is regarded as a slap on the town and the town will retaliate.','PHOTOS; See An Igbo Community Where Women Marry Women','','publish','open','open','','photos-see-an-igbo-community-where-women-marry-women','','','2020-12-04 17:28:35','2020-12-04 17:28:35','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3132',0,'post','',0),(3133,1,'2020-12-04 17:24:56','2020-12-04 17:24:56','','DWj_SSYW4AAJNRI','','inherit','open','closed','','dwj_ssyw4aajnri','','','2020-12-04 17:24:56','2020-12-04 17:24:56','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DWj_SSYW4AAJNRI.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3134,1,'2020-12-04 17:25:59','2020-12-04 17:25:59','','11321009_omuobioromuaniomaandomuogwashiuku_jpeg4e32f1dfb7baae29f60ead204cccce5e (1)','','inherit','open','closed','','11321009_omuobioromuaniomaandomuogwashiuku_jpeg4e32f1dfb7baae29f60ead204cccce5e-1','','','2020-12-04 17:25:59','2020-12-04 17:25:59','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11321009_omuobioromuaniomaandomuogwashiuku_jpeg4e32f1dfb7baae29f60ead204cccce5e-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3135,1,'2020-12-04 17:26:31','2020-12-04 17:26:31','','images-1','','inherit','open','closed','','images-1','','','2020-12-04 17:26:31','2020-12-04 17:26:31','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3137,1,'2020-12-06 12:23:00','2020-12-06 12:23:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3138\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607257138562-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />\n\nFormer President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria’s unity is questionable. Jonathan also said it was too early to ask if he will contest the 2023 presidential election or not.<!--more-->\n\nHe spoke amid the controversy that he may be a potential contender in the 2023 election during an exclusive command performance by the Port-Harcourt Male Ensemble International tagged ‘Peace for All Nations’ at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja.\n\nSome northerners are said to prefer him running in 2023 since he will be entitled to only one more term after his exit in 2019 to facilitate the return of power to the North in 2027.\n\nAccording to him, as a former President who had been vice president and president for eight years and equally played at the state level as a deputy governor and governor for eight years in the slums of the Niger Delta, he knew what is the meaning of peace.\n\nJonathan also said it worried him every day when he looked at the issues bothering the country as a nation.\n\nHe stated that Nigerian youths sometimes engaged in all kinds of confrontation, recalling his conversation with one of his friends.\n\n“And I was discussing with somebody, one of my friends and I said look, in Nigeria, they appear not to even have a national youth body. Because in most cases, the regional youth bodies are stronger than the national youth body.\n\n“Ordinarily, the national youth body is supposed to be stronger than the regional youth body. If you go to my state, Bayelsa, for example, if I am a national member of the Nigerian Youth Council, the IYC, Ijaw Youth Council, feels that they are your boss.\n\n“If you go to the Southwest and to the North, the Arewa Youth Group, they feel they are superior to the national youth body.\n\n“If you go to the Southwest, the same thing. If you go to the Southeast, the same thing. That shows clearly that as a nation, we are in trouble. The unity of the country is questionable,” Jonathan said.\n\nFocusing on the event, Jonathan further said: “So, when you see young people come together to perform with the theme: ‘Peace for All Nations,’ I am quite impressed.”\n\nAsked to comment on the way forward regarding the insecurity bedeviling the country, Jonathan said Nigeria was not the only nation affected by insecurity, adding that the whole world was facing insecurity because of the excesses of terrorists.\n\nHe said the Nigerian situation was somehow unique as the country felt it everyday, even as he said he believed the government was doing their best.\n\n“I was there before and of course, you know there was a lot of insecurity. So, I am the very wrong person to make comments on the insecurity in the land.\n\n“All what we can do is to collectively support the government, encourage the soldiers and other security operatives to do more for our safety,” Jonathan stated.\n\nVanguardngr.com','Nigeria’s Unity Questionable – Jonathan  …On 2023: Too early to ask if I will contest','','publish','open','open','','nigerias-unity-questionable-jonathan-on-2023-too-early-to-ask-if-i-will-contest','','','2020-12-06 12:23:00','2020-12-06 12:23:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3137',0,'post','',0),(3138,1,'2020-12-06 12:22:33','2020-12-06 12:22:33','','FB_IMG_1607257138562','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1607257138562','','','2020-12-06 12:22:33','2020-12-06 12:22:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607257138562.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3140,1,'2020-12-07 12:15:16','2020-12-07 12:15:16','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3141 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0015-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" />\n\nAt least three suspected armed bandits were Sunday night reportedly gunned down at Adaka community in Makurdi local government area of Benue state following gun battle with the troops of the joint military spike operation code named Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS.<!--more-->\n\nIt was learnt that the armed bandits stormed the area, in the suburb of Makurdi the state capital to rob and maim unsuspecting members of the community of their belongings before they were sighted and a distress call was put across to the military personnel who were on vehicle patrol around the area.\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3142 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0017-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" />\n\nOur correspondent further gathered that the criminal elements however met a strong resistance from the military after they first opened fire on the troops.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3143 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0016-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" />\n\nWhen contacted for his comments on the incident, Commander of OPWS, Major General Adeyemi Yekini said his patrol team had an encounter with some armed bandits around Adaka community, Gen Yekini stated. He however refer our correspondent to Defence Headquarters Media Operations team for further information on the Adaka incident.','Soldiers Killed three Armed Bandits in Gun Battle, Recovered two weapons In Benue','','publish','open','open','','soldiers-killed-three-armed-bandits-in-gun-battle-recovered-two-weapons-in-benue','','','2020-12-07 12:15:16','2020-12-07 12:15:16','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3140',0,'post','',0),(3141,1,'2020-12-07 12:12:16','2020-12-07 12:12:16','','IMG-20201207-WA0015','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201207-wa0015','','','2020-12-07 12:12:16','2020-12-07 12:12:16','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0015.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3142,1,'2020-12-07 12:12:44','2020-12-07 12:12:44','','IMG-20201207-WA0017','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201207-wa0017','','','2020-12-07 12:12:44','2020-12-07 12:12:44','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0017.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3143,1,'2020-12-07 12:13:38','2020-12-07 12:13:38','','IMG-20201207-WA0016','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201207-wa0016','','','2020-12-07 12:13:38','2020-12-07 12:13:38','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201207-WA0016.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3145,1,'2020-12-07 12:24:06','2020-12-07 12:24:06','<blockquote><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3146\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607343587857-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" /></blockquote>\nYahaya Bello, Kogi governor, says the country is not ripe for another round of demonstrations against police brutality.\n\nBello said this in reaction to reports that protesters are returning to the streets in some cities to demonstrate against police brutality.<!--more-->\n\nIn October, many citizens took to the streets across Nigeria to express their frustration against police harassment.\n\nHowever, hoodlums hijacked the demonstrations to unleash violence on citizens. Public and private property was looted and destroyed in the process.\n\nAddressing a press conference on Sunday, Bello said another round of demonstrations will not be only premature but also counterproductive.\n\nThe governor said the youth should consolidate on the gains of the protest by fully participating in various judicial panels of inquiry set up by the various state governments.\n\n“In the face of all this and as the first sitting governor who publicly upheld the rights of our youths to protest against police brutality, I cannot in all good conscience agree that the time is ripe for another round of #EndSARS protests,” he said.\n\n“I deem another round of #EndSARS protests to be premature and counter-productive at this time. Apart from the higher likelihood of conflict with the police earlier canvassed, we must also admit that the security situation in the country is very precarious at the moment.\n\n“All patriots must therefore make conscious efforts not to degrade a parlous security situation further. Nationwide protests at this time will only overburden the load-bearing capabilities of our security architecture increasing the likelihood of total collapse. No matter the narrative, I doubt that out-of-control anarchy is an objective of the #EndSARS protests.”\n\nBello said the youth should note that the country’s economy is bleeding owing to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n“To worsen matters, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) predicted 3 days ago that the pandemic could push the number of people living in extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030. Thank God they are owning up to my earlier prediction, warning and caution,” he said.\n\n“Nigeria’s earning and foreign exchange situation is too fragile as we speak to resist sustained shocks.\n\n“Another nationwide protest will worsen the multidimensional poverty indices all over our country and work greater hardship on the ordinary Nigerians we claim to be advocating for.”\n\nThe governor added that anger at “social imbalances or poor governance manifested only through protests, whether peaceful or violent, will only achieve piecemeal objectives”.\n\nhttps://www.thecable.ng/yahaya-bello-to-youths-another-round-of-endsars-protests-will-worsen-poverty','Yahaya Bello to youths: Another round of #EndSARS protests will worsen poverty','','publish','open','open','','yahaya-bello-to-youths-another-round-of-endsars-protests-will-worsen-poverty','','','2020-12-07 12:24:06','2020-12-07 12:24:06','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3145',0,'post','',0),(3146,1,'2020-12-07 12:23:12','2020-12-07 12:23:12','','FB_IMG_1607343587857','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1607343587857','','','2020-12-07 12:23:12','2020-12-07 12:23:12','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_IMG_1607343587857.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3149,1,'2020-12-11 17:11:08','2020-12-11 17:11:08','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3150 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0055-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\nTwo persons have been confirmed killed in the attack on the traditional ruler of Isinigbo in Akure North local government area, Oba Samuel Fadahunsi.<!--more-->\n\nThe persons, a driver of the Monarch and one of his brothers were killed\n\nOndo Police spokesman, ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro, who confirmed the killings, said the brother of the monarch was shot dead while the driver was burnt alive inside one of the cars in the palace.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3151 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0052-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3152\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0053-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3153\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0054-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nIkoro said normalcy has been restored to the community.\n\nIsinigbo and neighbouring Ude community have been at war over the sale of the disputed land.','Two persons confirmed dead in Ondo community clash .','','publish','open','open','','two-persons-confirmed-dead-in-ondo-community-clash','','','2020-12-11 17:11:08','2020-12-11 17:11:08','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3149',0,'post','',0),(3150,1,'2020-12-11 17:08:56','2020-12-11 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17:10:25','2020-12-11 17:10:25','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0054.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3155,1,'2020-12-11 17:27:40','2020-12-11 17:27:40','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3156\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0056-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nA truck carrying a petroleum product has crashed into another stationary trailer near the main gate of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko in Ondo state.<!--more-->\n\nThe truck immediately burst into flame,with some people caught in the accident.\n\n[video width=\"640\" height=\"352\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/VID-20201211-WA0057.mp4\"][/video]\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTVC news correspondent gathered that the truck lost control due to brake failure.','VIDEO: Petrol tanker catches fire at Ondo University 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alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nFollowing the escalation of violent clashes between Ode and Isinigbo communities in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, Government has imposed a 24 hour curfew on both communities with immediate effect.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis was contained in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for information, Donald Ojogo\n\nTwo persons were feared killed in the two communities on Thursday .\n\nAside approving this action, Governor Rotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN equally ordered a massive manhunt for perpetrators of the despicable violence just as investigations are already on to unravel the real cause(s) of same.\n\nWith respect to the curfew, security agencies have been directed to ensure total compliance with the order.\n\nFor emphasis, both Ode and Isinigbo communities have been closed down for any unathourised human movement and activity until further notice.','Ondo Government Imposes 24 hours Curfew in Isinigbo and Ode Communities','','publish','open','open','','ondo-government-imposes-24-hours-curfew-in-isinigbo-and-ode-communities','','','2020-12-11 17:36:16','2020-12-11 17:36:16','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3159',0,'post','',0),(3160,1,'2020-12-11 17:35:50','2020-12-11 17:35:50','','IMG-20201211-WA0058','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201211-wa0058','','','2020-12-11 17:35:50','2020-12-11 17:35:50','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201211-WA0058.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3162,1,'2020-12-15 21:19:49','2020-12-15 21:19:49','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3163\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-42-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe Nigerian Union of Teachers has threatened to down tools till when it members would feel safe to teach and guide students without fear of abduction by faceless Individuals.<!--more-->\n\nThe Union recounted recent condemnable events of Bandits attack on schools and said if not immediately addressed it will affect the 2019/2020 academic calendar which has already been disrupted by the six month long lock down caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nThey called on the Federal, States and Local government to ensure adequate security and 24 hours surveillance around schools across the country.\n\nThe call was made in a statement signed and made available to Journalists in Abuja by the NUT, Secretary General, Mike Ike Ene.\n\nIt says it is becoming apparent that the government can no longer provide security and safety of teachers, students and the educational communities across Nigeria.\n\nThey charged them to address the unfortunate situation without further contemplation','Abduction of School children : NUT threatens to down tools.','','publish','open','open','','abduction-of-school-children-nut-threatens-to-down-tools','','','2020-12-15 21:19:49','2020-12-15 21:19:49','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3162',0,'post','',0),(3163,1,'2020-12-15 21:18:50','2020-12-15 21:18:50','','images (42)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-42','','','2020-12-15 21:18:50','2020-12-15 21:18:50','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-42.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3165,1,'2020-12-15 21:28:15','2020-12-15 21:28:15','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3163\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/images-42-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nKano state Government has ordered for the closure of all public and private schools in the state with immediate effect.<!--more-->\n\nThe government through the state commissioner for Education, Muhammad Kiru says urged parents whose children are in boarding schools to convey their wards back home.\n\nReasons for the closure is yet to be made known to the public by the government.\n\nRecall that insurgents abduct school children at a boarding school in Katsina, a neighbouring state.','Breaking: Kano Government shuts all public and private schools','','publish','open','open','','breaking-kano-government-shuts-all-public-and-private-schools','','','2020-12-15 21:28:15','2020-12-15 21:28:15','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3165',0,'post','',0),(3167,1,'2020-12-16 06:33:27','2020-12-16 06:33:27','&nbsp;\n\nEjike Anyaduba\n\nAbatete Digest, a bi-annual news and social activities magazine will be launched on December 22, 2020 at Abatete, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The magazine, which is designed to inform, educate, entertain, and bring the activities of government closer to the people is published by Pat Onukwuli, a lawyer and Estate Surveyor who currently teaches at Bolton University, United Kingdom and holds the traditional title of Omesilincha Abatete.<!--more-->\n\nThe launch will be headlined by the President General of Abatete Development Organization and chaired by His Royal Majesty, Igwe Engr. Charles Emeka Efobi, the traditional ruler of Abatete community. The event will take place at Seat of Wisdom Library, Abatete, at 10am.\n\nThe 64-page magazine is arranged in sections that include, but not limited to news reports, heritage, politics, economy, health, etc. Being the first of its kind in the town, the magazine is at once accepted as a vital news medium to close the gap of information in Abatete. It is seen as not just chronicling and reporting important milestones in the town, but also documenting same for posterity. It therefore hopes to fill this gap and bring authentic information on social and economic activities in the town to the people, especially the segment of the society that is easily influenced by mass media.\n\nAware of the challenges facing Abatete community – the things that had held up its development, Abatete Digest tries as much as possible to report the progress made by a few individuals in furthering the peace and development in the town while encouraging others yet to be persuaded to make up their mind. To that extents, it refrains from reporting issues that will negatively impact on the sudden burst of developmental strides evident in the town in the last two or three years.\n\nIt does not fail to commend the humanity of the few who invested their time and resources in reshaping the communal landscape through building of roads, library, hospitals, schools, community bank, community town halls, boreholes, fencing of government schools, offer of employment, empowerment, among others. In its mission statement, the magazine thinks there should be a balance between leadership and followership, insisting that neither should suffer unduly. While commending the efforts of those who offered to invest in the collective good of the people, the magazine discourages any attempt at manipulating the dreg of humanity through those gifts. And to stem possible occurrence and avoid that common failing of mankind not to anticipate a storm when the sea is calm, it calls for collective responsibility as to the choice of project, location, and protection.\n\nAbatete Digest observes that since the town is strategically located, providing an alternative thoroughfare to traffic from the commercial city of Onitsha through Anaocha in Anambra state to Orlu in Imo State, and between the industrial city of Nnewi and the capital city of Awka, every effort at developing the town as another portal should be encouraged. Accordingly, the magazine commends the efforts of the traditional ruler of the town, His Royal Majesty Igwe Emeka Efobi and members of the Igwe-in-Council whose leadership has provided the peace that encouraged the development. The magazine is no less impressed with the unsparing effort of such benevolent developers like Ezinaeliaja III, Odogwu Abatete, Ochiagha Idemili, Ichie Nnadiebube, Ochendo Abatete, Ezechinetugo, Ozi-Uzo, Ogalanya Umuazi, Agunechemba, Chike Oranika, Ezennia Joe Ezigbo,Idejiuno Chukwuelue among others. While not discountenancing the abiding role of the Abatete Vigilante Services which works hard to rid the town of criminal elements.\n\nRegardless, Abatete Digest, believes that all these efforts may come in vain if there is no structured media support to expose the positive developments on a regular basis and encourage those yet to make impact to do so. It therefore urges other great sons and daughters of Abatete to enlarge the number of the altruistic few.\n\nOn the cover story of the magazine is Prof. Charles Egbu, a worthy son of Abatete who was appointed the First Black Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University in the United Kingdom. The magazine also recalls the contributions of late football legend Albert Onyeanwuna, another great son of the town as well as the 2010 most beautiful girl in Nigeria, Fiona Amuzie. It also broached the issue of Omanne, the story of ancestral kinship, linking Abatete, Umuoji and Nkpor which it hopes to exhaust the narrative in its next edition.\n\nThere are goodwill messages from the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency Dr. Nkem Okeke and many other great sons and daughters of Abatete. There is also input from the Anambra State coordinator of SMEDAN, Engr. Chito Onuzulike, who expressed interest in partnering with the magazine to organize training for Abatete youths.\n\nWhatever the magazine may lack in print layout it duly compensates in the quality of its content. Every story written, every interview conducted, and every graphic detail was done with great attention to facts and delivered in simple English. There may be nothing lacking in the magazine regarding its set objective. However, it admits of no claim to perfection and allows enough room for correction against the next publication.\n\nEjike Anyaduba\nWrites from Abatete','As Abatete Digest Debuts on December 22, 2020','','publish','open','open','','as-abatete-digest-debuts-on-december-22-2020','','','2020-12-16 06:33:27','2020-12-16 06:33:27','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3167',0,'post','',0),(3170,1,'2020-12-17 09:11:03','2020-12-17 09:11:03','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3171\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201217-WA0014-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" /></p>\nEjike Anyaduba\n\nAbatete Digest, a bi-annual news and social activities magazine will be launched on\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">December 22, 2020 at Abatete, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The magazine, which is designed to inform, educate, entertain, and bring the activities of government closer to the people is published by Pat Onukwuli, a lawyer and Estate Surveyor who currently teaches at Bolton University, United Kingdom and holds the traditional title of Omesilincha Abatete.<!--more--><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3171\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201217-WA0014-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" /></p>\nThe launch will be headlined by the President General of Abatete Development Organization and chaired by His Royal Majesty, Igwe Engr. Charles Emeka Efobi, the traditional ruler of Abatete community. The event will take place at Seat of Wisdom Library, Abatete, at 10am.\n\nThe 64-page magazine is arranged in sections that include, but not limited to news reports, heritage, politics, economy, health, etc. Being the first of its kind in the town, the magazine is at once accepted as a vital news medium to close the gap of information in Abatete. It is seen as not just chronicling and reporting important\n\nmilestones in the town, but also documenting same for posterity. It therefore hopes to fill this gap and bring authentic information on social and economic activities in the town to the people, especially the segment of the society that is easily influenced by mass media.\n\nAware of the challenges facing Abatete community – the things that had held up its\n\ndevelopment, Abatete Digest tries as much as possible to report the progress made by a few individuals in furthering the peace anddevelopment in the town while\n\nencouraging others yet to be persuaded to make up their mind. To that extents, it refrains from reporting issues that will negatively impact on the sudden burst of developmental strides evident in the town in the last two or three years.\n\nIt does not fail to commend the humanity of the few who invested their time and resources in reshaping the communal landscape through building of roads, library, hospitals, schools, community bank, community town halls, boreholes, fencing of government schools, offer of employment, empowerment, among others. In its mission statement, the magazine thinks there should be a balance between leadership and followership, insisting that neither should suffer unduly. While commending the efforts of those who offered to invest in the collective good of the people, the magazine discourages any attempt at manipulating the dreg of humanity through those gifts. And to stem possible occurrence and avoid that common failing of\n\nmankind not to anticipate a storm when the sea is calm, it calls for collective responsibility as to the choice of project, location, and protection.\n\nAbatete Digest observes that since the town is strategically located, providing an alternative thoroughfare to traffic from the commercial city of Onitsha through Anaocha in Anambra state to Orlu in Imo State, and between the industrial city of Nnewi and the capital city of Awka, every effort at developing the town as another portal should be encouraged. Accordingly, the magazine commends the efforts of the traditional ruler of the town, His Royal Majesty Igwe Emeka Efobi and members of the Igwe- in-Council whose leadership has provided the peace that encouraged the development. The magazine is no less impressed with the unsparing effort of such benevolent developers like Ezinaeliaja III, Odogwu Abatete, Ochiagha Idemili, Ichie Nnadiebube, Ochendo Abatete, Ezechinetugo, Ozi-Uzo, Ogalanya Umuazi,\n\nAgunechemba, Chike Oranika, Ezennia Joe Ezigbo,Idejiuno Chukwuelue among\n\nothers. While not discountenancing the abiding role of the Abatete Vigilante\n\nServices which works hard to rid the town of criminal elements.\n\nRegardless, Abatete Digest, believes that all these efforts may come in vain if there\n\nis no structured media support to expose the positive developments on a regular basis\n\nand encourage those yet to make impact to do so. It therefore urges other great sons\n\nand daughters of Abatete to enlarge the number of the altruistic few.\n\nOn the cover story of the magazine is Prof. Charles Egbu, a worthy son of Abatete\n\nwho was appointed the First Black Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University in\n\nthe United Kingdom. The magazine also recalls the contributions of late football\n\nlegend Albert Onyeanwuna, another great son of the town as well as the 2010 most\n\nbeautiful girl in Nigeria, Fiona Amuzie. It also broached the issue of Omanne, the\n\nstory of ancestral kinship, linking Abatete, Umuoji and Nkpor which it hopes to\n\nexhaust the narrative in its next edition.\n\nThere are goodwill messages from the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency Dr. Nkem Okeke and many other great sons and daughters of Abatete.\n\nThere is also input from the Anambra State coordinator of SMEDAN, Engr. Chito Onuzulike, who expressed interest in partnering with the magazine to organize training for Abatete youths.\n\nEvery story written, every interview conducted, and every graphic detail was donew withgreat attention to facts and delivered in simple English. There may be nothinga lacking in the magazine regarding its set objective. However, it admits of no claim\n\nto perfection and allows enough room for correction against the next publication.\n\nEjike Anyaduba\n\nWrites from Abatete','As Abatete Digest Debuts on December','','publish','open','open','','as-abatete-digest-debuts-on-december','','','2020-12-17 09:11:03','2020-12-17 09:11:03','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3170',0,'post','',0),(3171,1,'2020-12-17 09:09:25','2020-12-17 09:09:25','','IMG-20201217-WA0014','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20201217-wa0014','','','2020-12-17 09:09:25','2020-12-17 09:09:25','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-20201217-WA0014.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3174,1,'2021-01-18 09:42:48','2021-01-18 09:42:48','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3175 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG-20210118-WA0017-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />\n\nEbuka Amadiasonwu\n\nIt is no longer news that the next governor of Anambra state after Chief Willie Obiano will come from Anambra south senatorial zone of the state. What may be news is the identity of the would-be governor and the party from which he will emerge.<!--more-->\n\nIt is important to state that the idea to have the governorship position go south of the state is in keeping with an unwritten political arrangement that seeks to give the three zones of Anambra fairly equal opportunity to govern.\n\nAnd just barely fourteen months to the end of the All Progressives Grand Alliance government of Chief Willie Obiano, the south zone which consists of three distinct political blocks of old Aguata, Nnewi and Ihiala has begun in earnest to achieve that purpose. Already there is a preponderance of aspirants from the zone.\n\nHowever, because of the peculiar nature of the south zone there is need to pay little attention to the three political blocks with the aim of ensuring that none of them takes undue advantage over the others. After all the whole idea of power rotation was to achieve equity and balance.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3176 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG-20210118-WA0018-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" />\n\nThough it is the right of every Anambra man or woman with requisite qualification to aspire to the number one position, but such right will not fail to lose value once abused to purpose. It is a fact that nothing negates the peace of a people like perceived injustice. At least, the peace in Anambra today and to some extent her development spread derive majorly from how she has managed her politics in the last couple of years.\n\nHow the parties conduct their primaries will determine the chances they have in winning the November 17 election. It will not be a surprise if the one that recognizes the distinct political blocks, appreciates and responds to the complexities goes ahead to win. It is right and just for an area within the political blocks which is yet to produce a governor to be allowed to do so.\n\nAlready all three blocks are presenting quality aspirants from which the parties can choose and make good their effort to win what may turn out to be the toughest election in the state. Some of the aspirants who have made known their interest to take over from Governor Obiano are Dr. Winston Udeh, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Hon. Nicholas Ukachukwu, Hon Chris Azubuogu, Chief Akachukwu Nwankpo, Dr. Godwin Maduka, Bar. Emeka Etiaba, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, Chief Valentine Ozigbo, Hon Chuma Umeoji, Dr George Moghalu, Senator Andy Ubah, Senator Uche Ekwunife, Chief Barth Nwibe, Chief Obinna Uzor, among others.\n\nWithout prejudice to aspirants who had contested in previous elections in the state, the array of aspirants now on the stump is intimidating. They have the capacity to drive their campaigns to a conclusive end. Except in the case of one or two, every other person mentioned has the mental capacity as well as financial muscle to wend their way through the tortuous political route and take the trophy.\n\nBarring any twist of fortune, what will set any of the aspirants apart and put him ahead of others should be his personal touch with the people. How well he had related with the people. How accessible and humble? His reach across the state. How well he appreciates issues and the ability to find answers to them.\n\nThe election will not be determined by factors extraneous to rare personal qualities. It cannot be about strong personality. It is also not going to be about being old in the game. Whoever is going to win must come clean with the people and should be able to appreciate them and cannot operate on a high horse.\n\nAnd of the lot, Winston Udeh, a lawyer and an economist of note is prefigured for the job. Even as every one of the aspirants can be said to have the requisite education, experience, finance to do the job, Udeh has that and more. Though he may not curry publicity and can be self restraining, but a chat with him on Anambra politics will convince the worst doubter that he came prepared to lead the state to great height. He is without the vanity of an average Nigerian politician and has little patience with slyness of the good old folks. He shoots straight and does not shy away from speaking the truth. Above all, Udeh takes exceptional joy in playing down self.\n\nHe may not come to many as the Mr. Fix It, but his wealth of experience in legal practice and his many years on Wall Street would come handy in entrenching development in the state. Though one or two other contenders have as much experience as himself in the area of finance management, but Udeh has greater claim to economic management and the legal framework to deepen it. With over twenty years of practical experience that spanned over Wall Street, Main Street, the courts and the corporate world, he has what it takes to leverage on whatever successes the previous governors of the state have made.\n\nThere is no doubt that his experience would be useful in this era of pandemic and economic lockdown. He has advantage of cosmopolitan life, having traveled and lived in many developed cities of the world. Whatever he may lack in experience he compensates in his ability to play down self and allow people to prove themselves. He is not overbearing and knows when to assert authority. He claims no monopoly of knowledge and believes in ideas as the sine qua non in political and economic development.\n\nAs a lawyer, economist and a businessman, Udeh has seen virtually every shade of human needs and does not have to struggle to apply himself when in office.\n\nAll said, the November governorship election in Anambra will not be based on fantastic, but unimplementable manifestoes. It will be based on truth and less of money influence and manipulation of the electoral process. Anambra will be happy to put in office a hard working, accessible, humble and self effacing candidate as governor.\n\nEbuka Amadiasonwu\n\nWrites from Ndikelionwu','Anambra South and 2021 Governorship Election in Anambra','','publish','open','open','','anambra-south-and-2021-governorship-election-in-anambra','','','2021-01-18 09:42:48','2021-01-18 09:42:48','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3174',0,'post','',0),(3175,1,'2021-01-18 09:40:43','2021-01-18 09:40:43','','IMG-20210118-WA0017','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210118-wa0017','','','2021-01-18 09:40:43','2021-01-18 09:40:43','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG-20210118-WA0017.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3176,1,'2021-01-18 09:41:32','2021-01-18 09:41:32','','IMG-20210118-WA0018','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210118-wa0018','','','2021-01-18 09:41:32','2021-01-18 09:41:32','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG-20210118-WA0018.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3179,1,'2021-02-08 07:09:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3180 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0007-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Ondo State Security Agency Network (Amotekun Corps) has arrested and paraded fifteen suspected illegal miners from 50 different locations in Owo Local Government area of the State.\n\nThe arrest was made possible through the collaboration of Amotekun and local hunters.\n\nThe suspects are: Shuaibu Yahaya, Habbi Usman, Kabiru Waheed, Mohammed Nurudeen, Mohammed Sulaman, Ali Mustapha, Ismaila Wahab, Musa Zeehed, Gabbar Musa, Sule Adamu Abba Suleman, Usman Kebiru, Yahaya Danladi and Usman Ali Zekeri\n\nIt took about four hours journey for the Amotekun Corps to arrive into the forest where the suspects were picked, acting on intelligent information.\n\nThe Commander, Ondo State Amotekun Corps, Mr Adetunji Adeleye said the arrest was part of the crackdown to end criminality in the State.','Amotekun apprehends 15 illegal miners in Ondo','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-02-08 07:09:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3179',0,'post','',0),(3180,1,'2021-02-08 07:08:50','2021-02-08 07:08:50','','IMG-20210208-WA0007','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210208-wa0007','','','2021-02-08 07:08:50','2021-02-08 07:08:50','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0007.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3181,1,'2021-02-08 07:13:26','2021-02-08 07:13:26','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3180 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0007-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Ondo State Security Agency Network (Amotekun Corps) has arrested and paraded fifteen suspected illegal miners from 50 different locations in Owo Local Government area of the State.<!--more-->\n\nThe arrest was made possible through the collaboration of Amotekun and local hunters.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3182\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0005-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" />The suspects are: Shuaibu Yahaya, Habbi Usman, Kabiru Waheed, Mohammed Nurudeen, Mohammed Sulaman, Ali Mustapha, Ismaila Wahab, Musa Zeehed, Gabbar Musa, Sule Adamu Abba Suleman, Usman Kebiru, Yahaya Danladi and Usman Ali Zekeri</p>\nIt took about four hours journey for the Amotekun Corps to arrive into the forest where the suspects were picked, acting on intelligent information.\n\nThe Commander, Ondo State Amotekun Corps, Mr Adetunji Adeleye said the arrest was part of the crackdown to end criminality in the State.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3183 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0006-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" />','Amotekun apprehends 15 illegal miners in Ond','','publish','open','open','','amotekun-apprehends-15-illegal-miners-in-ond','','','2021-02-08 07:13:26','2021-02-08 07:13:26','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3181',0,'post','',0),(3182,1,'2021-02-08 07:12:35','2021-02-08 07:12:35','','IMG-20210208-WA0005','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210208-wa0005','','','2021-02-08 07:12:35','2021-02-08 07:12:35','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0005.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3183,1,'2021-02-08 07:13:05','2021-02-08 07:13:05','','IMG-20210208-WA0006','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210208-wa0006','','','2021-02-08 07:13:05','2021-02-08 07:13:05','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG-20210208-WA0006.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3185,1,'2021-02-11 17:09:31','2021-02-11 17:09:31','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3186\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/images-9-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" />\n\nThe Nigerian Senate has summoned the CBN GOVERNOR, Godwin Emefiele and the Security and exchange commission to appear before a joint committee of the Senate to brief it on the opportunities and threats of the Crypto currency on the nations economy &amp; security.<!--more-->\n\nThe senate’s resolution is in response to the recent ban place by the CBN on the crypto currency trading by all financial institutions in the country.\n\nLawmakers says the Crypto currency presents itself as both an opportunity and a threat and has a responsibility to ensure the nation and its citizens do not miss out on the opportunities it brings\n\nIn the same vein , the Senate hopes to mitigate and prevent the likely effects on the nation’s economy and security.\n\nThe Joint Committee is expected to report back to the parliament with its findings in two weeks.','Nugerian Senate Summons CBN Governor. On ban of Cryptocurrency','','publish','open','open','','nugerian-senate-summons-cbn-governor-on-ban-of-cryptocurrency','','','2021-02-11 17:09:31','2021-02-11 17:09:31','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3185',0,'post','',0),(3186,1,'2021-02-11 17:09:08','2021-02-11 17:09:08','','images (9)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-9','','','2021-02-11 17:09:08','2021-02-11 17:09:08','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/images-9.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3190,1,'2021-02-11 17:15:31','2021-02-11 17:15:31','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3191 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FB_IMG_1612883547895-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\nFollowing reports of planned protests for and against the repossession of the Lekki tollgate, the Lagos State government is envisaging that these protests will lead to a breakdown of law and order on Saturday.<!--more-->\n\nCiting insecurity and violation of Covid-19 regulations, the government is appealing to the two contending forces to halt plans to protest the ruling of the panel of inquiry.\n\nSaturday\'s ruling on the repossession of the Lekki tollgate has stirred controversy from different quarters splitting the judicial panel of inquiry into two.\n\nFollowing the repossession order, youths have taken to the social media to express outrage and plan to #occupyLekkitollgate a protest against the reopening of the toll gate.\n\nA counter-protest #DefendLagos also surfaced on the social media, on Thursday, with some youth planning to defend Lagos State.','Lagos Govt. Cautions against planned OCCUPY LEKKI TOLL GATE  Protest','','publish','open','open','','lagos-govt-cautions-against-planned-occupy-lekki-toll-gate-protest','','','2021-02-11 17:15:31','2021-02-11 17:15:31','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3190',0,'post','',0),(3191,1,'2021-02-11 17:12:33','2021-02-11 17:12:33','','FB_IMG_1612883547895','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1612883547895','','','2021-02-11 17:12:33','2021-02-11 17:12:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FB_IMG_1612883547895.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3194,1,'2021-03-08 06:36:29','2021-03-08 06:36:29','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3195\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/images-55-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nHon. (Dr) Ifeanyichukwu Ibezi (Ochiagha Idemili), the immediate former member of House of Representatives has called for unity among the faithfuls of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as they prepare for the November 2, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State. <!--more-->\nAddressing members of Reality Movement, his political organization at his Abatete residence, Ibezi said that even though there are tough challenges ahead but he is highly optimistic that APGA will emerge victorious at the November 6 polls. “APGA is more than a political party. It’s a grassroots movement whose members are passionate. Whatever challenges there are, APGA will by the grace of God win again”, he said. He described as mischievous the rumors that he’s about to leave APGA. “I can’t labor to help to build a party and leave it for intruders and strangers. APGA is in me. The party is big enough to accommodate all interests”, he said adding that those who are peddling this rumor are intimidated by his political credentials. He charged members to rededicate themselves to the ideals of the party and remain steadfast. He donated N1m each to APGA Idemili North, APGA Idemili South, Oganiru Women Initiative, Idemili Youth Development Initiative and Diamond Ladies to help these bodies to renovate their offices, mobilize members and reactivate political activities at their different wards. He announced the setting up of a 22-man committee to organize an empowerment rally for Idemili federal constituency sometime in May, 2021. Another committee to engage with critical stakeholders was also set up. “In spite of the setback, I will continue to find a way to fulfill the promises I made to Umu Idemili. We are going to empower some of our ardent followers at the rally being planned”, he said.\nThe meeting had many party stakeholders in attendance. Notable among attendees were the two APGA Local Government chairmen in Idemili North and South, Chief Kentus Onwurah (Ichie Egbu) and Chief Joe Ezeanya (Ukwuata) respectively, Chief Tony Onyima (Ife Idemili), a former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, APGA BoT member and CEO Rojenny Tourist and Games village, Oba, Hon. Nwabufo Nwankwo, SSA to the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chibuzor Okeke (Onataradike Nma n\' Nkpor), Chief Omezie Chukwurah (Governor Obosi), Chief Alex Ufondu, Chief Chris Okaka, Chief Felix Obunadike, Chief Bernard Ojukwu, Prince Obiajulu Obi, Iyom Stella Chuke, Dr. Ifeanyi Ike, Hon. Amaka Obi, National WIGA Coordinator, Mrs Ebele Obadike, Esq, Hon. Ejike Anyaduba, Ogbuefi Ezeobodo Samuel, Chief Charles Obadike, Chief Uchenna Ezegwui, Ambassador Jeff Ubah, Mr. Ifeanyi Muoemenam, High Chief Augustine Chukwuka various APGA Ward Chairmen, Central Executives of Oganiru Women, IYDI and other critical stakeholders in APGA Idemili North and South.','2021: IBEZI CALLS FOR UNITY, REACTIVATES POLITICAL MACHINERY','','publish','open','open','','2021-ibezi-calls-for-unity-reactivates-political-machinery','','','2021-03-08 06:36:29','2021-03-08 06:36:29','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3194',0,'post','',0),(3195,1,'2021-03-08 06:35:59','2021-03-08 06:35:59','','images (55)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-55','','','2021-03-08 06:35:59','2021-03-08 06:35:59','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/images-55.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3197,1,'2021-03-08 08:35:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Two injured as NURTW leadership tussle turns bloody in Ond\n\nTwo members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW in Ondo State have sustained matchet injuries\nas the leadership tussle in the union turned bloody\n\nIt was gathered that two members belonging to one of the factions in the union were reportedly attacked by members loyal to the suspended leaders of the union.\n\nThe state government had last week suspended NURTW and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) over security concerns.\n\nGovernment intervention became necessary inorder to forestall possible break down of law and order.\n\nBut two members of a faction, Omoniyi Oni popularly known as Eniba, and Wasiu Ibrahim were attacked in Akure, the state capital by thugs loyal to the former leadership of the union.','Two injured as NURTW leadership tussle turns bloody in Ondo','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-03-08 08:35:43','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3197',0,'post','',0),(3198,1,'2021-03-08 08:38:32','2021-03-08 08:38:32','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3199 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG-20210308-WA0008-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" />\n\nTwo members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW in Ondo State have sustained matchet injuries\nas the leadership tussle in the union turned bloody<!--more-->\n\nIt was gathered that two members belonging to one of the factions in the union were reportedly attacked by members loyal to the suspended leaders of the union.\n\nThe state government had last week suspended NURTW and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) over security concerns.\n\nGovernment intervention became necessary inorder to forestall possible break down of law and order.\n\nBut two members of a faction, Omoniyi Oni popularly known as Eniba, and Wasiu Ibrahim were attacked in Akure, the state capital by thugs loyal to the former leadership of the union.','Two injured as NURTW leadership tussle turns bloody in Ondo','','publish','open','open','','two-injured-as-nurtw-leadership-tussle-turns-bloody-in-ondo','','','2021-03-08 08:38:32','2021-03-08 08:38:32','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3198',0,'post','',0),(3199,1,'2021-03-08 08:37:55','2021-03-08 08:37:55','','IMG-20210308-WA0008','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210308-wa0008','','','2021-03-08 08:37:55','2021-03-08 08:37:55','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG-20210308-WA0008.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3201,1,'2021-03-08 08:42:53','2021-03-08 08:42:53','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3202 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/images-57-300x254.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" />\n\nThe Speaker of the, Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Bamidele Oleyelogun and some civil servants have been invited by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over alleged multimillion Naira fraud rocking the Assembly.<!--more-->\n\nThe antigraft agency has also  invited the Chairman, House Committee on Tertiary Education, Hon  Felemu Gudu Bankole and Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Bode Adeyelu.\nThe EFCC has quizzed the Deputy Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Babatunde Amos Olowogorioye over the alleged fraud.\n\nHowever, two civil servants of the Assembly, Olusegun Kayode Oyadeji and O.J. Afolabi were  detained over the weekend over the alleged fraud rocking the Assembly.\n\nOne of the alleged frauds being investigated by the  antigraft agency  was said to have been committed in 2019 when the lawmakers supposed to have attended a two-day seminar organised by National Productivity Centre, Lagos.','EFCC invites Ondo Speaker, Clerk over alleged fraud','','publish','open','open','','efcc-invites-ondo-speaker-clerk-over-alleged-fraud','','','2021-03-08 08:42:53','2021-03-08 08:42:53','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3201',0,'post','',0),(3202,1,'2021-03-08 08:42:13','2021-03-08 08:42:13','','images (57)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-57','','','2021-03-08 08:42:13','2021-03-08 08:42:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/images-57.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3206,1,'2021-05-24 23:18:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','ABNORMAL TIMES REQUIRE TALENTED PEOPL\n\nIn the words of Barrack Obama, \'These are not normal times\'. With our Federal Reserves depleting and inflation rates continously surging up to an all time high, we need now more than ever someone who would look inwards and beyond the limits of already existing avenues to generate revenues that would continue the developmental strides APGA has brought to our dear State Anambra, in the last decade and more.\n\nWe need now more than ever, someone who has been Tested, Trusted and has delivered when policies and economic strategies are needed to salvage a Nation.\n\nAnambra, more than any other State needs not to remove her foot on the gas of the developmental strides she has been driving in the last decade and more. We need someone who would consolidate on the foundation already laid and ensure that the development project of our dear state would continue to record alarming success even in this perilous times, where our nation is suffering a haemorrhage from our revenues.\n\nIt is on this premise that I with my Reality Family and the good people of Idemili played host to Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo at my Country home in Abatete.\n\nThe landmark event which has added a fresh page to the history book of politics in Anambra was to show our support and solidarity to the loud calls already echoed by many well meaning Ndị Anambra that our dear state needs a man who consolidated the Nigerian Banking system and restored hope in our financial system to steer us at this critical time when the economy of our nation is in shreds.\n\nWith the landmark legacies of our dear Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, Anambra needs Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo to consolidate on the strides of Gov. Obiano, while ensuring that our dear state continues its upwards trajectory in development.\n\n#IfeanyichukwuIbezi','ABNORMAL TIMES REQUIRE TALENTED PEOPLE','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-05-24 23:18:44','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3206',0,'post','',0),(3207,1,'2021-05-24 23:23:15','2021-05-24 23:23:15','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3208\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210524-WA0323-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\nIn the words of Barrack Obama, \'These are not normal times\'. With our Federal Reserves depleting and inflation rates continously surging up to an all time high, we need now more than ever someone who would look inwards and beyond the limits of already existing avenues to generate revenues that would continue the developmental strides APGA has brought to our dear State Anambra, in the last decade and more.<!--more-->\n\nWe need now more than ever, someone who has been Tested, Trusted and has delivered when policies and economic strategies are needed to salvage a Nation.\n\nAnambra, more than any other State needs not to remove her foot on the gas of the developmental strides she has been driving in the last decade and more. We need someone who would consolidate on the foundation already laid and ensure that the development project of our dear state would continue to record alarming success even in this perilous times, where our nation is suffering a haemorrhage from our revenues.\n\nIt is on this premise that I with my Reality Family and the good people of Idemili played host to Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo at my Country home in Abatete.\n\nThe landmark event which has added a fresh page to the history book of politics in Anambra was to show our support and solidarity to the loud calls already echoed by many well meaning Ndị Anambra that our dear state needs a man who consolidated the Nigerian Banking system and restored hope in our financial system to steer us at this critical time when the economy of our nation is in shreds.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3209\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/images-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nWith the landmark legacies of our dear Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, Anambra needs Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo to consolidate on the strides of Gov. Obiano, while ensuring that our dear state continues its upwards trajectory in development.\n\n#IfeanyichukwuIbezi','ABNORMAL TIMES REQUIRE TALENTED PEOPLE','','publish','open','open','','abnormal-times-require-talented-people','','','2021-05-24 23:23:15','2021-05-24 23:23:15','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3207',0,'post','',0),(3208,1,'2021-05-24 23:21:29','2021-05-24 23:21:29','','IMG-20210524-WA0323','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210524-wa0323','','','2021-05-24 23:21:29','2021-05-24 23:21:29','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210524-WA0323.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3209,1,'2021-05-24 23:22:42','2021-05-24 23:22:42','','images','','inherit','open','closed','','images','','','2021-05-24 23:22:42','2021-05-24 23:22:42','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/images.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3212,1,'2021-05-29 07:15:06','2021-05-29 07:15:06','<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"></h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-3251746738840056590\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxI2BsRdtwY/YLGBsj3sISI/AAAAAAAAL20/T7sRrUbmC2cTPuQqGJRKZYJ70GgI5CX6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s285/download%2B%25285%2529.jpeg\"><img src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wxI2BsRdtwY/YLGBsj3sISI/AAAAAAAAL20/T7sRrUbmC2cTPuQqGJRKZYJ70GgI5CX6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25285%2529.jpeg\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"177\" data-original-width=\"285\" /></a></div>\nThe senate of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University  Awka has approved June 14 for the resumption of 2020/2021 academic activities in the university.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTheUniversity’s Ag. Head of Information and Public Relations, Mrs.,. China Gladys Ene in a statement on Friday, said the decision was taken at the 207th meeting of the Senate held on May 28, 2021.\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xQFrTpX7dlk/YLGBnAqG-kI/AAAAAAAAL2s/FSTC3dhqh88Mms2TuBPdRaraOFCaWRPKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s311/download%2B%25287%2529.jpeg\"><img src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xQFrTpX7dlk/YLGBnAqG-kI/AAAAAAAAL2s/FSTC3dhqh88Mms2TuBPdRaraOFCaWRPKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25287%2529.jpeg\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"162\" data-original-width=\"311\" /></a></div>\nThe statement read, \" In line with the revised academic calendar for the completion of 2019/2020 session for the E\n\nRegular Students as approved by the Senate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, the second semester exams will be completed on Friday, May 28, 2021\".\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i-ahTCtDmSQ/YLGByXTFYTI/AAAAAAAAL24/6W5PbQY_g2YreB0rEZl6Nk_KQY1OtJFSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/download%2B%25288%2529.jpeg\"><img src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i-ahTCtDmSQ/YLGByXTFYTI/AAAAAAAAL24/6W5PbQY_g2YreB0rEZl6Nk_KQY1OtJFSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25288%2529.jpeg\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"168\" data-original-width=\"300\" /></a></div>\n\"Sequel to this,the students are to proceed of vacation afterwards till June 11, 2021*.\"\n\n\"While academic activities for the 2020/2021, will commence on Monday, June 14, 2021\".\n\nIn a related development, the revised academic calendar as earlier approved and ratified by the Senate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka was ratified in her meeting held in Awka.\n\n</div>\n<!--more-->\n<div id=\"post-body-3251746738840056590\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n\nSee attached folders for more details on the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, 207th Senate meeting resolutions, that announced the fresh date for the commencement of 2020/2021 academic activities.\n\n</div>\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3213\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210528-WA0079-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3214\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210528-WA0063-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','NAU Awka announces resumption date','','publish','open','open','','nau-awka-announces-resumption-date','','','2021-05-29 07:15:06','2021-05-29 07:15:06','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3212',0,'post','',0),(3213,1,'2021-05-29 07:13:18','2021-05-29 07:13:18','','IMG-20210528-WA0079','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210528-wa0079','','','2021-05-29 07:13:18','2021-05-29 07:13:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210528-WA0079.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3214,1,'2021-05-29 07:13:56','2021-05-29 07:13:56','','IMG-20210528-WA0063','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210528-wa0063','','','2021-05-29 07:13:56','2021-05-29 07:13:56','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210528-WA0063.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3216,1,'2021-05-30 07:58:27','2021-05-30 07:58:27','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3217 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0098-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\nBy Abuchi Onwumelu\n\nIn his bid to ensure quality healthcare delivery for Ndi Anambra, the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, last Weekend commissioned Eldorado Multi-Specialist Hospital\'s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Awka the Anambra State Capital.<!--more-->\n\nCommissioning the Eldorado ICU which housed the multi-purpose cardiac monitor, infusion pump, syringe pump, ventilator machine, arterial blood gas (ABC machine) and defibrillator machine, Obiano commended the Hospital Management for what he said they had been able to achieve in the health sector, describing them as strong and reliable partner of his administration.\n\nHe called on residents of the state and indeed Nigerians to take the necessary COVID-19 protocols seriously to avoid the ugly experience in India.\n\nHe said the pandemic suddenly resurfaced in India after majority of its citizenry relaxed observance of basic COVID-19 protocols following apparent 90 percent victory over the virus.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3218 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0096-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\nGovernor Obiano who was represented by the Commissioner for Health, Anambra State, Dr. Vincent Okpala assured on Government\'s continued support and partnership, noting that Eldorado Multi-Specialist Hospital remained one of the most sought after Specialist hospitals in Nigeria.\n\nThe governor regretted that majority of the residents of the state were getting careless on the measures against the virus.\n\n\'India managed to control COVID 90 percent and started celebrating, politicians stopped wearing their masks and playing down on measures. We saw what the result was. Indian experience should teach us lessons.\n\n\'No doubt, it’s uncomfortable wearing facemasks; but you can’t see me talk in public without wearing it. We encourage everyone to comply with the protocols. Thank God the vaccination is here and people are no longer hesitant having discovered that nothing bad happened to those of us who have taken both first and second dose.\n\n\'It’s good we take advantage of what we have. We don’t understand this disease and thinking we’re home and dry, until during the peak of rainy season it will suddenly come upon us. Yes, there’s insecurity, but it’s worse we add illness on top. It’s better we don’t have any of them at all than to battle with both,\' he stated.\n\nWhile commending the hospital for providing the state-of-the-art equipment, which he said, was maiden in a private hospital in the capital city, Obiano noted that it would go a long way to complementing those in public hospitals in meeting the health needs of the citizens<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3219\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0103-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nEarlier in a remark, one of the Managing Consultants, Dr. Chiemelu Emegoakor said that the Hospital came into existence in the year 2016 and had not looked back since then, stating that the ICU became imperative following the COVID-19 pandemic which, he said took many unawares. He said at the heat of the pandemic, no ICU was found anywhere in the South-East.\n\nDr. Emegoakor said the hospital remained one of the few private hospitals in the zone that could boast of such facility essentially for patients on critical conditions.\n\nHe listed the equipment in the facility to include multipurpose cardiac monitor, central oxygen system, ventilators machines, infusion pumps, syringe pumps, arterial blood gas machine and central suction machine, among others.\n\n\'The facility will benefit stroke, ventilating, cardiac arrest, and respiratory failure patients in the management of their conditions,\' he added.\n\nChairman of the occasion, Prof. Lasbrey Asomugha, described the facility as one of the best thing that had happened to the state, especially with respect to management of COVID-19.\n\nProf Asomugha who is a Consultant and Director Medical Services, UNIZIK said 75% of patients in the state relied on private hospitals for their health needs, calling on government to always support private clinics in order to provide maximum health care for citizens.\n\nDr. Eric Umeh, Consultant Radiologist NAUTH, Nnewi, Dr. Ufoaroh Chinyelu Uchenna of NAUTH and Sir Felix Emegoakor described the acquisition of the ICU as a landmark achievement, stating that they were privileged to be part of its commissioning.\n\nOverview of Intensive Care Unit, Inspection of the equipments and detailed explanation of the functions and usage of the machines by an Intensivist, Chief Maxwell Amah formed the highpoints of the occasion.','Quality Healthcare System: Obiano Commissions Eldorado Multi-Specialist Hospital Intensive Care Unit','','publish','open','open','','quality-healthcare-system-obiano-commissions-eldorado-multi-specialist-hospital-intensive-care-unit','','','2021-05-30 07:58:27','2021-05-30 07:58:27','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3216',0,'post','',0),(3217,1,'2021-05-30 07:56:22','2021-05-30 07:56:22','','IMG-20210530-WA0098','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210530-wa0098','','','2021-05-30 07:56:22','2021-05-30 07:56:22','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0098.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3218,1,'2021-05-30 07:57:09','2021-05-30 07:57:09','','IMG-20210530-WA0096','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210530-wa0096','','','2021-05-30 07:57:09','2021-05-30 07:57:09','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0096.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3219,1,'2021-05-30 07:57:54','2021-05-30 07:57:54','','IMG-20210530-WA0103','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210530-wa0103','','','2021-05-30 07:57:54','2021-05-30 07:57:54','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG-20210530-WA0103.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3224,1,'2021-06-07 09:50:12','2021-06-07 09:50:12','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3225 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Ondo State Chapter has the alarm over  mass resignation of members from the state government’s workforce.\n\nIt claimed that 105 doctors  have left the state service in the last one year.<!--more-->\n\nThe Association in a press statement, signed by the NMA State Chairman, Dr. Stella Adegbehingbe and\n\nState Secretary, Dr. Olorunfemi Owa, blamed the trend on irregular and percentage payment of salaries by the state government.\n\nNMA leadership pointed out that Some Departments in the State-owned Teaching Hospital, which could hitherto boast of between 6 and 8 Doctors are now left with 1 or 2 Doctors.\n\nThe statement reads, \"Consequential\n\nl vacancies in the medical officer cadre need to he urgently tilled. About 50 medical Doctors in this cadre have left the employment of the Hospital Management Board without replacement over the last few months.\n\n“Yawning vacancies exist in the Resident Doctor and Consultant cadres at the Teaching Hospital. These have remained difficult to till due to the haphazard safety payments.\n\n“We have it on good records that about 105 medical doctors have resigned their employment from the Teaching Hospital in the last year alone.\n\n“Ondo State has not been able to engage requisite numbers of House officers since 2019. This has made our work almost impossible because this group of Doctors have a peculiar role in Health service delivery\"','Ondo NMA laments mass resignation of members, claims 105 have resigned','','publish','open','open','','ondo-nma-laments-mass-resignation-of-members-claims-105-have-resigned','','','2021-06-07 09:50:12','2021-06-07 09:50:12','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3224',0,'post','',0),(3225,1,'2021-06-07 09:49:32','2021-06-07 09:49:32','','images (3)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-3-4','','','2021-06-07 09:49:32','2021-06-07 09:49:32','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-3.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3229,1,'2021-06-07 09:53:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nSouthwest Governors have directed all Commanders of South West Security Network, Amotekun to commence a joint operations to fight insecurity in the region.\n\nMr Akeredolu,Chairman South West Governors’ Forum and Ondo state governor stated this on Sunday in a statement while reaction to the attack at Igangan community in Oyo state.<!--more-->\n\nThe statement titled “Igangan Provocative Onslaught One Too Many.”\n\nAkereedolu said “We have just received with rude shock premeditated attack on our people at Igangan, Ibarapa, Oyo State, in the early hours of today(Sunday)\n\n\"This cowardly onslaught on a peaceful community has occasioned loss of lives and property on a large scale. It is horrendous, callous, and highly provocative.\n\n\"All well-meaning Nigerians must condemn, in the strongest term possible, this latest assault on decency and communal harmony.\n\n\"While we will encourage the security agencies to get to the root of this latest act of provocation, we have directed the Commanders of the South West Security Network, Amotekun, to convoke a joint security meeting of all Commanders in the South West with a view to commencing joint operations in the region immediately.','Igangan Attack: Southwest Governors order Amotekun Commanders to form Joint Operations','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-06-07 09:53:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3229',0,'post','',0),(3230,1,'2021-06-07 09:54:37','2021-06-07 09:54:37','','download (14)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-14','','','2021-06-07 09:54:37','2021-06-07 09:54:37','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/download-14.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3233,1,'2021-06-07 10:01:06','2021-06-07 10:01:06','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3234 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210607-WA0072-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nSouthwest Governors have directed all Commanders of South West Security Network, Amotekun to commence a joint operations to fight insecurity in the region.\n\nMr Akeredolu,Chairman South West Governors’ Forum and Ondo state governor stated this on Sunday in a statement while reaction to the attack at Igangan community in Oyo state<!--more--><!--more-->\n\nThe statement titled “Igangan Provocative Onslaught One Too Many.”\n\nAkereedolu said “We have just received with rude shock premeditated attack on our people at Igangan, Ibarapa, Oyo State, in the early hours of today(Sunday)\n\n\"This cowardly onslaught on a peaceful community has occasioned loss of lives and property on a large scale. It is horrendous, callous, and highly provocative.\n\n\"All well-meaning Nigerians must condemn, in the strongest term possible, this latest assault on decency and communal harmony.\n\n\"While we will encourage the security agencies to get to the root of this latest act of provocation, we have directed the Commanders of the South West Security Network, Amotekun, to convoke a joint security meeting of all Commanders in the South West with a view to commencing joint operations in the region immediately.','South West Governors Direct Amotekun To Commence Joint Operations','','publish','open','open','','south-west-governors-direct-amotekun-to-commence-joint-operations','','','2021-06-07 10:01:06','2021-06-07 10:01:06','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3233',0,'post','',0),(3234,1,'2021-06-07 09:58:07','2021-06-07 09:58:07','','IMG-20210607-WA0072','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210607-wa0072','','','2021-06-07 09:58:07','2021-06-07 09:58:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210607-WA0072.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3236,1,'2021-06-07 10:14:25','2021-06-07 10:14:25','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3238 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210607-WA0037-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" />\n\nNot less than twenty persons have been killed in accident along Zaria-Kano road.\n\nThis was confirmed in a statement issued by the Kaduna State commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan.\n\nAccording to him, the fatal crash between a hummer bus belonging to Kano line and a private Toyota Rav4 SUV occurred in the afternoon on Saturday, fifth June 2021.\n\nThe bus was Kano-bound, while the SUV was headed for Zaria.<!--more-->\n\nEye-witness reports also confirmed that the crash was a head-on collision between the two vehicles, due to bad driving at a diversion point on the highway.\n\nTen persons were said to have died on the spot while the other ten died later at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika. Several others sustained injuries.\n\nGovernor Nasir El-Rufai who was saddened by the incident prayed for the repose of the souls of the deceased and also wished the injured quick recovery.',' 20 DIE IN FATAL CAR CRASH ALONG ZARIA-KANO  HIGHWAY','','publish','open','open','','20-die-in-fatal-car-crash-along-zaria-kano-highway','','','2021-06-07 10:14:25','2021-06-07 10:14:25','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3236',0,'post','',0),(3237,1,'2021-06-07 10:12:07','2021-06-07 10:12:07','','IMG-20210607-WA0036','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210607-wa0036','','','2021-06-07 10:12:07','2021-06-07 10:12:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210607-WA0036.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3238,1,'2021-06-07 10:13:47','2021-06-07 10:13:47','','IMG-20210607-WA0037','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210607-wa0037','','','2021-06-07 10:13:47','2021-06-07 10:13:47','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210607-WA0037.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3240,1,'2021-06-07 10:17:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Attack on Ashaka Police state\n\nO/\nSome gunmen have attacked Ashaka police state in Ndokwa East local government area of Delta state, burning the station and a patrol van but no life was lost and no weapon was taken by the hoodlums.\nAccording to the Acting Police public relations officer, Edafe Bright, the armed men who are about 20 came to the police station at about 1am today, threw explosives at the station while shooting sporadically before setting the police station and van ablaze.\nThe police in Delta say despite the unprovoked attacks they will continue to provide adequate security to every community in Delta.\n\nIn another development, six suspected kidnappers and armed robbers have killed during a gun battle with the police and an AK 47 rifle, one pump action gun, one AK 47 magazine with 25 live ammunition were recovered','Attack on Ashaka Police state','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-06-07 10:17:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3240',0,'post','',0),(3241,1,'2021-06-07 10:25:25','2021-06-07 10:25:25','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3242 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0134-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\nSome gunmen have attacked Ashaka police state in Ndokwa East local government area of Delta state, burning the station and a patrol van but no life was lost and no weapon was taken by the hoodlums.\nAccording to the Acting Police public<!--more--> relations officer, Edafe Bright, the armed men who are about 20 came to the police station at about 1am today, threw explosives at the station while shooting sporadically before setting the police station and van ablaze.\nThe police in Delta say despite the unprovoked attacks they will continue to provide adequate security to every community in Delta.\n\nIn another development, six suspected kidnappers and armed robbers have killed during a gun battle with the police and an AK 47 rifle, one pump action gun, one AK 47 magazine with 25 live ammunition were recovered','Attack on Ashaka Police state','','publish','open','open','','attack-on-ashaka-police-state','','','2021-06-07 10:25:25','2021-06-07 10:25:25','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3241',0,'post','',0),(3242,1,'2021-06-07 10:22:58','2021-06-07 10:22:58','','IMG-20210606-WA0134','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210606-wa0134','','','2021-06-07 10:22:58','2021-06-07 10:22:58','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0134.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3243,1,'2021-06-07 10:24:01','2021-06-07 10:24:01','','IMG-20210606-WA0118','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210606-wa0118','','','2021-06-07 10:24:01','2021-06-07 10:24:01','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0118.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3245,1,'2021-06-07 10:44:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3246\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0210-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\nPolice in Imo State have repelled an attack on its headquarters by unknown gunmen early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attempted attack is coming two months hoodlums attacked the same police headquarters and the State correctional centre in Owerri freeing over 1800 inmates and burnt vehicles.\n\nConfirming the incident, the Command\'s Public Relations Officer, Elkana Bala said the attackers made effort to access the Police Headquarters through Works Layout around Alvana Nursery and Primary School but were vehemently repelled.\n\nAccording to him the gunmen came in a white Hummer bus and One of the hoodlums was killed during an exchange of fire while others were injured.\n\nThe Police however recovered the Hummer bus and Two Ak47 rifles from the hoodlums.','POLICE REPEL ATTACK ON IMO POLICE HEADQUARTERS','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-06-07 10:44:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3245',0,'post','',0),(3246,1,'2021-06-07 10:44:07','2021-06-07 10:44:07','','IMG-20210606-WA0210','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210606-wa0210','','','2021-06-07 10:44:07','2021-06-07 10:44:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0210.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3247,1,'2021-06-07 10:50:08','2021-06-07 10:50:08','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3248\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210606-WA0210-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Police in Imo State have repelled an attack on its headquarters by unknown gunmen early hours of Sunday.</p>\nThe attempted attack is coming two months hoodlums attacked the same police headquarters and the State correctional centre in Owerri freeing over 1800 inmates and burnt vehicles.<!--more-->\n\nConfirming the incident, the Command\'s Public Relations Officer, Elkana Bala said the attackers made effort to access the Police Headquarters through Works Layout around Alvana Nursery and Primary School but were vehemently repelled.\n\nAccording to him the gunmen came in a white Hummer bus and One of the hoodlums was killed during an exchange of fire while others were injured.\n\nThe Police however recovered the Hummer bus and Two Ak47 rifles from the hoodlums.','POLICE REPEL ATTACK ON IMO POLICE HEADQUARTERS','','publish','open','open','','police-repel-attack-on-imo-police-headquarters','','','2021-06-07 10:50:08','2021-06-07 10:50:08','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3247',0,'post','',0),(3248,1,'2021-06-07 10:47:30','2021-06-07 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agency also donated some empowerment materials to boost Small and Medium Scale Enterprises.<!--more-->\n\nThe Deputy coordinator, Abuja zonal office of NIMASA, Hajia Moji Jimoh handed over the materials to the Secretary to the Kwara state government, Professor Shaba Jubrin.\n\nHajia Jimoh disclosed that the materials were donated as part of the corporate social responsibility of the agency.\n\nSome of the donated materials include foodstuffs, cloths and toiletries.\n\nOthers include sowing machines, grinding machines, motorcyles, tricycles, welding machines and vulcanizing machines.\n\nReceiving the materials, the Secretary the Kwara state government, Professor Shaba Jubrin promised the materials will get to the target beneficiaries.','NISAMA donates Materials To Kwata Communities','','publish','open','open','','nisama-donates-materials-to-kwata-communities','','','2021-06-07 12:49:55','2021-06-07 12:49:55','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3252',0,'post','',0),(3253,1,'2021-06-07 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Holds maiden alumni homecoming</p>\nDepartment of Mass Communication Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, is set to mark her 25 years of existence as well as first alumni homecoming.\n\nA press release signed by the Head of Department, Prof. Chinwe Uzochukwu, stated that the event will take place on Thursday, June 10, 2021, at the ASUU Secretariat in the main campus of the university at Awka.<!--more-->\n\nAccording to her, it will be a unique opportunity to celebrate the milestones attained so far by the department, reflect on the journey so far as well as brace for future challenges and goals.\n\nThe event is also intended for celebration of the alumni of the department who are expected to come from far and near to grace the occasion.\n\nAlso to feature at the event is public presentation/launch of the Special Silver Jubilee edition of the departmental training magazine, UNIZIK Comet.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3260\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210608-WA0234-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe release noted that the occasion will be chaired by veteran journalist and former manager public relations and communications, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Mr Ifeanyi Mbanefo Igwebuike, while the special guest of honour will be the senator represnting Ebonyi Central and Chairman Senate Committee on Youth and Sports, Senator Obinna Ogba. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, will deliver the keynote speech while the jubilee lecturer will be veteran journalist and brand/marketing analyst, Kasie Abone. Businessman and renowned philanthropist, Chief Godwin Agbasimelo, will be the chief launcher.\n\nThe release further noted that a number of persons will be honoured at the jubilee event for their various contributions to the growth of the department and society at large. They include politician and philanthropist Senator Andy Uba, the first Head of Department of Mass Communication UNIZIK Prof. A.U. John-Kamen, the first female professor of mass communication in sub-Saharan Africa Prof. Chinyere Stella Okunna, Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha, award-winning journalist and CEO TV360 who is also an alumni of the department Deji Badmus, and frontline journalist and the first President of UNIZIK Mass Communication departmental student body, Mr Nnaemeka Aginam among others.','UNIZIK Mass Communication Department marks 25 years','','publish','open','open','','unizik-mass-communication-department-marks-25-years','','','2021-06-08 19:46:56','2021-06-08 19:46:56','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3258',0,'post','',0),(3259,1,'2021-06-08 19:44:18','2021-06-08 19:44:18','','IMG-20210608-WA0233','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210608-wa0233','','','2021-06-08 19:44:18','2021-06-08 19:44:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210608-WA0233.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3260,1,'2021-06-08 19:45:22','2021-06-08 19:45:22','','IMG-20210608-WA0234','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210608-wa0234','','','2021-06-08 19:45:22','2021-06-08 19:45:22','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210608-WA0234.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3261,1,'2021-06-08 19:46:33','2021-06-08 19:46:33','','images (5)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-5-3','','','2021-06-08 19:46:33','2021-06-08 19:46:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-5.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3263,1,'2021-06-09 09:14:09','2021-06-09 09:14:09','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3265 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210602-WA0030-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" />\n\nThe Emir of Ilorin, and Chairman of the Kwara State Council of Chiefs , His Royal Highness, Alhaji (Dr.) Sulu Gambari, CFR , has reiterated the need for the Federal Government to arm officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, to defend themselves against criminal elements, whenever on patrol.<!--more-->\n\nThe Emir made the remarks while receiving in his palace at Ilorin the new Zonal Commanding Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps Zone RS8 Command with headquarters in Ilorin, Assistant Corps Marshal Clement O. Oladele, psc .\n\nThe Emir relayed his initial encounter with the FRSC during an incident he had in the early 1990\'s after the establishment of the FRSC, where he encountered operatives of the Corps on patrol near the School of Survey , Oyo town along the Ogbomosho - Oyo road.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3266\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210602-WA0025-1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" />\n\nThe Royal Father applauded the swift response and professionalism displayed by the FRSC team on that day, noting that in the course of interacting with the FRSC Officials he learnt they deal with all manners of motorists both friendly and harmful, which exposes them to dangers.\n\nThe Emir said since then he has been campaining for the Federal Government to arm the FRSC Marshals on patrol to ensure their protection\n\nHe thereafter reiterated that arming the FRSC now is even more appropriate considering the level of insecurity across some sections of the county.\n\nEarlier the new Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone RS8 Command HQ , Assistant Corps Marshal Clement Oladele psc commended the Royal Father for his support to highway safety in the country and solicited the Royal Father\'s blessings and support to make highways safer in Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti States where he superitents road safety activities.\n\nOladele before his new appointment was the immediate past Commandant of the prestigious FRSC Academy in Enugu State.','Emir of Ilorin reiterates arming the FRSC','','publish','open','open','','emir-of-ilorin-reiterates-arming-the-frsc','','','2021-06-09 09:14:09','2021-06-09 09:14:09','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3263',0,'post','',0),(3264,1,'2021-06-09 09:12:09','2021-06-09 09:12:09','','IMG-20210602-WA0025','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210602-wa0025','','','2021-06-09 09:12:09','2021-06-09 09:12:09','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210602-WA0025.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3265,1,'2021-06-09 09:13:05','2021-06-09 09:13:05','','IMG-20210602-WA0030','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210602-wa0030','','','2021-06-09 09:13:05','2021-06-09 09:13:05','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210602-WA0030.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3266,1,'2021-06-09 09:13:52','2021-06-09 09:13:52','','IMG-20210602-WA0025','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210602-wa0025-2','','','2021-06-09 09:13:52','2021-06-09 09:13:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210602-WA0025-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3268,1,'2021-06-09 21:02:59','2021-06-09 21:02:59','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3269 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/60c10987aaba6-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Tactical teams of the Imo state Police Command has arrested a notorious native doctor who prepares charms for members of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra and eight others.<!--more-->\n\nIn a Statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Command Elkana Bala said they were arrested through diligent and painstaking investigations by Special team who stormed Ukwuorji in Mbaitoli Local Government area, along Onitsha road , and arrested one Ezeugo Ordu, a native of Ubachima, Omuma in Oru East LGA.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3270\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-10-300x146.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" />\n\nThe suspect confessed to be a member of IPOB/ESN, and made useful statements to the Police as regards to the recent attacks on Police stations as well as the residence of Governor Hope Uzodinma.\n\nHe further led operatives of the Command to the IPOB/ESN camp in a Bush close to Njaba River and nine persons were arrested at the criminal hideout while planning another attack, assorted charms were also recovered from them.\n\nHowever, two (2) out of the nine arrested in the hideout, CHINEDU NWAKAIRE aka ONE DOOR and UZOAMAKA UGOANYANWU (their native Doctor) were identified to be part of the hoodlums that attacked the private residence of Gov. Hope Uzodinma and also some Police stations as well.\n\nThey have confessed to the crime, and also stated their roles during the operations.\n\nFurthermore, the Commissioner Police in the State Abutu Yaro used the opportunity to reiterate the call on members of the IPOB/ESN, or any other criminal syndicate operating in the state especially those who stole Police arms and ammunitions to voluntarily surrender themselves to enable them get \"soft landing\", or they will be arrested to face the full wrath of the law noting that the Command will do everything possible to rid Imo state of crime and criminality.','Police arrest another ESN/IPOB native doctor','','publish','open','open','','police-arrest-another-esn-ipob-native-doctor','','','2021-06-09 21:02:59','2021-06-09 21:02:59','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3268',0,'post','',0),(3269,1,'2021-06-09 21:01:18','2021-06-09 21:01:18','','60c10987aaba6','','inherit','open','closed','','60c10987aaba6','','','2021-06-09 21:01:18','2021-06-09 21:01:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/60c10987aaba6.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3270,1,'2021-06-09 21:01:52','2021-06-09 21:01:52','','images (10)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-10','','','2021-06-09 21:01:52','2021-06-09 21:01:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-10.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3271,1,'2021-06-09 21:02:47','2021-06-09 21:02:47','','images (9)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-9-2','','','2021-06-09 21:02:47','2021-06-09 21:02:47','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-9.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3273,1,'2021-06-13 12:16:45','2021-06-13 12:16:45','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-3274 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-5-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\n\nBy John Ndu\n\nIgbos for a Progressive Nigeria (IPAN) has announced an open easy competition for all Igbos across the world to participate.\n\nThe Competition is part of the programmes to commemorate IPAN one year anniversary.\n\nThe National President of the group, Comrade Lawrence Onuzulike said the topic to write on is \"The Igbo Nation: Exploring and Attaining her full Potentials in a United Nigeria\"- Discuss.<!--more-->\n\nComrade Onuzulike who made the announcement in his release said participation is free to all Igbos across Nigeria, added that the results would be announced on 30th of June, 2021.\n\nIn his words, \" participants are to write not More than 1000 words. The submission date started from the 24th of May, 2021 and to end 24th of June, 2021. Submit at essay@ipannigeria.com.\n\n\"First prize is N100,000, second prize N50,000 while third Prize is N30,000 with 20 consolation Prizes of IPAN T-shirt and Caps.\n\n\"For inquiry contact 08164625777 or 08166216235\"\n\n\"The reason for the contest is to avail young Igbo intelligentsia the opportunity to research and provide ways Igbo nation could continue to attain its potential in a united Nigeria.\n\n\"We felt that many young people of today don’t see any future in this country anymore, because the Nigeria’s conversation space has been dominated by hopelessness and negative projections by the media, hence the need to re-focus the minds of the youths.\n\n\" It’s time to find ways to provide visible paths to success for our young ones and the essay is one of the ways to do that.\n\nOn his part, the Publicity Secretary of IPAN, Barr Arinze Odiari said Igbos For A Progressive Nigeria, IPAN, is an organization formed to unite the Igbos and build bridges of understanding and partnership with other regions of the country\n\nBarr Odiari disclosed that the essay contest, for instance, will not only provide a platform to discuss how to achieve great things in a united Nigeria, but will empower Nigerians, as about N200,000 will be shared to the winners. We’ll also be donating to schools and orphanages in all the South East States.\n\n\"We feel it’s not enough to only talk, but to also do something the people will feel physically. Our other plans include peaceful marches in South East to demand for peace and unity. 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src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-8-216x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" />\n\nAwka, June 13, 2021: A 34-year-old widow, Mrs Chioma Asomugha from Ubahuekem in Ihiala area of Anambra, has raised alarm that her in-laws were forcing her to drink water used in bathing her late husband’s corpse.\n\nChioma, the widow, confirmed the report in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Awka.<!--more-->\n\nShe alleged that the brothers of her late husband, Charles, said she must drink the water to prove that she was not responsible for her husband’s death, but that she would not do that.\n\nChioma said that she and her late husband lived peacefully in Ojo area of Lagos before his death.\n\n“I have four children with my late husband and we lived at Ajangbadi, Ojo area of Lagos before his demise.\n\n“The burial is fixed for Monday June 14, but since we came home for the burial, the relatives of my husband forced me out of my matrimonial home.\n\n“They insisted that before I will be allowed to come in that I will drink the water used in bathing my late husband’s corpse,” she claimed.\n\nChioma said she took the matter to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Awka as well as her Oraifite people with a view to resolving the matter.\n\nMrs Laura Ugwuanyi, Coordinator of NHRC in Anambra, confirmed the report, describing it as obnoxious.\n\nShe said efforts made to handle the matter did not yield positive results as the family members were not cooperating.\n\nChief Gerald Nnabugwu, a community leader in the area, told NAN that the leadership of the community was looking into the matter.\n\nMr C-Don Adinuba, state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment also promised to intervene in the matter.\n\nWhen contacted, Mr Okey Chukwu, President General of Ubahuekem community said he was in a meeting and promised to call back, but as at the time of this report his phone was switched off.','I  won’t 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with sophisticated weapon and started shooting at villagers.<!--more-->\n\nThe sources says by the time the gun shots subsides over ten persons were found dead and several persons sustain different degrees of injuries.\n\nSokoto state police public relations officer Assistant Superintendent of Police Sanusi Abubakar confirmed the attack, which he says happens late last week.\n\nAccording to him twelve persons were killed by the attackers.\n\nVillages in Rabba local government area in Sokoto have come under series of attacks by suspected bandits and a recent attack Gandi districts of the local government claimed the lives of thirty persons.\nEnd','Bandits Attack Sokoto Village, Killed 12 Persons','','publish','open','open','','bandits-attack-sokoto-village-killed-12-persons','','','2021-06-13 21:46:19','2021-06-13 21:46:19','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3281',0,'post','',0),(3282,1,'2021-06-13 21:44:30','2021-06-13 21:44:30','','images 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contain in it\'s resolution signed by the party National Organizing Secretary Ifeanyi Mbaeri, hinted that 5 other prospective aspirants were disqualified to contest the party primary.\n\nAmong those disqualified were former Special Advisor on Technical Matters to Ex- President Goodluck Jonathan, Nwankpo Sullivan Akachukwu, Member Representing Aguata Federal Constituency Chuma Umeoji and three others .\n\nThe decision of the screening committee is liable to veto only by the National Working Committee of the party, in term of eligibility of prospective aspirants to contest the Anambra governorship primary of the party.\n\nThe party primary was scheduled to hold on 23rd of June in line with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) time table for party primaries.\n\nSee attachment below\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3290 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210614-WA0063-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" 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Igweship tussle in Umuoji ancient kingdom where two illustrious sons are laying claim to the traditional stool of the town, concerned indigenes of the community have prevailed on Governor Willie Obiano\'s led administration to allow the town to exhaust the processes provided by the constitution of the town before issuing certificate to any of contestants.<!--more-->\n\nAccording to them, it behoves on the Central Executive Council (CEC) to ratify the selection of Igwe and subsequently present to Ndi Umuoji their next traditional ruler, even as they described issuance of certificate to any of the contestants without CEC/Special Assembly ratification as recipe for disaster.\n\nThey submitted that failure to allow the CEC which is regarded as the highest decision making body in Umuoji to carry out the task assigned to them by the constitution would distort the peace and progress of the community as well as pit brothers against brothers. They argued that such denial would usher in break down of law and order in the community.\n\nThe concerned indigenes had recently at Government House, Awka through a peaceful protest demanded that Chief Sir Kanayo Okoye of Umuechem Village who scored the highest number of votes in May 8th 2021 election organized by Umuoji Improvement Union Nigeria (UIUN) and supervised by Anambra State Government be declared as the authentic winner as the new traditional ruler of Umuoji community, in Idemili North Council Area of Anambra State.\n\nThe peaceful protesters who were from the twenty-three villages that make up Umuoji, accompanied by community leaders, village Heads and members of Igwe-In-Council demanded for the issuance of certificate of recognition to Chief Kanayo Okoye who scored the highest number of votes during the Igweship election organized by the State government for the town on eighth May 2021.\n\nDuring the exercise, the protesters were seen with placards with inscriptions like; “Igwe Umuoji is not for sale”, ” Umuoji want Chief Kanayo Okoye”,” Umuoji demands Kanayo as the Traditional Ruler, among others.\n\nChief Tochukwu Mmodu who spoke on behalf of others said that during the May eighth election in the community, majority of Umuoji people voted for Chief Kanayo Okoye, which he said made him to win the election.\n\nHe expressed displeasure with the shape the event had taken, noting that few individuals were trying to so hard to create unnecessary tension in the community by organizing what he described as a shambolic and kangaroo jamboree in the name of run-off election on June 8th 2021.\n\nChief Mmodu who described the action as unacceptable by the people of Umuoji community, appealed for immediate intervention of Anambra state government on the matter.\n\nContributing, the former President General of Umuoji community, Chief Gab Mbanefo and another stakeholder in the town, Chief Ifeanyi Efobi said that Umuoji Traditional stool is not for sale, described imposition of traditional ruler on communities as a taboo in Igbo land, pointing out that Umuoji community is too big to be so treated.\n\nWhile receiving the peaceful protesters\nat the Government House, Awka, Governor Willie Obiano called on various communities across the State to make communal living and peaceful coexistence their watchword.\n\nThe governor who spoke through the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu promised to look into their matter.','Issuance of Certificate: Wait for Ratification of Candidate by CEC, Umuojians Tell Anambra State Govt','','publish','open','open','','issuance-of-certificate-wait-for-ratification-of-candidate-by-cec-umuojians-tell-anambra-state-govt','','','2021-06-15 20:24:06','2021-06-15 20:24:06','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3296',0,'post','',0),(3297,1,'2021-06-15 20:22:49','2021-06-15 20:22:49','','IMG-20210615-WA0139','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210615-wa0139','','','2021-06-15 20:22:49','2021-06-15 20:22:49','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210615-WA0139.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3299,1,'2021-06-16 08:13:45','2021-06-16 08:13:45','&nbsp;\n\nOndo state commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Haruna Gagara has died.\n\nHe died at the age of 59 after a brief illness.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A native of Plateau state, Mr. Gagara will be buried on Friday.<!--more--><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3300\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210616-WA0039-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" /></p>\nA service of song will be held at the command’s office at Alagbaka on Wednesday.\n\nHis death is coming as a surprise to the staff of the agency.','Breaking: Ondo NDLEA Command dies','','publish','open','open','','breaking-ondo-ndlea-command-dies','','','2021-06-16 08:13:45','2021-06-16 08:13:45','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3299',0,'post','',0),(3300,1,'2021-06-16 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Musa Tungan Marina and the party caretaker Financial Secretary, Aliyu Bature.\n\nAccording to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Yahaya Sarki, the suspended party executives have since been replaced by other officials in acting capacity.\n\nThe executive members of the party at state and local government levels led new Acting Caretaker Chairman, Abubakar Muhammad Kana and two other executive members to Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu following the suspension of the former Caretaker Chairman, Bala Sani Kangiwa and other two executives by the party.\n\nThe party leaders have also affirmed loyalty and support to Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and his people oriented administration.\n\nSpeaking to newsmen immediately after the visit, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu commended them for their loyalty to the party and adherence to its constitutional provisions.\n\nGovernor Bagudu appealed to all APC members to continue to sustain their support to government and party leadership .\n\nThe governor endorsed the decision and action taken by the leadership of APC at state level which affected four executive members of the party, acknowledging that the measure was in line with its constitutional provisions on disciplinary matters .\n\nThe governor urged all stakeholders and other APC members to remain peaceful and work hard towards the success of the party in every election.\n\nThe Acting Chairman Abubakar Muhammad Kana while speaking thanked members of the party for reposing confidence on him and assured the governor of their unflinching support to his administration.\n\nThe Assistant Caretaker Secretary of the party, Zaiyanu Aliero narrated the circumstances that led to the suspension of the former caretaker State Chairman, Bala Sani Kangiwa, the former Treasurer Garba Musa Tungan Marina and the former Financial Secretary, Aliyu Bature.\n\nHe informed the governor that committee was set up to investigate allegations against them and were given fair opportunity to defend themselves in accordance with the party constitution but failed to do so.\n\nConsequently, the party leadership authorized the suspension of the three executive members after obtaining legal advice from the party\'s legal adviser.\n\nOn the former caretaker Public Relations Officer it the party, Sani Dododo, the party\'s scribe say he resigned from his position on his own volition and was not part of those that allegations was leveled against them.\n\nEnd','Kebbi State APC Suspends Caretake Chairman, Two Other Executive Members','','publish','open','open','','kebbi-state-apc-suspends-caretake-chairman-two-other-executive-members','','','2021-06-16 08:22:44','2021-06-16 08:22:44','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3302',0,'post','',0),(3303,1,'2021-06-16 08:21:49','2021-06-16 08:21:49','','IMG-20210616-WA0050','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210616-wa0050','','','2021-06-16 08:21:49','2021-06-16 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Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has solicited for the collaboration and cooperation of the Akwa Ibom state Ministry of Health to collectively win the war against illicit drug abuse in the state .<!--more-->\n\nThe state commander of NDLEA, Mrs. Obot Bassey made the appeal at a courtesy visit on the Akwa Ibom state commissioner for health Professor Augustine Vincent in Uyo, the state capital.\n\nShe revealed that the command has arrested twenty one drugs suspects with over sixty kilograms of hard drugs and pshycotropic substances seized, in the month of May alone..\n\n\"My primary objective is to identify with the commission, because drugs and health are two family friends that are inseperable\".\n\n\"Against this backdrop, I am here to seek your support, synergy and collaboration, in ensuring that Akwa Ibom state indigenes are free from drugs\".\n\nShe explains further,\" And last month in particular, we arrested twenty one suspects with over sixty kilograms of hard drugs and psychotropic substances\".\n\n\"And we found out that the consumption rate is high and Akwa Ibom state is a transitory state\". She explained.\n\nThe new commander of NDLEA solicits the collaboration of the state government to rid the state of illicit substance abuse among the young and productive ages of Akwa Ibom youths.\n\nShe seized the occasion to invite the state ministry of health to it\'s annual drug awareness creation programme coming up on 20th and ends on 27th of June, 2021, tagged, United Day Against Illicit Drug Trafficking and Abuse\n\nEND','NDLEA ARRESTS 21 SUSPECTS, SEIZES OVER 60 KILOGRAMS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN UYO','','publish','open','open','','ndlea-arrests-21-suspects-seizes-over-60-kilograms-of-illicit-drugs-in-uyo','','','2021-06-18 09:15:44','2021-06-18 09:15:44','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3316',0,'post','',0),(3317,1,'2021-06-18 09:14:15','2021-06-18 09:14:15','','IMG-20210618-WA0055','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210618-wa0055','','','2021-06-18 09:14:15','2021-06-18 09:14:15','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210618-WA0055.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3318,1,'2021-06-18 09:15:29','2021-06-18 09:15:29','','IMG-20210618-WA0054','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210618-wa0054','','','2021-06-18 09:15:29','2021-06-18 09:15:29','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210618-WA0054.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3320,1,'2021-06-19 11:01:05','2021-06-19 11:01:05','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3321 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-2-1-300x270.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" />\n\n...Warns Those Parading Themselves as Party Officers to Desist Forthwith\n\nBy Abuchi Onwumelu\n\nThe Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Anambra State Chapter, Comrade Jerry Nnubia (Ezennia) this afternoon warned those parading themselves as party officers to desist forthwith, emphasizing that NLC owned the party and its structure nationwide.<!--more-->\n\nAddressing Newsmen in Awka, Comrade Nnubia who is the immediate past president of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) said that Labour Party were duly registered and nurtured by Nigeria Labour Congress and would not allow anybody or group to hijack it.\n\nHis words, \'We received the report of an ongoing scam by some persons who claim to be national officers of the Labour Party.\n\n\'We understand that these persons led by one Mr. Julius Abure have been sneaking around Anambra State soliciting for money from governorship aspirants in the forthcoming Anambra State gubernatorial election.\n\n\' We wish to publicly state that these characters are unknown to Labour Party in Anambra State. There is only one national leadership of the Labour Party in Nigeria and it is under the caretaking of Comrade Maria Lebeke.\n\n\'This interim leadership enjoys the goodwill and support of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress who are the authentic owners of the Labour Party and in whose custody the Certificate of Registration of the Labour Party is currently kept.\n\n\'We understand the huge temptation faced by many politicians in Anambra State to get on board the platform of the Labour Party given the popular appeal of our great party.\n\n\'We urge all gubernatorial aspirants wishing to contest under the platform of the Labour Party to please avoid doing any business with Mr. Abure and his company of journey men as such exercise would amount to nullity, waste of resources and a huge stench on their political profile and personalities as the public would see them as being heedless, desperate, and reckless.\n\n\'While we continue to serve the interest of workers and the masses, we reiterate that the Labour Party in Anambra State is not for sale. Comrade Jerry Nnubia\nState Chairman, NLC, Anambra State Council concluded.','Labour Party Anambra Not for Sale - NLC Boss','','publish','open','open','','labour-party-anambra-not-for-sale-nlc-boss','','','2021-06-19 11:01:05','2021-06-19 11:01:05','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3320',0,'post','',0),(3321,1,'2021-06-19 10:56:01','2021-06-19 10:56:01','','images (2)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2-3','','','2021-06-19 10:56:01','2021-06-19 10:56:01','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-2-1.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3324,1,'2021-06-21 20:15:46','2021-06-21 20:15:46','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3325 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/images-3-1-300x141.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" />\n\nA coalition of civil society organizations has advised the Senator representing Anambra Central, Senator Uche Ekwunife to stop heating up the polity (by her indulgence in hate campaign) and have expressed fear over what it described, as a desperate inordinate ambition to clinch the PDP<!--more--> Anambra 2021 gubernatorial ticket by all means, either by hook or by crook.The group under the aegis of “Civil Society Committee for Anambra Election Security (COSCAES), raised the concern in its multi-paragraph article, affirming that such action poses dangerous signals that can scuttle the transparency and credibility of the June 26 PDP primary, as well as engender a violent electoral process.\n\ness.The group which spoke through its Coordinator, Comrade Kennedy Iyere demands the retraction or withdrawal of Senator Ekwunife’s media attacks on the person of Valentine Ozoigbo, following his open endorsement by the former Governor of Anambra state, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife (Okwadike). The group affirms that Okwadike has the right to choose and endorse a preferred candidate of his own choice. They further advised Senator Ekwunife to adopt a new style of democratic campaign, in the spirit of sportsmanship, adding that election is not an act of war but a process of peaceful contest.\n\nThe group frowned at Senator Ekwunife’s media public contradiction of the former Governor and highly respected elder stateman, describing her action, as a reckless display of moral aberration. The group classified her claims in the purported media publication, as infantile and suggest it should be disregarded by the general public.Here are some of the quotes extracted from the open letter issued by the group to Senator Uche Ekwunife: “Your most recent contradictory media reports on the person of Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife (Okwadike), following his open endorsement of a fellow aspirant, is not only uncivil and undemocratic but unpatriotic, and cliquish\"\".\n\n\"Okwadike is an institution, whose influence extends beyond your village, Igbo-Ukwu, being  the first democratically elected Governor of Ananmbra State. Therefore, your attempt to cage a man of Okwadike’s status, is nothing else but a deliberate act of moral aberration”.  \"The video in circulation shows where the heart of Okwadike lies, it is not what you can change but a hard reality you must inevitably embrace. Okwadike is aware of the fact that the aspirant he endorsed, is far ahead of you in the ongoing gubernatorial race and stands the best chance of winning the election among the contestants within the PDP”\n\"Several prominent political influencers in Anambra State had at different times called on Okwadike to advise you to step down from the gubernatorial contest\". \"You may have been assisted by some few corrupt top PDP stakeholders in manipulating the outcome of the recently conducted delegate primary but still, there are also other credible top stakeholders in PDP whose interest lies more on the party’s victory in the main election, than deriving selfish financial benefits from a desperate Uche Ekwunife” The details of the article is in the attachment below','Group Advice Senator Ekwunife To Play Clean Politics','','publish','open','open','','group-advises-senator-ekwunife-to-play-clean-politics','','','2021-06-21 20:15:46','2021-06-21 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Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 244 suspected drug traffickers between July 2020 and June 2021, in Akwa Ibom state .\n\nThe state Commander Obot Bassey made this disclosure in Uyo, thr state capital, revealed that the have secured 21 convictions within the period under review and recovered 600.0668 kilograms of illicit drugs seized.\n\nCommander Obot made this public as an event to mark this year International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UNGA) in Uyo, noted that the commander was able to rehabilitate six person\'s all male and have 23 cases pending in courts.\n\nThe NDLEA state commander disclosed that the available data before them revealed that the command cumulatively recorded more seizures and arrests within 2020/2021 against the successes they recorded in previous years.\n\nSpeaking on their drug demand reduction counselling cases, she said the command was able to successfully counseled 57 male and 6 female who have turned new leaf on their approach to life.\n\nThe commander commended the support and their working relationship with the state government, seized the occasion to draw the attention of government to urgent needs of the command to enable them discharge their duty more effectively.','Akwa Ibom NDLEA Arrests 244 suspects within a year','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-06-22 09:47:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3331',0,'post','',0),(3333,1,'2021-06-22 09:57:38','2021-06-22 09:57:38','<blockquote><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3334 alignleft\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG-20210621-WA0139-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></blockquote>\nThe quest to tackle drug abuse seems to be gathering momentum as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 244 suspected drug traffickers between July 2020 and June 2021, in Akwa Ibom state .<!--more-->\n\nThe state Commander Obot Bassey made this disclosure in Uyo, thr state capital, revealed that the have secured 21 convictions within the period under review and recovered 600.0668 kilograms of illicit drugs seized.\n\nCommander Obot made this public as an event to mark this year International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UNGA) in Uyo, noted that the commander was able to rehabilitate six person\'s all male and have 23 cases pending in courts.\n\nThe NDLEA state commander disclosed that the available data before them revealed that the command cumulatively recorded more seizures and arrests within 2020/2021 against the successes they recorded in previous years.\n\nSpeaking on their drug demand reduction counselling cases, she said the command was able to successfully counseled 57 male and 6 female who have turned new leaf on their approach to life.\n\nThe commander commended the support and their working relationship with the state government, seized the occasion to draw the attention of government to urgent needs of the command to enable them 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promulgation of the anti open grazing law in all it member states.\n\nOn the PIB bill: The forum rejects three percent for the host communities, and support five percent share of oil profit proposed by the house of Representative.\n\nThe forum reject the propose thirty percent share of profit exploration of oil and gas basins.\n\nThe forum reject the ownership structure of the Nigeria petroleum commission limited.\n\nOn election matters , the southern governors forum reject the removal of electronic transmission of result in the electoral act, also reject the exclusive jurisdiction of pre election matters on the federal high Court.\n\nThe forum chose Lagos state as is permanent secretariat .','Just in : At the end of the Southern governors Forum meeting the following was agreed .  That the next presidency should be rotate between North and south, and that the next president should come from the South.   On security.   The forum also agreed that if the security agencies wants to carry out any operation,  the chief security officer of the state which is the governor must be duely informed.  The forum also resolved that they are not in support of any selective criminal administration of justice.  The forum set a timeline for 1st of September 2021 for the promulgation of the anti open grazing law in all it member states.  On the PIB bill: The forum rejects three percent for the host communities,  and support five percent share of oil profit proposed by the house of Representative.   The forum reject the propose thirty percent share of profit exploration of oil and gas basins.   The forum reject the ownership structure of the Nigeria petroleum commission limited.   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attributed about 90 percent of increasing crimes to the abuse and consumption of illicit substances by the youths.<!--more-->\n\nThe state commander of NDLEA Mrs. Obot Bassey made this public when she received it audience the new commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil.Dedence.Corps.(NSCDC) Abidemi Majekodunmi n Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.\n\nShe lamented that hard drugs were discovered to had fueled various crimes in society, which calls for a renewed synergy between security agents with vigour to enable them win the war against illicit substance abuse.\n\n\"Law enforcement is a networking system it is a kind you synergise to achieve common goals\"\n\n\"Where we are in Akwa Ibom, drugs consumption and trafficking, is a major problem\"\n\"Most importantly the vulnerable are the youths, and the building block of any crime anywhere are drugs\".\n\nMrs. Obot called for synergy between the two agencies in the area of intelligence guardering, information sharing mechanism to achieve a common goal.\n\n\"Any scenario you see drugs, the probability to commit crimes are imminent which is at 90 percent\".\n\" You couldn\'t have come at a better time, I had very good working relationship with your predecessor and am sure I will have same with you in the area of Intelligence guardering, information sharing mechanism as well as to achieve our goals which is prima facie\".\n\nThe event was climaxed with demonstration of assurance by the two agencies of government, with the zeal to step up their games in ensuring that illicit substance abuse is curbed to the nearest minimum.\nEND','Akwa Ibom NDLEA partners NSCDC to sustain war against Drug abuse','','publish','open','open','','akwa-ibom-ndlea-partners-nscdc-to-sustain-war-against-drug-abuse','','','2021-07-05 22:01:19','2021-07-05 22:01:19','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3346',0,'post','',0),(3347,1,'2021-07-05 21:59:59','2021-07-05 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Makinde stated this when he received members of the People\'s Democratic Party South West reconciliation committee at his office.<!--more-->\n\nAccording to him, the country at this time requires men and women of conscience, that would think progressively about the country for posterity.\n\nWhile commending the committee for meeting up with its mandate, Governor Makinde explained that more effort would be geared on pulling members of the party together,\n\nHe noted that an elaborate meeting would be organized soon for all party stakeholders in the region to forge a stronger understanding ahead of the party\'s national convention.\n\nIn his remark chairman of the reconciliation committee and former Governor of Osun state, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola expressed confidence that if the recommendations of the report were followed judiciously, PDP in the south west would be better for it.\n\nOther members of the committee include Saka Balogun, Ambassador Oluwateru, Barrister Ikukoyi and Senator 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(PDP) Governorship primary, Dr. Godwin Maduka has received the prestigious Dr. Micheal Okpara\'s philanthropy of the Millennium Award.\n\n<!--more-->\nDr. Maduka who is a renowned medical doctor, philanthropist and an astute politician was conferred on the honour by the son of the Premier of Eastern Region Chief Uzodinma Okpara, at the multi-purpose hall of Dr. Godwin Maduka campaign office Awka.\n\nThere is no doubt that the philanthropist gesture of Dr. Maduka, his acquired reputation for touching lives of many people and families in his Umuchukwu town, in Orumba South of Anambra state, and other places in the South East region of Nigeria, may have endeared the Dr Micheal Okpara\'s foundation to confer on him such honour\n\nSpeaking while handling over the award to the receiptian, Chief Uzodinma Okpara expressed delight at Dr Maduka\'s philanthropy gesture, according to them, \"it\'s been monitored for over a decade from the distance Abia state, without recourse of expecting anything in return\".\n\n\"Our father too will be glad to witness what we are doing, because you posses all the qualities our father lived for\".\n\n\"Our foundation is unique and we conduct our research on individuals with distinguished background, who have excelled in their endeavours, and went ahead to continue impacting on the lives of their people\".\n\nChief Uzodinma Okpara who is the leader of Okpara Foundation and Verbatim News Network Limited, said they are acting in honour of their late father and leader, Michael Iheonukara Okpara, reaffirmed their position on ensuring the presitgious honour is not given to the wrong individuals.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, the elated Dr. Maduka expressed delight to acknowledge that what he is doing in his community and other places in the South east is being recognised by some persons.\n\nHe said he has been receiving many awards, but the Dr. Micheal Okpara\'s honour would spur him to continue do doing what he likes doing to ensure people are lifted from their poverty stricken situation.\n\nDr Maduka explained how Dr. Micheal Okpara inspired him to become a medical doctor, touch lives, go into politics and spend fortunes on developmental projects.\n\nMaduka , who holds doctorate degrees in Pharmacy, Medicine and a professorship in medical science, also presides over affairs of the Pain Institute and Medical Centre, a multi billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical conglomerate in Las Vegas, USA, as Founder and Chief Executive Officer.\n\n’I have never ceased from admiring Dr. Michael Okpara, the great leader, nationalist, politician and Medical Doctor like myself .\n\n\"I am inspired by Okpara’s developmental legacies and life as a medical doctor who embraced politics and used opportunity of his elevation to the status of premier to make the Eastern Region of Nigeria, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in the 1960s\".\n\n\"I will do all I can to follow his style and make Anambra the number one state in Nigeria if elected Governor at the November 6th governorship election in the state\".\n\nDr Maduka said he feels highly honoured to be considered as philanthropist of the millennium, and explained that he keyed into the project immediately it was brought to his notice because of his respect for the man Okpara who he said was a legend.\n\nThe event was conducted in honour of Dr Michael Okpara by its Foundation, as part of the Centenary Celebration of Rt. Hon Dr, Michael Okpara, the Premier of former Eastern Nigeria, he was a renowned heart surgeon and a politician.\n\nEND','Dr. Maduka receives Michael Okpara Leadership\'s Philanthropist Of The Millennium Award in Awka','','publish','open','open','','dr-maduka-receives-michael-okpara-leaderships-philanthropist-of-the-millennium-award-in-awka','','','2021-07-10 18:09:46','2021-07-10 18:09:46','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3359',0,'post','',0),(3360,1,'2021-07-10 18:09:01','2021-07-10 18:09:01','','images (36)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-36','','','2021-07-10 18:09:01','2021-07-10 18:09:01','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/images-36.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3362,1,'2021-07-11 14:44:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','NDLEA intercepts N6.5bn heroin at Lagos airport, declares drug baron wanted\n\n[contact-form][contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\"  required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Email\" type=\"email\" required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Website\" type=\"url\" /][contact-field label=\"Message\" type=\"textarea\" /][/contact-form]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n. Blocks cocaine, others going to UK, Dubai; frees Uber driver\nOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed Intern MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.\nThe illicit drug had arrived Lagos in 25 parcels from South Africa through an Airpeace Airline flight on 30th June, 2021 and was detained for screening following reasonable suspicion of the content of the consignment. A follow up operation was subsequently carried out the following day, 1st July when narcotic officers of the MMIA command trailed the driver and a clearing agent that were assigned to deliver the consignment to the house of a baron, Tony Chidi Onwurolu at No. 132 Lateef Adegboyega Street, off Ago palace way by Grandmate bus stop Okota, Lagos.\nDuring the follow up operation, Tony Chidi Onwurolu who obviously mounted a counter-surveillance around his neighbourhood fled his home before the arrival of the team of operatives who stormed his residence. They were however able to search his home and recovered a number of documents to establish his true identity.\nFollowing the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that the fleeing drug baron, Tony Chidi Onwurolu be declared wanted immediately and his details submitted to Interpol for tracking across the world. He therefore directed the Agency’s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations as well as the Directorate of Intelligence to deploy their networks to fast track the arrest of Onwurolu.\nMarwa said in view of the volume of heroin brought into country by the fleeing baron, the Agency would deploy all available mechanisms, locally and internationally, to track him and bring him to face charges in the law court. “Those who have been on the run for 10 years and some for five years, we have since tracked them and are now facing charges while cooling their heels behind bars. The latest one won’t be an exception, because he can only run but cant hide for too long before we get him”, Marwa vowed.\nIn the same vein, operatives of the Command also intercepted a 4.3kg of skunk imported from Canada. The package, which came on Ethiopian Airline, was concealed in nine packs of cereals.\nAlso on 9th July, one Babatunde Usman Omogbolahan Bakare was intercepted by NDLEA operatives with 550grams of cannabis and 50grams of Rohypnol (Flunitrazepam) concealed in six jerry cans of local herbal mixtures called Gabo at SAHCO export shed, MMIA, Ikeja. The drug was detected during outward clearance of Cargo going to Dubai.\nEarlier on Tuesday 6th July, operatives of the MMIA Command, conducted a follow-up operation at Gate 2, Ladipo Oluwole Street, opposite Guinness Bottling Company, Ikeja, where one Animashaun Kabiru was apprehended for questioning about a bag containing bitter cola, which was brought for export to the UK. When the bag of bitter kola was searched, it was discovered that the bitter kola were mixed with some wraps of a substance suspected to be illicit drug. Thirty-six wraps of the suspected substance later tested positive for Cocaine weighing 600grams.\nIn a related development, an Uber driver, Lawal Tunde Rasheed, arrested on 8th June in connection with the seizure of a cocaine consignment has been let off the hook following his cooperation that led to the arrest of the real owner of the drug, Mr. Egbo Emmanuel Maduka, who in his statement accepted ownership of the consignment and absolved Lawal of any complicity.\nWhile commending officers and men of the MMIA Command of the Agency for the series of seizures and arrests in the past week, Gen. Marwa asked them not to rest on their oars, adding that “we must all remain fully prepared and proactive at all times if we have to battle this scourge to a standstill.”\n\nFemi Babafemi\nDirector, Media &amp; Advocacy\nNDLEA Headquarters, Abuja\nSunday 11th July, 2021','NDLEA intercepts N6.5bn heroin at Lagos airport, declares drug baron wanted','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-07-11 14:44:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3362',0,'post','',0),(3363,1,'2021-07-11 15:47:47','2021-07-11 15:47:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3364 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210711-WA0173-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n. Blocks cocaine, others going to UK, Dubai; frees Uber driver\nOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.<!--more-->\nThe illicit drug had arrived Lagos in 25 parcels from South Africa through an Airpeace Airline flight on 30th June, 2021 and was detained for screening following reasonable suspicion of the content of the consignment. A follow up operation was subsequently carried out the following day, 1st July when narcotic officers of the MMIA command trailed the driver and a clearing agent that were assigned to deliver the consignment to the house of a baron, Tony Chidi Onwurolu at No. 132 Lateef Adegboyega Street, off Ago palace way by Grandmate bus stop Okota, Lagos. Kk<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3365 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210711-WA0180-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDuring the follow up operation, Tony Chidi Onwurolu who obviously mounted a counter-surveillance around his neighbourhood fled his home before the arrival of the team of operatives who stormed his residence. They were however able to search his home and recovered a number of documents to establish his true identity.\nFollowing the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed that the fleeing drug baron, Tony Chidi Onwurolu be declared wanted immediately and his details submitted to Interpol for tracking across the world. He therefore directed the Agency’s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations as well as the Directorate of Intelligence to deploy their networks to fast track the arrest of Onwurolu.\nMarwa said in view of the volume of heroin brought into country by the fleeing baron, the Agency would deploy all available mechanisms, locally and internationally, to track him and bring him to face charges in the law court. “Those who have been on the run for 10 years and some for five years, we have since tracked them and are now facing charges while cooling their heels behind bars. The latest one won’t be an exception, because he can only run but cant hide for too long before we get him”, Marwa vowed.\nIn the same vein, operatives of the Command also intercepted a 4.3kg of skunk imported from Canada. The package, which came on Ethiopian Airline, was concealed in nine packs of cereals.\nAlso on 9th July, one Babatunde Usman Omogbolahan Bakare was intercepted by NDLEA operatives with 550grams of cannabis and 50grams of Rohypnol (Flunitrazepam) concealed in six jerry cans of local herbal mixtures called Gabo at SAHCO export shed, MMIA, Ikeja. The drug was detected during outward clearance of Cargo going to Dubai.\nEarlier on Tuesday 6th July, operatives of the MMIA Command, conducted a follow-up operation at Gate 2, Ladipo Oluwole Street, opposite Guinness Bottling Company, Ikeja, where one Animashaun Kabiru was apprehended for questioning about a bag containing bitter cola, which was brought for export to the UK. When the bag of bitter kola was searched, it was discovered that the bitter kola were mixed with some wraps of a substance suspected to be illicit drug. Thirty-six wraps of the suspected substance later tested positive for Cocaine weighing 600grams.\nIn a related development, an Uber driver, Lawal Tunde Rasheed, arrested on 8th June in connection with the seizure of a cocaine consignment has been let off the hook following his cooperation that led to the arrest of the real owner of the drug, Mr. Egbo Emmanuel Maduka, who in his statement accepted ownership of the consignment and absolved Lawal of any complicity.\nWhile commending officers and men of the MMIA Command of the Agency for the series of seizures and arrests in the past week, Gen. Marwa asked them not to rest on their oars, adding that “we must all remain fully prepared and proactive at all times if we have to battle this scourge to a standstill.”\n\nFemi Babafemi\nDirector, Media &amp; Advocacy\nNDLEA Headquarters, Abuja\nSunday 11th July, 2021','NDLEA intercepts N6.5bn heroin at Lagos airport, declares drug baron wanted','','publish','open','open','','ndlea-intercepts-n6-5bn-heroin-at-lagos-airport-declares-drug-baron-wanted','','','2021-07-11 15:47:47','2021-07-11 15:47:47','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3363',0,'post','',0),(3364,1,'2021-07-11 15:45:52','2021-07-11 15:45:52','','IMG-20210711-WA0173','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210711-wa0173','','','2021-07-11 15:45:52','2021-07-11 15:45:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210711-WA0173.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3365,1,'2021-07-11 15:46:31','2021-07-11 15:46:31','','IMG-20210711-WA0180','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210711-wa0180','','','2021-07-11 15:46:31','2021-07-11 15:46:31','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210711-WA0180.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3368,1,'2021-07-15 16:32:56','2021-07-15 16:32:56','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3369 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210715-WA0110-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThree persons have been killed in a bank raid in Ilara- Mokin in Ifedore local government area of Ondo.\n\nOne of the victims in the bank raid is the Public Relations Officer of a private university in the state<!--more-->\n\nThe robbers also killed a policeman attached to the bank.\n\nThe attacked an old generation bank and allegedly carted away an undisclosed amount of money.\n\nThe robbers according to eyewitnesses shot sporadically before gaining entry into the bank.','Breaking : Robbers kill 3 in Ondo bank raid','','publish','open','open','','breaking-robbers-kill-3-in-ondo-bank-raid','','','2021-07-15 16:32:56','2021-07-15 16:32:56','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3368',0,'post','',0),(3369,1,'2021-07-15 16:30:56','2021-07-15 16:30:56','','IMG-20210715-WA0110','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210715-wa0110','','','2021-07-15 16:30:56','2021-07-15 16:30:56','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210715-WA0110.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3370,1,'2021-07-15 16:32:07','2021-07-15 16:32:07','','IMG-20210715-WA0109','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210715-wa0109','','','2021-07-15 16:32:07','2021-07-15 16:32:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210715-WA0109.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3372,1,'2021-07-18 12:44:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3373 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0178-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe South Eastern Nigeria is the region where you will find the highest number of self-made billionaires ( Not money stolen from Nigeria)<!--more-->\n\nThe Igbos have the highest number of millionaires in Nigeria. The poverty rate in Igbo land is very low when compared to other regions.\n\nI don\'t want to exaggerate, there is no Igbo family where you will not find a millionaire, thanks to the business acumen that characterizes a typical Igbo man.\n\nThe moneybags you saw at Obi Cubana\'s mother\'s burial turned carnival are top importers and exporters. Many of them are captains of industry. About 60% of them have sole distributorship of products needed in Nigeria and Africa. They represent big foreign companies in Nigeria.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf you are thinking that they are ritualist, occultic men, Yahoo Yahoo guys or they are into money laundering, you be MUMU. You need to emancipate yourself from the misconception you have about them.\n\nGoogle the likes of E-Money, Obi Cubana, Mmerigwo Henry Iyke, Jowi Zaza, Valentine Ozigbo, Chico, Port Harcourt Instigator, etc, you will know that these guys knows what real business entails.\n\nLet me shock you, one of them (name withheld) who is among those that raised N257m to support the burial is the sole distributor of a pharmaceutical drug in Nigeria that sells like pure water. The drug is the most effective drug for a particular disease (name withheld)\nThe young man makes N1000 from the N3,500 which is the selling price of the drug and the total sales of the drug per year is in millions. Invariably, he is making billions of naira every year and you are there on social media accusing him of being a ritualist.\n\nYou cannot get to this level with your salary. STOP WORKING and go into entrepreneurship and network with those who will show you the way.\n\nThere are several niches/markets that are yet to be tapped. Nigeria as an emerging economy has the largest market in Africa. There is nothing that you will import that will not be sold.\n\nPoverty is vanity because it is vain for you to leave a life without meaning\n\nMay God direct our path.\n\nEnjoy your Sunday 😍😍😍','Cubana: Using Someone For Money Ritual Is No Longer In Vogue','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-07-18 12:44:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3372',0,'post','',0),(3373,1,'2021-07-18 12:42:52','2021-07-18 12:42:52','','IMG-20210718-WA0178','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210718-wa0178','','','2021-07-18 12:42:52','2021-07-18 12:42:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0178.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3374,1,'2021-07-18 12:44:00','2021-07-18 12:44:00','','IMG-20210718-WA0180','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210718-wa0180','','','2021-07-18 12:44:00','2021-07-18 12:44:00','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0180.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3376,1,'2021-07-18 12:49:39','2021-07-18 12:49:39','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3373 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0178-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe South Eastern Nigeria is the region where you will find the highest number of self-made billionaires ( Not money stolen from Nigeria)<!--more-->\n\nThe Igbos have the highest number of millionaires in Nigeria. The poverty rate in Igbo land is very low when compared to other regions.\n\nI don\'t want to exaggerate, there is no Igbo family where you will not find a millionaire, thanks to the business acumen that characterizes a typical Igbo man.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3377 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0182-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe moneybags you saw at Obi Cubana\'s mother\'s burial turned carnival are top importers and exporters. Many of them are captains of industry. About 60% of them have sole distributorship of products needed in Nigeria and Africa. They represent big foreign companies in Nigeria.\n\nIf you are thinking that they are ritualist, occultic men, Yahoo Yahoo guys or they are into money laundering, you be MUMU. You need to emancipate yourself from the misconception you have about them.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3378 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0179-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" />\n\nGoogle the likes of E-Money, Obi Cubana, Mmerigwo Henry Iyke, Jowi Zaza, Valentine Ozigbo, Chico, Port Harcourt Instigator, etc, you will know that these guys knows what real business entails.\n\nLet me shock you, one of them (name withheld) who is among those that raised N257m to support the burial is the sole distributor of a pharmaceutical drug in Nigeria that sells like pure water. The drug is the most effective drug for a particular disease (name withheld)\nThe young man makes N1000 from the N3,500 which is the selling price of the drug and the total sales of the drug per year is in millions. Invariably, he is making billions of naira every year and you are there on social media accusing him of being a ritualist.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3379 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0181-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" />\n\nYou cannot get to this level with your salary. STOP WORKING and go into entrepreneurship and network with those who will show you the way.\n\nThere are several niches/markets that are yet to be tapped. Nigeria as an emerging economy has the largest market in Africa. There is nothing that you will import that will not be sold.\n\nPoverty is vanity because it is vain for you to leave a life without meaning\n\nMay God direct our path.\n\nEnjoy your Sunday 😍😍😍','Cubana: Using Someone For Money Ritual Is No Longer In Vogue','','publish','open','open','','cubana-using-someone-for-money-ritual-is-no-longer-in-vogue','','','2021-07-18 12:49:39','2021-07-18 12:49:39','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3376',0,'post','',0),(3377,1,'2021-07-18 12:48:16','2021-07-18 12:48:16','','IMG-20210718-WA0182','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210718-wa0182','','','2021-07-18 12:48:16','2021-07-18 12:48:16','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0182.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3378,1,'2021-07-18 12:48:48','2021-07-18 12:48:48','','IMG-20210718-WA0179','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210718-wa0179','','','2021-07-18 12:48:48','2021-07-18 12:48:48','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0179.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3379,1,'2021-07-18 12:49:18','2021-07-18 12:49:18','','IMG-20210718-WA0181','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210718-wa0181','','','2021-07-18 12:49:18','2021-07-18 12:49:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210718-WA0181.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3381,1,'2021-07-18 18:43:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nAnother military aircraft in Nigeria has reportedly crashed.\n\nAccording to the report, the incident happened somewhere in Kaduna State.\n\nA source that spoke with Daily Post disclosed that the crashed plane is an Alpha jet.\n\nThe source said, “The fighter jet left Yola, the Adamawa capital, this morning to go clear bandits.”\n\nThe spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabwet, has not reacted to the incident as of the time of filing this report.\n\nThe Nigerian military has recorded several crashes in 2021.\n\nRecall that a military crash in May claimed the lives of Army Chief, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers.\n\nOn February 21, a Minna-bound military jet crashed, killing all 7 people on board.\n\nOn April 2, another Alpha jet crashed in Borno during an operation.','Breaking: Nigeria Military Plane Crashes','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-07-18 18:43:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3381',0,'post','',0),(3382,1,'2021-07-18 18:47:55','2021-07-18 18:47:55','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3383 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/images-2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nAnother military aircraft in Nigeria has reportedly crashed.\n\nAccording to the report, the incident happened somewhere in Kaduna State.\n\nA source that spoke with Daily Post disclosed that the crashed plane is an Alpha jet.\n\nThe source said, “The fighter jet left Yola, the Adamawa capital, this morning to go clear bandits.”<!--more-->\n\nThe spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabwet, has not reacted to the incident as of the time of filing this report.\n\nThe Nigerian military has recorded several crashes in 2021.\n\nRecall that a military crash in May claimed the lives of Army Chief, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers.\n\nOn February 21, a Minna-bound military jet crashed, killing all 7 people on board.\n\nOn April 2, another Alpha jet crashed in Borno during an operation.','Breaking: Nigeria Military Plane Crashes','','publish','open','open','','breaking-nigeria-military-plane-crashes','','','2021-07-18 18:47:55','2021-07-18 18:47:55','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3382',0,'post','',0),(3383,1,'2021-07-18 18:46:45','2021-07-18 18:46:45','','images (2)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2-4','','','2021-07-18 18:46:45','2021-07-18 18:46:45','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/images-2.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3384,1,'2021-07-18 18:47:27','2021-07-18 18:47:27','','images (1)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-1-2','','','2021-07-18 18:47:27','2021-07-18 18:47:27','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/images-1.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3387,1,'2021-07-21 20:49:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nThe Kwara State Government has announced the suspension of the annual Durbar earlier scheduled for Wednesday July 21, 2021 on security grounds.\n\nAccording to a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications Hajia Rabiat Abdulrahman the suspension follows a police intelligence report which indicated that some forces plan to use the boisterous nature of the cultural event to instigate a breakdown of law and order in the state, thereby complicating national security challenges,\n\nShe reiterated government\'s commitment to protection of lives and property of all residents of the state, as that is its primary obligation.\n\nHajia AbdulRahman urged all residents of the state to continue to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies.','Kwara Govt suspends 2021 Durbar over security concerns*','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-07-21 20:49:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3387',0,'post','',0),(3388,1,'2021-07-21 20:53:47','2021-07-21 20:53:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3389 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/download-20.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" />\n\nThe Kwara State Government has announced the suspension of the annual Durbar earlier scheduled for Wednesday July 21, 2021 on security grounds.<!--more-->\n\nAccording to a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications Hajia Rabiat Abdulrahman the suspension follows a police intelligence report which indicated that some forces plan to use the boisterous nature of the cultural event to instigate a breakdown of law and order in the state, thereby complicating national security challenges,\n\nShe reiterated government\'s commitment to protection of lives and property of all residents of the state, as that is its primary obligation.\n\nHajia AbdulRahman urged all residents of the state to continue to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies.','Kwara Govt 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Servants Audit and Payroll Re-engineering/Validation Exercise has recommended the removal of 41 staff classified as ghost workers. by the consultants.\n\nThe consultants had indicted for removal from the payroll 602 officers and recommended them for removal from the payrolls but the Implementation Committee affirmed 41 ghost workers; cleared 40 others of any infraction; uncovered 10 deaths; 170 systematic retirements; and affirmed the option of voluntary retirement by 341 others with irregular records of service.\n\nThe CPS in the statement disclosed that the Implementation Committee had examined the report submitted by the consultants and also interacted with the affected officers before finalising the implementation model.\n\nHe said a Consulting firm had in 2019, engaged the Oyo State Government to undertake employees and pensioners’ verification/validation and payroll re-engineering.\n\nHe noted that following series of reconciliations, the report of the consultants was received by 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agitators storm Ibadan to demand release of Sunday Igboho.','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-07-21 21:17:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3396',0,'post','',0),(3397,1,'2021-07-21 21:21:52','2021-07-21 21:21:52','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3398 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210721-WA0102-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" />\n\nSome Yoruba Nation agitators have stormed the city of Ibadan to demand the immediate release of Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Igboho by the federal government.\n\nThey also demanded that the extradition of Sunday Igboho to Nigeria should not be granted by the Beninese government.<!--more-->\n\nThe protest which began at his Soka residence distrupted vehicular movements in major roads across the vicinity.\n\nLeader of the protest, Yusuf Ajikobi said it was unjust for the Yoruba Nation agitator to be detained outside the Nigerian jurisdiction.\n\nHe 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21:21:36','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210721-WA0087.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3401,1,'2021-07-21 21:25:25','2021-07-21 21:25:25','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3402 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210721-WA0118-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe police in Delta state have arrested a young man and middle aged lady who specialise in snatching motorcycles in Oghara, Ethiope West local government.\n\nThey also recovered two unregistered moyorcycles, a Nissan Primera car and generator set. The police say a manhunt for other members of gang is ongoing.\nAlso, the police are searching for three suspects; a tricycle rider and two occupants who fled after they abandoned and escaped into the Bush on sighting the security operatives.<!--more-->\n\nThe police officers later found a locally made cut -to -size single barrel gun, one battle axe, a mobile phone and twenty wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and other hard drugs on the vehicle.','Police in Delta Arrest two gang members involved in Snatching Motorcycles','','publish','open','open','','police-in-delta-arrest-two-gang-members-involved-in-snatching-motorcycles','','','2021-07-21 21:25:25','2021-07-21 21:25:25','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3401',0,'post','',0),(3402,1,'2021-07-21 21:24:22','2021-07-21 21:24:22','','IMG-20210721-WA0118','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210721-wa0118','','','2021-07-21 21:24:22','2021-07-21 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incident to Journalists in Abeokuta.\n\nHe noted that the accident occurred around 4pm in front of a a company specialized in manufacturing roofing pipes along the Expressway.\n\nHe added that the commercial bus driver wrongly overtook an ongoing vehicle which led to loss of control, and he unfortunately rammed into a stagnant faulty waste disposal truck.\n\nThe Public Relations Officer also confirmed that the commercial bus was over looaded with 25 passengers instead of 18 passengers known with such vehicles.\n\nHe analyzed the 25 victims to include nine men, eight women and eight minors.\n\nHe stated that 12 persons which comprised five men, three women and four minors were injured while 13 persons comprising four male, five female and four minors died in the accident.\n\nEND','13 die, 12 injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident','','publish','open','open','','13-die-12-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-expressway-accident','','','2021-07-21 21:33:08','2021-07-21 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politics with the security situation in some parts of the state and the country in general.<!--more-->\n\nThe governor stated this while receiving the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar who paid him a traditional sallah homage at the Government Lodge, Sokoto.\n\nGovernor Tambuwal stressed the need for the people of the state to collaborate with each other irrespective of political differences with a view to curtail the security challenges in the state,.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3413 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210723-WA0161-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" />\n\nHe also called on them to be vigilant about the activities of informants who give information to bandits in their domain.\n\nAccording to him, the state government in collaboration with security agents is making effort to improve the security situation in the state, hence the need to give maximum support and cooperation to it in 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allowed into the court premises as operative of the DSS say they are under strict instruction to restrict the number of journalists that will be allowed to report the court process.\n\nAgain, at the entrance of the court room, journalists and lawyers were still denied access by the security operatives who have taken over the entire court premises.\n\nAlready Journalists have described the restriction of media coverage as another attempt by the federal government to stifle freedom of information and gag the media.\n\nWatch Videos Here\n\n[video width=\"640\" height=\"352\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/VID-20210726-WA0055.mp4\"][/video]\n\n[video width=\"848\" height=\"480\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/VID-20210726-WA0070.mp4\"][/video]\n\n[video width=\"848\" height=\"480\" mp4=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/VID-20210726-WA0083.mp4\"][/video]\n\n&nbsp;','Videos: Kanu Appears in Court Amid Tight 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But I feel I should call him out for celebration because of his tenacity, focus and resilience, particularly at this period of warped values.\nFirst, a caveat – he is a brother,friend, compatriot and mentor. His recent<!--more--> successful defense of his doctoral thesis before the erudite Professor Nnanyelugo Okoro of the Mass Communication Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has brought his other sides to the fore.\nUntil recently, he cut no image outside the media. But the essential Tony Onyima is way too versatile to be compartmentalized. He has many strings to his bow.With three Master’s degree in public administration, marketing and media enterprise under his belt, Onyima is a thorough-paced professional with a hang of skill on virtually everything management and administration. It is perhaps his expertise in the three fields that successfully propelled his glorious rise in the media industry where he reported, edited and successfully managed a number of Nigeria’s flagships.\nSince retiring from The Sun Publishing, which he joined as Executive Director (Operations) in 2002, and rose to become its Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, in 2013, Onyima has been involved in a lot of scholarly and administrative engagements. He has written and edited a number of books, chief among which is ‘An Honour to Serve: Enugu State in the Sullivan Years’. He was a Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism in Anambra State where he designed and drove the public communication component of the state government within the period he held sway. His stint in the public sector left a proud testament to Cross-over Professionals(CoP). He was also a member of the Governing Council of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.Onyima is a man unique unto himself, effective in his time and place. A dedicated worker and confidante, he commits to every assignment with passion and delivers with the promptness of an administrator and a manager. He abides no sloppy handling of any project he undertakes, however,unimportant. Urbane, simple, nimble and with little or no sense of entitlement as evident among his peers, he has handled a number of assignments without drawing attention to himself. For example, he supervised, as the Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Culture andTourism, the creative effort that brought into being the popular Anambra State anthem and other brand collaterals like the crest. More than that, the historic Ozoemezina event held, as a final coda to assuage the spirit of the dead in Biafra during the three year internecine war with Nigeria, was under his watch.\nYet, he is quick to attribute the wins to team success. It is not likely that everybody will be enthralled by the Onyima persona, but it bears repeating here that the self-effacing administrator, manager and media professional has more to offer the society than just media management. No doubt, Onyima has capped his academic pursuit with a consequential doctorate degree in mass communication. And as far as his accomplishments went, I know nothing of him as yet except that he has positioned himself for greater service to humanity. As someone noted recently: “his slender built, by the way, thoroughly belies his incredible energy and gigantic ideas, which are the core attributes of nation builders. He brims with ideas like every man who’s widely read and widely travelled”.\nThis piece may strike its reader as an attempt to indulge him, but truth is that no one who flatters another for his virtue or humors him in his vices is that person’s worst enemy. And I do not intend either. If I should claim any knowledge of Onyima, it is about his work ethics which I got close enough to appreciate. He is a hard worker, a team player (with no interest in being a cock of the walk) and a rewarder of positive effort. I know as others do that his new status is a personal call to hard work. I have no reason to doubt his dedication. I wish him greater successes ahead.\n\nEjike Anyaduba\nAbatete','The Essential Tony Onyima','','publish','open','open','','the-essential-tony-onyima','','','2021-07-29 20:46:06','2021-07-29 20:46:06','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3430',0,'post','',0),(3431,1,'2021-07-29 20:45:28','2021-07-29 20:45:28','','IMG-20210729-WA0203','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210729-wa0203','','','2021-07-29 20:45:28','2021-07-29 20:45:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG-20210729-WA0203.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3434,1,'2021-08-09 17:29:23','2021-08-09 17:29:23','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3435 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210809-WA0336-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" />\n\n2 killed, as IPOB sit-at-home order goes bloody in Nnew\n*activities ground to a halt in Anambra\n\nFrom Chuks Collins, Awka\nAug 9,2021\n\nTwo middle aged men were shot dead by soldiers in the early hours Monday at Nnewi, the industrial hub of Anambra state.\n\nAccording to eye witness account, the two were shot during an altercation with some soldiers patrolling the city to ensure no one was molested for not obeying the sit-at-home order by the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB).<!--more-->\n\nIncidentally the soldiers ran into a barricades mounted by suspected members of IPOB to prevent those disobeying the order.\n\nThe two people who died during the bloody confrontation at the popular Izuchukwu junction area of Nnewi roundabout were said to be a leader of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and a commercial motorcyclist he engaged to take him round the area to monitor and enforce compliance.\n\nProblem, according to the witness, started at about 7.00am when some IPOB members came out to enforce the sit at home order and then mounted a barricade on the major roads in the industrial town.\n\nSome unidentified soldiers however got wind of it and came in to clear the barricade but were challenged by the suspected IPOB members and were shot point blank.\n\nIncidentally the moment news circulated about the killings, people who initially came to out for their daily business quickly locked up and rushed back home.\n\nSome vehicles were consequently smashed by aggrieved youths over the attack on the civilians by armed soldiers.\n\nA combined team of security operatives was quickly despatched to major points in the city to avoid complete breakdown of peace and to disperse protesters.\n\nThe general picture round the state -Awka, Nnobi, Abatete, Ideani, Nkpor, Onitsha, Oba, Ogidi and Abagana was the same as commercial activities were completely grounded. Schools, banks, markets, courts, public and private offices were closed. The roads, including highways were empty.','2 killed, as IPOB sit-at-home order goes bloody in Nnewi','','publish','open','open','','2-killed-as-ipob-sit-at-home-order-goes-bloody-in-nnewi','','','2021-08-09 17:29:23','2021-08-09 17:29:23','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3434',0,'post','',0),(3435,1,'2021-08-09 17:28:13','2021-08-09 17:28:13','','IMG-20210809-WA0336','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210809-wa0336','','','2021-08-09 17:28:13','2021-08-09 17:28:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210809-WA0336.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3436,1,'2021-08-09 17:29:10','2021-08-09 17:29:10','','IMG-20210809-WA0336','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210809-wa0336-2','','','2021-08-09 17:29:10','2021-08-09 17:29:10','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210809-WA0336-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3438,1,'2021-08-10 04:34:59','2021-08-10 04:34:59','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3439 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\n… Injure 48, destroy property worth millions of naira\n… PG blames “bad elements” for attack\n\nBy Henry Duru\n\nThere was palpable tension in Isuaniocha community in Awka North local government area of Anambra state as some hoodlums armed with guns, machetes and other dangerous weapons attacked the community on Monday, August 9, 2021, injuring people and destroying property worth millions of naira.<!--more-->\nSpeaking on the development, President General of Isuaniocha, Ambassador Frank Oforbuikem Nkpume, blamed the crisis on the activities of people he described as “bad elements” in the community who were bent on fomenting trouble in the land for selfish purposes.\n“There have been series of power tussles in Isuaniocha before I was elected on 24th of April 2019. I and my executive have done a lot to bring about peace in the community, but all our efforts have not yielded positive results because of some bad elements that have hijacked power in the community boasting that they determine who exercises power. They are boasting that they have connections with the state government. Ever since they have vowed never to allow the community to have peace,” said Ambassador Nkpume.\nThe PG stated that his leadership had since condoned all the provocative actions of the said “bad elements” just to avoid throwing the community into crisis. These actions, according to him, included illegally collecting levies from developers in the community, selling lands of individuals, intimidating people and hijacking the work of the elders and market authorities.\nGiving further insight into the crisis, Ambassador Nkpume noted that the whole trouble had started when one Donatus Okeke, who had been a caretaker chairman of Otoko (one of the eight villages that make up Isuaniocha) attempted to frustrate the effort of the village to choose a substantive chairman through an election. According to him, the people of Otoko had last December resolved to do away with the caretaker chairman and go for an elected leader, a decision that did not go down well with Okeke who was bent on remaining a caretaker chairman. “Then they fixed their election to hold during the Easter period. During the period, Donatus Okeke went to Umuelem village and brought one Onyemazi Ngini (the caretaker chairman of Isuaniocha youths who has been there since 2016 and had problems with all the PGs Isuaniocha have had). This Onyemazi Ngini came to Otoko village with bad boys he had been training to insist that no election would be conducted. They caused a lot of problems there and left,” the President General stated.\nHe noted, however, that following the intervention of security agencies and other authorities, the election was eventually held and was adjudged free and fair. Thereafter, the new chairman and his executive settled on their task.\nNkpume said that given the continued meddling in the affairs of Otoko by Ngini, the executive and elders-in-council of Otoko went to his house and begged him to stay clear of their village and allow them to run their affairs peacefully and successfully. However, events that followed showed that Ngini did not heed this plea, as he continued collecting levies and meddling in land disputes in a village he does not belong to.\nAmbassador Nkpume noted that despite all the levies collected from the village by Onyemazi, it was the people of the village who still had to bear the cost of rebuilding the collapsed bridge at the major entrance to Otoko.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3441\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-1-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\nIt is while they were on this project that “the former chairman came back day before yesterday (Saturday) with Onyemazi Ngini, Damian Nnaemene, and some touts and cultists, entered into Otoko with music, dancing that their Igwe is coming, that Donatus Okeke is now the Igwe of Isuaniocha. (That one is not my business because I know that it is documented in government that Isuaniocha has never conducted any election for Igwe. For now, we don’t have an Igwe…) So the guy (Okeke) came back day before yesterday and started saying that he has arrived and that people must die, that he is going to kill anybody that stands on his way.\n“Today I was in my house, I received a phone call that Onyemazi went to Otoko village, beat up some people, inflicting injuries on them using guns and machetes, then went to my guesthouse at Isuaniocha, destroyed all my property. They even made away with my gas cookers, my televisions, they made away with a lot of things, destroyed everything.”\nThe PG, who stated that he had reported the matter to the state Commissioner of Police as well as the National President of Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU), Barr. Titus Akpudo, regretted that a total of 48 persons were injured in the attacks while nine buildings were destroyed.\nWhile lamenting that his life was in danger, he informed that he was lucky to be rescued through the effort of some military personnel. He warned that should anything happen to him, Onemazi Ngini, Cosmas Okonkwo, Damina Nnaemene, Donatus Okeke and others would be held responsible.','Tension in Isuaniocha as hoodlums attack community','','publish','open','open','','tension-in-isuaniocha-as-hoodlums-attack-community','','','2021-08-10 04:34:59','2021-08-10 04:34:59','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3438',0,'post','',0),(3439,1,'2021-08-10 04:32:28','2021-08-10 04:32:28','','images','','inherit','open','closed','','images-7','','','2021-08-10 04:32:28','2021-08-10 04:32:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3440,1,'2021-08-10 04:33:13','2021-08-10 04:33:13','','images (2)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2-5','','','2021-08-10 04:33:13','2021-08-10 04:33:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3441,1,'2021-08-10 04:33:43','2021-08-10 04:33:43','','images (1)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-1-3','','','2021-08-10 04:33:43','2021-08-10 04:33:43','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-1.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3443,1,'2021-08-16 11:01:45','2021-08-16 11:01:45','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3444 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-28.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" />\nNollywood actors, others witness campaign take off\n\nAwka, Aug.16, 2021: Mr Obiora Agbasimelo, candidate of the Labour Party in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra has promised to make the statebhub of film industry if electe.<!--more-->\n\nAgbasimelo popularly known as\'Oga Ndi Oga\' by his supporters in the state made the promise during his governorship campaign flag off at the weekend in Awka.\n\nThe event attended by hundreds of Labour Party supporters was equally witnessed by many Nollywood actors.\n\nAmong the actors sighted at the event were President of Nollywood actors; Chiwetalu Agu, Destiny Etiko, Chinyere Wilfred, Nkechi Nweje, Steve Eboh, Chidi Ihezie Okafor, Chinedu Ikedieze, Mc Smith Ochendo, and Uju Okoli amongst others.\n\nAgbasimelo who addressed his audience announced the take off of multi millionaira interest free loan for traders, artisans, small and medium scale business owners in the state.\n\nHe also said that he would ensure that widows and the elderly are adequately taken care of in the state.\n\nAgbasimelo who is the president of Oga Ndi Oga Foundation and hail from Nnewi South council area of the state, said a lot of people have been touched through his charity group in the state and beyond.\n\nHe said that God has already blessed him, adding that my interest in the governorship is to uplift more downtrodden in the society.\n\nAgbasimelo called on the people of the state especially those with voting powers to support his candidature.\n\n\"Anambra state will be a hub for film industry if I become the governor and i will ensure that I address the plights of more downtrodden in the society\", he said.\n\nAside from empowering scores of women and youths, Agbasimelo has constructed community roads, awarded scholarships to students and trained and equip many on vocational skills in the state.\n\nHe has also paid medical bills for several Nigerians with critical health issues, as well as initiated poverty alleviation programmes that addressed the plights of widows and poor families among others.','I\'ll make Anambra film industry hub... Agbasimelo','','publish','open','open','','ill-make-anambra-film-industry-hub-agbasimelo','','','2021-08-16 11:01:45','2021-08-16 11:01:45','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3443',0,'post','',0),(3444,1,'2021-08-16 11:00:39','2021-08-16 11:00:39','','download (28)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-28','','','2021-08-16 11:00:39','2021-08-16 11:00:39','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-28.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3445,1,'2021-08-16 11:01:33','2021-08-16 11:01:33','','download (30)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-30','','','2021-08-16 11:01:33','2021-08-16 11:01:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-30.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3447,1,'2021-08-16 12:05:33','2021-08-16 12:05:33','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3448 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-16T125856.867-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" />\n\nAs the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State draws closer, the Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, and the Parish Priest of the Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish, Umudioka, both in Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Obimma Emmanuel, has called on politicians in the state to channel their resources on things that would uplift humanity, instead of wasting them on lawyers and judges.<!--more-->\n\nIn a homily during a Eucharistic celebration at the Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish, on Sunday, Fr. Obimma, popularly known as Fr. Ebube Muonso, expressed worry that political parties and politicians for the Anambra governorship race spend several hundreds of millions of naira in courts for mere intra party conflicts that could be managed internally; whereas majority of the youths still roam the streets without jobs; even as thousands hardly get their daily bread.\n\n“I’m very sad and worried at the rate at which politicians are desperate to grab power. In the build-up for the Anambra governorship election coming up in November, serious of court cases have been springing up here and there, from the biggest political party to the least; only in the desperate bid to grab power, and have control over the wealth of the state.\n\n“In almost all the political parties, there are court cases. Presently, it is a harvest time for Hausa and Fulani judges, who open their mouths wide to grab money from politicians, who cannot control their ego.\n\n“I’ve met some of the politicians at different fora, and advised them to channel their resources on something good and beneficial. Everybody cannot be governor at the time. Instead of wasting resources on the judiciary, I would have expected politicians in Anambra to pool such resources together and build industries that would accommodate our teaming unemployed youths, who are currently roaming the streets without jobs. Also, there are old people in the society, who have nobody to take care of them. There are also sick people in the hospital, who cannot offset their bills,” he said.\n\nSimilarly, a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has called on one of the claimants to the governorship ticket of the party, Chukwuma Umeoji, to withdraw his court cases for the interest of the party, so that APGA would focus on campaigns and winning the Anambra governorship election.\n\nIn a chat with newsmen, weekend, in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, Ezeonwuka expressed sadness that money, which could have been ploughed into the election proper in order to secure victory for the party, was being expended in courts over who becomes the authentic candidate for the governorship election.\n\nWhile calling on the Umeoji to submit himself to the supremacy of APGA, Ezeonwuka, who is also the proprietor of the Rojenny Game Village, Oba, asked the leadership of the party to devise internal mechanism that would check the repetition of activities, actions or inactions causing internal crisis in the party.','Guber: Stop wasting money on judiciary, Ebube Muonso tells Anambra politicians','','publish','open','open','','guber-stop-wasting-money-on-judiciary-ebube-muonso-tells-anambra-politicians','','','2021-08-16 12:05:33','2021-08-16 12:05:33','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3447',0,'post','',0),(3448,1,'2021-08-16 12:04:46','2021-08-16 12:04:46','','images - 2021-08-16T125856.867','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2021-08-16t125856-867','','','2021-08-16 12:04:46','2021-08-16 12:04:46','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-16T125856.867.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3449,1,'2021-08-16 12:05:23','2021-08-16 12:05:23','','download (31)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-31','','','2021-08-16 12:05:23','2021-08-16 12:05:23','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-31.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3452,1,'2021-08-16 12:08:29','2021-08-16 12:08:29','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3454 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-16T125837.527-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nAs the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State draws closer, the Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, and the Parish Priest of the Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish, Umudioka, both in Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Obimma Emmanuel, has called on politicians in the state to channel their resources on things that would uplift humanity, instead of wasting them on lawyers and judges.<!--more-->\n\nIn a homily during a Eucharistic celebration at the Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish, on Sunday, Fr. Obimma, popularly known as Fr. Ebube Muonso, expressed worry that political parties and politicians for the Anambra governorship race spend several hundreds of millions of naira in courts for mere intra party conflicts that could be managed internally; whereas majority of the youths still roam the streets without jobs; even as thousands hardly get their daily bread.\n\n“I’m very sad and worried at the rate at which politicians are desperate to grab power. In the build-up for the Anambra governorship election coming up in November, serious of court cases have been springing up here and there, from the biggest political party to the least; only in the desperate bid to grab power, and have control over the wealth of the state.\n\n“In almost all the political parties, there are court cases. Presently, it is a harvest time for Hausa and Fulani judges, who open their mouths wide to grab money from politicians, who cannot control their ego.\n\n“I’ve met some of the politicians at different fora, and advised them to channel their resources on something good and beneficial. Everybody cannot be governor at the time. Instead of wasting resources on the judiciary, I would have expected politicians in Anambra to pool such resources together and build industries that would accommodate our teaming unemployed youths, who are currently roaming the streets without jobs. Also, there are old people in the society, who have nobody to take care of them. There are also sick people in the hospital, who cannot offset their bills,” he said.\n\nSimilarly, a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has called on one of the claimants to the governorship ticket of the party, Chukwuma Umeoji, to withdraw his court cases for the interest of the party, so that APGA would focus on campaigns and winning the Anambra governorship election.\n\nIn a chat with newsmen, weekend, in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, Ezeonwuka expressed sadness that money, which could have been ploughed into the election proper in order to secure victory for the party, was being expended in courts over who becomes the authentic candidate for the governorship election.\n\nWhile calling on the Umeoji to submit himself to the supremacy of APGA, Ezeonwuka, who is also the proprietor of the Rojenny Game Village, Oba, asked the leadership of the party to devise internal mechanism that would check the repetition of activities, actions or inactions causing internal crisis in the party.','Guber: Stop wasting money on judiciary, Ebube Muonso tells Anambra politicians','','publish','open','open','','guber-stop-wasting-money-on-judiciary-ebube-muonso-tells-anambra-politicians-2','','','2021-08-16 12:08:29','2021-08-16 12:08:29','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3452',0,'post','',0),(3453,1,'2021-08-16 12:07:35','2021-08-16 12:07:35','','download (32)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-32','','','2021-08-16 12:07:35','2021-08-16 12:07:35','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-32.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3454,1,'2021-08-16 12:08:13','2021-08-16 12:08:13','','images - 2021-08-16T125837.527','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2021-08-16t125837-527','','','2021-08-16 12:08:13','2021-08-16 12:08:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-16T125837.527.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3460,1,'2021-08-18 16:27:27','2021-08-18 16:27:27','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0127-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" />\n\nEjike Abana reports...\n\nGovernor Obiano Swears In Eleven New Permanent Secretaries\n\nBy Ejike Abana (ABS Government House Correspondent)\n\nAnambra State Government has sworn in eleven permanent secretaries.\n\nThe permanent Secretaries were sworn in by Governor Willie Obiano at the Executive Chambers, Government House, Awka.\n\nThe affected Permanent Secretaries include, Dr. Nwando Obiano, Dr. Onuigbo Benedicta Ndidi, Ike Samuel Chinedu, Okonkwo Ebele G.C, Iwouno Ngozi Anuli and Igwebe Theodora Okwy who joined virtually from a training facility in Kuru, near Jos.<!--more-->\n\nOthers are Mrs Uzoka Ifeyinwa Gertrude, Ejike Edwin Uzochukwu, Idigo Anthony Chike and Dr. Emmanuel Okafor.\n\nTheir appointment was approved by the governor and took effect from December, 2020, but for the COVID-19 situation, they continued with their respective functions.\n\nSome members of the state executive Council including the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu, Head of Service, Barrister Harry Uduh, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Primus Odili, Attorney General of the State, Barrister Uju Nwogu, her Agriculture counterpart, Chief Nnamdi Onukwuba, Special Adviser to the Governor on Traditional Medicine, Dr. Onyeka Ibezim and his Disability counterpart, Barrister Chuks Ezewuzie, among others.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0128-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nSpeaking shortly after the swearing in ceremony, Governor Obiano reminded them of the oath they took, describing them as very important managers of segments of the civil service they are occupying, asking them to live by example.\n\nWhile stating that his administration has maintained the bond and contract with the civil servants, despite the daunting challenges, the governor, however warned that if found to be corrupt, they can be sacked.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nHe asked them to reciprocate by being hardworking inorder to increase the public perception of government, registered his administration\'s intolerance for vices among civil, assuring of extending relevant trainings to them, so that you can also train the people working under them.\n\nRecall that some time ago, governor Obiano swore in eight permanent secretaries.','Gov Obiano swears in new permanent secretaries, charges them to be of good conduct and discharge their duties diligently.','','publish','open','open','','gov-obiano-swears-in-new-permanent-secretaries-charges-them-to-be-of-good-conduct-and-discharge-their-duties-diligently','','','2021-08-18 16:27:27','2021-08-18 16:27:27','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3460',0,'post','',0),(3461,1,'2021-08-18 16:24:33','2021-08-18 16:24:33','','IMG-20210818-WA0127','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210818-wa0127','','','2021-08-18 16:24:33','2021-08-18 16:24:33','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0127.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3462,1,'2021-08-18 16:25:25','2021-08-18 16:25:25','','IMG-20210818-WA0128','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210818-wa0128','','','2021-08-18 16:25:25','2021-08-18 16:25:25','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0128.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3463,1,'2021-08-18 16:26:17','2021-08-18 16:26:17','','IMG-20210818-WA0126','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210818-wa0126','','','2021-08-18 16:26:17','2021-08-18 16:26:17','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0126.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3464,1,'2021-08-18 16:26:57','2021-08-18 16:26:57','','IMG-20210818-WA0127','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210818-wa0127-2','','','2021-08-18 16:26:57','2021-08-18 16:26:57','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0127-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3466,1,'2021-08-19 17:30:58','2021-08-19 17:30:58','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3468 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0020-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The drama that started at INEC on July 16, 2021 leading to the erroneous publishing of Chukwuma Umeoji\'s name in place of that of Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo came to an end today as the commission has done the needful.<!--more-->\nIn a press release by the commission and signed by the Commissioner, Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye, the commission said that after its executive Committee meeting it was unanimously resolved that the name of Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo and Dr. Onyekachikwu Gilbert Ibezim be published as the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of APGA respectively.<!--more--><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3469\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210819-WA0199-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" />\nThe commission has already yanked off Chukwuma Umeoji and Irogbu\'s names from its portal as candidates of APGA.\nIt could be recalled that Court of Appeal, Kano on Wednesday, August 10, 2021 entered judgment in favour of Ozonkpu Dr. Victor Ike Oye as APGA National Chairman and Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo as its governorship candidate.\nWith this development APGA will now fire on all cylinders to mobilize the people of Anambra State to win the November 6, 2021 governorship election, which is a sacred duty it owes to the people.</p>','BREAKING NEWS  APGA ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: INEC REMOVES UMEOJI\'S NAME, REPLACES IT WITH SOLUDO\'S','','publish','open','open','','breaking-news-apga-anambra-governorship-election-inec-removes-umeojis-name-replaces-it-with-soludos','','','2021-08-19 17:30:58','2021-08-19 17:30:58','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3466',0,'post','',0),(3467,1,'2021-08-19 17:28:29','2021-08-19 17:28:29','','IMG-20210819-WA0181','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210819-wa0181','','','2021-08-19 17:28:29','2021-08-19 17:28:29','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210819-WA0181.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3468,1,'2021-08-19 17:29:13','2021-08-19 17:29:13','','IMG-20210818-WA0020','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210818-wa0020','','','2021-08-19 17:29:13','2021-08-19 17:29:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210818-WA0020.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3469,1,'2021-08-19 17:30:20','2021-08-19 17:30:20','','IMG-20210819-WA0199','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210819-wa0199','','','2021-08-19 17:30:20','2021-08-19 17:30:20','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210819-WA0199.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3471,1,'2021-08-20 09:11:53','2021-08-20 09:11:53','<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3472 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-20T100437.244.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" />\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">The Olujare of Ijare Land, Oba Adebamigbe Oluwagbemigun – the Kokotiri II has passed on to join his ancestors.</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">Oba Oluwagbemigun ascended the throne in 1996.</div>\n<!--more-->\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"> He was a trained Engineer.</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">The late Monarch was 83 years before his death</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">The Prime Minister of Ijare who is the Sapetu of Ijare, High Chief Wemimo Olaniran confirmed his demise</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">Ijare is one of the towns in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State.</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">Following his passage, the High Chief Salotun of Ijare, a Male, will now act as the Regent (acting King) because Ijare tradition doesn’t support a Female Regent.</div>','Prominent Ondo Monarch Joins Ancestors','','publish','open','open','','prominent-ondo-monarch-joins-ancestors','','','2021-08-20 09:11:53','2021-08-20 09:11:53','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3471',0,'post','',0),(3472,1,'2021-08-20 09:10:17','2021-08-20 09:10:17','','images - 2021-08-20T100437.244','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2021-08-20t100437-244','','','2021-08-20 09:10:17','2021-08-20 09:10:17','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-20T100437.244.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3473,1,'2021-08-20 09:10:59','2021-08-20 09:10:59','','images - 2021-08-20T100435.453','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2021-08-20t100435-453','','','2021-08-20 09:10:59','2021-08-20 09:10:59','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-2021-08-20T100435.453.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3475,1,'2021-08-22 13:04:58','2021-08-22 13:04:58','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3476 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210822-WA0084-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n. In strings of operations, NDLEA seizes 2,504.8kg of narcotics in Edo, Ondo, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi\n\nA major drug dealer wanted for attempting to export 69.65kilograms of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United Kingdom through the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, has been arrested at a church in Ojodu, Ikeja area of Lagos state.<!--more-->\nOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, had traced the wanted drug dealer, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, on Sunday 15th August, 2021, to a popular pentecostal church at Mike Ajari street, Ojodu Berger, where they arrested him soon after he stepped out of the church service.\nHis arrest followed the interception of a consignment of illicit drugs weighing 69.65kg going to the UK through the Lagos airport on Thursday, 12th August, 2021. The illegal baggage had been sent to the airport for export through a freight forwarding company, which in turn gave a driver to deliver at the NAHCO export shed. Following the arrest of the driver, follow up operations and investigations later revealed the true identity of the actual owner of the consignment, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, who was arrested three days later in a sting operation.\nAlso at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Abibu Miminu, during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy via Addis-Ababa for ingesting illicit drugs. While under observation at the Agency’s facility between Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August, 2021, the trafficker excreted 68 wraps of heroin in three excretions, all weighing 800grams.\nIn the same vein, narcotic officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation have intercepted at two courier companies in Lagos 840 grams of Methamphetamine going to Australia and concealed in bolts; 340 grams of Meth hidden in locally made footwears and also going to Australia; 1kilogram of cocaine coming from Ghana with UK as destination and concealed in four local guitars. Also seized from one of the courier firms is another 480grams of Meth concealed in footwears and going to Australia.\nMeanwhile, a South Africa returnee, Obi Chigozie Samuel, was also last Sunday arrested at the Lagos airport during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines from Addis-Abbaba, for importing 58grams of skunk into Nigeria. During preliminary interview, he admitted ownership and claimed to be a cannabis smoker.\nIn strings of operations in Edo, Ondo, Kaduna, Kano and Kogi states, at least 2,504.8 kilograms of diverse illicit drugs were seized from multiple suspects in the past week. In Kogi, 60-year-old Mrs Comfort Uzor was arrested with 62.1kg cannabis on Tuesday, 17th August, 2021 in Lokoja, where one Dayyabu Usman was also caught with 8kg of same substance. While Uzor sourced hers from Bolorunduro in Ondo state and was heading to Abuja, Usman got his from Lagos and was taking it to Kano for sale.\nIn Kaduna state, operatives of the Birnin Gwari Area Command of the Agency raided the home of one Mr Joseph Sunday at Ungwa Pama, Kaduna where they recovered 48.3kg of cannabis from his room following credible intelligence.\nIn Edo state, NDLEA officers on Tuesday 17th August stormed the Ugbuwe forest in Ovia North East LGA, where they seized146 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 2,044 kilograms, while in Kano state, one Ikechukwu Aleke was arrested with 30,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg and 99 bottles of Codeine syrup, in addition to the arrest of one Muktar Muhammad, with 370 bottles of Codeine cough syrup, weighing 60.4kg, as well as 900 tablets of Rohypnol. Also arrested in Kano was Sufiyanu Abubakar, 24, with 400 plastic bottles of Codeine cough syrup weighing 52kg as well as one Mutta Hassan Wada, who specializes in using courier firms to send drugs to a recipient in China, using cooking spices bottles for concealment.\nIn Ondo state, over 77.5kilograms of cannabis and monkey tail were intercepted on Saturday 21st August at Odigbo town in Odigbo LGA, where operatives arrested one Basiru Ijiniga. Also arrested on Saturday was Ibrahim Umaru in Sabo area of Akure South LGA. Recovered from him include different quantities of psychotropic substances like Diazepam, Tramadol, Swinol and Rophynol.\nReacting to the strings of arrests and seizures in the past week across some states and the MMIA, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers and men of the various commands for their unrelenting commitment to the presidential mandate to clear Nigerian forests and communities of illicit drugs in whatever form. “We have all laid our hands on the plough, there’s no looking back, no retreat or surrender and as such I urge all our officers and men to intensify the ongoing offensive action until the last gram of illicit drug is taken away from merchants of death”, Gen. Marwa stated on Sunday.\n\nFemi Babafemi\nDirector, Media &amp; Advocacy\nNDLEA Headquarters, Abuja\nSunday 22nd August, 2021','Wanted drug dealer caught in church as another excretes 68 wraps of heroin at Lagos airport','','publish','open','open','','wanted-drug-dealer-caught-in-church-as-another-excretes-68-wraps-of-heroin-at-lagos-airport','','','2021-08-22 13:04:58','2021-08-22 13:04:58','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3475',0,'post','',0),(3476,1,'2021-08-22 13:03:32','2021-08-22 13:03:32','','IMG-20210822-WA0084','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210822-wa0084','','','2021-08-22 13:03:32','2021-08-22 13:03:32','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210822-WA0084.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3477,1,'2021-08-22 13:04:40','2021-08-22 13:04:40','','IMG-20210822-WA0079','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210822-wa0079','','','2021-08-22 13:04:40','2021-08-22 13:04:40','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210822-WA0079.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3479,1,'2021-08-22 13:43:16','2021-08-22 13:43:16','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3480 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210819-WA0276-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) congratulates former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, for ridiculing himself in becoming a political puppet of outgoing Governor Wille Obiano, in the ignoble design to sustain failed leadership in Anambra state.<!--more-->\n\nThe ZLP lampoons Prof. Soludo for making it at last to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) provisional list of candidates, just for a showing in the November 6 Anambra governorship election, as Ndi Anambra have no room for puppets and their masters or for verbose theorists, who are of no practical benefit to the people.\n\nIn congratulating the former CBN governor, we note his happiness in becoming the political son of outgoing Governor Obiano and his willingness to be used to detain Anambra State on the tortuous road of failed leadership and disdain for public interests.\n\nIt is indeed pathetic that Prof. Soludo is coming out to seek the governorship seat after his infamous claim that “it is not broken.” As a man, long used to theories, Soludo has failed to hear the verdict of Ndi Anambra that Anambra is broken and therefore needs serious and urgent mending.\n\nIt is therefore clear that Soludo do not fit into the mould of the leader Ndi Anambra yearn for in this election. If Soludo does not see the sorry state that Anambra has degenerated, then he has no business aspiring to be governor. This is because, a genuine ambition to serve the people should be predicated on itemising the problems and recommending workable solutions.\n\nIn fact, the sorry state of affairs in Anambra state and the derogatory names that Ndi Anambra call the outgoing governor have been traced to the poor counsel Soludo has been offering the failed APGA-led administration.\n\nThe governorship election in the state is now time for reckoning; to know, not only those who stand for the people, but also those who speak the truth for public good rather than twist facts for personal ambitions.\n\nUnfortunately, the era when politicians use lies and deception to get into public offices is gone. Ndi Anambra know the kind of state they wish for themselves, especially the kind of governor they want to clear the mess that APGA has created in the state.\n\nMoreover, it is public knowledge that Soludo have never had anything to offer Ndi Anambra. Prof. Soludo cannot comfortably point to any landmark project for the benefit of Ndi Anambra in his 5 years as CBN governor, even a project as ordinary as a hospital he raised money for in memory of his mother is abandoned.\n\nInstead, he engaged in disdaining and talking down on honest and hardworking Ndi Anambra to the extent of asserting that compatriots who strived to attain the level First School Leaving Certificate or WAEC are not fit to govern.\n\nNow that Soludo is in the INEC list, we will see how he would tell the many very successful Anambra businessmen and women that do not have First School Leaving Certificate and WAEC, why he wants their votes.\n\nIn any case, we know that Prof. Soludo is no match for our candidate, the people’s candidate, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, a humble, honest, highly resourceful, practical, successful administrator and businessman, who is loved by Ndi Anambra and has continued to bestow and empower them in many sectors of life.\n\nNdi Anambra are gifted people who are not moved by rhetoric and certificates alone. That is why ZLP is happy that our flag bearer, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, has excelled in character, learning and earning as well as making others earn their living and live their dreams without talking down on them.\n\nWe therefore congratulate Soludo for joining the governorship contest in Anambra State, because he would soon learn that talk is cheap.\n\nMoreover, Ndi Anambra across board are resolute in their resolve to take back their state on the platform of the coalition ZLP with Dr. Obiora Okonkwo as their standard bearer and no form of manipulation can alter that resolve.\n\nSigned:\nAfam Dozie Ofomata\nSpokesman,\nZLP Campaign Council','ZLP Lampoons Soludo for making INEC ‘admission list’ …Says He Is No Match for Dr. Okonkwo','','publish','open','open','','zlp-lampoons-soludo-for-making-inec-admission-list-says-he-is-no-match-for-dr-okonkwo','','','2021-08-22 13:43:16','2021-08-22 13:43:16','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3479',0,'post','',0),(3480,1,'2021-08-22 13:42:46','2021-08-22 13:42:46','','IMG-20210819-WA0276','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210819-wa0276','','','2021-08-22 13:42:46','2021-08-22 13:42:46','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210819-WA0276.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3482,1,'2021-08-23 08:42:12','2021-08-23 08:42:12','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3483 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210823-WA0047-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThe 21st Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has reversed an ancestral curse placed on Nigeria by his grandfather, Olu Erejuwa II, as a result of alleged injustice meted to him.\n\nErejuwa II was the paramount leader of the Itsekiri who was Olu of Warri from 1951 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1986.<!--more-->\n\nHe was the 18th Olu of Warri Kingdom with the title Ogiame Erejuwa II.\n\nThe new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, reversed his grandfather’s curse on Saturday during his coronation.\n\nSaid he, “As the spiritual, cultural, political, and traditional ruler of this land, I, Ogiame Atuwatse III, the 21st Olu of Warri, the first son of Olu Atuwatse II, the grandson of and direct descendant of Olu Erejuwa II who was offended on this throne, hereby reverse the curse placed over this land.\n\n“In its place, I release forgiveness and healing to the Federal Government of Nigeria whose might was used to propagate that offence; and I decree unprecedented and an uncommon peace, prosperity, progress, and development upon this land.\n\n“I bring down the government of heaven unto this land and I direct it to flow as a course that can neither be sabotaged, slowed, nor stopped.\n\n“It goes out as a strong ripple effect emanating from this kingdom to the rest of the Niger Delta, to the rest of the Nigerian nation, and even to the African continent.”','New Olu Of Warri, Tsola Emiko','','publish','open','open','','new-olu-of-warri-tsola-emiko','','','2021-08-23 08:42:12','2021-08-23 08:42:12','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3482',0,'post','',0),(3483,1,'2021-08-23 08:40:45','2021-08-23 08:40:45','','IMG-20210823-WA0047','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210823-wa0047','','','2021-08-23 08:40:45','2021-08-23 08:40:45','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210823-WA0047.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3489,1,'2021-08-23 16:49:10','2021-08-23 16:49:10','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3490 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210823-WA0169-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors to resume work immediately.\n\nThe order was made following an ex-parte motion filed last Friday by the Federal Ministry of Health.<!--more-->\n\nThe motion sought for an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining members of NARD from further continuing the industrial action they embarked upon on August 2, 2021.\n\nRuling on the motion, the Presiding Judge, Justice J.I Targema, granted an order of interlocutory injunction, compelling all members of NARD to resume work immediately pending the determination of the substantive suit.\n\nThe Court held that the continued downing of tools by the striking doctors has inflicted a lot of damage on the health system and the sick especially in this perilous times of COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nBut NARD President, in a telephone chat with TVC News, said the Association was yet to be served such an order.','Industrial court orders NARD to resume work immediately','','publish','open','open','','industrial-court-orders-nard-to-resume-work-immediately','','','2021-08-23 16:49:10','2021-08-23 16:49:10','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3489',0,'post','',0),(3490,1,'2021-08-23 16:47:52','2021-08-23 16:47:52','','IMG-20210823-WA0169','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210823-wa0169','','','2021-08-23 16:47:52','2021-08-23 16:47:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210823-WA0169.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3495,1,'2021-08-26 17:17:08','2021-08-26 17:17:08','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3496 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-24-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nOur attention has been drawn to an old report published on Sahara Reporters, an online media outlet, notoriously known for publishing controversial stories, purporting a certificate forgery allegation against the good person of Distinguished Senator Andy Uba, the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate for the November 6, Anambra governorship election.<!--more-->\n\nOrdinarily, the Andy Uba Campaign Council (AUCC), would have chosen to remain silent, and not dignify authors of the rehashed fake news with a response, but we are also conscious of the fact that false and fake news are specifically targeted at the public; voting public, in this instance, the good people of Anambra, who may be deceived, and hence, swayed by what is an outright fabrication.\n\nAs a responsible campaign organisation, and as it is in keeping with our avowed commitment to keep the good people of Anambra abreast with needed clarifications on Andy Uba\'s campaign to emerge as governor, by God\'s grace, in November, we are forced to clear the air.\n\nLike we earlier pointed out, the report is an old one, published on 31 March, 2017. Common sense should dictate that if there was any truth to the said Sahara Reporters\' publication, it would have been a basis for disqualifying our candidate at the party level from even contesting primaries.\n\nThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would have been forced to raise objections, too, at some levels.\n\nBut as it so happened, Sen. Andy Uba did not only scaled through the party primaries, he has also been stamped with the seal of approval by INEC as the authentic candidate of his party.\n\nEven more, Sen. Uba is still waxing stronger and winning many more stakeholders in Anambra to his worthy course of rescuing the state from the pestilential hands of the ruling party.\n\nMay we also add, like we earlier noted, that the platform on which the report was published is notoriously known for the worst form of cash and carry journalism. It\'s a \'pay-as-you-go\' kind of publishing portal, where what you pay its owner and rabble rouser determines what they publish.\n\nA detailed analysis of the said report equally bares it out as a poorly done hack job. To those who are familiar with the basic rules of journalism, the report failed the basic test of balance and justification.\n\nWhat this means is that when you hear one side of an accusation, you must hear the other side from the man accused, and present both in a balanced manner. No truth was established in the story on the claims made about Sen. Uba to warrant such horrid publication.\n\nNo attempt was made by the so called online newspaper to seek out Sen. Andy Uba\'s comment on the said allegation.\n\nAs a result of the foregoing, we are forced to, again, sound the alarm to the general public on the need to be exceptionally wary at this time, going into 2023, of what they read, hear, see and believe on internet.\nWe live in the internet age where all manner of stories, untrue and baseless, could be digitally altered to make it real.\n\nNothing, as it were, can stop a virtual recreation of fictional certificate and then sent to an exam body, asking it to authenticate such documentation. Of course, the exam body may likely reject authorship of the said certification, thereby, unwittingly serving to tarnish the image of an innocent man targeted for character assassination because of an election.\n\nWe do not claim in absolute terms that this is what happened in the Sahara Reporters\' story, but the scenario is a likely possibility, a reason why people should be careful in what they choose to believe.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that Sen. Andy Uba has since been in court with the original author of the publication, where the senator is rightly seeking a restitution of N24 billion in damages. The author, as we know, is currently on the run, dodging service of suit by court officials.\n\nIt is also curious that this allegation is being made to surface again. This is because, Andy Uba has served twice as a senator. And on both instances, no such allegations came up.\n\nFinally, we advise Sahara Reporters and other reporters of fake news, to see the need in redeeming the dying investigative journalism in Nigeria, and the general public to guard their minds against fake news.','Campaign Council Slams Sahara Reporters For Peddling Falsehood against Andy Uba','','publish','open','open','','campaign-council-slams-sahara-reporters-for-peddling-falsehood-against-andy-uba','','','2021-08-26 17:17:08','2021-08-26 17:17:08','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3495',0,'post','',0),(3496,1,'2021-08-26 17:16:13','2021-08-26 17:16:13','','images (24)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-24-2','','','2021-08-26 17:16:13','2021-08-26 17:16:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-24.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3497,1,'2021-08-26 17:16:54','2021-08-26 17:16:54','','images (21)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-21','','','2021-08-26 17:16:54','2021-08-26 17:16:54','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-21.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3500,1,'2021-08-26 23:25:10','2021-08-26 23:25:10','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3501 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-31-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\n07037946858Unclepeters555@gmail.com\n\nMany right thinking people, in fact, majority of people in this country called “Nigeria,” support the idea that Buhari’s successor should come from South. The new Telegraph newspaper of Tuesday, July 6, 2021, and Thursday, July 8, 2021, was awash with such popular demands.<!--more-->\nMy advice to the Southern Governors who voiced their opinion, according to the New Telegraph newspaper of Tuesday, July 6, 2021, that “BUHARI’S SUCCESSOR MUST COME FROM SOUTH,” is this: “A Man is never treated as a kid in sharing the animal he played major roles in its hunting and killing.” (Mmadu anaghi abu nwata n’ anu o gburu) Nigeria came into British Colonial Rule from 1861, when Captain John Beecroft conquered Lagos and annexed her to Fernada Po, for British Rule. The war was against Kosoko of Lagos, who wanted to stay in Slave Trade, but the British wanted to replace Slave Trade with Legitimate Trade of Palm Oil and other products from the African Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. This made Britain to colonize the whole of Nigeria and effectively abolished Slave Trade and successfully replaced it with legitimate trade of products from the Natives. As merchantalisim prospered, the Traders persuaded their compatriot Missionaries in Europe who were specialists in Education and Christianity to complement their civilizing power of merchantalim with their sister civilizing powers of Education and Christianity. So, the Missionaries came with Education and Christianity. In commencement, they established Primary.School, to make people be able to read and write the English Language, and so, be able to serve the Colonizers as Teachers in schools, clerks in offices and Interpreters in courts. Later they established Teacher Training colleges to produce Teachers, and added the secondary school education, to make the products more proficient in their works as clerks and Interpreters to the Colonizers. Southerners took to this education programme, and served the Colonizers and Missionaries satisfactorily, as planned. It happened that the same British Colonizers and Missionaries, also colonized other countries in West African, among them Ghana, (then Gold Coast). So, from Ghana, the Methodist Missionaries produced a brilliant student, James Aggrey, and after his secondary school in Ghana, sponsored him to go to American for university education. James Aggrey become exposed to European system of training, both in Christianity and secular education. The Methodist Church considered him qualified enough, and ordained him a Missionary. In 1920, Rev. Dr. James Aggrey, and his Missionary Colleagues, visited Nigeria, and stayed in their Methodist Church in Lagos. In the morning, they assembled the students in the Methodist College, for Church Service, Rev. Dr. James Aggrey was assigned to preach the gospel. A 16-year-old student, Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, was there. The Preacher told them that they, as Africans they should know that they were being educated to use their education for service for Africa, and when they do so, they should remember that “ONLY THE BEST IS GOOD FOR AFRICA.” He told them that their chief objective in seeking for the “BEST FOR AFRICAN,” is to see that Africa should be liberated from foreign rule. The boy, Nnamdi Azikiwe (later become Zik), resolved to free African, from colonial rule. After his secondary education in 1922, he got job as Clerk in the British colonial Civil Service But he continued to nurse the ambition to heed Aggrey’s advice, to liberate Africa (Nigeria), from colonial rule. Zik regarded Aggery as his role model. So he resolved to obtain education to the height of Aggrey’s to be able to heed the call of Aggrey. So in 1925, Zik travelled to America, Aggrey’s country of education. He graduated with Masters Degrees in History, Political Science, Education, Economics, Journalism. He felt that he had obtained enough education to do what Aggrey advised. He wrote application for work to Liberia, an Independent country in West Africa to serve as Secretary to Federal Government, but was not successful. He wrote application to the League of Nations, present United Nations Organization (UNO), to serve as a Diplomat, but not successful. He wrote application to British Colonial Government of Nigeria, and also to newspaper proprietors in Nigeria, for work, but not successful. He wrote application to a Newspaper proprietor in Ghana (then Gold Coast), and was employed, in 1934. While in Ghana his writings in the newspaper, the “AFRICAN MORNING POST,” and public lectures, influence a Youngman Teacher in secondary school, with Teachers Grade Two certificate, Kwame Nkrumah. The boy got inspired by Zik and resolved to contribute to fight colonialism and liberate African from foreign rule. In 1935, under the mentorship of Zik, Kwame Nkrumah travelled to America, and obtained same education as Zik. He returned in 1948 to champion the campaign for independence for Ghana and achieved it in 1957 and became Ghana’s First President. After his sojourn to Ghana, Zik returned to Nigeria in 1937, and settled in Lagos. He started to practice his profession of Journalism, and founded his newspaper, the “WEST AFRICAN PILOT,” with the motto: “SHOW THE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE SHALL FIND THE WAY.” As an orator in public education, Zik used his newspaper and public lectures, to influence a young man, a Yoruba indigene, Obafemi Awolowo. The young Awolowo nursed the ambition to contribute to liberate Nigeria from foreign rule, but considered his Secondary School Education Certificate, as not adequate for the job. He emulated Zik and travelled to England, in 1942, and obtained degrees in Law, Journalism, Business Administration. He returned in 1948 and joined the struggle for Independence. He founded a newspaper, the “THE NIGERIA TRIBUNE” for public education for people, and it is still going strong. He also went into business, in addition to practicing his law, as Barrister-at-law, and also engaged in business, as the pioneer Major Shareholder of Coca Cola Mineral Drinks, thereby creating wealth and employment in Nigeria. He regarded Zik as his role model, that he launched his newspaper, the “TRIBUNE,” on Zik’s birthday, on November 16, 1949.TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT EDITIONSee photo next page PRESIDENCY 2023 TO BE ZONED TO SOUTH, PREFERABLY TO SOUTH-EAST (2).By Peter Nwasike 07037946858Unclepeters55@gmail.com CONTINUED FROM LAST EDITION Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik) combined his work as newspaper Editor with business entrepreneurship. He engaged in importing and selling printing materials and accessories. This business prowess increased his profit margin, and his shareholders in his company were happy. He also founded a bank, the African Continental Bank (ACB), for efficient and honest management of their money. After paying dividends to shareholders, Zik had enough money to engage in “SOCIAL WELFARE RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS.” He formed Sports Club, which organized all aspects of sports, such as Football, Athletics, Swimming, Boxing, etc. His staff and members of the public benefitted and were happy. He then used good fraction of the profits to build the Yaba Sports Stadium, for the public, which, has been inherited by Lagos State Government. All these social engagements, his public lectures, editorials in his newspapers, made Zik very popular, and also educated the public on their political rights. So, when Zik stood for election to the Lagos Legislative Council, in 1947, he easily won. But this was because people have seen his achievements and reposed confidence in him, based on merit. In my last edition, I mentioned how Obafemi Awolowo emulated Zik in obtaining university education, returned and contributed in campaign for Independence and also established business enterprises to create wealth in Nigeria and all these made Awo popular. But their Northern counterparts did not believe in education as qualification for political leadership. As their Muslim religion gave them the tradition of polygamy of one man with four wives, they got the license of breeding numerous children, many of them “ALMAJIRIS,” (out of school children), roaming about as street orchins, begging for alms, maturing into kidnapping-bandits, Fulani killer herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists, their so-called leaders, were satisfied and complacent. During elections, they mobilized the illiterate barbarians and brain-washed them to vote for their ignorant, incompetent and myopic Northern Cadidates. Their leaders, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, restricted themselves to Teachers Grade Two Certificate, got at village, and dabbled into politics, for leadership. Their only qualification was population, which their polygamous lifestyle gave them. At 1959 General Election for Independence, Tafawa Balewa got 79 Seats in the North, only Zik got 62 Seats in the East, West and Lagos. Awolowo got 27 Seats only in the West. Awolowo saw that Balewa was not competent to rule the new Independent Country, Nigeria, and pleaded with Zik, to be in alliance with him, so that they could add their Seats of 27 and 62, equals to 89, and surpass Balewa’s 79 Seats. Then, let Zik became the Prime Minister, while he, Awo, become subordinate to Zik, with any legitimate office that Constitution may allow, such as Minister of Finance, or Attorney General and Minister of Justice. But Zik, the “Mr. UNITY OF NIGERIA,” declined the suggestion, on the ground that the arrangement would polarize the South against the North, and jeopardize Nigeria’s Unity. So, Balewa continued with his semi-literacy, ignorance and mediocrity and plunged Nigeria into spinelessness. Nobody can give what he did not possess, or have. They made Zik as the President of Senate in 1960 at Independent. In 1961, when the British Governor General, Sir James Robertson, retired, they made Zik as the Governor General. When Nigeria was about to become a Republic in 1963, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, on his visit to Zik, who had watched Balewa’s mediocrity, with disgust, advised Zik to use the opportunity of transition from Parliamentary system to Republican System, and assume the position of the Executive President, with powers of Commander of the Armed Forces, but again, Zik declined, to preserve Nigeria’s unity. Zik simply took the position of Ceremonial President. And so, Balewa with his overlord, the Sarduana of Sokoto and Premier of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, continued to basterdize leadership of Nigeria, with imbecility and spinelessness. It was said that Balewa, the Prime Minister in Lagos, every night, would hold secriet discussion, over the telephone, with Alhaji Bello, at Kaduna, and discus the Agenda of the Federal Government. Anything Bello did not approve, must not be done. On January 15, 1966, the spinelessness and imbecility in Nigeria affairs, under Balewa and Bello, infuriated the soldiers in the Barracks and they struck and removed the Governments. But unfortunately, the objectives were not achieved, to correct the situation. When the civil war, ensued, it was the South who were performing sensitive duties for Federal Army to with the war. Awolowo was the Deputy Chairman of the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), and also the Minister of Finance. Chief Anthony Enahoro, was their Minister of Foreign Affairs and Spokes-man, who led their delegates to international conferences to deliberate on Biafra, with World Powers of Britatin, Russia, Organisation of African Unity (OAU), etc. Infact, it was the Southerners, who were their brain-box that won the war for them. It will be recalled that it was this Anthony Enahoro, from Uromi, Edo State who was in Zik’s party, the National Convention of Nigeria Citizen (NCNC) that moved a motion, in 1953, in the Leegistive Assembly, Lagos, that processes should be commenced for Nigeria to achieve Independence in 1956. The Northern delegates opposed it with loud noise. Their citizens in Northern Region, resorted to violence. They maliciously accused the Igbo people living in the North, that their brother, Zik, wanted to use his big education to chase away the Whiteman and use his big education to rule them. They attacked the Igbo people in the North, killed them and burnt their property. That was what is being referred as “KANO RIOT 1953”. But after the War, at the election of 1979, the North brandished their monstrosity of useless population, and snatched victory from erudite Zik and Awo, and imposed another Grate Two Teacher Certificate holder, Alhaji shehu Shagari, on Nigeria, to continue their traditional ignorance and mediocrity. So, this time around, the South, who were those that hunted and killed the animal of Independence, should not allow the North with big-for-nothing population, to treat them like a kid. The Presidency must go to South, preferably, to South East, in view of the fact that Zik, played heroic roles to secure Independence, but was denied to give his BEST FOR NIGERIA, as he was inspired by Rev. Dr. James Aggrey, because of Northern tribalism and nepostism and religious fanaticism., who used the monstrosity of population to monopolize, with greed, as parasites that reap what they did not sow, both in civilian and military regimes, ever since Independence in 1960, till now, 2021, under General Buhari.','PRESIDENCY 2023 TO BE ZONED TO SOUTH, PREFERABLY TO SOUTH-EAST (1).By Peter Nwasike','','publish','open','open','','presidency-2023-to-be-zoned-to-south-preferably-to-south-east-1-by-peter-nwasike','','','2021-08-26 23:25:10','2021-08-26 23:25:10','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3500',0,'post','',0),(3501,1,'2021-08-26 23:23:58','2021-08-26 23:23:58','','images (31)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-31','','','2021-08-26 23:23:58','2021-08-26 23:23:58','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-31.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3502,1,'2021-08-26 23:24:57','2021-08-26 23:24:57','','images (32)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-32','','','2021-08-26 23:24:57','2021-08-26 23:24:57','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/images-32.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3503,1,'2018-01-25 15:16:37','2018-01-25 15:16:37','<h4>1/ Text padding</h4>\n<span class=\"penci-tpadding-7\">In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or <a href=\"#\">the obligations of business</a> it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. </span>\n\n<span class=\"penci-tpadding-2\">In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or <a href=\"#\">the obligations of business</a> it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters.</span>\n\n<span class=\"penci-tpadding-4\">In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or <a href=\"#\">the obligations of business</a> it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters.</span>\n\n<span class=\"penci-tpadding-5\">In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or <a href=\"#\">the obligations of business</a> it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters.</span>\n\n<span class=\"penci-tpadding-6\">In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or <a href=\"#\">the obligations of business</a> it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters.</span>\n<h4>2 /  Text Heightlight</h4>\nIt wasn\'t a dream. His room, a proper <span class=\"penci-highlight-black\">human </span>room although a little too <span class=\"penci-highlighted-black\">small</span>, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A <span class=\"penci-highlighted-red\">collection </span>of textile samples lay <span class=\"penci-highlighted-blue\">spread</span> out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an <span class=\"penci-highlighted-green\">illustrated</span> magazine and housed in a nice, gilded <span class=\"penci-highlighted-yellow\">frame</span>. It showed a lady <span class=\"penci-highlighted-pink\">fitted</span> out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.\n<h4>2/  Drop cap</h4>\n<div class=\"penci-row\">\n<div class=\"pencisc-col penci-col-6\"><span class=\"penci-dropcap-box\">A </span>free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed.</div>\n<div class=\"pencisc-col penci-col-6\"><span class=\"penci-dropcap-box\">O </span>free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed.</div>\n</div>\n<h4>3/  Custom list</h4>\n<div class=\"penci-row\">\n<div class=\"pencisc-col penci-col-6\">\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-checklist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-starlist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-editlist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-thumbuplist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-thumbdownlist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n<div class=\"pencisc-col penci-col-6\">\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-pluslist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-minuslist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-asterisklist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-folderlist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n<ul class=\"penci_list_shortcode penci_list-heartlist\">\n 	<li>Now, More Than Ever, You Need To Find</li>\n 	<li>Millennials Have A Complicated Relationship</li>\n 	<li>This couple Quit Their Jobs To Travel</li>\n 	<li>5 Ways To Travel Smarter In Vietnam</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n</div>','Text Formatting and Lists','','publish','closed','closed','','text-formatting-lists','','','2018-01-25 15:16:37','2018-01-25 15:16:37','',0,'http://pennews.pencidesign.com/?page_id=3503',0,'page','',0),(3504,1,'2021-08-28 20:06:15','2021-08-28 20:06:15','<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3505\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210828-WA0258-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" />Music legend, Sir Victor Uwaifo is dead. He was 80 years old.\n\nHis son, Uwaifo Peter de Rock reportedly broke the news on his Facebook page.\n\nAccording to report, he died after a brief illness.<!--more-->\n\nThe ‘Guitar boy’ as he was fondly called celebrated his 80th birthday in March.\n\nUwaifo is also the first professional musicians to be awarded with the National Merit Honours of Member of the Order of the Niger.\n\nHe was also the first Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Nigeria.</p>','MUSIC LEGEND SIR VICTOR UWAIFO IS DEAD','','publish','open','open','','music-legend-sir-victor-uwaifo-is-dead','','','2021-08-28 20:06:15','2021-08-28 20:06:15','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3504',0,'post','',0),(3505,1,'2021-08-28 20:04:28','2021-08-28 20:04:28','','IMG-20210828-WA0258','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210828-wa0258','','','2021-08-28 20:04:28','2021-08-28 20:04:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210828-WA0258.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3506,1,'2021-08-28 20:05:49','2021-08-28 20:05:49','','IMG-20210828-WA0256','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210828-wa0256','','','2021-08-28 20:05:49','2021-08-28 20:05:49','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG-20210828-WA0256.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3508,1,'2021-08-29 08:21:42','2021-08-29 08:21:42','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3509 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-27.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" />\n*while basic education must inculcate comprehensive educatio\n*LP state chairmen in Nigeria storm Onitsha\n\nFrom Chuks Collins, Awka\nAug 28, 2021\n\nAnambra shall integrate technology in her school curricula at all levels, while the youths must be provided with the necessary skills/empowerment for the global twentieth century jobs of tomorrow, once the Labour Party(LP) candidate, Engr Obiora Agbasimalo takes over the reins of power in the state.\n\nThis was part of Agbasimalo’s inviolable pledge to the crowd of enthusiastic supporters who thronged the second massive rally in Onitsha Saturday afternoon.\n\nAccording to him, Anambra children have always been world beaters and I pledge to sustain same. “I shall not play or take for granted the teachers’ salary and welfare. I take it personal that we must motivate our teachers and open up a healthy competition among them.<!--more-->\n\n“We will invest in the education of our children and young adults, by increasing the budgetary allocations to education ...”, he added.\n\nThe young firebrand candidate also noted that since security is very paramount in all human endeavors and as insecurity has literally become a daily nightmare to citizens of Nigeria today, he pledged to rejig the existing pattern and infrastructure all over the state under his watch.\n\nListing Healthcare, Agriculture, Commerce/Industry, Environment, Infrastructure Civil Service, Sports, Women/Youth Empowerment, etc as part of key areas to be given special attention, Agbasimalo therefore urged all citizens to key into his vision and drive to massively vote for him, his deputy(Hon Chinedu Muokwe) and LP on Nov 6,2021 to ensure they see these promises fulfilled.\n\nLeading a contingent of LP state Chairmen from parts of the country led by Peter Diugwu Chairman, LP FCT; Chief Arambambi(Ogun Chairman; Tony Ezeagubo(Delta Chairman) and Alhassan Mohammed Fawn(representing Organized Labour), the Anambra chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Emeh charged electorates in Anambra to embrace LP, as a party with citizens as its focus.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3510 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-28-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" />\n\nThe Deputy National Secretary, Prince Kennedy Chigozie in his introductory remarks pointed out that “the Anambra project is that of the Nigerian Youths.\n\nHe therefore charged the populace to embrace it, that it was why LP chose two very young adults as candidate and running mate. “This is no more time for geriatrics who refuse to quit the stage for the ICT compliant brains...”\n\nWhile introducing the National Executives led by the chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, the National Organizing Secretary, Chief Clement Ojukwu said they were physically present as a testament to the huge support the candidate enjoys among the hierarchy, nationwide.\n\nHe expressed happiness over the huge support Agbasimalo enjoys among citizens of Anambra state. He commended the heavy general backing from High Chief Godwin Agbasimalo, a sibling of the candidate. He also praised the towering presence of their mother who was physically present in the entire process.\n\nOjukwu urged electorates to honour the candidate and the party with their votes on Nov 6,2021.\n\nThe National chairman, Abure described Anambra as a home of LP and would love it to come cheerfully always, especially March 17, 2022 during the inauguration of Agbasimalo as the governor of the state. He therefore appealed for massive support on November 6,2021 with all their votes.\n\nSent from my iPad','Anambra 2021: ICT education, a priority, says Agbasimalo -Labour Party guber candidate *while basic education must inculcate comprehensive education','','publish','open','open','','anambra-2021-ict-education-a-priority-says-agbasimalo-labour-party-guber-candidate-while-basic-education-must-inculcate-comprehensive-education','','','2021-08-29 08:21:42','2021-08-29 08:21:42','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3508',0,'post','',0),(3509,1,'2021-08-29 08:20:15','2021-08-29 08:20:15','','download (27)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-27','','','2021-08-29 08:20:15','2021-08-29 08:20:15','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-27.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3510,1,'2021-08-29 08:21:12','2021-08-29 08:21:12','','download (28)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-28-2','','','2021-08-29 08:21:12','2021-08-29 08:21:12','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/download-28-1.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3512,1,'2021-09-01 11:29:23','2021-09-01 11:29:23','<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"></h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-3931487101092655512\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://ashiwaju.org\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nI3XqN4dFcc/YS9gokuU9NI/AAAAAAAAMZc/CgZxN-d19XQt2h0wiuLpi_Xwpsu5gsmFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG-20210901-WA0118.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1008\" data-original-width=\"756\" /></a></div>\nSix members of the Anambra State House of Assembly under the platform of the All  Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.\n\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Chairman APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Yobe state Governor Mai Mala Buni, have however, received the lawmakers and immediately presented them with the APC flag at the end of a strategic meeting held behind closed doors.\n\nThe six state lawmakers include; Hon. Nonso Okafor, representing Nnewi North, Hon. Timothy Ifedioramma, representing Njikoka 1, Hon. Cater D. N Umeoduagu, representing Aguata 1, Hon. Lawrence Ezeudu, representing Dunukofia, Hon. Arthur Chiekwu, representing Idemili North and Hon. Edward Ibuzo, representing Onitsha North 2.\n\nWhile receiving the new APC members at a brief event Tuesday evening in Abuja, Chairman APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee Governor Mai Mala Buni restated the party’s determination to win the Anambra governorship election hence the zeal in engaging critical stakeholders in Anambra state.\n\nGovernor Buni said: \"Mere looking at what is happening, especially now that so prominent and serving state lawmaker have started joining, the grassroot is moving and Anambra people are moving to the APC.\"\n\nAlso speaking, Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma, said the South-east people have woken up and the region is committed to the national politics and be part and parcel of Nigeria.\n\nHe also expressed confidence that his party will win Anambra state governorship election.\n\nThe decampees described the All Progressives Congress as a preferred political party in Nigeria and promised to mobilise support towards victory in the November 6 governorship polls.\n\nThe brief ceremony held at Imo State Governors\'s Lodge was attended by top members of the party including, Governors of Lagos, Osun, Kogi and Imo states.\n\n</div>','Smart Nonso, Lawrence Ezeudu Four others dump APGA for APC','','publish','open','open','','smart-nonso-lawrence-ezeudu-four-others-dump-apga-for-apc','','','2021-09-01 11:29:23','2021-09-01 11:29:23','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3512',0,'post','',0),(3513,1,'2021-09-01 11:29:07','2021-09-01 11:29:07','','download - 2021-08-26T180634.734','','inherit','open','closed','','download-2021-08-26t180634-734','','','2021-09-01 11:29:07','2021-09-01 11:29:07','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/download-2021-08-26T180634.734.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3515,1,'2021-09-01 14:43:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','&nbsp;\n\nGovernor Bello Matawalle of zamfara state has ordered the immediate closure of all schools in the state\n\nThat includes public and private schools across the fourteen local government areas of the state.','Zamfara Governor orders immidate closure on','','draft','open','open','','','','','2021-09-01 14:43:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3515',0,'post','',0),(3516,1,'2021-09-01 16:27:16','2021-09-01 16:27:16','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3517 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210901-WA0224-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nAhead of the inauguration of the remodeled Lekan Salami Sports Complex, Adamasingba in Ibadan, Governor of Oyo state Seyi Makinde has received Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku and other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<!--more-->\n\nThe former Vice President of Nigeria, who was accompanied by some PDP chieftains arrived at the governor’s office, State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan.\n\nAlthough the PDP chieftains are in the state to witness the inauguration of the newly revamped Adamsasingba stadium in the state\'s capital, but hopes are high that the political leaders might meet to discuss issues relating to the political party.\n\nThe People\'s Democratic Party has recently been experiencing some crisis relating to the party\'s leadership.\n\nPart of the entourage are Abiodun Olujimi, representing Ekiti South Senatorial District at the house of representatives and former senator (Kogi West), Dino Melaye.\n\n####\n\n[contact-form][contact-field label=\"Name\" type=\"name\"  required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Email\" type=\"email\" required=\"true\" /][contact-field label=\"Website\" type=\"url\" /][contact-field label=\"Message\" type=\"textarea\" /][/contact-form]\n\n&nbsp;','Governor Makinde Receives Atiku, Olujimi, Dino Melaye, Others','','publish','open','open','','governor-makinde-receives-atiku-olujimi-dino-melaye-others','','','2021-09-01 16:27:16','2021-09-01 16:27:16','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3516',0,'post','',0),(3517,1,'2021-09-01 16:26:28','2021-09-01 16:26:28','','IMG-20210901-WA0224','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210901-wa0224','','','2021-09-01 16:26:28','2021-09-01 16:26:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210901-WA0224.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3519,1,'2021-09-01 17:12:21','2021-09-01 17:12:21','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3520 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210901-WA0228-150x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" />\n\nIt is No longer news that the Cabal is on a mission to finally sink APGA, what is news is that the party is now bleeding and there\'s No one to bell the cat.\n\nSince the controversial imposition of the deficiency riddled Professor Charles Soludo on APGA party to succeed Governor Willie Obiano so he can ride on the benevolence of many APGA footsoldiers, emotional love, sympathy and support of the people for (party Ojukwu) APGA, the Cabal began intimidating and threatening many elected officers of the party which has triggered mass defection of State Lawmakers who could No longer stomach the abuse, insults, contempt and threats by mere opportunists who thinks their membership of the cabal is enough to step on every toes and walk scot-free.<!--more-->\n\nThe State Lawmakers were threatened that their return ticket to the House of Assembly and other political participation is within them (the cabal) to determine and not the people or anyone, hence they must support their choice of candidate which is Soludo, thereby defeating the real essence of Democracy.\n\nPolitics is by persuasion not intimidation, but the illiterate few who claims to be cabal members and advisers of Willie Obiano believe so much in belittling and abusing everyone.\n\nHow can you tell elected Lawmakers who houses the core structures of the party at Grassroot level, the real footsoldiers of the party who goes to poll and wins election that you will deny them ticket for not supporting Charles Soludo instead of persuasions?\n\nMany political appointees have been suspended, including myself for not supporting Charles Soludo, the cabal said we are redundant likewise the House of Assembly members.\n\nSo why blame them?\n\nThe cabal will learn things the hard way in due time, they have abused and blackmailed many, it\'s time to pay them in their own coin.\n\nMr Uloka Chukwubuike,\nOYE Pikin.\nFmr: SSA on Media to the Executive Governor of Anambra.','REAL REASON WHY THE APGA STATE LAWMAKERS DEFECTED TO APC AND WHY MORE MAY STILL DEFECT:','','publish','open','open','','real-reason-why-the-apga-state-lawmakers-defected-to-apc-and-why-more-may-still-defect','','','2021-09-01 17:12:21','2021-09-01 17:12:21','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3519',0,'post','',0),(3520,1,'2021-09-01 17:11:23','2021-09-01 17:11:23','','IMG-20210901-WA0228','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210901-wa0228','','','2021-09-01 17:11:23','2021-09-01 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Over 1,000 Party Faithful, Major Stakeholders, Political Appointees, LGA, Ward Exco in Attendance\n\n* Party Uniforms Shared to Members\n\nIdemili North Local Government Area Headquarters, Ogidi was a beehive of activities yesterday, Saturday, 4 September 2021 as\nAPGA Idemili North Campaign Council otherwise known as Victory Team inaugurated various Sub-Committees.<!--more-->\n\nInaugurating the Sub-committees at the Council\'s hall, the Chairman of the Campaign Council, Hon Sir Tony One-Week Muonagor charged them to go all out and deliver their various mandate even as he enjoined the subcommittees to ensure that they deliver APGA in their pooling units and wards.\n\nAccording to Hon Muonagor, APGA Idemili North must work assiduously to ensure the emergence of Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo (Dikeudo Isuofia) as the next governor of Anambra State. He paid a glowing tribute to the Executive Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Chief Willie Obiano (Akpokuedike Aguleri) for placing Anambra State on the Path of Progress.\n\nEarlier, the host and the Transition Committee Chairman of Idemili North LGA, Hon (Barr.) Raph Asha Nnabuife who doubles as the Co-Chairman of Idemili North campaign council, called all APGA members to unite and work for Soludo\'s emergence.\n\nIn an interview, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Chief Tony Onyima, PhD (Ife Idemili) called on the newly inaugurated Sub-Committees members to take their duty seriously and also work within the stipulated terms of reference handed down to them by the leadership.\n\nChief Onyima admonished all to shun acts capable of undermining the entire process, saying that delivering APGA in Idemili was a collective responsibility.\n\nIn their separate speeches, the Secretary of the Campaign Council Committee, Hon (Amb.) Jeff Ubah and Co-Secretary, Hon Nnanna Nzewi and the Publicity Secretary of the Campaign Council Committee, Engr. Godwin O. Anyaegbunam appealed to the Subcommittees members to see and take the task before them as their personal fight, noting that they were carefully and highly selected and should bring their experience to bear in their various pooling booths and wards.\n\nThe trio urged the teams to work towards delivering APGA gubernatorial Candidate, Prof Chukwuma Soludo and his running mate, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim come November 6, 2021.\n\nSpeaking, the Chairman of Idemili North Tactical Committee and a former Deputy State Chairman of APGA as well BoT member of APGA, High Chief Ifeanyi Udokwu( Onowu Ogidi) appreciated the principal officers of the Campaign Council Committee for what they had done so far.\n\nHe charged APGA members in Idemili North to be strategic in this their thinking and work for the greater good of the party, advising the teams to engaged in proactive politics as well as mobilise all and sundry towards delivering APGA in the election.\n\nAddressing the gathering, the Special Adviser on Chieftaincy and Local Government Affairs, Hon (Barr.) Mrs VeraQueen Okonkwo pleaded with members to guard jealously and judiciously APGA, describing it as our collective identity. She expressed the hope that the party would emerged victorious come November 6, 2021.\n\nFor his part, the former House Reps Member in Idemili North and South and the Director General of the Contact and Mobilization APGA Campaign Organisation,\nHon Chief Ifeanyi Ibezim (Ochiagha Idemili) expressed satisfaction with the turnout of APGA members at the event and called for concerted efforts towards capturing all the Pooling Units and wards in Idemili North. He reiterated his commitment towards working for APGA.\n\nSome of the Sub-Committees Teams inaugurated included Media &amp; Communication headed by Hon Sir Abuchi Onwumelu (KSJI, Anipr), Youth Security Mobilization heeded by Hon (Barr.) Darlington Uche Okeke (Wada), Women Mobilization headed by Hon Nkoli Mmegbuanaeze, Peace and Reconciliation headed by Chief Ifeanyi Udokwu (Onowu Ogidi) among others.\n\nThe inauguration of the Subcommittees teams Tagged \"Idemili North APGA Victory Team\" recorded a mammoth crowd of APGA footsoldiers and sympathizers drawn from the 12 wards that make up Idemili North.\n\nInauguration of the Sub-Committees, sharing of APGA uniform, photographs, exchange of pleasantries formed the highpoints of the occasion.\n\n#APGAIdemiliNorthVictoryTeam2021\n\n©APGA Idemili North Campaign Media Office Ogidi','APGA Idemili North Campaign Council\'s Sub Committees Inaugurated','','publish','open','open','','apga-idemili-north-campaign-councils-sub-committees-inaugurated','','','2021-09-06 06:04:02','2021-09-06 06:04:02','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3523',0,'post','',0),(3524,1,'2021-09-06 06:02:49','2021-09-06 06:02:49','','IMG-20210906-WA0012','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210906-wa0012','','','2021-09-06 06:02:49','2021-09-06 06:02:49','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210906-WA0012.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3525,1,'2021-09-06 06:03:46','2021-09-06 06:03:46','','IMG-20210906-WA0010','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210906-wa0010','','','2021-09-06 06:03:46','2021-09-06 06:03:46','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210906-WA0010.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3530,1,'2021-09-14 10:51:19','2021-09-14 10:51:19','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3531 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210914-WA0096-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" />\n\nBy Odogwu Emeka Odogwu\n\nA cross section of students of School of Agriculture, Ifite-Ogwari, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka have said that they are at home in Ifite-Ogwari campus of the great citadel of learning.<!--more-->\n\nSpeaking to www.odogwublog.com during a visit to the school premises, the students expressed gratitude to the management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University led by Prof Charles Okechukwu Esimone FAS for the continuous upgrade of the campus of the University.\n\nCollaborating what the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Prof Joseph Ikechebelu told www.odogwublog.com that the Community is friendly, the students further said the Community shocked them too with their overwhelming welcome and free accomodations to them all.\n\nProf Ikechebelu had in an interview with www.odogwublog.com insisted that the Vice-Chancellor ,Prof Esimone wants the best for the school of agriculture at Ifite-Ogwari hence the decision of the Governing Council led by the Pro-Chancellor Prof Sulyman Alege Kuranga to visit the campus was on same direction for the good of the students and staff as well as the Ifite- Ogwari Community.\n\nAccording to the President, National Association of Agricultural Students, (NAAS) Unizik chapter , ComradeChristian Uzochukwu, Ifite Ogwari Community is okay for learning and students are happy with their hospitality since they arrived.\n\nComrade Uzochukwu who is a 400 student of Food Science and Technology said:\n\" it\'s okay for a start. Student are happy to come around. We are staying at no cost. The villagers donated their building as lodges for us. We are okay for now\".\n\nFlanked by his Vice President, Favour Walter, 500 Soil Science student and Akpulu Somto , 400 Crop Science student , the students called for continuous progress on infrastructure development in the Ifite Ogwari campus of the institution for better Academic activities. They said the Faculty of Agriculture is now much more better than what it was last year, when they wanted to stay their for academic purposes.\n\nReacting to the fears of the Faculty of Agriculture students at Ifite Ogwari, the community leaders led by the President General, Ifite Ogwari Development Union, Barr Oliver Okonkwo reassured the Governing Council of Unizik, the management, staff and students of their security as anyone who tries anything funny against the staff and students has the whole community to contend with.\n\nSpokesman of the community and the Vice Chancellor, Onitsha Archdiocese, Rev Fr Dr Basil Ekwunife who announced this thanked God that the 10 years journey of establishing the campus of Agriculture of Unizik in thier community is becoming a reality with the arrival of the students.\n\nRev Fr Dr Ekwunife informed that the Community has 24 hours electricity and internal roads done by some individuals even as he thanked the Vice Chancellor Prof Charles Okechukwu Esimone FAS for wiping their 10 years tears of waiting for the reality of the Faculty of Agriculture in their Community.\n\nHe thanked the former Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Prof Igwe Ernest for doing everything to ensure the campus is a reality before the present Dean , Prof Nkiru Meludu who is witnessing the reality of the 10 years sojourn to the promised land.\nHe thanked the Governing Council Chairman Prof Sulyman Alege Kuranga and members for being pragmatic particularly the Chairman who he described as an action man.\nHe described as dumbfounded online rumours about the Community and the Faculty of Agriculture and advised those trending fake news about the Faculty of Agriculture Ifite Ogwari to desist as the Community is ready to do everything humanly possible to assure safe living and learning environment culture for the students and staff. Thank\n\nHe reminded all that the Community provided the land at no cost despite the encumbrances to the owners who are still living even as he described the current Vice Chancellor as a man of his words in facilitating the relocation of the Faculty of Agriculture.\n\nEarlier, the Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Prof Charles Okechukwu Esimone FAS commended the 9th Governing Council Chairman/ Pro-Chancellor Prof Sulyman Alege Kuranga and members for their interest in supporting Senate and management decision to move the Faculty of Agriculture this Academic session to Ifite Ogwari campus.\n\nHe as well commended the traditional ruler of Ifite Ogwari,\nIgwe Alphonsus Ofuebe , the Anambra state House of Assembly Speaker, Right Hon UCHENNA Okafor and other prominent citizens of Ifite Ogwari for their various roles in making the move seamless due to their selfless commitment.\n\nHe said the Faculty will excell tremendously despite the challenges and problems encountered in the building up stages because according to him, whatever God destines, comes to reality even as he assured that all the remaining hitches would be rectified before NUC accreditation visit in October/November this year.\n\nProf Esimone went back memory lane on the fruitless efforts made to move into the campus earlier, but thanked God that moving the Faculty of Agriculture to Ifite Ogwari has now become a reality.\n\nWhile thanking all those who contributed in making the move possible and reassuring them that history will remember them kindly, Prof Esimone assured the Dean , Prof Meludu that the Physical demands and challenges raised during an interactive session with staff and community would be looked into. He assured them that the Faculty will get full accreditation. He asked the Speaker of the Anambra state House of Assembly, Right Hon Uchenna Okafor to thank the state Governor, Chief Willie Obiano for granting the university the CofO of the land at no cost as well as free seedlings and tractors.\n\nResponding, the Chairman Governing Council/ Pro Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Prof Sulyman Alege Kuranga said\nthe 9th Governing council devoted a day to visit the Faculty of Agriculture located at Ifite Ogwari, describing what they saw on ground as a monumental achievement of the Prof Charles Okechukwu Esimone led administration who continued on the foundation of his predecessors particularly Prof Joseph Ahaneku, the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University.\n\nWhile noting that he could not overemphasize the importance of Agriculture, the Governing Council Chairman commended the trouble shooting efforts of the Community against unfounded information that emanated from there recently.\n\nHe reassured that the Council will take the Faculty of Agriculture as a priority to facilitate tackling of the immediate challenges in the campus like perimeter fencing, accomodations, portable water, power supply to mention but a few. He challenged the staff and students to ensure that in next two years nothing is bought from the market around there as they will be cultivating all their needs internally, even for outsiders to buy.\n\nHe appealed to the community to further appeal to their sons and daughters who are wealthy to join hands in developing the Faculty of Agriculture with PPP projects and endowments.\n\nHe appealed to the community to ensure that the CofO of the new additional 500 hectares of land donated to the school is secured.\n\nEarlier while welcoming the Governing Council and management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka ,the Dean Faculty of Agriculture, Prof Nkiru Meludu announced that the Faculty is about to face accreditation and needed perimeter fencing, water borehole, enough structures to accommodate the five classes of 100 levels to 500 levels and more hostels, as well as office complex, Laboratories, and classrooms.\nProf Meludu lamented that the Faculty is a center for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa but incapacitated by structure and other needs which if tackled will leapfrog the Faculty in the comity of schools and Faculties of Agriculture in Africa.\n\nShe said they needed too laboratory for Food Science and Technology and a health centre, assuring that they are ready to work.\n\nThe event witnessed tree planting and courtesy visits even as the train moved to Osile Ogbunike where the University has its water business plant for inspection and Possible ways of revamping the business.\n\nThe Osile Ogbunike Welfare and Development Union, President General, Sir Donatus Mbanefo and former PG, Chief Dr Obi Anyanyo addressed the Governing Council and management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.\nThey said they will encourage every effort to revamp the Ogbunike spring water where popular Unizik water was produced during Prof Ilochi Okafor’s regime as Vice Chancellor of Unizik now in ruins sequel to communal crisis. The spring water was discovered in 1982 as Ogbunike best water serving neighbouring communities. The village equally showed the entourage the 100 hectares of land donated for Unizik business ventures, an arm Championing investment in the university.\n\nThe Governing Council Chairman, told them the need to get the CofO for the land.','We are happy to be in Ifite-Ogwari Campus\"----School of Agriculture students','','publish','open','open','','we-are-happy-to-be-in-ifite-ogwari-campus-school-of-agriculture-students','','','2021-09-14 10:51:19','2021-09-14 10:51:19','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3530',0,'post','',0),(3531,1,'2021-09-14 10:50:30','2021-09-14 10:50:30','','IMG-20210914-WA0096','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210914-wa0096','','','2021-09-14 10:50:30','2021-09-14 10:50:30','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210914-WA0096.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3532,1,'2021-09-14 10:51:01','2021-09-14 10:51:01','','IMG-20210914-WA0099','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210914-wa0099','','','2021-09-14 10:51:01','2021-09-14 10:51:01','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210914-WA0099.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3533,1,'2024-09-11 07:14:29','2018-01-26 07:20:12',' ','','','publish','closed','closed','','3533','','','2024-09-11 07:14:29','2024-09-11 07:14:29','',0,'http://pennews.pencidesign.com/pennews-default/?p=3533',9,'nav_menu_item','',0),(3535,1,'2021-09-24 08:00:40','2021-09-24 08:00:40','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3537 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/images-7-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" />\n\nA foretaste of what to expect at the campaign flag-off of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), tomorrow, Saturday, September 25, 2021, at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, can be gleaned from the party\'s campaign inauguration held at the same square few weeks earlier.<!--more-->\n\nThe sea of heads on the occasion was comparable only to a crowd of supporters seen during a consequential football match. But it was the circumstance under which the Square was bursting at the seam with party faithful that bespoke of APGA as the party with the capacity to ride the storm of the election without sweating profusely.\n\nAmidst heavy down pour, a crowd of supporters in APGA uniform was seen huddling together not for warmth, but space, and pulling for the party\'s flag bearers Professor Soludo and Dr. Ibezim to mount the rostrum.\n\nNothing suggests tomorrow\'s event will be any less momentous or that the party\'s performance on November 6 risks any challenge by any other party which at best is a paper tiger.\n\nTomorrow\'s event will prove either of two things.\nOne, it will reinforce the power of APGA to win fairly in critical elections. Two, it will warn those determined to derail the process that they have a large army of supporters to contend with if they are blinded by ambition to try the untoward.\n\nIt does not matter the lies anybody wants to believe, but tomorrow\'s campaign rally will reveal that APGA is not willing to abide any competitor as yet. It will be an opportunity to let competing parties realize that the people are not ready to gamble with the bird in hand for unseen two in the bush and that they frown on the idea of kicking away the very step from which they have risen.\n\nEjike Anyaduba','AS APGA FLAGS OFF CAMPAIGN','','publish','open','open','','as-apga-flags-off-campaign','','','2021-09-24 08:00:40','2021-09-24 08:00:40','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3535',0,'post','',0),(3536,1,'2021-09-24 07:59:20','2021-09-24 07:59:20','','images (8)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-8-2','','','2021-09-24 07:59:20','2021-09-24 07:59:20','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/images-8.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3537,1,'2021-09-24 08:00:19','2021-09-24 08:00:19','','images (7)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-7-2','','','2021-09-24 08:00:19','2021-09-24 08:00:19','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/images-7.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3539,1,'2021-09-26 16:58:59','2021-09-26 16:58:59','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3540 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210921-WA0248-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\nBy Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu\n\nThe Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha Global Alumnae Association (Old Girls) led by Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okose, USA (Global President, QRC Alumnae Association) last Tuesday at the College\'s Chapel presented a Cheque of One Million Two Hundred and Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Naira (1,212,500) to the seven winners of the Diamond Challenge for High School Entrepreneurs, conducted by the University of Delaware in the USA.<!--more-->\n\nAddressing the beneficiaries, Dr Okose who was represented by Dr. Felicia Ejamike, President, QRC Alumnae, Onitsha Chapter expressed gratitude to God for the gift of her Alma mater as well as the former and present students of the college, noting that she was impressed with their performance.\n\n\'I call you \"Alpha Team\" because of your stellar performance, of placing in the first position globally, has launched our alma mater, Queen of the Rosary College (QRC), Onitsha, as well as Nigeria and the entire continent of Africa into a Global Platform of Excellence. All are proud of you, especially those of us who passed through this noble citadel of learning. You have proved that excellent students from institutions, like QRC, can change the world positively.\n\n\'On behalf of Umu Q Alumnae Global, I congratulate you all. We stand with you on this landmark achievement. Kudos to you all! Today, we bestow on you with honor, gratitude, respect and academic scholarships for the rest of your stay in QRC.\n\n\'May our Almighty Father guide you through your journeys in life, and nurture you spiritually, academically, emotionally and physically. May our Mother Mary, Queen of the Rosary, continue to intercede on your behalf. Through her, you will continue to succeed.\n\n\'To your mentors and all the teachers who laid the foundation to this success, we say, Thank you. Our Sister Principal, Sr. Maria Chijioke Nwankwo, we celebrate you too. Again, Congratulations to the Alpha Team,\' she concluded.\n\nPresenting the cheques, the two Members of the QRC Alumnae Education Trust Fund Committee, Mrs. Rosemary Nnamdi Okagbue and Hon Lady Ngozi Okoye joined by other Alumnae charged the winners as well as the students to work harder and focus on their academic pursuits, emphasizing that hard work pays.\n\nMrs Okagbue and Lady Okoye who took their time to offer different renditions to the highly elated winners and students stated that they were in their alma mater to celebrate excellence, hard work and dedication, urging the beneficiaries not rest on their oars, saying that their journey to stardom had just begun.\n\nWelcoming the Old Girls, the Principal of the College, Reverend Sister Maria Chijioke Nwankwo (IHM) thanked the QRC,Onitsha Global Alumnae Association for their thoughtfulness, assuring that the gesture would spur the beneficiaries on do more exploits, even she prayed God bless and replenish their purse abundantly.\n\nContributing the Vice Principal (Admin), Mrs Ogbughalu Eucharia corroborated the Principal by appreciating the Old Girls what she described as noble gesture worthy of emulation.\n\nThe two mentors of the awardees, Mr. Onuigbo John Chukwubuikem and Mr Obikwelu Kyrian Sochima received 140,000 Naira each as school fees cover from the QRC, Onitsha Global Alumnae Association\n\nNames of the beneficiaries are as follows:\n1. Stephanie Chinonyelum Anozie\n2. Rita Chinenye Iheator\n3. Vivian Chisom Iwuno\n4. Sandra Onyinye Mgbafulu\n5. Stephanie Mmesoma Nnaji\n6. Rachael Amara Okechukwu, and\n7. MaryJane Chidimma Okoye','QRC, Onitsha Global Alumnae Association Awards Scholarships to Winners of Diamond Challenge for High School Entrepreneurs, Trainers','','publish','open','open','','qrc-onitsha-global-alumnae-association-awards-scholarships-to-winners-of-diamond-challenge-for-high-school-entrepreneurs-trainers','','','2021-09-26 16:58:59','2021-09-26 16:58:59','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3539',0,'post','',0),(3540,1,'2021-09-26 16:58:13','2021-09-26 16:58:13','','IMG-20210921-WA0248','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210921-wa0248','','','2021-09-26 16:58:13','2021-09-26 16:58:13','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210921-WA0248.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3541,1,'2021-09-26 16:58:48','2021-09-26 16:58:48','','IMG-20210922-WA0118','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20210922-wa0118','','','2021-09-26 16:58:48','2021-09-26 16:58:48','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG-20210922-WA0118.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3544,1,'2021-10-01 11:22:30','2021-10-01 11:22:30','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3545 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/images-1-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" />\n\nEjike Anyaduba\n\nIt needs no extra sensory perception to know that the November 6 governorship election in Anambra will be tough. Not that others before it were any less challenging.\nHowever, the times now are different and political awareness has since increased. Opposition has intensified effort to whittle down APGA\'s staying force.<!--more-->\nTo achieve this, it peddles a lot of lies to besmear the sparkling performance of Governor Obiano. As I write, it is difficult to get a word in edgeways to tell the government story.\nUnfortunately for the opposition, ndi Anambra, are not dumb. They have their ears to the ground like the good old Al Barney of the James Hadley Chase series. They can point with justice at few legacy projects built by the government. They are not unappreciative of the International Airport, the International Convention Centre and the International stadium.\n\nThey do not forget who brought investors home to Anambra to boost the economy of the state.\n\nThey do not forget who relieved them from the horrible traffic at the Umunya end of the Enugu- Onitsha expressway by giving them access to Nteje through the building of the Nengo bridge.\n\nThey do not forget who lifted Awka from the status of a glorified local government headquarters to a befitting state capital.\n\nThey do not forget who built the three flyovers with floodlights that confer on Awka some semblance of a city.\n\nThey do not forget who opened access to the oil field of Umueje with the construction of a bridge there.\n\nThey do not forget who built the Odene bridge that links Aguleri upland and Aguleri Otu.\n\nThey do not forget who built a bridge at Iyiora Anam that gives further impetus to agricultural produce.\n\nThey do not forget who broke the tradition of sacking employees engaged by previous government.\n\nThey do not forget who empowered the youths of the state through agricultural loans, skill acquisition programs, and employed many of them in government agencies like ARMA, ARTMA, and as corporate cleaners who keep government offices as well as the streets clean.\n\nThey do not forget who offered comfort to those with disabilities.\n\nThey know the achievements in education. How well the ministry of education has been repositioned and the result since after.\n\nThey know what achievements there are in the health sector. How well the state does in public health as well as its health insurance scheme.\n\nThey know who built the biggest oxygen plant in the whole of the Southeast region.\n\nThey know not to join issues with the building of a state of -the- art -hospital at Aguleri where the Governor was born.\n\nThey know who gave every community in the state a chance at development by allowing them any choice of projects.\n\nThey know who took the mentally sick, tramps and beggars off the streets of Anambra and herded them to a home at Nteje where they are managed by caregivers.\n\nThey know who insulated the state from national economic recession and still pays salaries, emoluments, pensions and gratuities promptly.\n\nOverall, they know who has shown compassion in governance and will not rest on his oars until Anambra attains self sufficiency in development. They know Governor Willie Obiano means well for the state and will avail his party, APGA, and its candidate, Professor Soludo,greater support in November.\n\nEjike Anyaduba\nAbatete','ANAMBRA AHEAD OF NOVEMBER 6','','publish','open','open','','anambra-ahead-of-november-6','','','2021-10-01 11:22:30','2021-10-01 11:22:30','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3544',0,'post','',0),(3545,1,'2021-10-01 11:21:08','2021-10-01 11:21:08','','images (1)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-1-4','','','2021-10-01 11:21:08','2021-10-01 11:21:08','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/images-1.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3546,1,'2021-10-01 11:22:18','2021-10-01 11:22:18','','images (2)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-2-6','','','2021-10-01 11:22:18','2021-10-01 11:22:18','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/images-2.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3548,1,'2021-10-05 17:41:42','2021-10-05 17:41:42','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3549 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211005-WA0243-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\nSoutheast stakeholders Meeting has condemned the killings in rhe region, agreed to join hands with security agencies to end the carnage.<!--more-->\n\nReading the outcome of the meeting after about 4 hours closed door meeting held in Enugu, Chairman and Governor of Ebonyi State,Dave Umahi said the meeting resolved to support security agencies to restore peace in the South East.\n\nThe group also condemned the Mondays Sit-at-Home order issued by members of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, urged government and people of the region to reject. It henceforth.\n\nThe meeting which had four Governors of the zone, with Anambra absent, resolved that the Sub-region security outfits codenamed Ebubeagu be launched in all the states before the end of 2021.\nIt unanimously resolved to support election in Anambra state, while directing security agencies to ensure peaceful election in the state come November 6th 2021.','Southeast leaders condemn killings in region','','publish','open','open','','southeast-leaders-condemn-killings-in-region','','','2021-10-05 17:41:42','2021-10-05 17:41:42','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3548',0,'post','',0),(3549,1,'2021-10-05 17:40:34','2021-10-05 17:40:34','','IMG-20211005-WA0243','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211005-wa0243','','','2021-10-05 17:40:34','2021-10-05 17:40:34','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211005-WA0243.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3550,1,'2021-10-05 17:41:29','2021-10-05 17:41:29','','IMG-20211005-WA0230','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211005-wa0230','','','2021-10-05 17:41:29','2021-10-05 17:41:29','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211005-WA0230.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3555,1,'2021-10-10 00:07:04','2021-10-10 00:07:04','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3556 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screenshot_20211009-235727-135x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" />\n\nEmmanuel Akabuike\nEnugu\n\nAs Nigerians struggle with a tough economy situation due to slumps in global oil, insecurity, over dependence on foreign and imported items, a coalition of civil society organization has advocated a change of attitude towards locally made items.<!--more-->\n\nThe group argued that the amount expended on important goods and services, if channeled to similar products in the country, it would go a long way to reduce amount of money spent on important items as we as boost the country\'s foreign direct investment potential.\n\nThe group made their intentions known at the formal launch of two micro blogging sites: https://naijatweets.com and https://nairahangout.com in Enugu, South East Nigeria.\n\nThe group requests that Nigerians should devote more time and resources to build local contents for the growth, progress and development of the country.\n\nThe leader of the group Linda Chisom Okafor , an American trained Information Communication Technology expert recounted that Nigerian youths send 11.7 billion naira daily on social media sites that are foreign owned.\n\nShe explained that the NAIJA TWEETS DOT COM https://naijatweets.com site does serve as a leading micro blogging site that has same feature and ability to connect various users across the globe like Twitter, according to her \" It will serve as a quality alternative for twitter blogging as well as to promote local contents, cultures and tradition of our people to the international communities\".\n\nWhile speaking on the NAIRA HANGOUT DOT COM https://nairahangout.com site, Ms Okafor outlined the features in the social media forum, said it has the ability to connect hundreds of thousands even millions of users at once, \" whereby we have 10 million subscribers , a subscriber would be able to communicate with the whole users at once as well as have separate media chat with people within his or her groups\".\n\nOther speakers at the workshop reiterated the essence of catching in on the ICT tech world, being the nascent economic enhancer, \"if properly put into good use by the people, by ensuring Nigerians make us of their locally made social media platforms for security and promotion of the people\'s local content to the rest of the world\". .\n\nThe product launch featured the unveiling of the two site brand ambassadors, having Miss Zainab Usman-Bakko as the brand ambassador for https://naijatweets.com while.Segun Oluwole Ariwajoye is the brand ambassador for the https://nairahangout.com.\n\nHighlights of the event were different cultural display by the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria and formal signups by members at the launch.\n\nThe new Subscribers too testified that, \' These two sites are some of the best online social media platforms coming out from Nigeria,\n\"The security features on the sites and smooth browsing cloud bandwidth, can compete with all the big tech giants social media platforms\". Enemuo testified.','Nigerians urge to continue patronising ICT local Contents','','publish','open','open','','nigerians-urge-to-continue-patronising-ict-local-contents','','','2021-10-10 00:07:04','2021-10-10 00:07:04','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3555',0,'post','',0),(3556,1,'2021-10-10 00:06:01','2021-10-10 00:06:01','','Screenshot_20211009-235727','','inherit','open','closed','','screenshot_20211009-235727','','','2021-10-10 00:06:01','2021-10-10 00:06:01','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screenshot_20211009-235727.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3557,1,'2021-10-10 00:06:45','2021-10-10 00:06:45','','Screenshot_20211009-235831','','inherit','open','closed','','screenshot_20211009-235831','','','2021-10-10 00:06:45','2021-10-10 00:06:45','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screenshot_20211009-235831.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(3559,1,'2021-10-17 00:31:13','2021-10-17 00:31:13','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3560 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211016-WA0035-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nBy Ukpa Ewa /14 Oct. 2021/\n\nOffice of the Governor on Disability Matters (OGDM) Anambra State has launch its maiden website to train persons with disabilities on website development.<!--more-->\n\nAddressing Journalist in Awka, the Special Adviser to Governor Willie Obiano on Disability Matters Barr. Chuks Ezewuzie said the website was the first of its kind set up to get information about activities of the present administration for the disability community.\n\nHe acknowledged that Information Communication Technology (ICT) was the future world as any office not connected to the internet was an office left behind as the world was evolving on a fast pace.\n\nBarr. Exewuzie however called on Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA\'S) to establish their presence on-line for wider reach to sustain Governor Governor Willie Obiano vision.\n\nIn his remarks, the head of ICT Office to the Governor on Disability Matters and ODGM Website developer Mr. Ugonna Bonaventure Umeokwonna, visually impaired described the website platform as a heavy site built with optimised accessibility for persons with disability in mind.\n\nAccording to him, the site was widely built with many content and navigation made visible to screen readers with haptic sensors with features such as : live documentary, achievement of the OGDM office, disability rights law, blog session, gallery, user registration portal, department session among others.\n\nThe colour design was white fonts on dark background for easy visibility for low visually impaired people.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3561 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211016-WA0033-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nUgonna Umeokwonna further urged people to visit the website www.odgm.info for information and activities about disability community.\n\nIn attendance was the Special Assistant (SA) to the Governor on Sign Language Communication Mr. Collins Joseph and Executive Assistant (EA) to the Governor on disability services Mr. Ugochukwu Okeke.','OGDM LAUNCH OFFICIAL WEBSITE','','publish','open','open','','ogdm-launch-official-website','','','2021-10-17 00:31:13','2021-10-17 00:31:13','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3559',0,'post','',0),(3560,1,'2021-10-17 00:29:44','2021-10-17 00:29:44','','IMG-20211016-WA0035','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211016-wa0035','','','2021-10-17 00:29:44','2021-10-17 00:29:44','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211016-WA0035.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3561,1,'2021-10-17 00:30:30','2021-10-17 00:30:30','','IMG-20211016-WA0033','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211016-wa0033','','','2021-10-17 00:30:30','2021-10-17 00:30:30','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211016-WA0033.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3562,1,'2021-10-17 00:30:59','2021-10-17 00:30:59','','IMG-20211016-WA0034','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211016-wa0034','','','2021-10-17 00:30:59','2021-10-17 00:30:59','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG-20211016-WA0034.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3566,1,'2021-11-17 14:08:54','2021-11-17 14:08:54','Obi Cubana is not an ido<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3567\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/images-56-300x217.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" />\n\nBy Ejike Anyaduba\n\nThe Nation newspaper of August 9, 2021 had a story by Sam Omatseye titled Three Idols. In the piece, the writer made effort to lump three otherwise different people in an indiscriminate mass as ‘Idols’. But he did a poor job of it as anyone who is quick on the uptake would see through his contrivance.\nRamon Abass (Hushpuppi), Abba Kyari and Obi Cubana do not belong together. They are differently constituted and have different career pursuits in life. They might have provoked attention in the Nigerian media space within a given period, but it is wrong to mix apple with orange. But for a mischievous attempt by the writer to possibly balance the Nigerian tripod and give the crime a federal character appeal, the piece subserves no other purpose.<!--more-->\nAs a veteran columnist and editorial board chairman of the Nation newspaper Omatseye is expected to know better. But does he?\n\nHe has a pen, no doubt. He also has the language. He compares with very few on this score. And when his pen is provoked to action, it does with not just uncommon artistry, but also with a venomous drip.\nHe is among the very few people I like reading. I find his writings which are often about national issues highly edifying and poetical. But I can’t recall reading him on a number of national issues like the bullion vans on Bourdillon. He wrote no didactic poetic on the subject. The story of the unusual money movement, deemed to have violated Nigeria’s anti-money laundering laws should have a natural appeal to him. So also, the unconvincing defense by the owner of the contents of the vans that he was not a government official. But they did not.\n\nBut Obi Cubana was not as lucky. The burial of his mother has the appeal. It offended the sensibilities of the columnist. His interest according to him was not the source of Cubana’s wealth, but how he spent it. He didn’t think he observed the necessary protocol in money spending. Because of this he must share the status of an idol with two other Nigerians (Hushpuppi and Kyari) who are facing charges in the United States of America for international fraud and accessory to the crime respectively.\n\nOmatseye was so embittered with how Cubana buried his mother that he called what happened at Oba (Cubana’s home town) a “subversion of merit”. He was too sure that “those who have many times more money are not seen in other climes to descend to such vanities”. Perhaps so!\n\nBut first let us look at this. Flamboyance as evident in Oba has been with us and is common among a particular tribe in Nigeria. Omatseye lives among this tribe. Flamboyance has no degree. Agreed that the social media escalated the Oba experience, but it was not for nothing. Cubana is in show business and what he did is still in line with those on that runway. Besides, it has a precedent. Omatseye ought to know this and as a historian should have read about it. But assuming he never did, may he be reminded that Nigeria had a flamboyant first minister of finance. Even when the minister had no reason to abuse money, he literally walked on it. Again, I do not think I read Omatseye’s moralizing piece on the matter.\n\nAlthough there is nothing to write in defense of flamboyance even for someone whose wheel of fortune always stops at the right number, yet there is no justification for comparing three disparate personalities. Let it be understood that splurging does not approximate crime. Cubana is a self-made man who works hard for his money. He is a brand ambassador for many quality products, including the exotic single malts scotch whisky, Glenfiddich. He is also plies his trade in hospitality business, estate management and general importation. It is important to state that what happened in Oba was a show of gratitude. Those whose lives he touched in positive ways were handy to identify with him in his moment of grief. They might be accused of splurging, but not enough to idolize Cubana alongside a fraudster.\n\nOmatseye claimed that those with deeper pockets in other clime do not descend to such vanities. How right? He probably has forgotten Adnan Kashoggi – the Saudi Arabian businessman. The sybaritic Kashoggi was the wealthiest man in the whole world in the early 1980s. His flamboyance was next to none and lived a lavish lifestyle. He was not alone. They are also in Nigeria, including those Omatseye genuinely idolize. Cubana does not have to suffer the indignity of a comparative analysis with Hushpuppi just because he buried his mother in a way many a Nigerian has done in the past. They might not have been reported because of near absence of the social media, but it was there regardless.\n\nIt smacks of mischief to compare Cubana with Hushpuppi and Kyari for any reason. Apart from the fact that he has a history of progressive rise to riches, he also has touched lives. He has mentored many to success, and shortly after the burial, offered three hundred million Naira to about three hundred youths to start off business. He has done so before. Like I stated above some of those who splurged at the burial were only showing gratitude the way they know best. The story of Obinna Iyiegbu is one told with a tinge of perseverance in the face of overwhelming odd. Until the burial many had mistaken Cubana High Priest for Cubana himself simply because the latter is self-effacing.\n\nMay it be known that Cubana did not pick money from abusing appointive/elective office like some of those we deify today. He did not pluck it off the net like many an internet fraudster. He worked hard to be where he is today. He started from a one room apartment after his NYSC in Abuja, operated an eatery before opening Ibiza restaurant and the Cubana brand. It is a measure of his disciplined life and managerial acumen that no case of robbery, missing or killing was reported at Oba during the burial. He managed the crowd like no other. Cubana is a brand and not an idol.\n\nEjike Anyaduba\nAbatete','Obi Cubana is not an idol','','publish','open','open','','obi-cubana-is-not-an-idol','','','2021-11-17 14:08:54','2021-11-17 14:08:54','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3566',0,'post','',0),(3567,1,'2021-11-17 14:07:47','2021-11-17 14:07:47','','images (56)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-56','','','2021-11-17 14:07:47','2021-11-17 14:07:47','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/images-56.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3568,1,'2021-11-17 14:08:38','2021-11-17 14:08:38','','images (55)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-55-2','','','2021-11-17 14:08:38','2021-11-17 14:08:38','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/images-55.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3572,1,'2021-12-01 21:52:32','2021-12-01 21:52:32','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3573 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/images-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">By Peter Nwasike</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">07037946858</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">Unclepeters555@gmail.com</div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\"></div>\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">There is a Biblical adage that a prophet has no honour in his home.” This refers to the skepticism with which the people of Jerusalem received our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was doing mighty works of miracles and wonders for them.The 2021 Governorship election in Anambra State, as regards the candidates of the parties that contested the election, is a vindication that “a Prophet can be found at home.”</div>\n<!--more-->\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">The candidate fielded by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR, can be likened to Our Lord Jesus Christ, who went about doing mighty works in Galilee, but when he came to his home of Jerusalem, recognition was not given to him, to their detriment. Soludo, by his academic brilliance, as Professor of Economics, was recognized by the Federal Government of Nigeria, when he was appointed as Governor of Central Bank (CBN) from the regime of President Obasanjo (1999-2007), and also a Member of the National Economic Council. He served meritoriously and initiated measures to engender sanity in the Banking Sector and banks maintained financial honesty and integrity. His prudence in management of resources enabled him to expand and decentralize the CBN to many State of Nigeria, among them Anambra State, Ebonyi State, Abia Stte, etc,. He renovated, refurbished the old Central Bank at Enugu State, to modern standard. During his tenure, he belonged to the Council of Governors of Central banks in Africa and the World. At this strategic position, Soludo used his expertise to negotiate for Nigeria to be bailed out of foreign debts, and regained economic solvency for Nigeria. When he finished his tenure as Governor of CBN, he became a Consultant to World ruling bodies, among them, the United Nations Organization (UNO), African Development Bank (ADB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Union (EU), etc. During the World Economic Recession of 2008, Soludo was the only Professor of Economics from Africa, invited by the United Nations Organization (UNO), to join other Professors of Economics from American, Asia and Europe, to produce measures to revive the economy.After that global service, when he was brought out by the then ruling political party in Federal Government of Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to contest the Anambra State Governorship Election of 2010, he coined the expression, “SOLUDO SOLUTION”. It was the confidence the people of Anambra State, had in the then State ruling party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and the then good governance of Peter Obi, with his system of “ANAMBRA INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (ANIDS), with development projects to all rural and urban Areas, that made people to stick to Peter Obi’s Administration for the deserved Second Term, to complete his 8 – year tenure, because there was noneed changing a winning team, that denied Soludo’s victory to practicalise his pragmatism of “SOLUDO SOLUTION”.</div>\n<!--more-->\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<!--more-->\n<div data-xf-p=\"1\">From then on, Soludo became a global authority in Developmental Economics, that he was rated as one of the most influential 100 persons in Africa. The incumbent President of Nigeria, President Buhari, has appointed Soludo as a Member of his National Economic Council. When he congratulated Soludo on his victory at the election, Buhari mentioned this salient point that Soludo is in his Economic Kitchen Cabinet, and expressed hope that Soludo shall lead Anambra State to contribute to the development of Nigeria as a whole, beginning from Anambra State. When the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, Sir Willie Obiano, was introducing Soludo at a rally in Awka, as the candidate of APGA, to succeed him, Obiano said that Soludo had ruled the 36 State of Nigeria, as Governor of Central Bank (CBN), but now, he is being persuaded to rule only one State, the Anambra State. This is a manifestation that “The Prophet Has Honour In His Home”.As an adage says that “The Leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way, and invariably is followed by the people.” Governor Obiano has shown the people of Anambra State, that Prof. Soludo is an intellectual technocrat of national and international repute has honour in his home. The people have done well, by following Obinao to recognize that Soludo, as a prophet, has honour in his home, by voting for him, massively to win the Governorship Election. The people of Anambra State, have shammed the disgruntled elements, who, out of sheer selfishness, self-aggrandizement, impudence and inordinate ambition, refused to recognize the supremacy of Soludo in good governance, and bulldozed their way into the governorship contest. It is preposterous that two young boys in the Anabra State House of Assembly, who are doing only first term in the office, jumped into the foray, and contested the primary election with Soludo. When they failed at screening, they defected to another party, to oppose Soludo. Same also are for two others in the National Assembly, in their first term, aspired to challenge Soludo. One of them audaciously and maliciously, created an enemy faction in the APGA to frustrate and ridicule Soludo. He went further and procured kangaroo court judgment from distant foreign State from Hausa land, to scuttle peoples’ popular choice, and impose his personal mediocrity. When they failed in their sinister intentions, they defected into another party, just to use their intimidating money-bags and much vouted grassroots popularity, to scuttle peoples’ best choice. But thanks be to God, peoples’ wise judgment prevailed. In fact, Soludo, as an institution, is worthy of being voted for, as a person. In this perspective, it becomes imperative to amend the Constitution and the Electoral Act, to allow individual candidates, to contest elections, without being gagged to any party. When this opportunity is created, people like Soludo can stand for election and become voted for, based on merit.People should look for a role model for leadership. All youths should aspire to be like Soludo in academic brilliance, work excellence, national and international reputation. All parents should like their children to be like Soludo. Nobody wants to emulate an opportunist whose only qualification to be governor is “federal might,” which he grabbed when he was appointed as Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Matters, a position without any responsible portfolio, except running errands for others like a houseboy. And when he maneuvered the “federal might,” to become a Senator, he never contributed to debates in the National Assembly, thereby portraying his incompetence, ignorance and mediocrity.Nobody wants neophytes with sheer inordinate ambition, to be governor. There is an adage that “when the desirable is available, nobody thinks of anything available,” because, “Nobody abandons a place to title – taking for a place of ritual sacrifice”. There is an adage that it will be suicidal for a rat to inflate itself so voluminously as to achieve the size of an elephant. These people of self aggrandizement have committed political suicide and have ruined their political career. A man who cannot be satisfied with anything, will one day jam the carcass of an elephant, and in his feeble attempt to carry it, will collapse under its weight. As they have betrayed their loyalty in APGA, by 2023 General Election, APGA shall field loyal candidates who shall sweep all the seats in both State and National Assemblies. And these intoxicated elements of insatiability, should loose their second term, and go and lick their self-inflicted wounds of inordinate ambition.So, as Governor Willie Obiano has led the way to recognize a prophet in his home, Soludo shall know that to whom much is given, much is expected. What he did at National and International levels, should be domesticated and replicated here, because, an old woman does not forget a familiar dance. Fortunately, he has indicated his intention to do so, when he asserted: “I am not coming to learn on the job. I shall hit the ground running”.</div>','SOLUDO, THE PROPHET WHO HAS HONOUR IN HIS HOME','','publish','open','open','','soludo-the-prophet-who-has-honour-in-his-home','','','2021-12-01 21:52:32','2021-12-01 21:52:32','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3572',0,'post','',0),(3573,1,'2021-12-01 21:51:35','2021-12-01 21:51:35','','images','','inherit','open','closed','','images-12','','','2021-12-01 21:51:35','2021-12-01 21:51:35','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/images.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3574,1,'2021-12-01 21:52:16','2021-12-01 21:52:16','','download (13)','','inherit','open','closed','','download-13','','','2021-12-01 21:52:16','2021-12-01 21:52:16','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/download-13.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3577,1,'2021-12-17 19:14:09','2021-12-17 19:14:09','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3578 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211217-WA0181-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" />\n\nThe Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Williams Akintoroye on Friday, granted pardon to 18 inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service in the State.<!--more-->\n\nThe pardoned inmates were serving various terms for major and minor offences which ranges from murder, rape, conspiracy. among others\n\nThe inmates were granted pardon when the chief Judge made his first official visit to all the 4 custodial centres and the female facility in Ondo state in company of other judges and magistrates.\n\nHe charged them to be of good conduct as they regain the priceless freedom.\n\nBoth the Awaiting Trial Inmates (ATM) and the convicted Inmates (CM) benefitted from the exercise.\n\nThe Controller of Corrections, Mr Opeyemi Fatinikun who was the chief host, appreciated the Chief Judge for his painstaking efforts towards ensuring he visited all the Custodial centres in the state despite the short notice.\n\nThe Chief Judge in turn appreciated the Controller and all staff for their cooperation in ensuring the safety of all the custodial centres and facility in the state.\n\nAccording to the spokesperson of the command, Tunde Ogundare esq, the inmates were also asked to go and sin no more.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3579 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211217-WA0182-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Just in : Ondo Chief Judge, Williams Akintoroye frees 18 inmates','','publish','open','open','','just-in-ondo-chief-judge-williams-akintoroye-frees-18-inmates','','','2021-12-17 19:14:09','2021-12-17 19:14:09','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3577',0,'post','',0),(3578,1,'2021-12-17 19:12:44','2021-12-17 19:12:44','','IMG-20211217-WA0181','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211217-wa0181','','','2021-12-17 19:12:44','2021-12-17 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07:33:03','','Events','','publish','closed','closed','','events','','','2018-01-26 07:33:03','2018-01-26 07:33:03','',0,'http://pennews.pencidesign.com/pennews-default/?p=3582',3,'nav_menu_item','',0),(3583,1,'2021-12-21 20:14:52','2021-12-21 20:14:52','Enugu govt bans unauthorised social, sporting activities in public educational institution<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3584\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211220-WA0064-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" />\n\n...Raises alarm over attempt to vandalize facilities\n\n...Directs heads of schools on safety measures against fire outbreak this Harmattan season\n\nThe administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has raised the alarm over attempts by some unpatriotic and callous individuals to vandalise and steal the facilities put in place by the state government in academic institutions at the basic, secondary and tertiary levels for the advancement of education in the state<!--more-->.\n\nThe state government raised the alarm in a statement by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze.\n\nProf. Eze noted that the unpatriotic and callous acts were inimical to the untiring efforts of Gov. Ugwuanyi’s administration in vigorously pursuing quality education for the children of the state, stressing that the state government has invested heavily in the construction, renovation and equipping of educational institutions at the basic, secondary and tertiary levels.\n\nThe Commissioner therefore announced that \"the state government has directed that no social or sporting activities organised by any person or group shall take place henceforth in any of the state public educational institutions without the written approval of the Hon. Commissioner for Education upon a request through the appropriate Board or Parastatals\".\n\nThe state government further directed heads of primary, secondary and tertiary institutions to henceforth ensure the proper clearing of the school environment and restriction of unauthorised entrance into the school premises to avoid any fire outbreak this Harmattan season.\n\n\"All heads of primary, secondary and tertiary institutions are, therefore, directed to ensure strict compliance\", Prof. Eze said.\n\n#EnuguStateIsInTheHandsOfGod\n#amokelouis','Enugu govt bans unauthorised social, sporting activities in public educational institutions','','publish','open','open','','enugu-govt-bans-unauthorised-social-sporting-activities-in-public-educational-institutions','','','2021-12-21 20:14:52','2021-12-21 20:14:52','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3583',0,'post','',0),(3584,1,'2021-12-21 20:13:14','2021-12-21 20:13:14','','IMG-20211220-WA0064','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211220-wa0064','','','2021-12-21 20:13:14','2021-12-21 20:13:14','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211220-WA0064.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3585,1,'2021-12-21 20:14:26','2021-12-21 20:14:26','','IMG-20211220-WA0065','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211220-wa0065','','','2021-12-21 20:14:26','2021-12-21 20:14:26','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211220-WA0065.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3587,1,'2021-12-24 11:54:30','2021-12-24 11:54:30','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3588 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211224-WA0052-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" />\n\nThe Commander Corps of Artillery Major General Tari-Timiye Gagariga has tasked fresh Graduands of the Nigerian Army Training Center to always maintain high professional standards in their conduct during operations. CCA gave the advice on Thursday 23 December, 2021 in Kontagora during the graduation ceremony of 288 officers and men of the Nigerian Army who had undergone training on Basic Camel MRAP and APC EQ Series Vehicle Course.<!--more-->\n\nThe Commander Corps of Artillery who was the Special Guest of Honour at the event was represented by the Chief of Staff, Headquarters Nigerian Army Corps of Artillery, Brigadier General Lebonsina Lebo, stated that the continuous emergence of the asymmetric threats which appears majorly in the form of terrorism and insurgency and being perpetrated by criminals across the country makes the Training more relevant at this time. Major General Gagariga therefore charged the outgoing trainees to do everything possible to sustain the knowledge acquired during the training.\n\nEarlier in his welcome address, the Commander Nigerian Army Training Center, Major General Oluyinka Soyele explained that the training covered wide range of sensitive and strategic operations, saying that the exercise will go a long way in enhancing professional capacities and duties of the graduands when eventually deployed for operations.\n\nThe Commander thanked the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya for the support to the Center. Stressing that success in the conduct of the training would not have been possible without his support.\n\nIn his speech, the Chief of Training, (Army) Major General Abdulsalami Ibrahim, represented by Brigadier General Aminu Usman stated that the just concluded training of selected Nigerian Army personnel which is a collaborative partnership between Nigerian and Chinese Government, with Nigerian Army Training Center as host institution, is aimed at effective drive and maintainance of the newly acquired platforms.\n\nMajor General Abdulsalami Ibrahim explained that the newly procured Camel Mine Resistance Anti Ambush Protector (MRAP) and Armour Personnel Carriers Multi-Functional EQ Series were acquired to ehance better performance for the Troops against insurgence and other forms of security challenges in the country, charging the Troops not to relent until criminals under any guise are flushed out of the country.\n\nHe congratulated the graduands for the successful completion of the special training and urged them to be law abiding citizens with high sense of Professionalism and to conscientiously imbibe maintainance culture on the equipments.\n\nThe Chief of Training expressed his appreciation to the Commander Nigerian Army Training Center, Director Soldiers Professional Training Directorate, and all the instructors and supporting Staff of the Center, specially commending the Chinese partners for their wonderful contributions to the success of the Course.\n\nIn his vote of thanks, the Head of Foreign Partners Mr Tang Tian appreciated the Commander, students, the leadership of the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Government for given him and his company the opportunity to serve, saying that the collaboration will go a long way in fostering better relationships between Nigeria and China.\n\nHigh point of the occasion was the colourful presentation of certificate and award to the only participating female soldier, while motorcycles were presented to instructors who distinguished themselves during the Training exercise.\n\nBABATUNDE ZUBAIRU\nCaptain\nAssistant Director Army Public Relations NATRAC\n23 Dec 21','CCA TASKS GRADUANDS ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT','','publish','open','open','','cca-tasks-graduands-on-professional-conduct','','','2021-12-24 11:54:30','2021-12-24 11:54:30','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3587',0,'post','',0),(3588,1,'2021-12-24 11:52:39','2021-12-24 11:52:39','','IMG-20211224-WA0052','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211224-wa0052','','','2021-12-24 11:52:39','2021-12-24 11:52:39','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211224-WA0052.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3589,1,'2021-12-24 11:53:58','2021-12-24 11:53:58','','IMG-20211224-WA0056','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211224-wa0056','','','2021-12-24 11:53:58','2021-12-24 11:53:58','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211224-WA0056.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3591,1,'2021-12-25 10:45:27','2021-12-25 10:45:27','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3592 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211225-WA0038-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\n....Targets PWDs, Others Across 21 LGAs\n\nBy Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu\n\nThe federal government of Nigeria, says it will from next week, commence registration for the second wave of Rapid Response Register (RRR), a programme designed to provide emergency assistance to urban and semi-urban dwellers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Anambra State .<!--more-->\n\nThe Anambra State Coordinator, State Operations Coordinating Unit (SOCU), Engr. Bede Okoli, who disclosed this at Awka during the stakeholders sensitisation forum on the second waves of RRR, added that the programme was targeted at poor homes, destitute and people living with disabilities (PWDs) across the 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the State.\n\nOkoli, who advised those who lost jobs or faced other economic challenges due to COVID-19 to enroll by dialing specific codes allocated to their residential areas on their phones and follow the instructions.\n\nHe said, \'To get registered, dial your community codes as contained in the fliers we are distributing. You will be directed accordingly. At the end of successful registration, you will be given a unique number. Please, keep the number for future use,\' he stated.\n\nContinuing, he said \"The Rapid Response Register is a shock response intervention by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in partnership with the World Bank. It\'s being built by the National Social Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO) through state governments as an expansion of the existing National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP).\n\n\'It is designed to provide emergency assistance to urbans and semi-urban dwellers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The register will also be used to deliver emergency response to vulnerable populations in circumstances like natural disasters, epidemics and economic downturn.\n\n\'Those eligible are low income earners involved in the informal sector, lower level private sector employees that lost their jobs because of the pandemic, and urban poor, destitute and persons with disabilities.\n\n\'Targetting and enrollment of affected households will be done through text messages that allow residents of selected wards and communities apply to be assisted by texting or calling a designated USSD code. Mobile phone numbers of those demeed eligible for assistance will be linked to digitized bank accounts to receive cash support and other financial inclusion packages under the federal government\'s COVID-19 assistance programme,\' he concluded.','COVID-19: FG Commences Second Wave of Rapid Response Register in Anambra','','publish','open','open','','covid-19-fg-commences-second-wave-of-rapid-response-register-in-anambra','','','2021-12-25 10:45:27','2021-12-25 10:45:27','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3591',0,'post','',0),(3592,1,'2021-12-25 10:44:45','2021-12-25 10:44:45','','IMG-20211225-WA0038','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211225-wa0038','','','2021-12-25 10:44:45','2021-12-25 10:44:45','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211225-WA0038.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3594,1,'2021-12-25 10:57:08','2021-12-25 10:57:08','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3595 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640429655146-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\nI rejoice with Christians in Nigeria as they join fellow believers all over the world to celebrate this season.\n\nIt is a special period that brings peoples of the world together with one purpose; to celebrate togetherness, joy, peace, and above all, to share love with one another through exchange of goodwill and gifts.<!--more-->\n\nFor the second Christmas running, the world will not be able to celebrate as we used to in years past.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic, with its attendant debilitating impact, has remained with mankind, mutating and leaving in its wake devastating consequences on the economy, social interaction, and curtailing certain freedoms.\n\nThe silver lining, however, is that humanity has been able to rise up with one voice and purpose, to confront the foisted conditions.\n\nI want to use this opportunity to appeal to our dear citizens to embrace vaccination, which is the best scientifically known bulwark against the pandemic.\n\nRecent events have shown that vaccination greatly reduces the effects of the virus on the human body.\n\nI will also urge those that have taken the two doses to go ahead and take the booster as advised by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC).\n\nI commend the efforts of members of the PSC under the headship of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation as they continue to chart a roadmap out of the pandemic and associated issues.\n\nOn security, despite the remarkable successes generally recorded, we still have some challenges.\n\nOur courageous security forces, bolstered by the necessary support from this administration, daily confront the wicked ones amongst us, who continue to threaten the peace of the land.\n\nRecently, during the meeting with fellow Heads of State of the ECOWAS, I discussed the need to intensify efforts to jointly confront this menace causing instability in our sub-region.\n\nI am confident that with the renewed commitment and empowerment of our committed security personnel, all these issues which inflict pain and trauma on us will soon be history.\n\nLet us utilize the opportunity that this festive period brings to encourage ourselves so that the machinations of the wicked ones in our midst will find no place to thrive.\n\nChristmas is a season when hope is rekindled. Hope, Peace, Joy, Love are the recurring themes of this time.\n\nIt is in the midst of hardship that the true test of a nation emerges.\n\nI urge Nigerians to invoke the indomitable spirit in us and see the present order of things as a phase that will also pass, just like other unsavory situations in the nation’s history.\n\nThis government will not abandon the promises made to Nigerians for a better lease of life.\n\nThe diversification of the economy embarked upon is yielding fruits.\n\nWe shall continue to create opportunities for our teeming youths to ventilate their tremendous energy.\n\nAs we felicitate with family, friends, colleagues, associates, let us spare moments to reach out to the less privileged.\n\nLet us also pray and give words of encouragement to our gallant security personnel fulfilling their oaths to keep us safe.\n\nI assure my compatriots that this administration remains resolute at ensuring that the standard of living of the average Nigerian is elevated.\n\nOn this note, I wish Nigerians Merry Christmas!\n\nMuhammadu Buhari','My 2021 Christmas Message- PRESIDENT BUHARI','','publish','open','open','','my-2021-christmas-message-president-buhari','','','2021-12-25 10:57:08','2021-12-25 10:57:08','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3594',0,'post','',0),(3595,1,'2021-12-25 10:56:28','2021-12-25 10:56:28','','FB_IMG_1640429655146','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1640429655146','','','2021-12-25 10:56:28','2021-12-25 10:56:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640429655146.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3598,1,'2021-12-25 11:00:08','2021-12-25 11:00:08','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3599 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640429872844-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe Yoruba body also said it was time to stop treating bandits and terrorists with kid gloves. Afenifere, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi, noted that there was no more time to be wasted “in confronting the security situation if the country is to be prevented from going under.”<!--more-->\n\nThe Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the insecurity situation in the country as warlike that requires recalling retired intelligent officers to compliment the efforts of existing security organs to halt the war.\n\nThe statement reads: “Apart from the bomb blast that happened in Maiduguri on the day President Buhari visited that city on Thursday, the Nigerian Immigration Services, also revealed in a letter to its border posts dated December 23, 2021, that terrorists from Mali had planned to attack Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.\n\nThe above are aside kidnapping, killing, arson and burning of vehicles conveying people from one place to another as it happened on Kaduna highway and in Borno and Katsina States recently.\n\n“The near daily occurrence of kidnapping in Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Imo States among others is intolerable.\n\nAmnesty\n“The President must come out openly to give an ultimatum of two weeks to those carrying arms illegally to lay down their arms.\n\n“Within the period, retired intelligent officers should be encouraged to report at the military formations nearest to them with a view to reintegrating them back into the system.\n\n“Needed weapons and incentives must be provided just as the intelligence units within the security organs be rejigged to weed out the fifth columnists in the army.\n\n“Overtures be made to certain powers that have control over our neighbouring countries from where terrorists infiltrate our country.\n\n“Among such super powers that need to be consulted are France, United Kingdom, China, Russia, Germany, Israel and the United States of America.\n\n“The rationale behind this is to seek direct assistance in terms of logistics as well as for some of them, particularly France, to work on French-speaking neighbouring countries to help curtail insurgents using their territories to infiltrate Nigeria.\n\nFG’s will\n“Beyond seeking foreign help, however, the Federal Government must be ready to be more genuinely committed to removing insurgency and related criminality from our land.\n\n“This, it can do successfully, by stopping to treat bandits and terrorists with kid gloves, by genuinely providing needed equipment to the army and other security agencies, by truly engaging the youths into ventures that would earn them a livelihood.\n\n“By no longer treating some bandits and terrorists as sacred cows and by liberalizing the economy in such a way that the cost of commodities and services in the country would come down considerably.\n\n“Above all, states and local governments that are willing should be allowed to have their own policing system up to the level of investigation and prosecution without let or hindrance”.\n\nAccording to Afenifere spokesman, “it is disheartening that terrorists had the temerity to launch attacks near Maiduguri on Thursday, December 23, 2021 around the time the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, was visiting Maiduguri and parts of Borno State.\n\n“Reports also have it that the Nigeria Immigration Service has put its officers at various border posts on red alert of a looming terrorist attack on the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.\n\n“If steps suggested above are taken, the vow made by the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru last week Thursday would be easy to fulfil.\n\n“It was not the first time such declaration would be made either by President Buhari or the security chiefs. But rather than the insecurity being checkmated, the situation has been going from bad to worse.\n\n“It is high time President Buhari heeded the advice being given from various quarters including the ones by the Eminent Nigerians led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the one that emanated from the Inclusive Security Dialogue Retreat which held in Abuja a few weeks ago and attended by the same Chief Obasanjo, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto, Reverend Samson Supo Ayokunle, CAN President, Chief Edwin Clark and many other leaders from ethnic nationalities.\n\n“They had called on the president to urgently convene a national conciliatory conference to address the underlying issues of our challenges that successive governments have ignored.”\n\nVanguard News','Insecurity: Nigeria At War ; Seek Foreign Help, Recall Retired Officers — Afenifere Tells Buhari','','publish','open','open','','insecurity-nigeria-at-war-seek-foreign-help-recall-retired-officers-afenifere-tells-buhari','','','2021-12-25 11:00:08','2021-12-25 11:00:08','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3598',0,'post','',0),(3599,1,'2021-12-25 10:59:28','2021-12-25 10:59:28','','FB_IMG_1640429872844','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1640429872844','','','2021-12-25 10:59:28','2021-12-25 10:59:28','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640429872844.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3601,1,'2021-12-25 11:04:14','2021-12-25 11:04:14','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3602 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640430031751-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\n\nThe Federal Government has increased the hazard allowance for medical doctors and health workers in the country, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.<!--more-->\n\nIt was gathered that while the government increased the allowance for doctors from N5,000 to between N32,000 and N40,000; other health workers like nurses, laboratory workers among others had theirs reviewed to between N15,000 and N34,000.\n\nThis was contained in a circular with reference number SWC/S/04/S.218/11/406 dated December 22, 2021 and signed by the Executive Chairman of the National Salaries, Wages and Income Commission.<!--more-->\n\nThe circular read in part, “Concerning the review of the hazard allowance applicable to health workers in the services of the federal hospitals, medical centres and clinics in ministries, departments and agencies, the hazard allowance was reviewed to a flat rate that ranges from N5,000 to between N15,000 and N34,000 for health workers on the CONHESS salary structure, while doctors on CONMESS had theirs reviewed from N5,000 to between N32,000 and N40,000.”\n\nMeanwhile, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, on Friday, disagreed with the new rate.\n\nThe association’s position was contained in a statement jointly signed by the National President, Dr Godiya Ishaya; Secretary General, Dr Suleiman Ismail; and Social Secretary, Dr Alfa Yusuf.\n\nThe statement titled, ‘Press statement on the review of hazard allowance’, expressed the dissatisfaction of the association with the proposed payment rate.\n\nThe association, however, called on the Federal Government to review the rate to prevent the need for further negotiations in the future.\n\nCopyright PUNCH.','FG Increases Hazard Allowance From N5,000 To N40,000 For Doctors , N34,000 For Others','','publish','open','open','','fg-increases-hazard-allowance-from-n5000-to-n40000-for-doctors-n34000-for-others','','','2021-12-25 11:04:14','2021-12-25 11:04:14','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3601',0,'post','',0),(3602,1,'2021-12-25 11:03:38','2021-12-25 11:03:38','','FB_IMG_1640430031751','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1640430031751','','','2021-12-25 11:03:38','2021-12-25 11:03:38','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640430031751.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3604,1,'2021-12-25 11:11:33','2021-12-25 11:11:33','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3605 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Enugu-Police-Commissioner-Abubakar-Lawal-481x540-1-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" />\n\nIn line with the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali-Baba order, directing 36 states police commands to tighten security in the yuletide season, Enugu state police command has deployed special squads across the state to ensure a itch-free Festive period in the state.<!--more-->\n\nThe state police commissioner Abubakar Lawal gave the insight while speaking to newsmen in Enugu.\nHe speaks on the mapped out strategy to ensure the state is free from criminal activities.\n\nThe CP acknowledge there are crimes associated with festive season, which he said the command is on top of the situation to ensure the residents sleep with their two eyes closed.\n\nWhile speaking on the multiplicity of police checkpoints in the state, he said the reason\ncould not be separated from the recent insecurity in the South East, which he claimed the command does not want to leave any stone unturned to ensure the security of the people are not compromised.\nSOT\nABUBAKAR LAWAL\nCP, Enugu Police Command\nEND','Enugu Police tighten security for Yuletide season ','','publish','open','open','','enugu-police-tighten-security-for-yuletide-season','','','2021-12-25 11:11:33','2021-12-25 11:11:33','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3604',0,'post','',0),(3605,1,'2021-12-25 11:09:43','2021-12-25 11:09:43','','Enugu-Police-Commissioner-Abubakar-Lawal-481x540','','inherit','open','closed','','enugu-police-commissioner-abubakar-lawal-481x540','','','2021-12-25 11:09:43','2021-12-25 11:09:43','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Enugu-Police-Commissioner-Abubakar-Lawal-481x540-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3607,1,'2021-12-25 12:41:59','2021-12-25 12:41:59','<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3608 aligncenter\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/images-39-234x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" />\n\nBy Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJehovah\'s witnesses in Nigeria recently held two special events to mark 100yrs of Bible education work.1921-2021(from small beginning to over 400,000 publishers).<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nA release signed by the Public Information Desk of Jehovah\'s Witnesses, Brother Olusegun Eroyemi and made available to newsmen in Awka,stated that Sunday December 12,2021,all congregations of Jehovah\'s witnesses in Nigeria were invited to view a special prerecorded programme featuring talks and interviews regarding the history of the preaching in the country.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBrother Eroyemi said the programme was streamed to viewers in Efik, English,Igbo, Nigerian sign language, Pidgin, and Yoruba languages.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nEarlier on Friday December 10,2021,a special museum exhibition was opened at the branch office, where a 91year old Brother Albert Olih,who had been preaching for nearly 74years cut the exhibition tape.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe exhibition, entitled\"100 years of Courage\",tells the exciting story of bold preaching and strong faith.It highlighted that witnesses in Nigeria demonstrated courage despite publication ban, public ridicule and brutal civil war.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis is brought to life through interactive audio and video elements and displays of original historical artifacts.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\'Visitors will be able to watch the growth of the work in Nigeria from December 1921, when a few interested people attended Bible study classes in Lagos,to modern times,as a crowd of over 400,000 witnesses preach through out the country. For enquiries call 07080662020, Inbox pid.ng@jw.org.kilometre 51 Auchi Road ,Benin city,\' the statement read.','Jehovah\'s Witnesses Remember 100yrs of Preaching in Nigeria','','publish','open','open','','jehovahs-witnesses-remember-100yrs-of-preaching-in-nigeria','','','2021-12-25 12:41:59','2021-12-25 12:41:59','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3607',0,'post','',0),(3608,1,'2021-12-25 12:41:09','2021-12-25 12:41:09','','images (39)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-39','','','2021-12-25 12:41:09','2021-12-25 12:41:09','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/images-39.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3609,1,'2021-12-25 12:41:47','2021-12-25 12:41:47','','images (38)','','inherit','open','closed','','images-38','','','2021-12-25 12:41:47','2021-12-25 12:41:47','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/images-38.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3612,1,'2021-12-29 10:37:54','2021-12-29 10:37:54','&nbsp;\n\nNiger Delta leader insists Jonathan stopped Islamisation of Nigeria\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, replied the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, over allegations of his hatred for the oil-rich region.<!--more--><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3613\" src=\"https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640773953559-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" /></p>\nObasanjo said Nigeria and Niger Delta demand in Clark, a statesman and not a tribesman, just as he warned the PANDEF chieftain and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), against deploying “offensive and uncouth languages” to describe his personality.\n\nClark had, last Wednesday, hit Obasanjo over what he termed “a disappointing display of hatred against the people of the oil-producing states in Nigeria.”\n\nHe was reacting to a recent outburst by the Nigerian erstwhile leader in Abuja, where he reportedly castigated the INC’s National Secretary, Ebipamowei Wodu, at a peace and security parley convened by Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa.\n\nIn an open letter to Obasanjo, titled: ‘My disappointment over your unprovoked outburst against the people of the Niger Delta region,” Clark accused Obasanjo of double standards on resource control.\n\nBut reacting yesterday via the same medium, Obasanjo said he bore no grudge against the Niger Delta.\n\nObasanjo’s response was contained in a letter dated December 28 and titled, “My response to the open letter by Clark.”\n\nThe ex-President noted that some of the words deployed by Clark to describe him “are offensive and uncouth.”\n\nHe said: “I have never shown any anger, distraught with Niger Delta region nor any part of Nigeria. Some of the languages you have deployed to describe me in your letter are offensive, uncouth and I totally and completely rejected them. I am not inconsistent, hypocritical, unstatesmanly, and nor am I anybody’s lackey.\n\n“You use your own yardstick to judge others. I fear God and I respect those who respect themselves and I hope it is about time you changed from a tribesman to a statesman of character.\n\n“That’s what Nigeria, and indeed the region you profess to love, demand of you at this stage. I believe one lesson that we all must appreciate that we have all learned in the last 61 years of our independence is that we all need to be civil to ourselves and occasionally put ourselves in the position of others. Bad language does not show prudence, wisdom and maturity. I hope you will think and adjust.”\n\nThe Owu chief also clarified that the oil in the Niger Delta belongs to Nigeria constitutionally.\n\nObasanjo observed that the Constitution did not confer ownership of oil and other mineral resources on any of the regions.\n\nIN another development, Clark has insisted that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan deserves the credit for halting the Islamisation of Nigeria.\n\nHe expressed surprise that the likes of Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, have “kept heaping praises on President Muhammadu Buhari over the attainment of the feat.”\n\nClark said, “it is unfortunate that Islamists, operating under the guise of bandits and terrorists, have recorded inroads within the past six years in the country.”\n\nHe stated that “Mohammed should be hiding his head in shame now considering the harm he alongside chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did to undermine the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration prior to the 2015 poll even after reclaiming 14 area councils from the stranglehold of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency group.”\n\nThe Niger Delta leader added: “But as the saying goes, what goes around, comes around. They never knew they were raising what is like the proverbial Frankenstein monster. What they created became uncontrollable and returned to haunt them.”\n\nHe went on: “Today, part of Niger State in North Central geo-political zone is occupied by Boko Haram. The governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has cried out several times about this. The insurgents have hoisted their flags in parts of the state, collecting levies and taxes from farmers before the latter will not only be allowed to go about their business but also enable them to live in peace.\n\n“Only recently, on December 19, 40 innocent persons were gruesomely murdered in Kaduna by terrorists, in a state that has very major state security installations. These are not imaginary persons – they are sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, and relatives of persons. In fact, the names of 29 of them were published, the rest are yet to be identified. Just a few days ago, there were rocket explosions at different locations when the President visited Maiduguri.\n\n“Yet, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Information Minister, is not seeing this. What he keeps seeing in his imagination is his warped images of 2015.\n\n“It is a blatant falsehood for Alhaji Mohammed to claim that but for President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria would have been Islamised, that it was President Buhari government that sent Boko Haram out of the 14 Local Government Areas in Borno State.”\n\n“Of course, no patriotic Nigerian will believe Alhaji Mohammed’s statement that it is President Buhari that prevented the takeover of Nigeria by Islam, rather, most Nigerians have the strong feeling that it is his government that has given or created the environment for the sect to return and be more daring.\n\n“With all the menacing activities of this group, no armed herdsmen have been arrested. Is it by coincidence?\n\n“I want to reiterate that Buhari’s spokesmen are his albatross. They unleash unwarranted attacks, insults and arrogance to opponents, behaving like Paul Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist of the Nazi Party of Germany and one of the closest allies and spokesmen of Adolf Hitler during World War II.\n\n“As Information Minister, Mohammed, should be building bridges, instead of widening and expanding the gulf.”\n\nhttps://guardian.ng/news/you-ought-to-be-statesman-not-tribesman-obasanjo-tells-clark','You Ought To Be Statesman Not Tribesman , Obasanjo Tells Clark','','publish','open','open','','you-ought-to-be-statesman-not-tribesman-obasanjo-tells-clark','','','2021-12-29 10:37:54','2021-12-29 10:37:54','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3612',0,'post','',0),(3613,1,'2021-12-29 10:37:12','2021-12-29 10:37:12','','FB_IMG_1640773953559','','inherit','open','closed','','fb_img_1640773953559','','','2021-12-29 10:37:12','2021-12-29 10:37:12','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FB_IMG_1640773953559.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(3615,1,'2021-12-29 22:52:12','2021-12-29 22:52:12','<h2 class=\"date-header\"></h2>\n<div class=\"date-posts\">\n<div class=\"post-outer\">\n<div class=\"post hentry uncustomized-post-template\">\n<div id=\"post-body-7703356878232206198\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"separator\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixzozvipUMx3-z7jCY_RQDZ7B3bZz40U_s-yDQVwFFq_8ujO1vPadpWugVkyl--R7ogtm9L2mw-Yd9vs0Bqc9PGfUa3ABqabbaRt3iydU-EYCsa6LHqq6f48KYYC5-tThuBbeu2Qgis7JgnEtcuXN5CIva-7K612P73OiC1F7lPmrdbLDtNx3OF28G=s1080\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixzozvipUMx3-z7jCY_RQDZ7B3bZz40U_s-yDQVwFFq_8ujO1vPadpWugVkyl--R7ogtm9L2mw-Yd9vs0Bqc9PGfUa3ABqabbaRt3iydU-EYCsa6LHqq6f48KYYC5-tThuBbeu2Qgis7JgnEtcuXN5CIva-7K612P73OiC1F7lPmrdbLDtNx3OF28G=s320\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"809\" data-original-width=\"1080\" /></a></div>\nA Philanthropist Prince Engr. Promise Nnanyereugo, has wiped away tears from the eyes of a widow by construction  by a 3 bedroom bungalow for a widow in Ezira community, Orumba South  Local Government Area of Anambra state.\n\nHe extended this kind gesture through Prince Onyendozi Foundation .\n\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Speaking with newsmen at the handing over ceremony to the beneficiary, Mr Nnanyereugo said he was moved to tears upon sighting the dilapidated mud house in which the woman was residing for years and immediately sought to change the situation of the woman.\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTQw_kW_WbxWr2ykmuqndNAXkP7WGbiwKP3VbZ70i06kBMiMP7X9Lyt7oArh-wUDdChksBGmfrLI4QvAu4MF_Vpv1WKBEfXvJfX9ltFRt8Q9OmN8F6En6aqZFP-On1OxbnlmATmHgelfIhcVboJ9L8q46Hjud91ML8hOcmCTR3SaEH2LGImIJvvDLG=s1080\"><img src=\"https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTQw_kW_WbxWr2ykmuqndNAXkP7WGbiwKP3VbZ70i06kBMiMP7X9Lyt7oArh-wUDdChksBGmfrLI4QvAu4MF_Vpv1WKBEfXvJfX9ltFRt8Q9OmN8F6En6aqZFP-On1OxbnlmATmHgelfIhcVboJ9L8q46Hjud91ML8hOcmCTR3SaEH2LGImIJvvDLG=s320\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"809\" data-original-width=\"1080\" /></a></div>\nHe therefore called on all organisations and  well meaning Nigerians to  be their brother\'s keeper and seek  to make life better for  those in need in whatever measure they can be of assistance,  according to him, it would go a long way in making the world a better place to live for everyone.\n\nResponding in a show of appreciation, the Beneficiary, Mrs JOnwuchekwa\'s  expressed delight over the gesture extended to her, prayed God to replenish the purse of the Philanthropist.\n\nShe said, \"my Joy knows no bounds as my prayers for my benefactor is that only God will bless him for his humanitarian gesture towards me and my family\'\n\nThe Son of the widow, Mr Chikodiri Okereke  expressed joy, \"he said when Prince Nnanyereugo told me that he was going to assist my family in building the house, it was like a joke but to my surprise he started the project and has materialized.\n\nNarrating their experience, Chikodiri  said he has been living  in the house for over 38 years as he  was born and raised in the house with his 5 siblings.\n\nHe prayed to God to continue blessing the Philanthropist for him to be able to do more for many widows and less privileged people in their community.\n\nChikodiriw narrated how he wished to get a better place for the family to live but couldn\'t as he couldn\'t raise the necessary funds to do so but he was glad Prince Onyendozi came to their rescue\n\nHe went further to express gratitude to the benefactor showering him with prayers.\n\nThe Philanthropist Prince Engr. Promise Nnanyereugo,did not stop at giving out a reconstruction 3 bedroom bungalow to the widow, he also gave out rice and other food items to the less privileged families in the community, with the message of demonstrating the essence of Christmas to his community.\n\nIn his comment after commissioning the remodeled building, former member that represented Orumba North and South Federal Constituency Honourable Ben Nwamkwo praised the benefactor for extending hands of assistance to the less privileged citizens In the society,.\n\nHe went further to charge other people not to leave the service of assisting the poor to the care of the political officer holders, according to him, God is the rewarder of people who do good to the poor in the society.\n\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>','Man Builds 3 bedroom bungalow for a widow in Anambra','','publish','open','open','','man-builds-3-bedroom-bungalow-for-a-widow-in-anambra','','','2021-12-29 22:52:12','2021-12-29 22:52:12','',0,'https://reportdesks.com/?p=3615',0,'post','',0),(3616,1,'2021-12-29 22:51:52','2021-12-29 22:51:52','','IMG-20211229-WA0322','','inherit','open','closed','','img-20211229-wa0322','','','2021-12-29 22:51:52','2021-12-29 22:51:52','',0,'https://arisenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20211229-WA0322.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),