World renowned novelist from Nigeria, Chimamanda Adichie is to be awarded her 16th honorary doctorate degree by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium on 28th April. According to the Editor-in-Chief, Glazia Communication, Omawumi Ogbe, the ceremony would take place at the university’s main campus in Louvain-la-Neuve, located 20 kilometers from Brussels. Ogbe said that the institution, which was founded by …

The Rotary Club of Ikeja-Alausa Central is set to host distinguished guests – Rotarians and non-Rotarians – on Wednesday 23 March in commemoration of its first year. Chartered by Rotary International on 23rd March 2021, the club is using the event to mobilise support in cash and kind for its ongoing and new projects. The celebratory night comes up at …

A Federal High Court in Calabar has dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges against an online newspaper publisher, Agba Jalingo. Reprieve for the publisher of CrossRiverWatch came over two-and-a-half years after he was arrested in August 2019. In Calabar on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu followed the cue of the Cross River State Government, which withdrew the charges against …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has granted reprieve to the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano. Obiano, who left office last Thursday after eight years in charge of the state, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on his way out of the country that same night. He was eventually detained at the …

MultiChoice Nigeria (well known as DStv) will now have to introduce an additional feature that allows subscribers to increase the number of times they could suspend their subscription.   This follows an order of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), which warned that failure to comply ‘would attract a fine of N5 million under the FCCPC Administrative Penalties …

On his last day in office, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has joined his successor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo to felicitate with Dr Chidi Achebe for being declared as winner of the John and Samuel Bard Award 2022 in the United States of America. Dr Achebe, second son of Late Prof. Chinua Achebe, Africa’s greatest novelist, raconteur and essayist, …

The Rotary Club of Ikeja-Alausa Central will be a year old next Tuesday, 23rd March 2021. Chartered by Rotary International, the humanitarian club whose appellation is “The Seat of Power” will commemorate its anniversary on that same day. According to its Charter President, Rotarian Deji Shonuga, it is fitting that the anniversary celebration is taking place at the designated venue …

For the second time this year, the national grid suffered a collapse on Monday resulting in blackout across the country. The states affected included Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. In a text message to its customers, the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Lagos informed that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am. …

The wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Dr Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano has expressed outrage over stripping and parading naked of a woman alleged to have committed adultry. In the ugly afterwards of her act that were captured on video and widely circulated, a group of people derided the woman as they parade her around the Aguleri community where the …

A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Lagos State Command, Chinyere Okike is the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). According to a statement by the NCS, Okike earned a second-class upper degree in the course. Another inmate, Afolabi Alegbe, a male, was awarded an MSc in the same course. …