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Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, at the weekend, inaugurated 16 out of 19 Commissioner-nominees.Among those inaugurated were first female Health and Agriculture Commissioners, Dr. Ngozi Okoronkwo and Prof. Monica Ironkwe, respectively.

As the jostle for ministerial list reaches the home stretch, there are strong indications that no fewer than five former governors will feature in the president’s list of nominees that is heading to the Senate for approval between now and next week.

Africa’s richest man and popular industrialist, Aliko Dangote, has extended warm congratulations to the Publisher of The Guardian newspaper, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru on the occasion of the newspaper’s 40th anniversary.

President Bola Tinubu has emerged Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The decision was reached during the organisation’s 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community in Bissau, capital of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on Sunday.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, accused the self-styled separatist, Simon Ekpa, of using the pro-Biafra struggle and detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to enrich himself at the expense of life, property and wellbeing of Ndigbo.

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House of Representatives member for Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency, Cross River State, Dr. Alex Egbona, has charged his colleagues in the National Assembly to strengthen their oversight responsibility to hold the executive accountable. 

Terrorists, yesterday, killed 12 persons, injured others and razed houses at Farin Kasa and Sabon Gari communities in Mangu Local Council, Plateau State. This raised fatality figure in the area to 231 within two months.

Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), yesterday, confirmed the death of 20 people in an auto-crash that involved an 18-seater bus, which collided with a moving trailer in Badagry area of the state.

To further increase insurance penetration through motor insurance policy coverage, AXA Mansard has assured policyholders of rebates on procurement of third-party and comprehensive schemes in the country.

National Senior Citizens Center, (NSCC), has said that it has secured 21.6-hectare farmland under its Grandmothers Arise for Good Initiative economic tree crop and vegetable planting project to engage women and men aged sixty and above in productive living.

National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person, (NAPTIP), has commended the Nigeria judiciary over what it described as ‘recent landmark convictions’ on Sexual and Gender Base Violence, (SGBV), and related offences under the Violence Against Persons Prohibition, (VAPP), Act