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Nov 21, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Steve Oko
·Says 70% of schools without access to basic sanitation servicesNo fewer than 48 million people including 18 million children in Nigeria still practise open defecation, according to UNICEF. According to UNICEF, 3.5 billion people all over the world are living without access to safe toilets. UNICEF also said 95 million people in the country are without access to basic sanitation services.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Anayo Okoli |Vincent Ujumadu |Chidi Nkwopara |Steve Oko |Chimaobi Nwaiwu |Dennis Agbo | +3 more
Enugu — The lingering insecurity in the South East region is not abating. The situation, especially in Anambra and Imo States, is getting out of hand, and giving the people serious concern. Residents of the region daily live in fear. Very recently, members of the crew of Super Sports going to cover the match between the Super Eagles and the Mediterranean Knights of Libya in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, were kidnapped in Isseke, a border town in Ihiala council area with Orlu, Imo State.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Ugochukwu Alaribe |Chinonso Alozie |Steve Oko
By Ugochukwu Alaribe, Chinonso Alozie & Steve Oko Commercial activities in most parts of the South East states were grounded, yesterday, in continuation of the sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, over the incarceration of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kalu. Despite the success of the weekly directive, IPOB, yesterday, denied declaring a sit-at-home exercise for October 21 and 22 in any part of Igbo land.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
lucky-wap-ams.op-mobile.opera.com | Daniel Abia |Davies Iheamnachor |Steve Oko |John Alechenu
By Daniel Abia, Davies Iheamnachor, Steve Oko, John Alechenu, Chioma Onuegbu & Dickson Omobola PORT HARCOURT — Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Senator Adolphus Wabara, yesterday lamented the woeful outing of his party in Saturday’s local government election in Rivers State, says the party has lost the state.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Steve Oko
…Says DSS blocked legal team access to KanuBy Steve OkoMr Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has lamented that he does not know when next he would be allowed to have access to his client currently incarcerated at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS. Ejimakor made the lamentation Friday evening after an attempt by Kanu’s legal team to visit him was allegedly rebuffed by DSS operatives.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Steve Oko
The Abia Pensioners' Forum, a pressure group within the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), has disowned a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed between the state government and NUP leadership, which requires pensioners to forfeit their gratuities and a percentage of their pension arrears. The pensioners are demanding the full payment of their pension arrears and gratuities.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Steve Oko
…Grants 90-day moratorium for property owners in AbaBy Steve OkoAbia State Government has postponed the resumption date for both public and private schools in the state for the 2024/2025 academic session. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Okey Kanu, who disclosed this during a press briefing on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, gave a coinciding Muslim holiday as a reason for the postponement.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Steve Oko
By Steve OkoThe Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has demanded an immediate end to the continued persecution and victimisation of its members at the Federal University of Technology FUTO, Owerri, by the Vice Chancellor, for their opposition to “the controversial promotion” of a former Minister for Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ibrahim Ali Pantami, to the rank of a Professor.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Steve Oko
...Orders state govt to withdraw his staff of officeThe newly coronated king of Arochukwu ancient kingdom of Abia State, (Eze Aro), His Eminence Dr Eberechukwu Oji, has been restrained by court from parading himself as Eze Aro. This is coming barely one week after the glamorous coronation ceremony of the oil magnet and Pastor-turned monarch. There had been a tussle over the royal stool between Dr Eberechukwu Oji, and his kinsman, Godwin Kanu Idei.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Steve Oko
Kingship tussle tearing apart, Obohia Ndoki Community in Ukwa East Local Government Area of Abia State, took a new twist Wednesday, as locals from the community stormed the premises of the Ministry of Local Government & Chieftaincy Affairs, Umuahia to register their grievances. The protesters, mainly youths who carried placards with various inscriptions, accused some officials of the Ministry of taking sides with certain individuals with vested interest to impose a new king on the community.
