Metro Archives - Page 94 of 211

Feb

28

2024

Nigerian Film Distributor Honored at Toronto Film Festival

Economy, Entertainment, Lifestyle, NewsMetro

Joy Odiete, the founder of Blue Pictures Cinema, has been awarded the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) Award of Excellence for her outstanding contributions to the African film industry's content distribution sector. The award recognizes her years of dedicated service since entering the industry in 2005. Expressing her gratitude, Odiete emphasized the significance of the award and its acknowledgment of Blue Pictures' efforts to reshape the narrative of African cinema. She thanked TINFF and the Mayor of Brampton for the recognition, attributing the achievement to the collective efforts of her team and partners. TINFF is renowned for its celebration…

Feb

27

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Barr Chris Agidy, Ned Nwoko’s abducted aide has been killed, body recovered by police.

Metro, NewsAbuja, Bandits, Boko Haram, FCT, Kidnappers, Kidnapping, Metro, Ned Nwoko

Barrister Chris Agidy, the Senior Legislative Aide (SLA) to Delta North politician Senator Ned Nwoko, who was kidnapped by bandits in 2023, has been murdered. SP Josephine Adeh, the Federal Capital Territory's Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed this on Tuesday. Remember that in November 2023, gunmen kidnapped at least 19 people from their houses in the Galadimawa neighbourhood of the nation's capital. According to previous investigations, 12 of the abductees were slain. However, the identities of the deceased were unknown while the legislator and security personnel resumed their efforts to save the lawyer. The FCT PPRO confirmed the assassination on…

Feb

27

2024

By David Okoye

Civil Servants Applaud Tinubu’s Decision to Implement Oronsaye Report Recommendations

NewsMetro

Civil servants in Abuja have expressed support for President Bola Tinubu's decision to merge, scrap, and subsume departments and agencies of federal ministries as a measure to reduce the cost of governance. They praised Tinubu's leadership for implementing recommendations from the Steve Oronsaye report, which previous administrations had failed to act upon. The Oronsaye report, submitted in 2012 and reviewed in 2022 by former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari respectively, outlined measures to restructure and rationalize government parastatals. Doris Nsa , a civil servant, commended Tinubu's administration for prioritizing cost reduction and stated that the implementation of the report's…

Feb

26

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ohanaeze youths to NLC: Don’t take your protest to Igbo land.

Abia State, Economy, Lifestyle, Metro, NewsMetro, Nigeria, Politics, Security

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the most prominent Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) not to hold any kind of demonstration in Igbo territory. It will be recalled that the NLC had planned nationwide demonstrations against the hardships facing the nation on February 27 and 28. However, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the national president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, stated in a statement made available to journalists on Monday that the NLC protest will not take place in any part of Igbo land. Ndigbo, according to Okwu, had been subjected to a number of unfair treatment in Nigeria. He…

Feb

26

2024

By Amos Oge Kalu

Aba makes history today as Tinubu unveils the Geometric Power plant.

Abia State, Business, Economy, Metro, NewsAba, Business, Economy, Metro

President Bola Tinubu will today officially open the first integrated power plant in Nigeria, the Geometric Power Plant, located in the Osisioma Industrial District of Aba. Aba is the commercial centre of Abia State. Turbine 3 was turned on at 3:39 p.m. on Sunday, February 25, 2024, in anticipation of the Power plant's commissioning. This event caused a great deal of joy for the engineers of Geometric Power and their colleagues at KS Energy. President Bola Tinubu was originally supposed to inaugurate the 181-megawatt Geometric Power facility on Saturday, February 24. Nine out of the seventeen Local Government Areas in…