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Dec

01

2022

Senate considers Orji Kalu’s bill seeking to make Criminal Justice Act ‘more humane’

Lifestyle, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsCrime, Kuje prison, Metro, Nigeria, Opinion, Orji Uzor Kalu, Politics, Security

A bill seeking to amend of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) has passed second reading at the senate. The bill sponsored by him Orji Uzor Kalu, senate chief whip, is seeking to make the law more “effective and more humane”. The bill passed first reading at the upper legislative chamber in July 2020 about a month after he was released from prison. The former governor of Abia state was released from the Kuje Correctional Centre on June 2, 2020. He had spent five months in prison.In December 2019, a federal high court in Lagos convicted the chief whip of money laundering…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

ASUU Strike: Lecturers receive full salaries for November, arrears withheld

Education, PoliticsASUU, Education, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

Lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have received full salaries for the month of November 2022, The OHAFIATV News can confirm. The eight-month arrears remained withheld by the Federal Government. A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday. “Some of our members have started receiving salaries and I can confirm to you that we received our full salaries for the month of November. However, the arrears are still withheld.” The Federal Government refused to pay the striking lecturers for the eight…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ikpeazu signs female inheritance Bill into law

Abia State, Lifestyle, News, PoliticsAbia State, Lifestyle, Next Level, Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, Politics

Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has granted assent to the Bill, which guarantees the right of females to inherit and own property in their father’s family in the State. Abia Assembly some weeks ago passed the Bill to bring Abia State in conformity with international best practices of eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. While appending his signature on the Law, Ikpeazu made it clear that his administration shall lean on the side of reason and common sense in the discharge of its obligations to residents, noting that it has become anachronistic to continue to treat women as second-class citizens even in…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

My Govt Will Pay Equal Attention To Projects And Human Capital Development — Mascot Uzor Kalu

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Mascot Uzor Kalu, Politics

In his apt understanding of the socio-economic needs of "Abians," the Abia state governorship candidate of the Action Peoples Party (APP), Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, has promised to strike a balance between the infrastructural and human capital development of the state. He made the promise today in Isiala Ngwa South while visiting six more ABSIEC wards for his ongoing ward-round tour. "My government will not be the government that will focus on road construction, for instance, and allow people to starve," Chief Kalu said. The former Abia state Chief of Staff, therefore, assured his audience that aside from embarking on…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie – Restoring neighbourhoods without displacing neighbours

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Nigeria, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

The In-coming Representative of ABSHA for Arochukwu State Constituency sees an opportunity to restore neighborhoods that have rich histories but are experiencing hyper-vacancy due to decades of disinvestment and systemic inequities. Working with first-level technocrats and an array of city actors, he is catalyzing block-level restoration and building the wealth of Black residents – without displacing legacy neighbours. This, and many others are some of the innovative changes Dr. Sam is bringing to the table. Your Vote for Dr. Samuel is a vote for restoration of posterity. Your Vote for Dr. Uba is a vote for rebuilding of Arochukwu legacy.…