SEREDEC Welcomes 2 New Board of Directors At 23rd Meeting
The Board of Directors of the South East Region Economic Development Company have held their 23rd meeting, scheduled to take place quarterly. The meeting which held both physically and virtually had a good number of the board members in attendance, enough to form a quorum. Minutes from the last meeting were read and corrections adopted. […]
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Ebonyi to set up mentorship programme for unemployed graduates
THE Ebonyi State Government has announced plans to start a mentorship programme that will tackle graduate unemployment in the state. Governor David Umahi, made this known during a service to mark the 10th diocesan anniversary and the foundation stone laying of Basilica of Grace Cathedral Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion, in Afikpo on Sunday. Umahi, […]
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Think home, Chukwuma Soludo tells all Anambra people
FORMER governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo, has tasked the people of Anambra State to always remember to invest in their home state, even as he observed that it was not possible for all of them to return to their state and reside permanently. Delivering a lecture as part of […]
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How to tackle infrastructural gap in South East, by Bart Nnaji
The near absence of federal government presence in industrial and infrastructural developments in the southeast has created a huge gap in the economic and security stability of the zone and its people, former Minister of Power, Prof Barth Nnaji has said. To overcome the infrastructural challenge however, he suggested a synergy among the five states […]
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Nigerian government approves N14.4bn for second Niger Bridge
The Federal Government has awarded the contract for additional works on the Second Niger Bridge linking Delta and Anambra States in the South-South and South-East zones respectively. The Contractor handling the project is Messrs Julius (Nig.) Ltd., at a total cost of #14,446,010,416.16K (Fourteen billion, four hundred and forty-six million, ten thousand, four hundred and […]
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South-east is the most secure geo-political zone – UN
Photo: United Nations Secretary General. Senator Udoma Udo Udoma says the federal government “is not surprised at the findings of the studies reported in the document” A recent report by the UN highlights the link between human security and human development with a proposition that there can be no human development without human security and […]
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South East governors mull uniform economic, security polices
Photo: Celestin Umahi, Chairman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum. Efforts at repositioning the South-East geo political zone as a major economic backbone of the country may have started in earnest as the five governors from the region resolved to pursue a common economic blueprint that would boost its fortunes. The governors, who were meeting for […]