FIRST LADY OF NIGERIA, REMI TINUBU EMPOWERS 250 ELDERLY IN ANAMBRA. (PHOTO).
First Lady of Nigeria, Remi Tinubu empowers 250 elderly in Anambra Nigeria’s first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has empowered 250 vulnerable elderly indigents of Anambra State with N250,000 cash through her Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme, aimed at promoting the well-being of the elderly citizens and ensuring they live with dignity and joy. The scheme, themed ‘Finding joy in old age’, is in its third edition and it’s designed to support 250 vulnerable elderly citizens from the age of 65 and above in all the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory and veterans from the Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association. According to the scheme, the total sum to be disbursed to the 9,500 targeted beneficiaries across the country is N1.9 billion, as approved by the Governing Board of the Renewed Hope Initiative. It is further noted that each state of the federation, including the FCT and DEPOWA, will receive a sum of N50 million. The wife of t...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,today thursday arraigned a serving member of the House of Representatives,Nse Bassey Ekpenyong before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo,Akwa Ibom State on a 9-count charge of forgery and alteration of documents.Ekpenyong,representing Oron Federal Constituebcy in Akwa-Ibom State,was alleged to have forged an Abia State Polytechnic's Ordinary National Diploma Certificate and uttered a December 1999's West African Examination School Certificate,WASSCE and thereby committed perjury before an Electoral Tribunal where he claimed that the certificates were genuine.The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.In view of his plea,prosecution counsels Ahmed I. Arogha and S. Hassaini asked for a trial date and accelerated hearing of the matter.However,counsel to the defendant,Emmanuel Isangidoho,told the court that he had filed an application for bail for his client and urged the court to admit him to bail.Justice Ojukwu granted the defendant bail in the sum of N10,000,000.00 {Ten million Naira} with one surety in like sum.The surety must depose to an affidavit of means,provide 2 ecent passports photograph and 3 years tax clearance certificate.The surety should write an undertaken to produce the defendant throughout the trial and all the documents of the surety must be verified by the Registrar.Justice Ojukwu also ordered the defendant to be remanded in prison custody pending the perfection of his bail.The case has been adjourned to 12,26 April and 3,4 May,2017 for trial.One more photo below.
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