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 Family and neighbors mourn woman shot by ICE agent after making Minneapolis her home  Before she was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, 37-year-old Renee Good had just dropped her youngest child off at an elementary school in Minneapolis, the city she and her family had recently begun to call home. As Trump administration officials continued Thursday to describe Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to ram federal agents with her Honda Pilot, those who knew her remembered someone very different: a gentle, kind, and openhearted mother, wife, and neighbor. Good, her wife and her 6-year-old son had recently moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood lined with older homes and small apartment buildings. Some front porches were still decorated with pride flags and lingering holiday lights. In the days following her death, neighbors grew weary of media attention. One handwritten sign taped to a front door read, “NO MEDIA ...

ORJI KALU NAMED CHAIRMAN OF SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION BY SENATE. (PHOTO).


 

The Senate has appointed Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the pioneer Chairman Senate Committee on South-East Development Commission (SEDC), a newly created regional development commission signed into law by President Bola Tinubu.¹ Kalu, a former Abia Governor and current Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privatisation, is expected to lead the commission in achieving its objectives, including civil restitution, erosion control, security restoration, and infrastructure improvement.


Senator Ken Eze was also appointed as the Vice Chairman of the committee, while other members will be announced later. The Senate confirmed the 18-member board of the SEDC, led by Dr. Emeka Nworgu as Chairman and Hon. Mark Okoye as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.


Other confirmed members of the board include:


- Ugochukwu H. Agballah

- Hon. Okey Ikenwa

- Chief Hyacinth Ikpor

- Chidi Echeazu

- Ifeanyi Agwu

- Nasiru Usman

- Hamma Adama Ali

- Kumo Edward David Onoja

- Orure Kufre Inima

- Daniel Akwari

- Chief (Mrs.) Joke Adebayo-Chukwuma

- Hon. Stanley Ohajuruka (E.D. Finance)

- Chief Sylvester Okonkwo (E.D. Corporate Services)

- Hon. Toby Okechukwu (E.D. Projects)

- Senator Anthony Agbo (E.D. Commercial and Industrial Development)

- Dr. Clifford Ogbede (E.D. Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Rural Development)


The SEDC aims to address the region's development challenges, and Kalu's leadership is expected to play a crucial role in achieving this goal.

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