Author: Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu
Alexandra Dominic-Chukwu is based in the eastern region of Nigeria. She covers politics, news writing, feature stories, among others. She has multitasking skills and can easily adapt to any working condition. She enjoys reading and writing.
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Abubakar Momoh, the Minister of Niger Delta Development, Wednesday, met with former president Goodluck Jonathan to discuss issues bothering the Niger Delta region, and how to tackle the crude oil theft and infrastructure in the state. The visit of the minister to the former president was to seek advice on how to better address the perennial challenges in the region. As part of his strategic consultation, the Minister also met Asari Dokubo, to proffer solutions to the many challenges bothering the oil-rich region. According to report, the country suffered a shortfall of 470,000 barrels per…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- An Inspector of Police and five members of the State Security Joint Task Force code-named “Operation Search and Flush”, have been paraded for allegedly robbing members of the public at gunpoint on different occasions. Parading them yesterday, the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mohammed Ahmed Barde, said the suspects were; A Police Inspector, three personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and two personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corpse (NSCDC). Names of the suspected officers are; “NA Kelechi Chijoke, ‘m’ 30 years, (NDLEA), NA David Nwaji ‘m’ (NDLEA), CAIII…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) in Abuja says the demands of the striking primary school teachers in the FCT are not feasible. Abubakar Abdullahi, the national chairman of the association and chair of the Abaji Area Council, stated this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. In a communique issued on Wednesday, the Abuja chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) directed all primary school teachers in Abuja to begin an indefinite strike from Thursday. According to the communique, the strike action followed the failure of the six area councils’ chairs…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- China’s National Immigration Administration (NIA) will launch new services, such as online appointments and inquiries for foreigners’ visas and other relevant documents, on its service platform starting 9 October. The platform’s new service menu would feature online appointments for applications for individual visas and other documents. READ ALSO: Presidential Spokesman Dismisses Claim That Nigerians Can Now Travel To UAE Immediately It would offer online inquiries about the progress of the issuance of individual visas and other documents and China-issued foreign permanent resident identity cards. It would also feature online inquiries about the passport information of…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Disastrous flooding in Libya has left more than 30,000 people homeless, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday. The figures referred to the particularly hard-hit port city of Derna alone, the UN organisation said. Thousands more have lost their homes in cities in the east of the country after two dams broke in eastern Libya near Derna, sweeping entire neighbourhoods into the sea. Some 10,000 people were missing, and according to the administration in the east of the country, more than 5,000 people have died. Two rival governments were vying for power…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The ruling on a subpoena application for President Bola Tinubu’s records from Chicago State University (CSU), was on Tuesday adjourned shortly after the institution denied knowledge of a certificate the Nigerian president submitted to the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to run for office. Before Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, CSU lawyer Michael Hayes categorically stated that the school was not in a position to authenticate Tinubu’s certificate as either fake or genuine. This, however, contradicts the school’s previous assertions that it issued…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has disclosed that Nigerian importers would soon start clearing their goods from the ports in Cotonou, Benin Republic. He said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the end of a two-day working visit by the Director-General and senior officials of the customs service of Benin Republic. During the two-day meeting, customs personnel from both countries entered into various agreements in order to boost trade relations between Nigeria and the Benin Republic, as well as curb smuggling. Responding to a question at the event, he said,…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, has disclosed that the command collected a total of N676 billion as revenue between January and August 2023. This was made known by the outgoing Customs Area Controller, Auwal Mohammed, during the handover ceremony to the incoming controller, Babajide Jaiyeoba, in Apapa on Tuesday. Mohammed was redeployed out of Apapa ports a few weeks ago following his promotion to the rank of Assistant Controller General of Customs in charge of Technical Services at Customs Headquarters, Abuja. Jaiyeoba, on the other hand, was transferred from Oyo/Osun command…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- As subsidy removal palliatives Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, on Tuesday distributed 50kg bags of rice each to 3,100 beneficiaries in Awe, Keana and Obi Local Government Areas of the state. Governor Sule also presented N5,000 to each of the beneficiaries across the three LGAs in order to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal as it affects the people. Speaking during the distribution exercise, Sule said, “This is a continuation of the distribution we have carried out in other local government areas of the state, and these palliatives are in many forms.…
ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- African Presidents, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), ministers, investors and United Nations leaders will be joined by music, sports and film stars for an exclusive two-day forum on Africa’s future at Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI). GABI is a platform for promoting business, trade, and investment across the continent. At a virtual news conference, GABI unveiled the lineup for its flagship event ‘Unstoppable Africa’ scheduled for September 21-22, in New York. The two-day event, co-convened by the African Union on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, serves as a pivotal forum for leaders to…