* Mr Christian Aburime, the Press Secretary to the Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, insisted that the state government was only collecting taxes as provided by the law, without harassing anyone. Aburime dismissed the allegations of using thugs to harass the bakers over tax, explaining that those who collect the taxes are officials of the government legally empowered to do so. He said, “The allegations that Soludo is using thugs to harass bread manufacturers in Anambra over tax are baseless and unfounded. How does asking them to pay taxes which they are supposed to pay increase the prices of bread? Is wheat produced in Anambra?
* All is now set for the 23rd Annual International Conference/Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) Nigeria holding at the ASUU Secretariat of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The conference tagged ACCE-UNIZIK 2022 is slated to hold from Tuesday 24th to Friday 27th January, 2023 with the theme: “Communicating Science, Technology, and Innovation in Times of Economic Distress, Terror, and Pandemic”.
* The Anambra Internal Revenue Service (AiRS) has warned that business concerns which fail to remit N50 stamp duty charges from their businesses will be prosecuted. The (AiRS) in a statement signed by Mrs. Sylvia Tochukwu Ngige who is Head, Taxpayer Education and Enlightenment also advised those business concerns which had not collected the stamp duty tickets to do so immediately. Ngige explained that the stamp duty is charged for every purchase above N1000 paid through any digital process. Duties on such transaction should be remitted to Anambra State Government.
* Managing Director of Anambra Signage and Advertising Agency (ANSAA). Mr Tony Ujubuonu said the pulling down of the campaign billboards of Mr. Peter Obi and that of Victor Umeh, mounted on the pedestrian flyover along the popular UNIZIK junction in Awka, has nothing to do with Soludo. According to Ujubuonu “in August, Anambra state government sent out a message to all political parties to pay up their campaign fees but labour Party has not paid. A public notice announcement was placed stating that Presidential candidates would pay N10m, Senatorial candidates would pay N7m, House of Representatives candidates would pay N5m and state House of Assembly candidates woukd pay N1m as campaign fees and that LP has not paid .
* Come Wednesday, the 25th of January 2023, the people of Nnewi and environs, especially the Corporate Mothers will be witnessing something novel in the form of Breast Pump that can extract breast milk from Nursing Mothers into feeding bottles and kept for their babies to enjoy, when they are away for long hours. Lady Ebele Ejike an Assistant Director of Nursing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi and an Assistant Representative of OCI/ SweetHome Foundations has this to say about the program: ” We are planning to showcase and infact give Nursing Mothers this Breast Pump. It helps mothers a lot especially the working class mothers. It will help them to express their breast milk, so that their babies will be well fed and lacking nothing.”. On how it works, she replied:” It’s not magic. And it’s not like any other Breast Pump.
* The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, on Sunday, at Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, joined other service commanders in the state, to honour security forces/personnel who paid the supreme price in service to the nation’s unity. In keeping hope alive, the CP stated that “the occasion gives cause for reflection to remind us of the sacrifices made by our security forces in preserving the unity of this country and protecting lives and property.”
* The campaign billboards of the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi and that of the party’s senatorial candidate for Anambra Central, Senator Victor Umeh, mounted on the pedestrian flyover along the popular UNIZIK junction in Awka, have been pulled down on the alleged order of the Anambra State government. The LP had accused the Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, of ordering the dismantling of all the LP billboards mounted at strategic places across the state and replacing them with those of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the governor’s party.
