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  • Rohr announces squad for Poland, Serbia friendlies

    Rohr announces squad for Poland, Serbia friendlies

    Adeyinka Akintunde

     

    Ahead of the friendly matches to prepare the Super Eagles for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, technical adviser, Gernor Rohr has announced 25-man squad to execute the games against Poland and Serbia.

    Captain John Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi and Victor Moses are included in the squad.

    The list also has Kenneth Omeruo is back among the defenders, with Joel Obi Stephen Eze and forward Gabriel Okechukwu also handed opportunities.

    Russia –based Brian Idowu, who scored against Argentina on his debut in a friendly in Krasnodar in November last year, and Al Ahly of Egypt’s Junior Ajayi, who earned an Olympic bronze in Brazil in 2016, are also called.

    Read Also: Rohr considers new set of Eagles for World Cup

    Ikechukwu Ezenwa, who was in goal for Nigeria at crucial matches against Cameroon and Zambia, leads the goalkeeping section, with Francis Uzoho and Daniel Akpeyi, joining the fray.

    Nigeria will face Poland 43,000 –capacity Stadium Wroclaw on Friday, 23rd March 2018, before facing Serbia at The Hive, London – home ground of Barnet FC and London Bees.

    These are the first two in a list of six friendly encounters planned for the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation ahead of the 21st FIFA World Cup finals in the Russian Federation this summer.

    Nigeria will begin their 2018 FIFA World Cup matches against Croatia on 16th June, 2018 in Kaliningrad , before having a date against Iceland and Argentina on 22nd and 26th June, 2018 respectively.

    THE FULL LIST

    Goalkeepers: Francis Uzoho (Deportivo La Coruna, Spain); Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Enyimba FC); Daniel Akpeyi (Chippa United, South Africa)

    Defenders: Abdullahi Shehu (Bursaspor FC, Turkey); Tyronne Ebuehi (Ado Den Haag, The Netherlands); Olaoluwa Aina (Hull City, England); Elderson Echiejile (Cercle Brugge KSV, Belgium); Brian Idowu (Amkar Perm, Russia); Chidozie Awaziem (Nantes FC, France); William Ekong (Bursaspor FC, Turkey); Leon Balogun (FSV Mainz 05, Germany); Kenneth Omeruo (Kasimpasa FC, Turkey); Stephen Eze (Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

    Midfielders: Mikel John Obi (Tianjin Teda, China); Ogenyi Onazi (Trabzonspor FC, Turkey); Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City, England); Oghenekaro Etebo (Las Palmas, Spain); John Ogu (Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Israel); Uche Agbo (Standard Liege, Belgium); Joel Obi (Torino FC, Italy)

    Forwards: Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow, Russia); Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City, England); Moses Simon (KAA Gent, Belgium); Victor Moses (Chelsea FC, England); Odion Ighalo (Changchun Yatai, China); Alex Iwobi (Arsenal FC, England); Junior Ajayi (Al Ahly, Egypt); Gabriel Okechukwu (Akwa United)

     

     

  • Boko Haram carried out 60 suicide attacks in Cameroon in 2017

    Boko Haram carried out 60 suicide attacks in Cameroon in 2017

    Boko Haram carried out 60 suicide attacks in Cameroon in 2017, UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms Ursula Mueller has said.

    The UN deputy relief chief stated said this on her arrival in Chad for a two-day visit to see first-hand the humanitarian situation in the country.

    Mueller would assess efforts of the humanitarian community to respond in a context of chronic underfunding, multiple humanitarian crises and development challenges in the country.

    She said that Cameroon was the country most impacted by the regional extension of the Boko Haram conflict.

    “In 2017, there were more than 60 suicide attacks in the Far North representing a 50 per cent increase compared to 2016.

    “Some 3.3 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance. In the Far North, one out of every three people is facing crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity.

    “But Cameroon’s Humanitarian Response Plan has only received five per cent of the U.S. 305 million dollars required to respond to the most urgent humanitarian needs,’’ she said.

    Mueller is expected to meet with Chadian authorities, humanitarian and development partners as well as impacted populations.

    She would visit the Lac region on Saturday to see for herself the humanitarian consequences of the Lake Chad Basin crisis in Chad.

    Her visit aims to generate greater international visibility and donour support for humanitarian needs in Chad.

    According to her, a third of the population or 4.4 million people need humanitarian assistance in 2018.

    Before travelling to Chad, Mueller wrapped up her visit to Cameroon where she called on the international community and the government to step up support for humanitarian action in the country.

    NAN

  • Between Nigeria and Cameroon

    SOME 12 so-called Ambasonian separatist leaders from Cameroon taking refuge in Abuja were reportedly deported by Nigerian authorities two Fridays ago straight to the stranglehold of Cameroonian authorities itching to put them on trial for terrorist-related activities. Nigeria had arrested the 12 in early January and detained them. Cameroon is apparently battling the separatist group from the English-speaking part of that country. Some 39 other separatist leaders deported from Taraba State, according to some reports, are also detained in Cameroon.

    It is obvious that Nigeria, which by its inexpert handling of its domestic affairs is sitting on a tinderbox, is anxious not to get involved in any separatist struggle anywhere, let alone in a neighbouring country. It perhaps reserves the right to be conservative, in contrast to past progressive Nigerian leaders who were more sympathetic to liberation movements in the 1960s and 1970s. But even in Nigeria’s present foreign policy conservatism, which some will argue is closer to being a reactionary foreign policy than anything else, Nigeria ought to observe some minimum standards of offering protection to those who seek its help, regardless of their country, creed or ideology.

    Even if the separatist leaders from Cameroon must be deported, could Nigeria not find a neutral country to take them in? Deporting the Ambasonian leaders to Cameroon is so cold-hearted and cruel that there is no word to qualify it. Nigeria has not only lost its founding vision, as tenuous and controversial as that remains, it has now also lost its heart and direction.

  • Navy hands over 3 suspects, 759 bags of smuggled rice to Customs

    Navy hands over 3 suspects, 759 bags of smuggled rice to Customs

    At least 759 bags of rice smuggled into the country from Cameroon have been seized by tbe Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

    The illegally imported bags of rice including the suspects, Yahaya Balaribe, 32, from Borno State; Godwin Owoyemi, 23 and Michael Aderemi, both from Igbokoda area of Ondo State have also been handed over to the  Nigerian Customs Service.

    Briefing reporters yesterday, the Commanding Officer, FOB, Navy Captain Yusuf Idris said the suspected smugglers were apprehended at high sea on Tuesday around 3am following a tip-off within the nation’s territorial waters.

    His words, “On January 30, the men of the Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, acting on a tip-off, intercepted and seized a large wooden boat loaded with 759 bags of rice. We also arrested three suspected smugglers along with the items.

    “In line with the harmonised standard operating procedures, the Nigerian Navy, today handover the suspects and the items to NCS for investigation and further necessary actions.

    “The Nigerian Navy, FOB, warn the would-be smugglers and other maritime offenders like sea pirates, illegal oil bunkerers and their likes to keep away from Nigeria maritime environment as the current leadership of navy will hunt for them wherever they may be”.

    The commanding officer, assured good and legitimate users of the sea of navy protection and assistance to carry out their legitimate businesses with a view to enhancing the economic prosperity of Nigeria

    He advised the intended smugglers to stay out of Nigeria maritime environment, noting that the present leadership of the Nigeria Navy will hunt them wherever they may be.

    Speaking also, the Comptroller, Eastern Marine Command, Nigeria Customs Service, Port Harcourt, Ajiya Masaya, said the fight against smuggling is a collective responsibility of every Nigerian to protect the country’s industries and also to safeguard the health of Nigerians from consuming toxic foreign goods.

    According to him, smuggling is a sabotage to Nigeria’s economy, adding that any nation that allows smuggling cannot grow its economy. He thanked the navy for collaborating with customs to curtail the continued and spread of smuggling within the Nigeria maritime environment.  

    He said, “Fighting smuggling cannot be left only for Nigeria Customs Service. Everybody has a duty to stop or reduce the menace. Smuggling is a sabotage. It is a fact that any nation that allows smuggling cannot grow.

    “As I said, fighting smugglers is not only for customs; everybody has a role to play. Please, as a member of the community, rice is still a contraband item; 2018 fiscal policy that recognises imported rice as a contraband good, is still in force.

    “I am seriously giving you a note of warning about maritime business. There are so many ways of doing legitimate maritime business, not smuggling. Don’t say we are handicapped, other security agencies, especially the navy, are with us. Any time we ask them for assistance, they respond immediately. Smuggling is dangerous to a country’s survival and prosperity.”

    One of the suspects, Balaribe, said he had been working on the boat since November 2017. He explained that as a worker in the boat, his duty was to upload and deliver the imported goods to their customers wherever they might be.

    “I work on the boat. I have been working in the boat since November 2017. The bags of rice are from Cameroon. I don’t know that imported rice from other countries to Nigeria is a contraband item.

    “We are never told; our work is to convey the goods to their destinations. Our duty is to bring the rice here, the owner of the consignment, that is one Mr. Ade, is supposed to come here and take his delivery for onward distribution to his customers. We have not heard from him since we arrived here,” he said.

  • Cameroonian separatist leader deported to Cameroon from Nigeria

    Cameroonian separatist leader deported to Cameroon from Nigeria

    A key Cameroonian separatist leader arrested in Abuja earlier this month has been deported by Nigerian authorities to Cameroon, his lawyer and the government in Yaounde said.

    Nigerian authorities on Friday deported Julius Tabe, president of a self-declared breakaway state made up of the Anglophone regions of majority-Francophone Cameroon, said his Nigerian lawyer Abdul Oroh.

    His deportation marks an escalation in Cameroon’s fight against the separatists who have taken up arms over the past year in their bid to create a nation which they call Ambazonia.

    “A group of 47 terrorists, among them Tabe, has for some hours been in the hands of Cameroonian justice, before which they will answer for their crimes,” Communications Minister Issa Bakary said in a statement.

    The Ambazonian movement has gathered widespread support due to a government crackdown on peaceful protests by Anglophones who complain of being marginalized by the French majority.

    Nigeria and Cameroon are increasingly coordinating efforts to deal jointly with the growing insurgency that Yaounde has struggled to contain – in part because most of the leading actors are orchestrating events from abroad.

    Read Also: FG to bring back 91,000 Nigerians from Cameroon

    The countries had previously been at loggerheads over the latter’s violent crackdown on the separatist movement, which has sent tens of thousands of refugees flooding across the border into its neighbour.

    In his statement, Cameroon’s communications minister praised his government’s cooperation with Nigeria, adding that the two countries “will never tolerate their respective territories serving as a base for activities that destabilise one or the other.”

    Tabe, a former businessman who had lived in Nigeria, is seen as a moderate voice in the separatist movement and has in the past promoted dialogue over violence.

    Nevertheless, he has been the target of Cameroonian authorities as a leading member of a resurgent movement to break away from French-speaking Cameroon.

    In December, his family home in Anglophone Cameroon was surrounded by government troops, he told Reuters at the time from Nigeria.

    “If you can kidnap someone like Ayuk, who wanted meaningful dialogue, who will you be able to speak to?” said Cho Ayaba, head of the Ambazonian Governing Council, a separatist body established to create an independent state called Ambazonia.

    “This is an intolerable act. Now we have no choice but to defend our homeland.”

    Reuters/NAN

  • 91,000 refugees to return from Cameroon in February

    The Federal Government (FG) in collaboration with the Cameronian government and the United Nations  High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will begin the process of returning 91,000 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon next month.

    The collaboration, which was formed through a tripartite commission, has the sole responsibility of repatriating the refugees, who are at the Minawao refugee camp.

    Head Humanitarian, Resettlement and Assistance  department, Presidential Committee on the Northeast Initiative (PCNI) Dr Sidi Ali said that the process has already began.

    He added that they are hoping that by the end of February the final process of bringing them back into the country will commence.

    Dr Ali, who revealed that the refugees are desperate to return home, lamented  poor funding.  According to him, of the N45 billion budgetted for the Northeast in 2017, only N10 billion has been received so far.

    He said: ” As we speak the Nigerian, Cameroonian governments and UNHCR have formed the tripartite commission with the sole responsibility of bringing the refugees back to Nigeria. They are currently in Minawao camp in Cameroon, the processes has already began, we are doing the profiling and making arrangements , putting the reception centers in place. Initially we where looking at February, early February but by and large, we are hoping that by the end of February the final process of bringing them back into the country will commence.

    “Relocation of IDPs and stabilisation of camps, returnees registration and profiling, the number of people that we are bringing back into the country from our neighbouring countries particularly Cameroon has grown from 80,000 last year to 91,000. It is a task that we must be able to accomplish in 2018 by putting all hands on deck to bring these people back to Nigeria.”

  • Buhari, Equatorial Guinea President meet in Aso Rock 

    Buhari, Equatorial Guinea President meet in Aso Rock 

    *Equatorial Guinea President seeks dialogue as solution to African problems

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with Equatorial Guinea President, Theodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. 

    At the end of the closed doors meeting, Equatorial Guinea President, advocated for dialogue as the solution to the myriad of crises plaguing various countries in West African sub-region.

    Speaking with State House journalists, he said that he came to visit Buhari to know about the state of his health in view of the health crisis he went through for the better part of last year.

    Stressing that the visit was also in line with a maxim that when a fellow person is down, it is the responsibility of persons around him to seek his wellbeing, he said that he was glad to see the President looking hail and healthy.

    He also congratulated Buhari for giant strides in the fight against Boko Haram, which he said had caused a great havoc which had spread to some other West African countries including Chad and Cameroon.

    According to him, through Buhari’s committed fight against Boko Haram, the insurgent group is almost eliminated but for pockets of attacks still being carried out by the insurgents.

    “One of the salient issues in the meeting was that l congratulated our dear brother for the great fight against Boko Haram. We realised that Boko Haram had caused a great havoc that had been carried all over the sub-region including Chad and Cameroon. He is doing a great job. He’s almost eradicating the menace of Boko Haram apart from pockets of attacks here and there,” he said.

    Mbasogo, who spoke in Spanish, aided by an interpreter, said the meeting also discussed security concerns in the neighbouring West African countries.

    He said that he and Buhari considered the need to work together with a view to securing a common ground for development and cooperation to achieve desired goals.

    The President who also narrated how his country had been a victim of varying security crises orchestrated by some terrorists from Chad and Sudan in collaboration with a group of deviants from France, disclosed that his decision to promptly reach out to Cameroon helped to put the situation under control.

    Narrating how the country became a victim of the first coup d’etat in 2004, Mbasogo said through the cooperation of neighbouring countries, the coup plotters were apprehended and imprisoned for several years until the government opted to pardon and free them.

    On the plan of West African leaders on the crisis which broke out in Southern Cameroon and resulted in the influx of refugees into Nigeria, Mbasogo said there is no country without its own peculiar crisis.

    According to him, it only behoves on parties concerned to put heads together and embrace dialogue as the platform for solution to the crisis.

    “Cameroon is a big nation whose crisis requires the concern of all forces. There is no nation without its own crisis. What is required is to seek solution through dialogue and use it to find a common axis. Those seeking refuge in other lands need to sit down together and find solution through dialogue. It is only through that, they can find solution to the crisis,” he said.

    On the challenge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, Mbasogo who said the pirates were destroying and sabotaging Nigeria’s development effort in the area, also advocated dialogue as solution to the crisis.

    “On piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, the pirates are destroying and sabotaging the property of Nigeria. The government of Nigeria cannot develop the area. What is warming therefore is to expect the government of Nigeria to bring the parties to dialogue for a solution to the crisis.

    “In Equatorial Guinea, we feel concerned. We all need to put our hands on deck to ensure that there is security in all regions. We have to develop our nations and we can only do so under peace and harmony,” he said.

  • PCNI battles to repatriate 60,000 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon

    PCNI battles to repatriate 60,000 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon

    The Presidential Committee on North East Initiative ( PCNI ) yesterday told the Senate that it is working diligently to ensure the successful repatriation of over 60,000 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon.

    Vice Chairman of PCNI, Tijjani Musa Tumsah, stated this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Special Duties to defend the PCNI’s 2018 budget.

    The PCNI boss told the committee that they are working following the tripartite agreement signed by the United Nations, Nigeria and Cameroon to engender a seamless repatriation of the refugees.

    Apart from paucity of fund, he said that other challenges in the repatriation of the refugees are the processes involved in receiving them.

    Tumsah noted that there were over 60,000 Nigerian refugees PCNI has to deal with in Cameroon alone.

    He added that apart from those in Cameroon there are others in Niger Republic who also needed to be returned to the country.

    Most of the refugees, he said, are willing to return home “but on our own, we are working to ensure that they are comfortable when they are repatriated back to our country; the repatriation is on-going.”

    According to him, “PCNI is working to ensure the provision of necessary items and materials that will make the returnees comfortable when the come home.”

    Tumsah who said that PCNI is not leaving any stone unturned in its effort to comply with the tripartite agreement added that the Ministry of Interior and the Refugee Commission are also involved.

    The programme of repatriation, he said, come under “Mobilisation and support for returning North-East refugees in six North East States.”

    Chairman of the Committee, Senator Abdul Aziz Murtala Nyako asked the management of PCNI to ensure the availability of funds before any contract could be awarded.

    Senator Nyako told the PCNI that its budget presentation which he lauded for “its simplicity” would be worked on and passed over to the Senate Committee on Appropriation for necessary legislative work.

  • 2019 AFCON: CAF to inspect Cameroon January 11

    2019 AFCON: CAF to inspect Cameroon January 11

     

    After initially expressing dissatisfaction with Cameroon’s readiness to host the 2019 CAF African Cup of Nations. CAF has concluded arrangement to inspect the country again to ascertain the current state of affairs. The Ahmad Ahmad led continental body has announced January 11 as commencement date for the next round of inspection.

    According to the BBC, the visit was originally due to take place in August 2016 but audit firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers withdrew at short notice without giving reasons.

    Latest reports suggest that business management consultants Roland Berger have now stepped in as the independent assessors.

    This comes after CAF President Ahmad voiced his concerns on several occasions that his organisation will find an alternative host if Cameroon is unable to host the finals.

    Although the Central African country insisted that it will be ready to host the 24-team tournament, inspection is set to get underway.

    “If the host country is unable to organise it, we will find a country that will organise it,” Ahmad was quoted last month.

    “The authorities in the country, up to the head of state, have always confirmed to us that they will be ready.”

    Meanwhile, the country has stepped up preparations for the continental showpiece on a number of proposed new stadiums and training grounds.

    The inspection team will first visit Yaounde from January 12-13, followed by Garoua on 14-15.

    Baffoussam will take its turn on January 16 and 17 whilst Doula will be visited on the 18 and 19, before wrapping up with Limbe and Buea on January 20 and 21 respectively.

     

     

     

  • Obiano bags 2017 Governor of the Year award

    Obiano bags 2017 Governor of the Year award

    Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra has bagged the “2017 Eastern State and Nigerian Governor of the Year Award’’ of the Nigerian-American with Disabilities in the Diaspora and their Public-Private Partners ( P3 ).

    Obiano was chosen for the award by the group after a “massive 2014 to 2017 performance evaluation of the 36 Nigerian state governors, including the Minister of Federal Capital Territory’s works.

    “Today, Jan. 8, we the Nigerian-American with Disabilities in the Diaspora and our Public-Private Partners (P3), chooses, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, as our 2014-2017 Eastern State and Nigerian Governor of the Year,’’ it said.Chief Eric Ndubueze Ufom, President of Houston, Texas-based Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities International ( ERPDI ), Incorporated in the U.S. made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos.

    Read also: ‘Obiano focused on developing Anambra’

    They were assessed based on works on Nigeria’s disability-inclusive and accessible urban/city developments ( building of the first Silicon Valley of Nigeria at Anambra State ), progress, peace and unity, economic, trade and industrial developments.

    Other areas of the assessment are agricultural developments, social, human, security, democracy and governance, electoral and political, entrepreneurship, job training and placements and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities.

    The rest are Disability-Inclusive Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 Agenda, especially SDGs 1-5 for women and girls and the late effects of Polio virus infection called Post-Polio Syndrome.

    The group said Obiano, broke all records because on November 20, 2017, within less than 48 hours after winning his re-election that took place on November 18, 2017 and also, within 24 hours after he was issued with his re-election Certificate by INEC, he wasted no time to move into positive actions.

    It noted that it set to work through his Managing Director, Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, Mr Michael Okonkwo, in collaborations with Nigerians in the Diaspora, led by Chief Eric Ndubueze Ufom.

    Others members of the group are Iyom Ifeoma B. Oni-Orisan, Mrs Ngozi Pauline Ikebuaku, Mr Polycarp Onyeachonam Ufom, Ms. Chinyelum Ozumba, Mrs Uche Helen Okafor, Iyom Mabel Ozumba, Mr Frances Okeke, Mrs Ngozi Okeke and Mr. Grace Njideke Ojukwu.

    The governor introduced “Willie Obiano’s Silicon Valley of Nigeria’’; the Republic of Korea’s KOICA, UNDP and Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD )’s, “Saemaul Initiative Towards Sustainable and Inclusive New Communities ( ISNC ) and A New Rural Development Paradigm and the Inclusion and Sustainable New Community Model Inspired by the Saemaul Undong’’ Institute.

    They also undertook Post-Polio Syndrome Clinics and Centres for Diagnostic and Clinical Managements of the late effects of Polio Virus Infection called Post-Polio Syndrome, Employment Developments, Work Readiness and Skills Training, Job Training and Placements.

    Also the team developed Therapeutic Recreations, Wellness and Fitness Centres for Micro Enterprise Development, Healthcare’s, sports, social engagements, capacity building and management for all the 36 states of Nigeria.

    Other African countries, including Lake Chad Basin Nations, Republic du Niger, Chad and Cameroon, with its headquarters at Enugwu-Ukwu General Hospital, Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra, as the first projects to be built at the Silicon Valley.

    The statement said that the diplomatic meeting where the history was made took place during the UN Africa Industrialisation Day, at the UNDP-Nigeria’s headquarters, Abuja, during a meeting between Anambra, Plateau, Benue, Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities International, ( ERPDI ) Incorporated and other Government/public-private Partners ( P3 ), with the UNDP-Nigeria’s Country Director, Dr Samuel Bwalya.

    “Industrialisation is a primary driver of economic growth and job creation, and will be pivotal in efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063.

    “This year’s Africa Industrialisation Day highlights the links between industrial development and Africa’s moves towards establishing a Continental Free Trade Area,’’ it said.

    The statement said it would also be critical to unleash the capacities of Africa’s young people and to strengthen African institutions.

    “Both the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 recognise these imperatives,” it quoted the UN Secretary General as saying on Nov. 20, 2017, at the UN Headquarters New York, during the occasion of Africa Industrialisation Day.’’

    Reacting to the UN Secretary-General’s call to, “unleash the capacities of Africa’s young people and to strengthen African institutions,’’ Obiano said it would be establishing the first Disability-Inclusive Silicon Valley of Nigeria being designed by Mr Michael Okonkwo, an Architect.

    He noted the project was in collaborations with Nigerians in the Diaspora, led by Chief Ufom, to ensure nationwide true local Disability-Inclusive economic developments by Nigerians, regardless of their different ethnic and religious groups, language and disability.

    The inauguration of Willie Obiano’s Silicon Valley and its Republic of Korea’s KOICA and other projects under it will be taking place on March 18 and March 19, immediately after Obiano’s swearing in ceremony.

    It will be followed by Obiano’s economic summit to be held at Houston, Texas and other selected countries around the world to introduce it to “our Ndi Anambra and Nigerians in the Diaspora’’.

    NAN