It was an atmosphere full of merry on Friday 24th November 2017 as the new Flash Tunnel Hotel was unveiled in a grand style.

The hotel which is situated at No 1 Bridge, Amuri Road, Enugu, is uniquely structured to meet the tourist needs of individuals from all works of life.

The event was grandiose and magnificent as it was graced by paramount rulers, chiefs, politicians, celebrities and distinguished officers of the country.

Among the distinguished dignitaries in attendance were HRH Igwe Okwe 1 of Eziokwe, John Okafor (Mr Ibu), Comrade Monday Diamond (The SUG President of IMT Enugu) and other dignitaries who arrived at the peak of the event.

HRH Igwe Okwe 1 of Eziokwe who was there alongside his cabinet members on the official invitation of the owner of the hotel, Nwamaechi Ogbuefi Nnanyelugo officially invited HRH said that he is honored to be the person to commission the Flash Tunnel Hotel. He further said that the hotel is as a matter of fact the best hotel in Amuri because is distinctively built to meet the international standard.

The event featured song performances by numerous artistes, comedy performance by De Prince of Abuja, dancing competition, ogene performance by Mr Ibu and friends, and lots more.

In an interview with the manager of the hotel Mr. Michael Nnaji , he said that the hotel is uniquely structured and designed to meet the international standard, he however revealed to Coal City Newz that The Flash Tunnel Hotel is a Home Away from Home.

In a related interview, Mr John Okafor (Mr Ibu) said the hotel will render the best possible services to the public as the management has deployed grounded staff to this end.

There was so much to eat and drink as the guests were entertained with different foods.

It was indeed a day to remember for the people of Amuri.

Source:http://www.coalcitynewz.com/2017/11/28/the-opening-of-flash-tunnel-hotel-unfolds-in-grand-style/

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His Excellency, the Governor of Enugu State Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has approved the recruitment of 2000 Tutorial Staff across the 291 Public Secondary Schools in the state.

The vacancies are advertised according to the tutorial staff needs of each school.

Applications are therefore invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacancies so advertised.

Applicants must possess any of the following qualifications: NCE, B.Ed, in any of the subjects advertised.


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The Enugu state government has disclosed that it will soon post specialists and consultants to its district hospital to further improve health-care delivery in the state.

This statement was made by the state’s commissioner for health, Dr. Ekochin Fintan after the inspection of some district hospitals in Enugu North-Senatorial Zone.

The hospitals inspected by the commissioner are; the Enugu Ezike district hospital, Nsukka district hospital and the on-going United Bank of Africa (UBA) sponsored college hospital in Nsukka, GRA and were certified fit to continue with their medical provision.

Dr. Ekochin while inspecting this college hospital built through the corporate social responsibility of the UBA, assured that the Governor Lawrence Ugwuanyi, led administration is moved to ensure that health care in the state are up to standard practices and urged medical practitioners in Nsukka district hospital and Igbo-Eze North district to do their utter most best to save lives of the sick in the society.

He said that the hospital had massive structures as well as medical equipment which would greatly assist the higher manpower and professionals to be posted to the hospitals.

On the on-going UBA sponsored college hospital in Nsukka GRA, the commissioner thanked the organization for their corporate social responsibility project meant to improve the healthcare delivery of the people. He said that the college hospital when completed and functional would have a full range of medical equipment and manpower to serve its purpose and complement what Nsukka district hospital is currently offering.

The commissioner inspected every department and urged for careful handling of medical equipment and impelled them to make a report for the replacement of new apparatus without delay. He maintained that Enugu State Government has manpower, facilities and equipment to handle any disease in the area.

He was impressed by the number of women who turned out to receive antenatal care. Dr. Ekochim encouraged the pregnant women to keep to the responsibility of visiting hospitals for medical checkup till their delivery. He advised that it’s only certified medical personnel can provide genuine medical care and warned them not to visit quarks for safety of their lives and the unborn child.

He noted that the government would strength all district hospitals to further improve on the primary program of the government which is the free maternal, nursing mothers and infant medical service.

According to him, the Governor is giving great attention to healthcare especially the free maternal and infant healthcare services currently running in the state.

Earlier, Dr. Anthony Agu, the chief medical officer in charge of Nsukka district hospital thanked the state government for the equipment and drugs regularly provided for the hospital. Agu lauded Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for the on-going ultramodern structure meant for more wards in the hospital.

A pregnant woman at the hospital, Mrs. Veronica Ugwu, thanked the government for the free maternal, nursing mothers and infant in the hospital and the entire state, and asked God for His continual blessings on the Governor


Source:http://www.coalcitynewz.com/2017/11/14/enugu-plans-to-improve-health-care-delivery-in-the-state/

THE Umuneke Progressive Front (UPF) has faulted the former governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime over his criticism of the last weekend’s local government election in the state.

The group, which is the premier umbrella organisation for all the communities in Chime’s Udi clan, described the former governor as “a bad loser”, insisting that the 4th November election was the best by any administration in Enugu State since 1999. UPF added that the former governor did not deserve more than the 19 votes, which he garnered for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at his polling booth.

In a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu, President of the group, Hon. Emeka Aneke, dismissed allegations of irregularities in the last council leveled on the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, ENSIEC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by the former governor. UPF alleged that Chime ran an autocratic leadership in which party faithful and stakeholders had no inputs whatsoever into the councillorship and chairmanship candidates of the party.

“Again, unlike now that he had the opportunity to cast ballot at his polling booth, did he ever allow his processor, Chimaroke Nnamani, the opportunity to cast any vote? ENSIEC under Sullivan Chime was anything but independent as there was no semblance of election,” the group said, because he superintended over selections,” they emphasised.

They described Chime as “a noisy neighbour, trying to appease disappointed APC national leaders, who mistakenly thought they had captured an elephant in him, not knowing that he remains a political featherweight, who will never be able to win his polling unit”.

“We wonder how a man who could not win a senatorial seat as a sitting governor or touch the lives of his people positively for the eight years expected to be rewarded with undeserved votes by the same people he oppressed and talked down on. “His eight years as governor were a colossal waste to our people, hence his father’s status was brought down even while he was governor (although UPF does not support such extreme venting of anger and disappointment)” the statement added.

They said the PDP under the leadership of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi would continue to make a clean sweep of the polls even if conducted a million times as people like the ex-governor were a liability to the APC since he bequeathed only mountains of foreign and local debts as well as unpaid workers salaries and pension benefits to the elderly.

“We advise our brother, former governor Chime to climb down from his high horse and tell his party the truth about his disastrous outing in the council poll, starting from the abysmally loss at his polling booth”, UPF concluded.


Source: http://www.coalcitynewz.com/2017/11/08/kinsmen-fault-ex-governor-chimes-criticism-of-enugu-council-election/

Former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme is alive, stable and responding to treatment, an official of Memfys Neuro-surgical Hospital in Enugu and a family member have said.

The official told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Tuesday that “Ekwueme is still in Memfys Hospital”, even though President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered he should be flown abroad for better care.

NAN reports that the former vice president was admitted to the hospital for a chest infection.

NAN reports that contrary to reports in some quarters, the former vice president is stable and doing well.

The official told NAN that Ekwueme was receiving the best attention from the hospital.

The Official maintained that though the hospital would not give out information about its patients, “but the rumour that he is dead is false”.

“He is recovering and doing well. People should not spread false information.The family members are always here,” the official said.

The Federal Government had undertaken to fly him abroad for special attention once he is more stable.

Also, Igwe Laz Ekwueme, the traditional ruler of Oko community in Orumba North Local Government of Anambra, corroborated the hospital official’s statement.

According to him, Ekwueme is alive and recovering from illness.

Laz, the musicologist, who is also the younger brother of the former Vice President, told NAN in a telephone interview in Awka on Tuesday that people had called the family to ask about the state of the elder statesman.

“You people should stop disturbing me with all these calls. Ekwueme is alive and recovering please,” he said.


Source:http://www.coalcitynewz.com/2017/11/08/family-debunks-rumour-of-alex-ekwuemes-death/

The Enugu State House of Assembly resumes sitting today, 7 November 2017 after four weeks recess.

The sitting started with a procession at about 10:32 am led by the speaker of the house, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi. The opening prayer was said by the speaker shortly after the procession.

The speaker of the house welcomed the honourable members of the house to the sitting, after which he recognised the presence of the following secondary schools on excursion to the House: Annunciation Secondary School, Enugu, Godfrey Okoye Secondary School and Veritas International College, Enugu.

The leader of the house Rt. Hon. Ikechukwu M. Ezeugwu proceeded with the first reading of the Land Use Charge Law (Amendment) Bill (Hand Bill, 14), 2017.

The honourable member representing Udi South constituency Hon. Bismark C. Eneh read out the Enugu State Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Bill, (Hand Bill, 15), 2017, for the first time.

In the Order of the Day, a bill for a law to amend the Enugu State Investment Development Authority Law, No.5, 2015 and to provide for other matters related thereto (Hand Bill, 13), 2017 was read for the second time by the leader of the House Rt. Hon. Ikechukwu M.Ezeugwu, the deputy leader of the house Hon. Mary Onyinye Ugwu seconded the motion, after which the majority of the house supported the motion.

The speaker of the house, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi moved a motion for the amendment of the designation of ‘Managing Director’ to be changed to’ General Manager.’

The motion was supported by the honourable member representing Nsukka East constituency Hon. Christian Nwamba. Hon. Nelson Uduji, the honourable member representing Awgu south constituency further seconded the motion of Hon. Nwamba Christian, after which the majority of the house supported the motion.

The speaker of the house congratulated the entire members of PDP for their massive victory in the just concluded election. Some members of the house expressed their heartfelt joy over the massive victory of the PDP.

A motion for adjournment was moved by the leader of the house Rt. Hon. Ikechukwu Ezeugwu to Thursday, 9th November 2017.The motion was seconded by the deputy leader of the house Hon. Mary Onyinye Ugwu and adopted by all. The sitting ended at 11:33am.


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A former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has called for the cancellation and rescheduling of the Saturday local government election in the state.

Mr. Chime also told the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) not to contemplate announcing results arising from the exercise.

The former governor made the call on Saturday night in Enugu while briefing journalists on the outcome of the exercise.

He said that the call was necessary to save ENSIEC from ridiculing itself by announcing ‘fictitious results’.

He said that from the events that played out across the state, it was obvious that the electoral umpire was not prepared for the election.

“They should go back and do their homework. No election held today. They should reschedule the election and be more prepared for it and forget about electoral fraud,” he said.

Mr. Chime said that it would have been in the best interest of the state government to allow for a free and fair election in order to test their popularity.

“I believe it would have been in the interest of the government to actually allow a free and fair election. That is the only way they can actually know their strength and whether they are doing well or not.

“If you do what it was today and you have fake results all over, they may be going in for a shocker in 2019 as the election will not be conducted by ENSIEC,” he said.

He said that his experience at his polling unit was very unfortunate and sad, adding that it was a resurgence of those primitive days.

“I went to vote in order to encourage people around there but sadly I think we have gone back to those primitive days. They were no result sheets and other sensitive materials.

“We observed impersonators with all sorts of cards to vote. Some were turned down while others succeeded.

“This is a situation where you have well known card carrying members of a party also functioning as electoral officials like supervisors and presiding officers. It was that bad,” he said.

Mr. Chime said that what played out during the polls could be likened “to where your opponent is your umpire in a contest”.

“I did not see anything close to an election or resembling free and fair election. In fact in some places there were no voting at all. We describe it as unfair.

“So elections properly so called did not hold in the state,” he said.

Mr. Chime said that the state government had before now held four local government elections, “but we never experienced any such nonsense as we did today.

“If this is what they plan to do in 2019 general election they should start looking for something else to do because it will not work,” Chime said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that protests by opposition parties over non-availability of result sheets during the exercise resulted to violence in many areas.

The opposition parties had insisted that voting would not hold without the presiding officers showing them the result sheets.

Earlier, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, commended ENSIEC for organising what it the described as the peaceful local government elections.

Speaking after monitoring the elections in the state, the National President of NANS, Chinonso Obasi, told journalists that he and his colleagues were pleased with the conduct of the elections. He applauded Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for providing an enabling environment, which he said gave the electorate the opportunity to exercise their franchise.

Mr. Obasi explained that despite complaints by the opposition over alleged late arrival of election materials, his team’s observations from the polling units visited showed that the exercise was successful, peaceful and in accordance with the commission’s guidelines.

Source: http://www.coalcitynewz.com/2017/11/06/ex-enugu-governor-wants-cancellation-of-local-govt-election/