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Tenants groan under exorbitant house rents in South-East On •Lawyers, agents contribute to rise in rent —Onitsha landlord •Govt can’t regulate rents, they didn’t regulate prices of building materials—Okolo •It’s fraud for lawyer to collect legal fee from tenants —Comr. Igbokwe By Anayo Okoli, Vincent Ujumadu, Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Chinedu Adonu, Peter Okutu, Chinonso Alozie & Ikechukwu Odu ENUGU — SHELTER is one of the basic needs of life. Yet it is very hard to get this essential need of life. In the South East, rent is exorbitant and way out of the reach of the poor. The low...

Vanguard News 2021 Budget: Umahi presents N122bn proposal to Ebonyi Assembly On By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Tuesday presented the 2021 budget proposal of N122 billion and Appropriation Bill of the State Government to the Ebonyi State House of Assembly. The budget which is tagged: “Budget of Stabilization and Consolidation in a Recession” placed the recurrent estimate to be 40% of the total budget. Making his presentation at the hallow Chamber of the State House of Assembly, Nkaliki, the Governor noted that financing of the budget “is expected to ...

Vanguard News Cultism: I will not spare anyone involved ― Umahi On By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, on Sunday, stated that anybody caught in the practice of cultism will be prosecuted not minding his or her status in the society. Umahi stated this during a church service at Christ Embassy Church, Mile 50, Abakaliki. According to him, those who have been arrested so far in the practice of cultism will provide the names of other persons involved in the State. “The school that was shut because of cultism shall remain shut. “In the past few days, we have h...

Vanguard News Medical Doctor dies in a Hotel’s swimming pool in Ebonyi On By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki A Medical doctor, ThankGod Odo Friday, died in a swimming pool belonging to one popular hotel (name withheld) in the State. The deceased hailed from Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. Vanguard gathered that Odo, a medical intent with Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AE-FETHA) was said to have gone with his friends to the hotel to swim before the ugly incident occurred. The deceased was to round off his internship on December, 12th, 2020 as the unfortunate brou...

By Peter Okutu THE private school belonging to one Barr. Agbom Friday in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has been reportedly shutdown, following his refusal to join the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state. The development which was said to have been allegedly instigated by the chairman of Ezza South LGA, Engr. Ken. Eze, has provoked lots of condemnations in various quarters. However, reacting to the allegation on phone, the council boss who stated that the information released to the press was false noted that he (chairman) does not have the powers to shut down the o...