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Medallion Communications Limited has said it is expanding its Interconnect and Data Centre infrastructure to Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano and Asaba in an effort to accommodate more service providers in other parts of Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer of Medallion, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, who made the disclosure recently in Lagos, said the expansion, which is in phases would help boost ...

A middle aged woman was killed on Monday while no fewer than ten others were injured in a road accident along the Enugu Onitsha expressway, Awka in Anambra State. The ghastly motor accident which occurred around 2.30pm involved three cars: a Honda CRV jeep with registration number HTE 140 AA and some motorcycles. An eye witness, Uzoma Oji said the ...

Fire has destroyed property worth millions of Naira in Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday. Eye witnesses told newsmen that the incident occurred at No. 40, Owerri Road, Enugu. The sources said the fire, which consumed four shops, started at about 12.15 p.m and lasted till 12.50 p.m. According to the sources, residents came out in their numbers to help the ...

Gov. Darius Ishaku has proposed about N96.5bn as Taraba budget to the state legislature for 2018 fiscal year. While laying the estimates before the legislators in Jalingo, Ishaku explained that the budget proposal was about 12 per cent lower than the estimate for 2017 when the state budgeted N110.1 billion. He said that N41.2 billion of the Taraba proposed budget ...

In continuation of its massive infrastructure rehabilitation campaign in Enugu State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration yesterday approved another set of road contracts worth N1.4billion. Addressing newsmen after the meeting of the State Executive Council, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr Greg Nnaji, who was accompanied by his counterpart in the ministries of information, education and commerce and industry, Mr. ...

Enugu state is located in southeastern Nigeria. Enugu town, the state capital, lies at the foot of the Udi hills, surrounded by attractive stretched hills and lies at an altitude of 240 metres above sea level. Conformably, was coined out of the 2 words ‘Enu’ (top) and ‘Ugwu’ (hill) resulting to ‘top of the hill’. Enugu was founded in 1909, ...

Business Day reports that Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has secured 50,000 hectares of land at Obollo Afor, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State to build multi-million truck transit park. Executive Secretary, NSC, Hassan Bello, represented by Ignatius Nweke, a director in Enugu Zone, who disclosed this in Enugu at the on going Enugu Trade Fair said that the  Enugu ...

“A former Commissioner for Lands in Enugu State Deacon Okey Ogbodo has protested the alleged illegal demolition of his property by the Enugu Capital Development Authority (ECDA).”- The Nation He urged all and sundry to prevail on the ECDA to backpedal, adding that in seeking redress he would follow due process and God’s leading. He said, “I do not have ...

Vanguard reports that the Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated 91 units of three bedroom bungalow in Vyvian Estate, Ibagwa Nike, in Enugu East Local Government Area of the state. The Minister of State for Works, Power and Housing, Alhaji Mustapha Shehuri, said that the feat was part of efforts to reduce housing deficit in the country. Shehuri said that plans ...

There are some cities in Nigeria that are quite fabulous with grandeur but you don’t usually get to hear so much about these cities because they are in a class of their own only known to few. These cities may not stand the competition prominent Nigerian cities of Abuja, Lagos, Calabar and Port Harcourt pose but they still stand out ...