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  A Servant Leader Goes Home: A Tribute to Charles C. Ifeanyi (1934-2026) By C. Don Adinuba   It says a lot about the kind person Chief Charles C. Ifeanyi was that when he retired as the second or third person in the hierarchy of the entire Nigerian Customs Service, he had no house anywhere in the world. Most Nigerians would find this fact extremely difficult to accept because ours is what social scientists call a low-trust society, or a society with a very low stock of values like integrity, honour, loyalty, and trust. When we, however, remember that General Yakubu Gowon was our Head of State for nine years until he was overthrown in a military coup in 1975 and yet he had no house anywhere, or that Dr. Michael Okpara was the Eastern Region Premier from 1960 to 1966 but had nowhere to call his own house till 1983 when friends contributed money to build one for him in his village in today’s Abia State, you would begin to understand that Chief Ifeanyi was one of the few truly ex...

  Umahi Opens Completed Sections of N350 Billion Enugu–Onitsha Road for Easter celebration. NKIRU NWAGBO  The completed sections of the N350 billion Enugu - Onitsha express way was this Thursday opened for road users by the Minister for Works Engr Dave Umahi ahead of the Easter season. Speaking at the event, Umahi recalled the deplorable condition of the road prior to the current administration, noting that commuters previously spent over seven hours traveling between Enugu and Onitsha due to years of neglect and stalled construction. “This is the most important route in the Southeast,” the minister said, stressing that the project had been awarded long before 2023 but remained largely abandoned for about eight years with little or no meaningful progress. According to him, the road was initially being handled under a tax credit arrangement involving MTN and construction giant RCC. However, he said the project suffered delays until the intervention of President Bola Tinubu, who...