BY ORIAKU IJELE & EZE EMENIKE A case of serious financial infraction amounting to over N270 million has been exposed at the Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, barely two years after the retirement of ex-Chief Medical Director, CMD, Emeka Onwe. The missing funds are the yearly emoluments for the resident doctors at the Teaching […]
The University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom has launched a new scholarship and named a room in honour of Nigeria’s former Vice-President, the late Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme. The Dr Alex Ekwueme Room for Architecture PHD students, was formally named at a ceremony in the James Weir Building at the University, attended by the Nigerian […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the death of the former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme as a big blow to the party and nation’s democracy which the late patriarch had laboured to institutionalise in Nigeria. In a statement, the National Vice Chairman of the party in the South East zone, Chief Austin Umahi noted […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday joined other prominent Nigerians to mourn former Vice President Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, who died in a London Hospital in the late hours of Sunday at the age of 85. Reacting to the death of the former Vice President in a post on his Twitter handle, President Buhari said: “I mourn […]
A former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme is dead. A statement from his family signed by his brother and the traditional ruler of Oko in Anambra State, Igwe Laz Ekwueme said that he died by 10:00pm in a London clinic, Sunday. The statement in full read, “The Ekwueme family regrets to announce […]