The Rivers United Football Club, Head Coach, Stanley Eguma that was kidnapped on Tuesday June 15, around 4.00 pm has been released. Stanley was allegedly abducted on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway on Tuesday, while returning from Gombe to Port Harcourt, after a Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) game. Eguma’s release was confirmed by the general...
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ENUGU-EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT DISAPPOINTED AS UGWUANYI REMAINED SILENCE ON ZONING, INSIST ON DIALOGUE, EQUALITY, JUSTICE COME 2023 Gubernatorial ELECTION.
Stakeholders and people of Enugu East Senatorial districts (Nkanu land) were left in dismay as Ugwuanyi remained silence on zoning idea insist on dialogue,justice, equality and fairness come 2023 Enugu Gubernatorial election. Businesses were shot down in Enugu on Thursday as the Nkanu east Senatorial Districts held political rally to demand for zoning of Governorship...
18-year-old #EndSARS protester gives birth in prison custody
The 18-year-old girl was arrested, along three others – Ayodele Bukunmi, Ojo Samuel and Ani Obinna, during the crisis and had been remanded in the correctional centre in Ondo town, Ondo State. It was gathered that the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit felony, arson, riotous assembly, stealing and malicious damage. Ogunniyi was said...
GANI ADAMS WRITES UN, US, OTHERS OVER RISING INSECURITY IN S’WEST
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has called on the United Nations, the African Union and the United States of America to intervene in the recent killings in the South West, warning that “the bubble may burst soon.” The Aare, in a letter, titled, ‘Urgent need to stop killings by Fulani herdsmen...
UMAHI ASKS POLICE TO RE-ARREST APPOINTEES OVER EBONYI RENEWED CONFLICT
FOLLOWING renewed hostilities in Effium community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Governor David Umahi, has revoked the bail earlier granted his appointees and other stakeholders in the area. Recall that there were intra-communal clashes in the Effium community, which led to the killing of many persons and destruction of property worth millions of...
NBA, Oyo fault Buhari’s grazing routes gazette
The Nigerian Bar Association and some Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Thursday said the Federal Government lacked the power to dabble into land matters. While they doubted the existence of any gazette on grazing routes recently referred to by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), they said the Land Use Act overrides it even...
Enugu East holds rally, demands governorship ticket
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday said that justice and equity would determine his successor in 2023. Ugwuanyi disclosed this in a rally held by the people of the Enugu East Senatorial District to demand the governorship seat of the state in 2023. Our correspondent noned that major markets and motor parks in...
Bandits overpower cops, abduct scores in Kebbi federal school
• Gunmen kill policeman, cart away students, four others in two vans• Last week, 300 bandits with AK47 operated for eight hours in my area – Rep Bandits struck in Kebbi State again on Thursday when they kidnapped scores of students and four others at the Federal Government College Birnin Yauri. A teacher in the...
BUHARI TO DETERMINE APC CONVENTION DATE – APC GOVERNORS
GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has the final say as to when the party’s proposed national convention would hold. Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Abubakar Bagudu, said this after a late-night meeting of the forum, in Abuja, on Wednesday. He...
EFCC GOES AFTER ORJI KALU AGAIN, SLEEPS ON SHEMA, OHAKIM, OTHERS’ CASES
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said the commission’s intelligence unit had uncovered a fraud of N6bn looted from an unnamed state government’s coffer. Bawa disclosed this while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said, “Since I came on board, we have embarked...