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…Nigeria to conduct first fully digital census in April 2023 Helen Okoro, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Honorable Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission, NPC, Darlington Okereke, has declared the 2022 Trial Census in the state open. Announcing the commencement of the exercise in the state capital, Abakaliki, during a press briefing held, Friday, July 1, 2022, … [Read more…]
Contrary to general assumption, the smashing of kidnappers’ hideouts in parts of Anambra State is far from bringing an end to the criminal enterprise in the South East, as more of such dens have been discovered in the region. Saturday Sun investigations showed that the Umunneochi/Lokpanata axis of Abia State, Mbano/Mbaise and Isi-Uzo areas of … [Read more…]
Ahead of the constitution of the campaign organisation of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the crisis rocking the party appears far from over. The latest development, Saturday Sun reliably gathered, may put a clog in the wheel of the opposition party’s determination to triumph in next year’s presidential … [Read more…]
The former Deputy Senate President and his wife, who are still in detention in UK, in a suit they filed through their team of lawyers led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, prayed the court, filed motions and orders. The applicants raised 20 grounds they urged the court to consider before granting their request. Ekweremadu, through … [Read more…]
Group, Obuoffia Youths for Peter Mbah, congratulates Enugu PDP Guber standard-bearer, Mbah …lauds Governor Ugwuanyi, Jim Nwobodo and Chimaroke Nnamani Chetanne Chinelo, Enugu A political support group, Obuoffia Youths for Peter Mbah, has congratulated the Enugu State PDP Flag-bearer, Barr. Peter Mbah, on his emergence to fly the party’s flag as her governorship candidate in … [Read more…]
N30m property destroyed in Enugu college fire There was pandemonium on the premises of the Peaceland College of Education, Enugu as fire gutted some parts of the school’s female hostel. The institution is located opposite the Matured Students Programme (MSP) of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), near the popular Nkpokiti Junction, … [Read more…]
2023: Your time is not now, Dino Melaye to Peter Obi A former Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has appealed to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi that the time is not ripe yet for him to be the president of Nigeria. Melaye, who made the appeal in … [Read more…]
JUST IN: Court favours Ekweremadu, orders NIMC, others to release Ukpo’s biodata A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, to release the official bio-data of David Nwamini to a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. It was earlier reported that Ekweremadu and wife had, in … [Read more…]
An Islamic Sharia Court in Ningi, Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, has sentenced three men including a 70-year-old to death by stoning having found them guilty of homosexuality. The case against the three condemned persons commenced on June 14, 2022, when members of the Hisbah Vanguard operating in the Ningi LGA through Adamu … [Read more…]
The three main parties’ presidential candidates: (from left) Peter Obi, LP; Bola Tinubu, APC, and Atiku Abubakar, PDP. Ambali, therefore, urged the three prominent presidential flag bearers from All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, to come out with a plan on how to achieve local government autonomy. He said: “On that background, … [Read more…]
As part of efforts to push the Federal Government to meet the demands of striking university-based unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has said it would embark on a one-day national protest. NLC decried the lack of progress in the negotiations with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association … [Read more…]
A Federal High Court in Abuja is scheduled to hear a case instituted by Senator Ekweremadu and wife today. Last week, the London Metropolitan Police arrested and charged Ekweremadu and his wife for allegedly bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting. The UK police had said the alleged donor, Ukpo Nwamini David, was … [Read more…]