By Izunna Okafor, Awka In what has been widely described as a landmark judgment and a strong statement against gender-based violence, a 23-year-old security guard, Michael Okoi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl who was hawking Ọkpa around the Upper Iweka axis in Onitsha, Anambra State. The judgment was delivered…
The governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) for the November 8 election in Anambra State, Sir Paul Chukwuma, has criticised the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over the alleged removal of his campaign billboards by the state government. Chukwuma, in a statement from his media office on Tuesday, said that he was…
…Hosts Governors’ Wives, RHI Coordinators The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has urged the National Assembly to make laws backing the Office of the First Lady both at the federal and state levels just as done in the United States of America. According to her, doing this would go a long way in improving the ability…
Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has led a delegation of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The visit aims to strengthen cooperation and share experiences between the two parliamentary bodies. During the meeting with the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group of the European Parliament…
The Ondo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun has arrested the suspected killer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ward chairman, Mr Nelson Adepoyigi in Ose local government area of the state. The Commander of the security outfit, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, who disclosed the arrest of the suspected killer on Monday, said the remains of the…
The Chief Security Officer of the Transtell company and Envoy Group, Onitsha, Anambra state, Mr. Ralph Njoku, has dismissed social media report which claimed that soldiers from the 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha, molested and threatened staff of the company, and also took away the company’s vegetable oil products worth two hundred million naira (N200,000,000). A…
Labour Party candidate for the November 8 Anambra State governorship election, Dr. George Moghalu, has described as systemic collapse of law and order, the attack on Oko Polytechnic that led to the death of two students and abduction of two others. Mogyin a statement by spokesperson of Director Media and Publicity, George Moghalu Campaign Organisation,…
The Abia State deputy governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, in the 2023 election, Dr Desmond Chima Anyaso, the member representing Bende North State constituency, Mr Nnamdi Ibekwe, PDP, and Dr Okey Ezeala of APC, were among prominent politicians that led their supporters to join Governor Alex Otti and his Labour Party in…
The Management and Staff of the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) this morning locked up offices and deserted the party secretariat in protest of an attempt by Senator Samuel Anyanwu to force his way into the office of the National Secretary at the party secretariat with suspected thugs. The party staff who,…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Considerable number of students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, may drop out or defer their studies, following the recent imposition of penalties by the University Management on late payment of school fees henceforth. This follows a directive contained in an internal memo from the office of the Acting Registrar of the…
