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Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Edward Nnachi, Leke Baiyewu,  Dennis Naku, James Abraham, Raphael Ede and Peter Dada Published 6:20 am Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Edward Nnachi, Leke Baiyewu,  Dennis Naku, James Abraham, Raphael Ede and Peter Dada Published 6:20 am The Federal Government on Tuesday expressed anger over a plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous P...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tony Okafor, Sunday Nwakanma and Raphael Ede Published 12:40 am Published 12:40 am No fewer than nine persons were killed in Anambra State in different circumstances on Monday. While two policemen and three others were killed during an attack on the Anambra Zonal Police Headquarters in Ukpo, Dunukfia Local Government Area of the state, four others were killed in cult-related violence. The attack on the police headquarters happened around 4am. A source said, “Some ho...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu Published 12:32 am THE apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide on Thursday said those encroaching on land in Alaigbo were provoking their people and Igbo deities. Ohanaeze President General, Prof. George Obiozor, who stated this during a press conference in Enugu, declared that “there is no ‘No Man’s Land’ in Igbo land”. Obiozor warned the Federal Government to rethink, reflect and act fast before the prophecy of th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu Published 5:11 am Patients and their relatives , on Wednesday, protested against alleged poor food offered to patients and the poor sanitation at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital at Park Lane, Enugu. They also protested against alleged nonchalant attitude of medical workers in the way they attend to patients, especially those on emergencies, which had caused many death at the hospital. The parents of a 15-month-old girl, Daniela, Mr and ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu Raphael Ede, Enugu Published 4:45 am THE Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has attacked a former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Interior, Lt.Gen. Abdulraham Dambazau (retd.), for comparing the Indigenous People of Biafra, O’odua People’s Congress and other pro-Biafra agitators with a terrorist group, Boko Haram. MASSOB described as unguided and reckless the utterances of the former minister, maintaining that s...

Punch Newspapers Sections Chidiebube Okeoma and Raphael Ede Published 1:11 am Published 1:11 am The South-East governors on Sunday said they would set up a joint security vigilante, Ebube Agu, for the zone. The governors stated this in a communiqué issued after  the first South-East security summit they held with all the heads of security agencies in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The communiqué read by the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi,  stated, “ The meeting resolved to maintain a ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu The people of Ajuona Obukpa Autonomous Community in the Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State have sued the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, seeking N100m damages for alleged degradation of their environment. The community, in suit No N/86/2020 before an Nsukka Division of the Enugu State High Court, is also seeking a perpetual injunction restraining the university from continuing the construction of its 11,900-room hostel,which was causing the p...

Raphael Ede, Enugu THE apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Wednesday, said the food blockade to the south by some northern ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters Some southern state governments and farmers have dismissed the blockade by northern food suppliers, saying it is an opportunity for the South to  boost its food production capacity. Officials of the states including Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Enugu and Ondo in separate interviews with The PUNCH, on Monday explained their actions to ensure self-sufficiency in food and animal production. But Ondo and Cross Rivers states went further to take a s...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu The Enugu State Police Command has appealed to law-abiding residents of Oruku community to remain calm, while it hunts the killers of their town union Vice Chairman, Samuel Ani, who was shot dead at his residence. The command, in a statement by Daniel Ndukwe, regretted the callous and brutal killing of Ani by those it said should have protected him if he was being attacked. The statement read in part, “The command received an incident report that o...