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Raphael Ede, EnuguEnugu State Police Command has appealed to law-abiding residents of Oruku community to remain calm while it fishes out the Ki...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu A priest of the Nsukka Catholic Diocese in Enugu State, Reverend Father Anthony Ali, dragged his brother, Amobi Ali, to Enugu-Ezike Chief Magistrates’ court for allegedly assaulting and threatening him and their father, John Ali. In a charge sheet, MIE/6C/2021, the plaintiffs, Fr. Ali and his father had in a three-count alleged that the defendant on February 2, 2021, at Umuopu Community, Enugu-Ezike, Igbo-Eze North, assaulted and threatened their l...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu Residents of Enugu metropolis in Enugu State, on Monday, lamented the acute water shortage that hit the city. The problem of water scarcity in the state capital, which has thrown many residents into hardship, is as old as the city itself. It has defied all solutions by different administrations. The situation, it was learnt, grew worse following the breakdown of the Oji Water Scheme, which supplies water to the metropolis, coupled with vandalism of w...

Enugu ex-Rep Ujam, dumps PDP for APC Raphael Ede, Enugu THE immediate past member of the House of Representatives representing Nkanu East/Nkanu West in the Federal House of Representatives, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, to join the All Progressives Congress. The former federal law maker and close ally of former Governor Sullivan Chime, joined the APC along with several of his supporters on Monday. He was received into APC after registering and obtaining his memb...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters There were strong indications on Monday that a disagreement among bandits in Niger State was delaying the release of 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, who were abducted on Wednesday. A top government source, who confided in The PUNCH, said the bandits, who carried out the abduction, had not agreed with the warlord government negotiated with. There was controversy over the release of the abductees on Sunday. Earlier in the ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Chukwudi Akasike, Raphael Ede, Ogbonnaya Ikokwu, Tony Okafor and Chidiebube Okeoma THE Caretaker/ Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has extended the ongoing nationwide membership registration/revalidation exercise until March 31, 2021. The first phase of the exercise was earlier scheduled to end on Tuesday, February 23rd. This was contained in a statement titled, “Extension of the nationwide membership registratio...

Fugitive policemen who allegedly killed UNIZIK student re-arrested Raphael Ede, Enugu Four fugitive policemen, who allegedly killed a final-year law student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Augustine Ugwu, in Nsukka, Enugu State have finally been re-arrested. The four policemen fingered in the murder are Officer-in-Charge of the Nsukka Anti-Cult unit, DSP Nnamdi Ochin, three Sergeants working under him, Emmanuel Ibiam, Godwin Abel, Abu John, and ASP Peter Adu, Nsukka Divisional Crime Officer 3...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has suspended a senior lecturer in the Department of Archeology and Tourism, Dr Chigozie Odum, for alleged sexual harassment of a female student in his department. In a letter obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday, dated February 15, 2021, and signed by the Deputy Registrar, Personnel Services Unit, Mrs F. C. Achiuwa, the university ordered the lecturer to stay away from the institution pending the determination ...

Punch Newspapers Sections The Nigeria Immigration Service on Sunday said there were no armed herdsmen in the country. The NIS spokesman,  Sunday James, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, also said there had been tight security at borders since the introduction of the Migration Information and Data Analysis Systems. Recall that the Federal Government had in November 2019 installed the MIDAS,  a border management technology at three international airports, ...

Buhari’s COVID-19 jail threat: States list enforcement obstacles as Nigerians shun compliance Kindly share this story: File copy: State governors, President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of NEC at the Presidential Villa in June... Published 9 February 2021 State governments on Monday explained obstacles to the enforcement of COVID-19 Health Protection Regulation 2021, which was signed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on January 27. Our correspondents, who monito...