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Ohanaeze fixes President-General’s election for January 10 Raphael Ede, Enugu The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Wednesday, released timetables for the elections into the national, state and local government offices of the body. A statement by the Ohanaeze Electoral Committee 2020, which was inaugurated by the President-General of Ohanaeze, Chief Nnia Nwodo, on Tuesday, said that the national offices election would hold on Sunday, January 10, 2021 at Owerri, the Im...

Punch Newspapers Sections • President using God as a cover-up for his failure , says Northern CAN • Comment signifies loss of control, height of waywardness – Afenifere, Ohanaeze Our Reporters The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday took a swipe at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd,), over his comment that only God could effectively supervise  Nigeria’s border w...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu The Enugu State Police Command, on Monday, appealed to residents of the state to assist it to re-arrest suspects remanded in its custody by various, who escaped. PUNCH Metro gathered that no fewer than 38 detainees escaped from police custody on Sunday. It was gathered that doctors were battling to save the life of a policewoman on duty, who was attacked during the escape bid. Police sources told PUNCH Metro on Monday that the inmates numbering betw...

NIN: Confusion as Nigerians storm NIMC centres, shun COVID-19 rules Kindly share this story: Subscribers at the National Identity Management Commission office, Alausa, Lagos office of the commission…on Monday. Photo: @prinzgbemi • Government extends SIM linkage to NIN deadline till January Our Correspondents There was confusion at the National Identity Management Commission offices across the country on Monday as Nigerians thronged registration centres to obtain their National Identity Numb...

Ex-NNPC depot manager vandalises estranged wife’s residence over divorce Raphael Ede, Enugu A mother of three, Mrs Chinyere Uzowulu, has cried for help over the alleged vandalism of the family house by her husband, Chief Afam Uzowulu, who is a retired depot manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, for challenging the divorce from him and refusing to vacate the house with her children. Chinyere, who addressed journalists shortly after conducting them round the vandalised duplex ...

Ohanaeze President-General hopeful, Obiozor, slumps in meeting Raphael Ede, Enugu There was palpable tension on Sunday at the emergency Ime-Obi meeting of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo following the sudden collapse of the leading contestant for the group’s president-general, Prof. George Obiozor. The meeting held was called to resolve differences arising from the 40-man list of electoral committee members for the 2021 election of Ohanaeze Ndigbo submitted to Ime-Obi Ohanaeze by the President-General, C...

Punch Newspapers Sections Raphael Ede, Enugu There is tension in Enugu State on Monday after over 38 criminals reportedly escaped from police custody. The PUNCH gathered that the inmates were remanded in the custody of the State Police Command for various offences. Police sources told The PUNCH on Monday that the inmates numbering between 38 and 40 escaped from the police cells at the State Criminal Investigation Department, inside the State Police Headquarters on Sunday night. Our corresponde...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Correspondents Amid the controversies over where the ruling All Progressives Congress might zone its presidential ticket for the 2023 election, a chieftain of the party and Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the founding fathers of the party won’t speak on the zoning arrangement until 2021. He said nine among those of them who founded the APC were still in the party and that they would speak at the appropriate time whether or not there wa...

Nigeria records 5,809 COVID-19 cases in 10 days, NMA predicts NIN spike Our correspondents The Nigerian Medical Association on Thursday said that the Nigerian Communications Commission’s fresh directive on   the national identification number  could lead to a spike  in COVID-19 cases. The NCC had on Tuesday directed telephone companies to deactivate telephone lines of users who failed to link their NIN to subscribers’ identification modules within two weeks. Findings by one of our corre...

‘Enugu ex-finance commissioner brought SARS who shot my son’ Raphael Ede, Enugu A woman, Mrs Angela Ozioko, on Tuesday told the Enugu State Police Brutality and Extra-judicial Killings Panel how ex-state commissioner of finance, Goddy Nnadi, brought men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and shot her son, Emeka Ozioko, during a church ceremony and took away his body since December 4, 2011. Ozioko told the panel that she had been crying for the past nine years over the disappearance...