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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, Chief Nnia Nwodo, on December 6. Obiozor, 78, had earlier been endorsed by Imo State stakeholders as ...

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 correspondent gathered that those inmates were remanded by Magistrate Courts at the police cells during the COV...

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 was an agreement on the zoning of the presidential ticket of the party for the 2023 election. He said,...

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 correspondents showed that the country had witnessed an increase in COVID-19 cases as 5,809 people were i...

‘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 of her son. She said she visited many police stations and SARS office to look for her son, adding t...