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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 People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. The Ministe...

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 hoodlums invaded the zonal headquarters at Ukpo in the early hours of Monday, but our gallant men repe...

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 the “late Chinua Achebe’s book, ‘Nigeria: There was a country’ becomes a self-fulfilling proph...

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 Mrs Leonard Onuchukwu, were said to have sparked the protest when they refused to pay the bill given...

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 such comments were also debasing and unprofessional. It noted that it was Dambazau’s kinsmen who he...