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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 registration, revalidation and register update exercise,” signed by the party’s National Secretary, Sen. Jo...

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. They were in November 2020 reported to have escaped from police custody in Enugu before detectives...

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 of the matter. The letter, with reference number UNP/SS.11700, and titled, ‘Suspension,’ read in...

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, 14 land and two sea borders to check irregular migration, human trafficking and other cross-border c...

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 monitored major cities across the country on Monday, observed that many residents were not complying with ...