There are Indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have to postpone the scheduled 2023 general elections if President Buhari acts on the electoral bill sent to him after February 22, 2022. This is because immediately after the 2019 general elections, INEC, which is the electoral umpire empowered […]
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Parts of Eke Oyibo Market Amawbia, Awka South, Razed by Fire
…Goods Worth Millions Of Naira Destroyed Goods Worth Millions Of naira were destroyed when parts of the popular Eke Oyibo Market, Amawbia in Awka South Council Area, were gutted by fire at the early hours of Friday, 18th February, 2022. Sources said that the inferno which started between 4.30 and […]
Renowned Philanthropist Uko, Laid to Rest in Umuawulu, Awka South
It was a moment of grief and sorrow as the entire Obi family, friends and well wishers at home and in the diaspora buried a promising young man, international business mogul based in Ireland. A philanthropist and a devout Christan; Late Mr. Jerry Ifeanyichukwu Obi (Uko) was buried in his […]
National Under-20 Female Handball Arrive Conakry for 28th Africa Women Junior Handball Championship
The National Under 20 Female Handball team have arrived Conakry, Guinea, for the 28 Africa Female Junior Handball Championship. The National Junior Handball Female team left Nigeria through Muritala Mohammed Airport in Lagos on Thursday morning with the team leaving colourfullyHead Coach, Coach Bukola Duru, talking to press men before […]
NYSC Call-Up Letters Out on Sunday, COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Test Compulsory — DG
The National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, has said that all the Prospective Corps Members and other Camp participants for the 2022 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Exercise would undergo the compulsory COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT). NYSC Director-General, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, disclosed this on Friday, during a live joint webinar by […]
Court Sentences 38 to Death Over Deadly Bombings that Claimed 56 Lives in India
A court in India has sentenced to death a record 38 people for a deadly terror attack in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in 2008, in which up to 20 bombs were set off across the city in hospitals, shopping centres and parks, leaving 56 dead. It was the first time so […]
Anambra Police Command Reacts to Fatal Accident at Police Check-point, Ihiala
The Anambra State Police Command has reacted to the fatal accident which occurred at the Ihiala axis of the Onitsha-Owerri Road, Ihiala local government area of the state, on Friday, 18th February, 2022. Two lives were lost while 9 other persons sustained various degrees of injury in the road crash […]
Anambra Police Commissioner Seeks Traditional Rulers Support Assist Police in Combating Insecurity
Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Echeng, says traditional rulers have vital roles to.play in the fight against crimes and criminality. The Police Commissioner said one of the ways of doing this is for the traditional rulers to use their positions to open channels of communication to their subjects in […]
Nigeria Sprint Star, Okagbare Banned for 10 Years for Doping
Nigeria’s Olympic sprinter and 2008 long jump silver medallist, Blessing Okagbare has been banned for 10 years for doping.The disciplinary tribunal of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced this in a statement on Friday.According to the AIU, Okagbare got a five-year ban for the presence and use of multiple prohibited […]
Canadian Police Begin Operation to Clear Covid-19 Trucker-Protests
Weeks after ‘trucker-led” protests against Covid health rules broke out in Canada, the Canadian police on Friday began a massive operation to clear the protest – which had been clogging the capital, Ottawa for three weeks – with several arrests made and trucks towed away. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” started […]