Final year student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, reportedly commits suicide

Fayose Blasts FG, Miyetti Allah Over Threat On Ekiti People

FULL TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016, BY EKITI STATE GOVERNOR, MR AYODELE FAYOSE ON THE THREAT BY THE MIYETTI Allah CATTLE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA TO UNLEASH TERROR ON THE STATE

James Ngilari Remanded For N167m Fraud

A High Court sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, has ruled that the former governor of Adamawa State, James Ngilari, be remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

A statement by the EFCC’s spokesman for the Gombe Zonal office, Gbenga Aroyehun, which was made available to newsmen in Bauchi, said that Justice Nathan Musa of the Adamawa State High Court, presided over the court sitting which sat in Yola on Wednesday.

Recession: Osinbajo, Governors In Crucial Meeting

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday held the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting with state governors and other council members in Abuja.

The meeting started at the Council Chamber of the State House around 11:10 am

About 23 State Governors were in attendance when the meeting started.

23 Niger Delta Militants ‘Killed’ In Gun Battle With Soldiers.

Twenty-three Niger Delta militants were allegedly killed during a firefight with troops of the Nigerian Army. Ibrahim Attahiru, general officer commanding (GOC), 82 Division, Enugu, disclosed this on Saturday, saying 55 assorted weapons were recovered and 38 camps destroyed.  He added that 91 illegal refineries were destroyed and many of the suspects fled with various degrees of injury.

Herdsman sustains gunshot wounds, three others missing in Enugu reprisal attack -

The attack was reportedly carried out on a Fulani cattle rearers’ settlement in Aku, in Igbo-Etiti LGA of Enugu State, by youths of Aku community.

It was gathered that the relationship between members of the community and the herdsmen had been tense for a long time due to misgivings on the part of the villagers over the destruction of their crops by cows.

Fashola. 14 Companies Partners FG On $1.75bn Solar Power Project. 1125MW

The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja signed a Front-Runner Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) worth 1.75 billion dollars with 14 companies to build 1125 Megawatts(MW) capacity of renewable power in the country.
Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, who signed the documents on behalf of the government, said the agreement was to demonstrate government’s commitment to diversify Nigeria’s power industry.

Two suspected homosexuals escape jungle justice in Enugu State

Odinaka Orji, 32, a driver and Nonso Ejimene, 22, an accountancy student from Ezeagu, were almost lynched by irate mob yesterday, at Coal Camp over homosexual activities. Both men were taken into custody and are helping the operatives in their investigations.

7-year-old boy detained for over month for accidentally killing someone, regains freedom

Chibuike Miracle Oramalu was released this evening in Enugu State, Punchng reports. The primary two pupil has been detained since May 30, after accidentally firing a gun, which killed a 12-year-old boy, Oluebube Boniface, in the Independence Layout area of Enugu.

Mom of 7-year-old boy being detained by the Police over an alleged murder, cries out

Chibuike Oramalu, has been detained by the Enugu State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 12-year-old boy, Oluebube Boniface, on May 29, 2016, Punchng reports. According to his mom, Nwakaego Oramalu, a single mother-of-five, Chibuike has been in detention since May 30.

She said the incident happened at a residence where she worked as a housekeeper. Her words: “On May 29, while I was away in church, my boss’ son, Chukwunanu Oforma, an NYSC member, asked Chibuike and his 10-year-old brother, Ifeanyi, to tidy up a room belonging to his father.

These 15 States are Going Bankrupt

• Poor states: Yobe, Zamfara, Ekiti, Borno, Kebbi, Nassarawa, Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe, Jigawa, Bauchi, Imo, Katsina, Niger
• Rich states: Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Ogun, Edo
• Lagos IGR dwarfs that of 32 states
Fifteen states in Nigeria may go bankrupt as over 90 per cent of their revenues come solely from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA). The states’ Internally- Generated Revenues (IGRs) in 2015 were far below 10 per cent of their FAA in one year from June 2015 to May 2016 covering the one-year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Fake doctor runs Abuja hospital for 10 years undetected .

According to Daily Trust, Victor Moffat Akpan ran a private hospital, Luna Maternity & Surgery, for 10 years in Gwarimpa, Abuja, and offered surgeries and antenatal care, using forged certificates. He opened the hospital in 2006 as a “surgeon” using a forged practice licence, 4 years after MDCN refused to grant him licence to practice as a homeopath. .

Who Wants Our President Dead?

by Olalekan Waheed Adigun

What started as a big joke suddenly became a reality. In a desperate bid to stop the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari the heat of the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state Governor, did the unthinkable. He single-handedly placed an “obituary” of a living person on the front pages of The Punch and The Sun (January 19, 2015). What was his reason for this: “Will you allow history to repeat itself? Enough of State burials.”

Senate: 12 Controversies In 12 Months

1 Emergence of Saraki
The emergence of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki (APC, Kwara Central), as the Senate President on June 9, 2015, in what was described as an “apparent disregard” to the directive of the All Progressives Congress (APC), laid the foundation of the controversies that has enveloped the upper chamber.

Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, edged out Senator Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe North), the preferred candidate of the APC to clinch the Senate’s plum job, after allegedly resting on the strength of senators of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). The alliance apparently paved the way for the emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, (PDP, Enugu West), as the Deputy Senate President, a development that dealt a serious blow to the APC’s control
of the upper chamber.

Alleged Killing Of Herdsmen: North Raising False Alarm Against Ndigbo — IPOB

ENUGU—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the North of allegedly raising false alarm that Fulani herdsmen were being killed in the South East in a bid to start another round of slaughtering of southerners in the area.

IPOB said the false allegation of killing of Northerners in the South was being orchestrated by a “faceless Northern Consensus Movement,” pointing out that this style was used by the north to prepare the grounds for the pogrom that followed the January 1966 coup d’état in the country.

#OneYearInOffice: Ohanaeze Hails Ikpeazu, Sets Up Vigilante Group

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Wednesday, commended all the governors of the old eastern region, including Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State for their achievements within the last one year.

The leadership of the Ohanaeze Youth Council stated that the Governors deserved commendation for delivering the dividends of democracy to their people since their assumption of office in the last one year.

My Experience As A Corp Member In Benue State.

I remember the first time I saw my call up letter,I felt like the whole world had trembled on my feet. I felt sad and angry, ready to pour out my anger on anybody who came my way.
I remember not being serious about the whole camp thing anymore. I remember buying all my things a day before leaving.
At first,I was a bit confused on how I was going to get to the camp in Benue state. I remember going to the NYSC section on NL searching for corp members who were posted to the same state. Luckily for me, I found a bunch of then and I was added to a whatsapp group which was created by one of the monikers.

940m Grazing Reserves For Herdsmen:lawmakers Fault Buhari

N940m grazing reserves for herdsmen: Lawmakers fault Buhari

May 21, 2016

About 350 federal and state lawmakers from the Southern part of Nigeria have vowed to resist any move by the Federal Government to acquire land by force from their territories for grazing reserves.

The lawmakers said they would rather support the establishment of private ranches for cattle owners in the Northern parts of the country.

Ekweremadu, PDP Hypocrisy - By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah

Jonathan Nda-Isaiah

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will never cease to amaze me. There are better odds for finding virgins in the maternity ward or Nigeria to be corruption free than for the PDP to shed its spots of hypocrisy and self-delusion.

Last week, leaders of PDP, and governors of the south-east rose from a meeting in Enugu Government House and warned against awarding road contracts in the south-east to incompetent contractors.

Enugu Police embark on aerial surveillance with helicopters to fish out would be mischief makers

Read a statement issued today, May 20 by Enugu State Police Command:

"As part of measures to ensure that entire Enugu state and its environs are made safe and secured,the state command through the Airwing of the Nigeria police Force have begun an aerial surveillance of the three senatorial zone of the state beginning from Ukpabi Nimbo and Nsukka zone today 18/5/16.This exercise will offer the platform to fish out would be mischief makers,have proper sight of all the nooks and cranies of the state for effective crime prevention and control.According to Enugu cp Emmanuel Ojukwu,it is the gesture of the Inspector General of police and the Government to ensure that the entire area is made safe while advising members of the public not to entertain fear or panic as the helicopter patrols their areas.