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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Prof Aloysius-Okolie, has urged 6,313 students offered admission into various disciplines in the Institution for the 2022/2023 academic session, to eschew examination malpractices, ‘sorting’ for grades, cultism and other social vices. He congratulated the students on their successful admission into the Institution, and urged them to always pay the approved fees and register their courses within stipulated time to maintain their studentship. Okolie made the call at the permanent site of the university, at Agbani, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, during the…

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You derisively said “the Igbo are not ready.” You challenged the Igbo to produce credible candidates with capacity. You claimed that no Igbo politician has national appeal. You say the Igbo are not united, as if the other groups that have produced presidents are united. What you didn’t say is that you’re campaigning for a non-Igbo president. Nothing wrong with that, but be honest and don’t knock the nation-building imperative of having a competent Igbo as president in order to make the case for your preferred non-Igbo candidate. What you didn’t say is that you’re probably one of the Nigerians…

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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka A Non-Governmental Organization, Mother Sussan Foundation, MSF, has promised to sponsor programmes that would lift youths of Ebenebe in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The intervention is to help cushion the agony of family members of victims of the tragedy that struck the community where mourners who had gathered to bury a certain man were massacred by unknown gunmen. Reports had it that the deceased, until his death, was the leader of one of the waring cult groups in the area and was murdered by a rival cult group on December 30, 2021. It…

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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The Supreme Court has upheld the de-registration of 22 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Justice Ejembi Eko in a judgment delivered on Friday in Abuja, voided and set aside a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division which had nullified the de-registration. Recall that INEC had on February 6, 2020, de-registered 74 political parties for their failure to win any political office in the 2019 general election. The Advanced Congress of Democrats, ACD, and 21 other parties had challenged their scrapping by INEC at a Federal Hugh Court, Abuja. In its…

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President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja admonished the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to avoid being used for partisan politics, or get dragged into personal disputes, urging focus on serving the nation to entrench good governance. The President, who spoke at the Unveiling of the EFCC Standard Operating Procedures, Policies and Manuals, at the State House, advised leaders and all operatives of the commission to resist the temptation of being influenced by political actors for personal gains or to score political points. “I must advise the leadership and operatives of this commission to resist the temptation of being…

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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a fresh suit at a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights violated by the Federal Government, following his extra-ordinary rendition from Kenya in June 2021. The move is coming barely three months after an Abia High Court had indicted the Army over the military invasion of the IPOB leader’s country home in September 2017, declaring the raid as illegal. Kanu in the suit filed by his Special Counsel, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, seeks an…

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Michael Onwuka, Enugu The United States Consulate says it has trained no fewer than 160 secondary school students in Enugu in DNA barcoding. The Public Affairs Officer of the consulate, Mr. Steven Ibeli, disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu during the closing ceremony of the Back-to-Science Initiative of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. Ibeli said that the training was part of the United States Consulate’s programmes to support the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), researches in Nigeria. DNA barcoding is a system for species identification focused on the use of a short, standardised genetic region acting as a…

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By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The cold war between Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, got messier Thursday, as Umahi accused Wike of masterminding his current ordeals. Umahi who claimed Wike instigated the court action that led to his sack challenged the Riversn State Governor to public debate. The Ebonyi Governor who made the allegation while fielding questions from State House Correspondents in Abuja, claimed that at 25 he was already a billionaire. He accused Wike of behaving like ‘Governor-General’ and asked him to concentrate on the governance of Rivers State and stop meddling…

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Lawrence Nwimo, Awka. Seven persons have been charged to court over the inhuman treatment meted out on a widow, accused of killing her husband, by an angry mob. In a video trending online, the lady was stripped naked and all manner of abuses rained on her for allegedly causing the death of her husband by commiting adultery. The seven accused persons were also remanded in prison custody as the Anambra police command continues manhunt for other suspects involved in the despicable act. The Police Commissioner, Mr Echeng E. Echeng, disclosed this during a courtesy visit by the Ultimate Business Women…

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By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia In his quest to promote locally-made products, Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Wednesday, decorated his fellow Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors who came to the state for their meeting, with locally-made Akwete fabric. The PDP governors were hosted in the ambience of Ikpeazu’s palacial residence at Umuobiakwa in Obingwa Local Government Area. Ikpeazu right from the inception of his administration, has been an advocate and Chief promoter of home-made products. Since he came on board in 2015, he has never won foreign shoes and suits but  patronizes Made-in- Aba foot-wears and suits which he has…

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