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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Enugu State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Enugu has fixed July 7, to begin trial in the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its governorship candidate, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, challenging the declaration of PDP’s Peter Mbah as winner of March 18, 2023 election. In the continuation of pretrial proceedings on Saturday, the Petitioners were present, while the  3rd  Respondent was represented. Ifeanyi Ogenyi, Esq appeared with other counsels for the Petitioners.   H.I Okoli Esq appeared for the 1st Respondent; P.M.B Onyia Esq appeared for the 2nd Respondent, while Tochukwu Maduka SAN, appeared for…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia British best-selling author and political commentator, Frederick Forsyth, has suggested Nigeria’s suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations over her illegal and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The 84-year old Journalist, argued that Nigeria should not be indulging in rights abuse and disregard to court orders and still be allowed to be a member of Commonwealth of Nations. He argued that South Africa which was once suspended from the body did not have equal rights violation as currently witnessed in Nigeria. Forsyth insisted that Nigeria should be compelled…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The star witness of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Mr Mike Enahoro-Ebah, has told the Presidential Election Petitions Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, that the purported Chicago State University certificate of presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, actually belonged to a female. Enahoro-Ebah who testified before the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel, tendered as exhibits, certified true copies of Tinubu’s academic records which he said his lawyers obtained from the university. He told the court that his lawyer in the United States of America, USA, also wrote to various schools that…

By Owei Lakemfa Seven African leaders stunned the world on June 16 and 17, 2023 when they went on a peace mission to warring Ukraine and Russia. The reaction from many in the West was that of contempt; how is it the place of lowly Africa to intervene in a war of Europeans? In fact, Poland tried to scuttle the mission by detaining for 30 hours the aircraft carrying the protection unit of President Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the delegation. Its claim was that the security men carried “dangerous goods” (weapons). Did they expect them to carry candies? The protocol…

  By Azu Ishiekwene  Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons, might remember this ubiquitous message in cursive, bright colours scrawled on the rear and sometimes on the sides of trucks plying highways in Nigeria’s South-East: “No condition is permanent.” I’m not quite sure what the motivation was. My guess is that it was a message of comfort to the despairing and a warning to those who take life too seriously: No condition is permanent.  True in life as in politics, that message rang again this week…

By SKC Ogbonnia It is already well-known that the apparent lack of moral compass, together with an invalid health status, played a huge role on why a vast majority of the electorate who voted in the country’s controversial presidential election of 2023 roundly rejected Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Yet, the nation’s ageless corrupt oligarchy selected and swore in Tinubu as president. Now in power, and widely viewed as a counterfeit president, there was a broad appeal for a benefit of the doubt. In short, many had hoped that Tinubu could begin to launder his image by surrounding himself with people of…

Ben Ezechime, Enugu Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has urged the Federal High Court Abuja to commit the Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-General Yushau Dogara Ahmed,  to prison for disobeying court order. The prayer was contained in a Form 49 filed through his lawyer, Emeka Ozoani, SAN, before Justice Inyang Ekwo. The application, dated and filed June 22, was filed in accordance with Order IX, Rule 13, Judgment Enforcement Rules of the Sheriffs and Civil Process Act, CAP. S6, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. Mbah alleged that the DG flouted the order of…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), Friday,  admitted into evidence the notarised documents of the judgment showing criminal forfeiture of $460,000 by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. PEPC also admitted documents showing Tinubu’s dual citizenship with Guinea tendered in evidence by lawyers  to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Atiku, by tendering the documents in evidence, seeks to disqualify Tinubu as a presidential candidate ab initio. The former Vice President, as well as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have both maintained that the February 25…

Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The National Orientation Agency (NOA), has urged the Federal Government to divert the recovered money from the fuel subsidy removal to revamping of critical sectors in the country. The agency said intervention in the health, education, railway, agriculture and other infrastructural developments will help cushion the effects of the subsidy removal on Nigerians. The Anambra State Director, National Orientation Agency, Awka, Joseph Uchendu, made the call in his keynote address at a one-day programme organised by the Agency for all registered youth organisations in the State and other relevant organisations in the oil sector in the State.…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia A young Igbo lady from Oko in Anambra State, Ifeoma Amuche, has emerged the best-graduating student at South West University, Chongqing, China. Amuche who disclosed this via her Twitter handle, said she finished top among over 9,500 students. Following her superlative performance and academic excellence, she was chosen on behalf of all the international students, to make a speech at the graduation ceremony of the university. “Out of 9500+ graduates, I was the only international student selected to give a speech on behalf of all graduates, I’m so honoured. I’m here for Nigeria, I’m here for my…