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Pro-Gbajabiamila press conference ends in fisticuffs

…As alleged plot to frame CUPP spokesman fails A press conference in support of Speaker Gbajabiamila, apparently with the instruction to malign and discredit the Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere in Abuja today ended in a free for all. The youngsters operating under a barely known group, Coalition of […]

ICPC gets new spokesperson

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has announced the appointment of Mrs. Azuka Chinelo Ogugua as the Acting Head of Public Enlightenment Department and Spokesperson for the Commission.  Mrs. Ogugua takes over from Mrs. Rasheedat Adunni Okoduwa, mni, the outgoing Director, Public Enlightenment, who retires from the services of the Commission […]

N6m Fraud: Lecturer docked for diverting University grant

A former lecturer with the Waziri Ummaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, Mohammed Sani Nuhu, has landed in trouble for diverting to personal use, a university grant worth N6million offered to him for an International Conference and for his Doctorate degree program.   Nuhu has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other […]

Court orders IGP to free CUPP spokesman

The Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police to immediately release the Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere unconditionally as his arrest is illegal, unlawful and contemptuous of a valid and subsisting Court order. Ruling in a Motion brought by Chibuzor Ezike, Counsel to Ikenga […]

Hushpuppy has case to answer with us – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that Nigeria’s most-wanted hacker, Ramoni Igbalode, alias Ray Hushpuppy, has a number of cases to answer with the anti-graft agency.  A statement by the EFCC noted that Hushpuppy who was recently arrested by the International Police(Interpol) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), has considerable cases of […]

Journalist with Anambra newspaper missing – NUJ

The  Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),  Anambra state chapter has announced it’s  member, Barrister Mathew Onwuasoanya , a reporter with the Anambra Newspapers and Printing Corporation (National Light Newspaper), miissing . Chairman of the Anambra State Council of the NUJ,  Comrade Emmanuel Ifesinachi in a statement on Wednesday,  17/6/2020, said that Mathew 49 years, tall, […]

APC CRISIS: APC Rep member calls on Buhari, leaders to save the party

Member Representing Ehime Mbano/Ihitte Uboma/ Obowo,  Federal Constituency of Imo State, Rep. Chike Okafor, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis rocking the ruling, All Progressives Congress (APC). Okafor in a statement entitled, ‘APC Crisis: Where Are The Leaders Of Our Party?’, stressed the importance of the President intervening , as […]