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Int’l Helicopter School takes off

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

N International Helicopter Training School, the first of its kind in the West African sub-region would commence operations next month in Enugu State, says Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Umar Dikko. Dikko spoke at the weekend during a graduation ceremony of students of Administration, Air Police, Music, Physical Education and Regiment at 325 Ground […]

Jonathan, Obi, Chime, eulogise Olusola

Posted by admin Anambra, Enugu, Latest Politics, State News Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

By McPHILIPS NWACHUKWU, BEN AGANDE & JAPHET LAKAM with agency report President Goodluck Jonathan was among several Nigerians who paid tribute to late Ambassador Segun Olusola, one-time Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and a cultural icon yesterday. Olusola, 77, died in a Lagos hospital Thursday. Aside Jonathan, those who mourned Olusola included Governors Peter Obi and […]

Police rescue kidnapped Enugu 6yr-old in Warri

Posted by admin Delta, Enugu, Headlines, State News Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh, Enugu 26 Comments The anti-kidnap unit of the Enugu State Police Command has rescued six-year-old Kosi Akilo, who was abducted recently from her parents’ home at River Lane Crescent in GRA, Enugu. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that the anti-kidnap unit, led by Superintendent Stephen Osaghae rescued Akilo in the early […]

Police rescue 96-yr-old woman from suspected kidnappers in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

By TONY EDIKE ENUGU—THE anti-kidnap squad of Enugu State Police Command has rescued a 96-year-old Mrs. Theresa Okafor, who was abducted from her Imezi Owa village in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State last Wednesday. The victim, who is the mother of a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Dr. Anthony Okafor, was […]

Enugu guber poll: Court decides Chime’s fate today

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Monday, May 21st, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — A Federal High Court in Abuja will today deliver judgement on a suit seeking to sack Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State from office on grounds that he was not validly nominated to contest in the last general election. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, […]

Gunmen kill DPO in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Monday, April 30th, 2012

The Enugu State Police Command yesterday said it has commenced investigations into the killing of a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and a Superintendent of Police, Okey Ofoedu by gunmen last Saturday. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu, a deputy superintendent of police, who disclosed this in a statement said Ofoedu who was […]

Ibori: UK hunts for three more ex-governors

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Enugu, Latest Politics, National Politics, Plateau, Raw Politics, State News Sunday, April 29th, 2012

More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money […]

Enugu govt denies reduction of school fees at ESUT

Posted by admin Enugu, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

By Tony Edike ENUGU—Enugu State Government has dismissed as untrue, speculations that it reduced school fees for students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, explaining that what government did was to increase the budgetary allocation to the institution to take care of its basic needs. The government said that fees payable […]

Robbers attack luxury bus, rape schoolgirls

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, April 1st, 2012

A luxury bus conveying secondary school girls from Enugu to Lagos State was attacked by armed robbers at the Okeodo end of Ore-Sagamu Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday. The students numbering 42 were of Holy Cross College, Enugu and had hired the bus belonging to Ekene Dili Chukwu Group of Companies with registration number Lagos […]

Police probe death of three suspected cable vandals in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, March 8th, 2012

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigations into the mysterious death of three young men suspected to be cable vandals inside a NITEL underground pit within the Ogbete Main Market in Enugu, the state capital. Some traders at the market reportedly discovered the decomposing corpses of the three men inside the […]