The Nigerian sports world was thrown into mourning on Tuesday as it learnt of Sunday Bada’s death. KAZEEM BUSARI writes on the deceased plans for athletics. Deathis inevitable. But when it comes calling at dawn, at an hour too soon to lose a gem, the pain becomes unbearable. Such was the state the Nigerian sports […]
-Sun Former Inspector General of Police [IGP], Mr. Sunday Ehindero, said at the weekend that the Nigerian Police, as presently constituted, lacks the operational capability to combat the rising crime wave and insecurity, especially the insurgence of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. He gave this stunning verdict in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun […]
By Emma Amaize, South Regional Editor, Godwin Oghre & SusanEdeh *One injured *It’s not bomb – Police *Blast targeted at worshippers – Chief Imam *Gunmen attack Bauchi police station The people of Sapele, the center of the Nigerian timber industry, in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were jolted from sleep at about 5.30 […]
The death of the hero of Igbo cosmopolitan society and pilot of the modern Igbo project appears a raining storm that threatens an end laden in intricate controversies. Early indicators gleaned from the immediate family members and associated political personalities following the public announcement of the death of Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu Ezeigbo Gburugburu in […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT: UNIVERSITY lecturers across the country begin an indefinite strike from today. National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie who made this known Sunday in Port Harcourt said this time the strike would be” total and comprehensive”. According to him, there would be no grading […]
A diplomatic storm is brewing after police allegedly tried to storm the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg this week. The drama played out on Tuesday when 68 members of Twelve Apostles Church in Christ who were to travel to Nigeria on Wednesday demanded their passports back after being denied visas over claims they “refused […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded names of 27 new ambassadorial nominees including former foreign affairs minister, Ojo Uma Maduekwe, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and immediate past deputy governor of Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja to the Senate for confirmation. Mrs. Ojukwu is still Presidential Adviser on Diaspora Matters. […]
By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA—THE Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, quashed the entire 3-count criminal charge that was preferred against the erstwhile governor of Lagos state and leader of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu by the federal government. The former governor was charged to court on […]
STATESMEN are usually given state burial but former Biafran Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will get more than that. His body will be flown to three African countries and one American country before the final burial in his Nnewi country home, according to his will. Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, who gave the indication, yesterday, […]
The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) a non-government organization (NGO) has advised the Federal Government to immortalize the late Biafran warlord and national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Odumegwu Ojukwu by renaming the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON). The group said renaming a university of the UNN’s […]
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