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A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal said the Federal High Court lacks the jurisdiction to try him in view of his abduction and extraordinary rendition to Nigeria in flagrant violation of the OAU convention and protocol on extradition. The court held that the 15-count charge preferred against Kanu did not disclose the place,…

The federal executive council (FEC) has approved the takeover of the construction work on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway by MTN Nigeria at about N202.8 billion, under the road infrastructure tax credit (RITC) scheme. Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, said this on Wednesday while speaking with journalists after the council’s meeting, presided over by President…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have temporarily suspended its presidential campaign apparently over the protracted rift between the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike. It was learnt that the campaign rally was suspended at the instance of Atiku who, party sources said, had drafted three prominent PDP stakeholders to mediate…

Ijaws should refrain from the ungodly practice of sabotaging the genuine enterprise of their own brothers for whatever reasons. This was handed down by the Bayelsa State Coordinator of the Niger Delta Self Determination Movement, NDSDM, Comrade Oki Tony, while addressing some executive members of the group who visited him in his Yenagoa residence yesterday.…

The National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, on Thursday, said over 65 per cent of cargo coming into Nigeria through the Lagos port ends up in Onitsha and Aba in the Southeast. Managing Director of NIWA, Dr George Moghalu, disclosed this when he featured at the 52nd Session of the State House Briefing organised by the…

A 21-year-old man identified simply as Chukwudi has killed his mother and father in Nnewi, Anambra state. The suspect said to be an undergraduate of a university in Anambra, is the only son of the couple, Mr. and Mrs Micheal Ulor, from Nsukka, Enugu State. The already decomposing corpses were found with machete cuts in…

A group of youths within the Peoples Democratic Party in the North have staged a peaceful protest in Kaduna State to demand the immediate resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu. Holding placards with various inscriptions, the group under the aegis of Northern PDP Youth, took their protest to the state PDP Secretariat…

The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council has said that the exclusion of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo from the council is deliberate and was directed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Apart from Osinbajo, the President also ordered the exclusion of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, the Council said, on Saturday,…

Enugu state Governor, Rt. Hon.(Dr.) Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has inuagurated an 18- man steering committee for harmonization of civil society regulatory framework in Enugu state. Performing the inauguration on Wednesday at Government House, Enugu, Governor Ugwuanyi said thart the inauguration was” in response to the outcome of the EU-ACT supported National Consultative Forum for key MDAs…

The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu State has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) for the federal agency to take over the state-of-the-art Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre, Enugu. The agreement is to pave the way for the NSIA to provide comprehensive medical, diagnostic and oncology (cancer) treatment services…