A pressure group, Enugu Salvation Group, ESG, has called on Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to resign from the upper legislative chamber over alleged under-representation of his senatorial district.

THE birth of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital came as a result of the genuine aspirations of the people in the present Anambra, Imo, and parts of Delta and Abia states, who hitherto had to travel hundreds of kilometres of bad roads to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, to receive specialised hospital care services.

A British court has sentenced Ellias Preko, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who helped former Governor James Ibori of Delta State to launder millions of dollars, to four and a half years in jail.

The second semester examination of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), could not hold on Monday due to the absence of lecturers.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Abuja reassured that the Federal Government had no intention of interfering with the structure and processes of the impending national dialogue.

The Minister of Interior Mr Abba Moro on Monday in Abuja presented 217 foreign nationals with certificates of Nigerian citizenship.

South Africa struggled Monday to meet the unprecedented logistical challenge of hosting close to 100 world leaders flying in from every corner of the globe for the state funeral of freedom icon Nelson Mandela.

Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has offered a sobering view of the country’s economy on Monday, saying growth has mostly benefited the rich and failed to generate enough jobs.

A last ditch effort by President Goodluck Jonathan to bring back the five governors who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress faltered again as a meeting convened on Sunday ended in a stalemate.

The Police Command in Plateau on Monday arrested two men for allegedly killing a nine-year-old girl, Ummi Abdullahi.