NNPP drags INEC, seeks Abdulsalami committee’s intervention over candidates’ nomination
Crisis rocking the leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP has taken a new twist as a faction of the party has petitioned the National Peace Committee to urgently intervene over what it termed, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC's refusal to recognise its authentic candidates and release the nomination portal access code required for the upload of their particulars ahead of the forthcoming general election.
Ojukwu wants befitting burial for Onoh
By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu said yesterday that he was determined to ensure that the de ceased former Governor of old Anambra State and his in-law, Chief Christian Onoh was given a befitting burial.
N-Delta: We’ll prosecute crimes against humanity, says ICC
By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Justice Mrs. Akua Kuenyehia yesterday disclosed that the ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute the masterminds of crimes against humanity taking place in the Niger Delta if Nigeria sends a petition to it for intervention.
FG to subsidise pilgrimage
By Daniel Idonor ABUJA— PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday assured Nigerian Christians wishing to perform the annual Holy Pilgrimage to Israel that the Federal Government will continue to support and subsidise their fares to the holy land. The President who spoke when he received the reports of the 2008 pilgrimage to Israel from the Federal […]
My husband told her he was single
I heard from the grapevine that he took a second wife over a year ago. The irony of it all is that he claimed to be single, so the other woman doesn’t know of my existence. What do I do? Does he still deserve my love? At times I feel like running away. I hurt and stay awake every night he stays away. I am dying in silence.
Court orders Ebonyi govt to reinstate sacked Auditor General
By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—A Ebonyi State High Court sitting in Abakaliki, has for the second time asked the Ebonyi state government to reinstate the sacked Auditor General for Local Governments in the state, Mr. Gabriel Nwonu, whom the court had previously ordered back to his job. But the Ebonyi state government, had through its counsel, […]
