Managing Director/Chief Executive of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, (NSITF), Barrister Olúwaṣeun Faleye has said workplace safety and social protection are fundamental pillars of social justice. Barrister Faleye made this assertion in his lead paper at the Breakout Session Vl at the Annual NBA Conference holding in Enugu, Tuesday....
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By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and South African political leader Julius Malema are set to attend the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) 2025 Annual General Conference (AGC) in Enugu State, kicking off on Sunday, August 24. The conference, themed _“Stand Out, Stand Tall,”_ will take place...
By BARBRA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Police apprehend a 30-year-old suspect, Raymond Wonna, for alleged transnational human trafficking, rescuing two young women en route to Ghana. The victims, both 18 and from Yala Local Government Area in Cross River State, were intercepted on July 30 by the Crack...
The 82 Division of the Nigerian Army has launched an inquiry into a recent confrontation between soldiers and civilians along the Nsukka-Igbo Eze South Road in Enugu State, following a widely circulated social media video. In a statement released on Tuesday in Enugu, Acting Deputy Director of Army Public...
Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, (NSITF), Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, has linked the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS) operated by the Fund with provision of vital social justice. Speaking at the weekend, in his keynote address during a Servicom Stakeholders’ Engagement organized by the Fund in Enugu,...
On 6 December 1977, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s military Head of State, received a group of young men from Eastern Nigeria who had come to present him with a trophy won in a football contest against the rest of Africa. They were members of a football team known as Rangers International Football...
By BARBARA KAlU, Owerri – Imo State Division of Court of Appeal, has upheld the conviction and three-year sentence of Prince Laseberry Okafor Anyanwu, a former Commissioner of Transport in the Rochas Okorocha administration of Imo State, for N180, 000, 000 (One Hundred and Eighty Million Naira, only) fraud....
By ANIEFIOK UDONQUAK, Uyo – Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development has urged stakeholders and practitioners to adhere strictly to safety measures and best practices in the mining industry. It decries cases of complacency on safety by operators, as well as wanton environmental degradation caused by unethical mining activities...
MTN Nigeria and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have joined forces to tackle the growing menace of drug abuse among youths in Enugu State. The partnership was inaugurated during the first-ever “Advocacy Walk Against Drug Abuse” on Saturday, part of MTN’s Anti-Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP). The Enugu...
The family of veteran highlife musician, Mike Ejeagha, popularly known as “Gwo gwo ngwo,” has buried him within 24 hours after his demise, in accordance with his wish. Ejeagha passed away on Friday night at the age of 95 and was laid to rest on Saturday in his country...
By UKA NWAFOR, Abakaliki – A Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Officer, Prince Orji Ugochukwu (Facebook name: Okeosisi Ugo), has demonstrated remarkable integrity by rejecting a substantial bribe of N10 million and an iPhone from a notorious ritualist, Ezeani, also known as “Ichie Billion” or “Ezeani, dey play, dey show.”...
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, has confirmed the arrest of Obi Obieze, also known as Obu Onyeka, for alleged involvement in abduction, kidnapping, and ritual killing. Nandap confirmed this in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Akinsola Akinlabi on Thursday in Abuja....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 51 suspected internet fraudsters, while those of Ilorin Zonal Directorate have arrested 47. The Commission disclosed this in a post issued via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle...
Labour Party (LP) members representing Igboeze/Udenu and Igboeze South/Nsukka Federal Constituencies, Mr Dennis Agbo and Mark-Chidi Obetta, respectively on Thursday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu. Defecting along with them were the member representing Nsukka West State Constituency, Mr Malachi-Okey Onyechi. The News Agency of Nigeria...
A General Court Martial (GCM) sitting at the Headquarters of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu has sentenced a soldier, Pte Adamu Mohammed, to death by hanging for murdering his girlfriend, The acting Deputy Director 82 Division Army Public Relations, Lt.-Col. Jonah Unuakhalu, in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday,...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has debunked allegations made by individuals claiming to be stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu North. Reacting in a statement on Saturday in Enugu, Nnaji described the accusation of him causing leadership crises in APC, Enugu State...
By SAM EFERARO – Almost a year after the loss of her two children, the young woman is still too traumatised to tell her story. But neighbours remember her ordeal. Her baby had suddenly taken ill that fateful morning, under a pouring rain. With no help around and the child’s health deteriorating by the...
By PAUL EJIME – After its commissioning on 23rd November 2023 by its chief benefactor, General TY Danjuma, the Goodwill Medical Centre (GMC), Enugu, is transforming lives in its host poor and under-served communities. The Centre has just completed an iron metal bridge across a river to link at least three urban slums to essential services...
A 32-year-old woman has been arraigned before the Enugu North Magisterial District Court after giving a fake testimony in a Lagos church, police in Enugu have said. In a statement on Tuesday, the Command’s spokesman, SP Daniel Ndukwe, said the suspect, Loveth Alo, was apprehended on Feb. 1. According...
Telecom subscribers in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu States have rued the recent increase in telecommunication tariffs by the Federal Government noting that it was not commensurate with the services provided. The subscribers interviewed in a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey on the impact of the tariff hike in...