By NGOZI UWUJARE Did 32-year-old Chinedu Nweke kill 45-year-old Philomina Nwega, a native of Ebuku Ndieze Amudda in Umuzeoka village, Ezza North Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, to avenge the serial rape of his wife by men in the murdered woman’s village, as he claims? That is the big question that the…
By ALOYSIUS ATTAH ■ Kogi youths sack Catholic priest, church members ■ Magistrate escapes death, police station, schools, court shut down Peace has practically taken flight from Ette, a border community sandwiched in-between Umuopu Umueze in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State and Ogugu community in Olamaboro Local Government Area, of Kogi State.…
by Umar Muhammed Gunmen suspected to be Fulani attackers, on Friday night, killed 20 persons and burnt over 70 houses in Arikya and Anshangwa villages in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that many residents were displaced in the attack which occurred around 11 pm. The incident took place barely six…
Banji Aluko – Benin City with agency report PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend, assured Nigerians that the terrorist group would soon be exterminated from the country by his government, just as the dreaded Ebola virus was. ADVERTISEMENT The president, who said there was no other stable political party in the country apart from…
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“FBI officials are investigating a beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution center…” Alton Alexander Nolen, a 30-year-old Oklahoma man, was fired from his job at a food processing plant in Moore, OK, just before a bloody rampage began — one that has authorities seriously looking into whether Nolen’s reported conversion to Islam may have played…
•Only one person died –PoliceBy Emmanuel Nzomiwu / Correspondent, Awka Five persons were feared dead yesterday, when a three-storey building under construction collapsed at Adazi Ani, Anaocha Local Government Area, Anambra State.The tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, according to Saturday Independent’s findings.The victims were inside the building, which was nearing completion,…
Both Soldiers of the Nigerian army and Boko Haram terrorists who had engaged in the unyielding battle for the control of the now popular Konduga town in Borno state in the last two days may have lost large number of men on both sides, security sources told Leadership.It was gathered from impeccable military sources that…
BY FRANCIS IGATAENUGU – The Chairman, United Progressives Party,UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, yesterday, during the party’s stakeholders meeting in Enugu, lashed out to the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, describing them as ‘betrayal to the Igbo people’.This is even as the President General, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Enwo Igariwey was recently quoted…