Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu has approved a five year scholarship for a 24-year-old Abia born Power Station Inventor, Solomon Ukoha, encouraging him to go for further studies so as to develop his gifts. The video of Ukoha’s demonstration of his invention
Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti has blamed organised religion for the rape epidemic in Africa, saying women walked around naked for thousands of years before the coming of Christianity and Islam. The 38-year-old made the point in a social media post on Monday in
Security operatives have arrested a businessman believed to be one of the sponsors of the hoodlums responsible for the mayhem in Imo State. He was identified as 42-year-old Nnamdi Okafor from Amanachi community in Orsu council area. He was allegedly linked to the
There was pandemonium at Amakohia and Akwakuma communities in Owerri North Council Area of Imo State when soldiers allegedly killed a 39- year-old businessman, Mr. Noel Chigbu. The deceased, a father of two infants with a pregnant wife, was allegedly killed by soldiers
Those behind the strings of mayhem in Imo State are to be revealed in a matter of days, Governor Hope Uzodimma said yesterday. He said security agencies have identified the mastermind of recent disturbances in the Southeast state. Uzodimma, who spoke after the
By Damian Duruiheoma, Owerri Senate Minority Leader Enyinnaya Abaribe has absolved the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other pro-Biafran agitators of culpability in the attacks on police facilities and killing of security operatives in the Southeast. Abaribe noted the attacks were
The outcome of the investigative report of the attacks on Owerri Custodial Centre by gunmen would shock Nigerians, Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said at the weekend. Aregbesola, who described the April 5 attack on the custodial facility in Owerri as the
By Damian Duruiheoma, Owerri An undergraduate of the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, Kingsley Chiwueze, has been found dead, five days after he went missing. Chiwueze, a 300-level law student, was on Monday declared missing after he failed to return back with his
Following the wanton killings in some parts of Ebonyi State by suspected Fulanis Herders, President General (PG) Ohaisu Afikpo community in Ebonyi Southern bloc, Dr. Jasper Okoro said the ban on selling, slaughtering, eating of cow meat in the community would not be
By Uchem Obi It’s governorship election again in Anambra State and all major political parties, and even those that are not very major, are already positioning themselves to wrestle power from the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, hoping to end the party’s 16