Enugu State
2 Aug
The former Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Dr Ben Nwoye, has urged Nigerians to be patient and give President Bola Tinubu more time to fix hardships within the country. Nwoye made the appeal on Tuesday in Enugu while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the planned palliative programmes…
31 Jul
Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chima Centus Nweze, has died aged 64. Although his family is yet to speak about his demise at the time of this report but a source said he died on Sunday following a brief illness. Justice Nweze, a native of Obollo, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, was born on…
28 Jul
Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, has included Lloyd Ekweremadu as one of the 15 commissioner-nominees. Lloyd Ekweremadu is the son of the imprisoned former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who, along with his wife Beatrice and their doctor, Obinna Obeta, was convicted of organ trafficking and sentenced to prison by a UK court for…
27 Jul
The factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Simon Ekpa has written to the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) to impose a visa ban on Enugu State governor Peter Mbah. Ekpa who is based in Finland has called for the visa ban on Mbah over an alleged human rights abuse…
27 Jul
One person was killed and several others injured as traders of Ogbete Main Market, Enugu State, took to the streets, yesterday, in protest against the sealing of shops by the state government, due to non-compliance with Governor Peter Mbah’s ban on sit-at-home.
24 Jul
By 9th August, this year, it would have been 730 days since the South-east region began to observe the weekly sit-at-home exercise as declared by proponents of separatist state of Biafra, to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
21 Jul
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, yesterday, closed his defence to the petition, which the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Chijioke Edeoga, filed to nullify his election.Â
20 Jul
The Enugu Government has urged its residents not to panic as the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development is on alert and proactive to prevent anthrax outbreak in the state. Dr Cosmas Omeh, State Epidemiologist and Disease Reporting Officer in the Ministry’s Veterinary Services Department, made the call in an interview with the News Agency…
19 Jul
Enugu State Government has lifted the suspension order on the activities of the state Ministry of Lands and Urban Development. Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, said this in a statement on Wednesday. He recalled that the state government had on the 21st of June 2023 suspended all activities of the Ministry of…
19 Jul
The Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal has dismissed the suit filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election in the state, Uche Nnaji, challenging the election of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Court also dismissed the appeal Nnaji filed against the…
18 Jul
For the first time in several months, full academic and business activities resumed in Enugu State, yesterday, as the government intensified efforts to eradicate the sit-at-home order imposed by Biafra agitators.
17 Jul
Tension gripped Nsukka Local Government Council, Enugu State, on Monday following the reported killing of the councilor representing Eha-Uno ward, Eha-alumona community, Nelson Sylvester. He was said to have been shot dead by gunmen who chased him into his neighbourhood. It was not clear at press time why he was killed but sources disclosed that…
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