By Anastasia Mbabie and Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporters) AGULU, (ANAMBRA) — General Officer Commanding the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Lagbaja, has been requested to withdraw his personnel from Agulu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. The request came following an attack on the personnel by gunmen at a military checkpoint last week, which led to a huge exchange of gunfire, causing injuries to many and deaths. Director of Sickle...
By Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) Barely four days after gunmen killed five persons at a beer parlour in Osumenyi and killed a policewoman in Ukpor, all in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State; gunmen on Monday morning, May 2, killed four more people in different parts of the state. Videos currently trending on social media show that two of the victims were killed in Ukpor, the Headquarters of Nnewi South Local Government Area;...
By Emmanuel Chigbata (Staff Reporter) Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Enugu State Command has issued a stern warning to criminal elements in the state during the fourth coming Eid-el-Fitr celebration. Handing down the warning in Enugu, Commandant Ezenyimulu Afrika said that the state is too hot for lawless elements warning that the Corps and other Security Agencies have concluded plans to make things very difficult for deviants and social misfit during the period. Commandant...
Sex slavery/sexual violence exponent, Barrister R. Evon Benson-Idahosa spoke to our Staff-writer, FAVOUR C. EBUBECHUKWU about causes of domestic violence and possible solutions. Barr. Benson-Idahosa is a dynamic speaker and a published author whose voice amplifies thousands of young voices via PathFinders’ long-running campaigns, including #Not4Sale, its anti-sex trafficking campaign. She is the founder and Executive Director of PJI, is a Nigerian native, a leading expert,t and thought leader on the subjects of modern-day slavery...
Cristiano Ronaldo scored an excellent equaliser to spare Manchester United a third successive English Premier League defeat as they drew 1-1 at home with Chelsea on Thursday. Ralf Rangnick’s side lost their previous two games to Liverpool and Arsenal by an aggregate score of 7-1. But while the performance on their return to Old Trafford was by no means impressive, they at least avoided another loss. In spite of a dismal first-half showing in which...
Eintracht Frankfurt secured a brilliant 2-1 win away at West Ham United in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday. Bundesliga colleagues RB Leipzig also fought to a 1-0 home win over Rangers. Daichi Kamada nudged the winner for Eintracht Frankfurt early in the second half to the delight of the 3,000 fans who backed the Eagles in London. And they will be dreaming of a trip to Seville for the May...
JAJI, (KADUNA) —The Nigerian Army is set to deploy 197 troops for ECOWAS Peacekeeping Mission in The Gambia. Chief of Operations, Army Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Akinjobi, disclosed this on Thursday at the graduation ceremony of Nigerian Company 7 which will soon head for the tiny West African state. The ceremony was held at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre, Jaji, Kaduna State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that before now,...
African countries’ justifiable disaffection with the West should not override their commitment to Ukraine and liberal values. There is nothing quite like a war when it comes to resurrecting old grudges, and in this regard, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has hardly disappointed. Invoking historical rough justice and persistent infantilization by the West, African countries have, to widespread astonishment, refused to give full-throated backing to Western sanctions against Russia. Seventeen of the thirty-five abstainers from the United...
A former Senate President and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential hopeful, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim opens up on critical national issues, making a strong case on why he is in the best position to be the next president. He speaks to WAPS Editorial Board member, Dr. Anthony Ogbo about significant issues surrounding the upcoming election.
The Federal Government, on Thursday, condoled with the government and people of Imo over the bunkering site inferno, which led to the death of no fewer than 110 people. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the federal government’s condolences was conveyed by Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, in Owerri during an assessment visit to the scene of the explosion. Umar-Farouq, represented by Director, Relief and Rehabilitation of National...
