Sunday, 24 November, 2024

Month: August 2020


Two Anambra-born candidates came tops in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) last April. The brilliant top-fliers are Miss Egoagwuagwu Agnes Madufokwa and Master David Okwuchukwu Nwobi. They scored 365 Read more…


Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo did not abuse African tradition by criticising the late ex-Senator, Buruji Kashamu. But the lawyer was quick to note that Obasanjo’s message was veiled with hypocrisy, saying “it is against Read more…


The Biafran Internal Government (BIG) Elders-in-Council, yesterday, faulted the decision of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some  politicians  in the region advocating for Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction. The council stated this in a communiqué made available to Daily Sun after its plenary Read more…


Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that its leadership was not mandated by Ndigbo to pursue the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, but Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction. It said some youths within the territory that Read more…


After over four months at home, pupils in terminal classes in public and private secondary schools started resuming last week. However, it has not been a normal resumption, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic that requires some adjustments to be made Read more…


An Abeokuta High Court has sentenced a 36-year-old man, Ugochukwu Obiakor, to 25 years imprisonment for raping an 11-year-old girl. Obiakor, who had pleaded not guilty to a one- count charge, was convicted for forcefully having sexual intercourse with the Read more…


Anambra State Traditional Rulers’ Council has made recommendations to the state government on appropriate sanctions against some traditional rulers seen in a compromising circumstance in a video trending on social media.Rising from meeting of the Council , leadership of the Read more…


The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Abdullahi Gana, said that 13 state commands of the corps have moved out of rented apartments into new permanent office structures built by the Corps. Gana disclosed this in Read more…


Mrs Yinka Adeyemi, the  Director of the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), on Tuesday said that courts in Lagos  delivered 122 judgments on sexual offences cases from January to July 2020. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Read more…


The Governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano has recounted thesad experiences of Ndi Anambra in the area of insecurity pre-WillieObiano administration. The Governor said that due to the high insecurity in the state at thetime, he would normally visit Read more…


The former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, yesterday, said Igbo elites have been trying to tune down the rhetorics of Nnamdi Kanu to achieve a restructured Nigeria. Nwodo who was also the former governor Read more…


On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country had registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, named ‘Sputnik V’. The president said that one of his daughters had tested the drug on herself. What we know about the vaccine: Read more…