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CHINESE COMPANY TO SELL NIGERIA’S HOUSES IN LIVERPOOL, UK FOR $2.2M A Chinese investment group racing to recover up to $70 million in arbitration awards from Nigeria has concluded plans to list two residential structures it confiscated from the country for sale on global online marketplace eBay, Peoples Gazette was told by people familiar with the arrangement. Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial …

27 KIDNAPPERS, EKPA’S GUNMEN KILLED IN ENUGU No fewer than 27 kidnappers, including members of the Auto Pilot, also known as Unknown Gunmen, a notorious breakaway faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) loyal to the Finland based fugitive, Simon Ekpa, which terrorized Enugu and its environs had been gunned down in shoot-outs with security operatives at various …

SOLDIERS SACK CHURCH WORSHIPPERS IN ANAMBRA COMMUNITY Panic and fear gripped Christian worshippers in Umunze, Orumba North Local Government Area, Anambra State on Sunday, when armed soldiers stormed different churches in the morning hours and dispersed the congregation in their places of worship. The soldiers took over the community with a stern warning that no church service, movement or market …

ENUGU GOVT TO DEMOLISH PROPERTIES USED FOR KIDNAPPING Enugu State Government will in the coming days move against properties, whether private residences or business premises, used for kidnap purposes, the state government has said. In a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the government said the step was in continuation of the determined effort …

GOVERNOR MBAH TO INCREASE ENUGU’S ELECTRICIY CAPACITY BY 700MW The Enugu government says it will increase the state’s electricity capacity from 70 megawatts received from the national grid to 700 megawatts through private sector investment. Governor Peter Mbah said this in Enugu on Tuesday at an event organised by the Enugu State Electricity Regulatory Commission (EERC) to review its draft …

PROMINENT NORTHERN LEADERS FLOAT NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCE AHEAD OF 2027 A group of prominent political leaders from the North after a meeting Tuesday floated a new political alliance named the League of Northern Democrats (LND), and said it would convene a strategic summit to revive the region’s political and economic place in Nigeria.The group, which declared its intention to unite …

PETER OBI’S GAME PLAN FOR 2027, BY -ISAAC ABIMBADEThe 2023 Nigeria Presidential election was a lesson course for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi. As 2027 approaches, Nigerians are once again gearing up for another round of electoral theatrics. The last presidential election in 2023 saw the youth-favourite, Peter Obi, finish a disappointing third. But Obi isn’t backing …

CLARK FAULTS PDP FOR SETTING UP RECOGNITION COMMITTEE Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for setting up a reconciliation committee, arguing that the party needs a probe panel to investigate members involved in anti-party activities. In an open letter addressed to Amb. Umar Illiya Damagum, the PDP acting national chairman on Tuesday, August 20, …

RECORD OF Ex-CJN ONNOGHEN’S CCT CASE FILE DECLARED MISSING IN AGF OFFICE The office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF) has declared that it cannot find the case file for the trial of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Samuel Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, five years after the conclusion of the trial. Onnoghen was prosecuted …

TINUBU’S SON, SEYI, LEBANESE FRIEND, OWN COMPANY AWARDED $13B LAGOS -CALABAR HIGHWAY CONTRACT The Chagoury brothers’ company, Hitech Construction Company Ltd., recently received a contract to build a 700-kilometer coastal highway in Nigeria without a public bidding process.Leaked documents reveal that the son of Nigeria’s president co-owned an offshore company with the son of billionaire brothers Ronald and Gilbert Chagoury.The …