Immediate past Minister of Information and Communications and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) senatorial aspirant, Prof. Dora Akunyili yesterday got the nods of traditional institutions and local government officials of her party for her senatorial ambition. Akunyili, who visited five out of the seven local governments making up her Anambra Central Senatorial District where she […]

IKEMBA Nnewi and former leader of defunct Republic of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, was, yesterday, admitted at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu following a stroke which had kept him unconscious since last week. Ojukwu, who turned 77, November 4, 2010,suffered the stroke at his GRA residence in Enugu last week and […]

Afresh legal challenge to the aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan began yesterday in Abuja as some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains filed a suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commis-sion (INEC) from accepting the president as a candidate for the 2011 presidential poll. The plaintiffs – Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, Hon. Dubem Onyia and […]