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3 days ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Frank Ikpefan |Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched an investigation into alleged technical glitches during the conduct of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
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1 week ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
Operatives of the Enugu state police command have neutralised a suspected kidnapper and rescued a male victim following an early-morning operation on Saturday, May 3, 2025. The police recovered a locally made double-barrelled pistol loaded with two live cartridges and a green Nissan Almeria car used by the kidnappers.
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1 week ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southeast have vowed to solidify the party’s dominance in the region ahead of the 2027 general elections, urging more Igbo indigenes to join for the benefit of the zone. Speaking after the APC southeast select leaders’ consultative meeting in Enugu, key party figures emphasised the importance of integrating Ndigbo into the mainstream of national politics rather than remaining on the sidelines.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Sanni Onogu |Tony Akowe |Gbenga Omokhunu |Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, state governors and other eminent Nigerians have enjoined Christians and Nigerians in general to use the occasion of Easter celebration to eschew political, religious and ethnic biases and unite for the progress and general well-being of the nation.
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1 month ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Eric Ikhilae |Jide Babalola |Damian Duruiheoma |Chris Njoku |Alao Abiodun
Senator Samuel Anyanwu stormed the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abuja yesterday to resume work as National Secretary of the party moments after the Supreme Court set aside the December 20, 2024 majority judgment of the Court of Appeal in Enugu sacking him from the position. Anyanwu addressed some party staff. But his colleague on the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), Bode Ologunagba, disputed Anyanwu’s claim to victory at the apex court.
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2 months ago | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
The chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd), has vowed to rid the southeast of gangs of policemen involved in extortion, corruption, and human rights abuses in the Southeast geopolitical zone. Argungu made the vow at the Southeast stakeholders’ summit on peace and security organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in partnership with Southeast Civil Society Organizations in Enugu on Friday.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma |Alao Abiodun
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has hailed the sacrificial efforts of the men and officers of the Nigerian army in helping the state attain its current relatively peaceful and secure environment. Mbah also called for improved synergy among all security agents in the state to ensure a peaceful atmosphere, promising his administration’s maximum support to ensure success in all their efforts to ward off any threat to the security of the state and country.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Bolaji Ogundele |Tony Akowe |Sanni Onogu |Damian Duruiheoma
Tinubu, minister, Southeast senators, Kalu, others mournPresident, IPMAN seek enhanced road safetyFRSC moves to avert tanker crashesRelations of the 18 victims of last Saturday’s petrol tanker fire in Enugu yesterday besieged hospitals where the injured were taken. Family members of the dead also besieged the scene of the accident at the Ugwu Onyeama section of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway. They wept uncontrollably at seeing the vehicles that caused the death of their relaions.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma
News Nigerian business mogul and philanthropist, Prince Arthur Eze, has assured that Igbo leaders will beg President Bola Tinubu to forgive, and release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Eze, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Oranto Petroleum, spoke to journalists in Enugu, and absolved Tinubu from Kanu’s ordeal. He said: “Nnamdi Kanu was detained by Buhari, not Tinubu. Buhari is a hardliner. But we shall beg Tinubu to forgive him.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Damian Duruiheoma
A businessman and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Gbenga Eleduma, has hailed the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, for what he described as ‘his sterling performance.’ In a statement, Eleduma described Tunji-Ojo’s achievements in the ministry as unprecedented, saying the minister has brought a new lease of life to the ministry.
