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The Honourable member representing Idemili North and South federal constituency, Hon. Uche Okonkwo also known as Ebubeagu Ojoto, has in a heartfelt plea dated today October 6, 2025, urged Anambra State Governor Prof. Charles Soludo to release Chigozie Nwangwu, popularly known as Akwa Okuko Tiwaraki, on compassionate grounds. The native doctor from Oba in Idemili North Local Government Area has been in detention since February 2025, facing charges related to promoting get-rich-quick schemes, preparing charms for criminals, and misleading youths. The lawmaker in his letter promised to stand as surety for Akwa Okuko should the governor grant him bail, emphasizing that such a decision would be viewed as a profound act of statesmanship and compassion. "It would reinforce the values of peace and forgiveness deeply cherished by Ndi Anambra," he wrote. Read the appeal letter in full below: The appeal comes shortly after Soludo outlined str...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), which is the foremost body representing millions of students across Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, joined the global community today in commemorating the International Day of Peace. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, this annual observance serves as a powerful reminder of the urgent need for peaceful coexistence, constructive conflict resolution, and the promotion of non-violent values in societies worldwide. In a time marked by escalating global conflicts, social divisions, and localized unrest, NANS underscored the critical role of Nigerian youth, particularly students, in fostering a culture of peace and unity. As the nation’s future leaders, students are uniquely positioned to drive transformative change by rejecting all forms of violence, including cultism, thuggery, electoral malpractice, and interpersonal aggression, which continue to disrupt academic environments and communities across ...

In a shocking escalation of political tensions ahead of the November 8, 2025, Anambra State governorship election, a viral video has captured a confrontation at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Onitsha involving Sir Paul Chukwuma, the Young Progressives Party (YPP) candidate for governor, and Anambra State's Commissioner for Youth Development, Patrick Agha Mba. According to reports sourced from eyewitnesses at the scene by EruditeNewsBlog before the violent confrontation and assault video surfaced, Sir Chukwuma arrived at the hospital with a team of security personnel overpowering medical centre staff. His intent according to one of the witnesses was to transfer them to better-equipped private facilities, citing inadequate infrastructure at FMC Onitsha to wit: lack of ventilators and emergency services which he claims exacerbates the state's health crisis under Governor Soludo's administration. "He attempted to remove the victims of the Onitsha gunshots,...

Former President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Jonathan has reportedly decided to run for president in 2023, barely 48 hours after disowning a nomination form procured for him by a northern group. Recall that the former President had on May 9, 2022 rejected presidential expression of interest and nomination forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) bought for him by a Fulani group. He later visited APC chairman Abdullahi Adamu, a shuttle his aides said was to distance himself from the purchase. According to a credible source in Mr Jonathan’s camp, state-run newswire, News Agency of Nigeria, “Mr Jonathan has finally made up his mind to vie for the top post he lost to the incumbent in 2015." The source, pleading anonymity, told NAN that the former president has also joined the APC formally, having registered at his Otuoke Ward in Bayelsa. Meanwhile, Mr Jonathan is expected to submit the duly filled forms bought on his behalf on Thursday, the source offered further. Ac...

Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has reportedly tendered his resignation. This was according to reports, confirmed as President Muhammadu Buhari ordered all cabinet members interested in contesting the 2023 general elections quit his government. The development made Buhari excited, as he also singled the minister out for braving the odds to quit.

An elder statesman and senior lawyer, Robert Clarke, SAN, has on Monday said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should be granted an extension of tenure to curb the issues of insecurity in the country. According to him, the president should serve for an extra six months to give him enough time to address the country’s security woes. He added that with less than a year to the 2023 elections there was not enough time to address the insecurity to ensure a safe exercise. Clarke’s assertion came barely three weeks after legal luminary, Afe Babalola, suggested that the country should suspend its 2023 elections instead and institute an interim government after Buhari’s tenure elapses. He also noted that the Constitution provided the President to extend his tenure for six months in the first instance if conditions were not ripe for an election. His words: “The Constitution provides that the President can stay longer than eight years. I’ve always said it. It is i...

Recent reports had it that Former President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Jonathan has picked the APC presidential form, but News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) confirmed that he only picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to report, a northern group picked the forms on behalf of Jonathan at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, on Monday evening. Meanwhile, Jonathan is yet to announce his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. This is a developing story, as more update is made available, this article will be updated.

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, of Rivers state has responded to the 48-hour ultimatum given to him by members of the socio,-cultural organization of the Ijaw nation to release House of Representatives member, Hon Farah Dagogo. Recall that, a federal lawmaker representing Degema/Bonny in the House of Representatives, Dagogo was allegedly arrested on Governor Wike’s order last week for allegedly disrupting the screening of governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt. He was said to have been arrested alongside others and ordered to be remanded in police custody by a magistrate’s court in the state. Reports gathered that Governor Wike had earlier declared Dagogo wanted “for hiring cultists to attack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt”. However, the Ijaw National Congress through its President, Professor Benjamin Okaba, in a statement titled “Arrest of Hon Farah Dagogo: Political Persecution of An Ijaw Son” and releas...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja over the alleged plan to disqualify him from the 2023 presidential primaries slated for the end of this month. Reports gathered that, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given political parties a deadline of June 3 to submit their candidates for the 2023 elections. Meanwhile, Lawyers and critics had argued that Emefiele was unfit to run going by Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act. The section states that no political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election. But Emefiele in a document, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, argued that he is more or less a civil servant and by provision of the constitution, he is expected to resign a month before the February 25, 2023, presidential election. He ...

  A southern group known as Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), had reportedly condemned the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), for ordering a sit-at-home exercise on Thursday, 9th September, 2021, despite having held one on Monday. According to them, the directive is insensitive, because of students in southeast, that would be writing their English Language in the ongoing WAEC examination and its adverse economic effect on so many families in the Southeast, who depends on day to day menial jobs to feed their families. They added that, asking the students to sit-at-home on Monday when other students all over the country and other West African countries are writing the same examination, is the worst disservice anyone can do to them. “It is not a hidden information that our SS3 secondary school students will be writing their English Language subject on Monday, 13th September, 2021, and it will be the worst self injury, for anyone to ask these students w...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, had reportedly petitioned an Abia State High Court to order the Nigerian government to release Kanu and pay him the sum of 5 billion naira as compensation for infringing on his fundamental human rights. He stated this, in a communique disclosed by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, on Tuesday, 7th September, 2021. According to Ejimakor, Nnamdi Kanu’s rights were infringed upon in 2017, when Nigerian Army invaded his residence in Afaraukwu, Abia State. Including, his abduction in Kenya and repatriation back to Nigeria, as well as his extraordinary rendition to the country. “Today, I secured an order from the Abia state High Court to serve by substitute, an application for infringement to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's fundamental human rights, which I lately brought before the state High Court," he said. The Counsel further solicited some reliefs from the court on the violation of Nnamdi Kanu’s fundamental rights. Amongst...