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Oct

12

2022

Nnamani warns PDP over boycott of Wike’s camp

Opinion, Politics2023, Atiku Abubakar, Ken Nnamani, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

A former governor of Enugu State and Senator representing Enugu East senatorial District, Chimaroke Nnamani, has faulted the decision of the PDP to ignore five of its governors as it commenced presidential campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 elections. Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Sam Ortom of Benue State, Ikpeazu Okezie of Abia State, and Ifeanyi Uguanya of Enugu State have said they will not support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar unless Iyorchia Ayu resigns as the party chair. After several efforts to the aggrieved governors to reverse their decision failed, the party commenced…

Oct

12

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

Policemen flee as Rivers cultists hack, rob residents

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Cultism, Metro, Nigeria, Police, Security

There was pandemonium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday, after hoodlums invaded some streets in the area, attacked residents, and robbed passersby and shop owners. Our correspondent learned that the gang, numbering about 50, ransacked Eagle Island, Timber Street, and the Echue stretch of Illabouchi, all densely populated areas of the metropolis, with machetes, as residents scampered for safety. According to PUNCH Metro report seen by OHAFIATV News. the hoodlums were members of a suspected cult whose member was reportedly hacked to death last weekend by a faction of the group in the Mile 2 axis of Diobu. An…

Oct

12

2022

By Freeman

Late COAS Attahiru’s family boycotts award over non-invite

Lifestyle, MetroFederal government, Metro, Nigeria, Personality, Politics, RIP

Mrs Fati Attahiru, the wife of the late Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, and his family, boycotted the National Awards ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday over the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s failure to invite them to receive the national honours award on Attahiru’s behalf. The late COAS was among the 13 persons listed to be honoured posthumously by the President. Attahiru, who was posthumously awarded Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic, died alongside 10 other senior military officers in the Nigerian Air Force’s Beechcraft aircraft fatal crash in Kaduna on May 21,…

Oct

12

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Abia court remands man for the murder of two

Abia State, Lifestyle, MetroAbia State, Court, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Security

A middle-aged man, Ugochukwu Nwanaji, has been remanded in the Umuahia Custodial Centre, Abia State, over murder charges. Nwanaji was alleged to have beheaded a 65-year-old woman, Mrs. Mercy Chukwu, and a 68-year-old man, Mr. Moses Uyai, on September 14, 2016, and October 10, 2016, respectively. While Chukwu was allegedly killed at Amanato Ezukwu in the Bende LGA of the state, Moses was killed at Otampa in the Isuikwuato LGA. The prosecuting counsel from Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Romanus Eke, pleaded that the defendant is remanded in custody. Granting the request, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Ugo Nkpa, adjourned…

Oct

11

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Dr Kalu sends hearty congratulations to Obiora Okoronkwo on honour of OON

Amos Oge Kalu, Lifestyle, Metro, PoliticsEmeka Kalu, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Obiora Okonkwo, Politics

Chief Dr. Emeka Kalu has felicitated with Prof High Chief Obiora Okonkwo as he was among the many personalities Honoured by Government of President Mohammedu Buhari, GCFR with National conferment of OON. In a brief but powerful message he penned down and forwarded to OHAFIATV News, he praised him for being employer of labour and good manager of men and resources which in many ways have impacted positively in the economy of Nigeria. The goodwill message read: Felicitations! I, Dr. Emeka Kalu, the Chiarman of Stercoll Group hereby felicitate with Prof. Obiora Okonkwo the chairman United Air Nigeria ,on the…