As expected, defence lawyers yesterday moved to dismiss the trial of three persons standing trial for the murder of the head nurse at the Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital Enugu, citing contradictory statements being forwarded to the court by the Police. At the resumed hearing of the case, Mr. Joseph Ogbuka representing the accused persons told the […]
Ogbuagu Anikwe
Ogbuagu Bob Anikwe, a veteran journalist and message development specialist, is now a community journalism advocate and publisher of Enugu Metro. Contact him on any of the channels below.
Google introduces Street View to Enugu
The tech giant, Google, today launched the street view in Enugu and five other cities in Nigeria. Street View is a technology which is featured in Google Maps and Google Earth and provides interactive pictures from positions along many streets. Anyone who uses Google Maps in Enugu will therefor be able to see Google pictures […]
Pascal Dozie leaves MTN Board
Mr. Paschal Dozie steps down as chairman of MTN, a position he has been holding since the company came to Nigeria to do business 18 years ago
Re: Rape and the Enugu Concert – ThisDay Editorial
Enugu State Government responds to ThisDay editorial and says that Enugu is safe and that news of alleged gang-rape at a music concert is not true (Enugu, 11 April 2018). The attention of the Enugu State Government has been drawn to an editorial published today by ThisDay newspaper alleging that over 20 girls were sexually […]
Baby in Dirty Bowl
Why are we using Dr. Jim Obaze’s personal failings to judge his public work after his sack as boss of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRN)? We seem to be confusing two things – Dr. Obaze allegedly bathing himself in the Nigerian corruption pool and at the same time doggedly executing the mandate of […]
el Rufa’is Litmus Test
How Malam el Rufa’i ends his tenure as governor will determine whether the people who’ll elect him president will look forward to it or quail at the prospect. It is no secret that I admire Malam Nasiru el Rufai’s work ethic. I have been since the first and only time that my colleague, Aaron Ukodie, […]
Cow economy and another matter
I was struck by two issues in President Buhari’s 56th Independence speech – the craft in the speech, and the resolute, howbeit unsuccessful attempts to force cattle rustling onto the national security agenda. I’ll take the second first. For reasons best known to him, President Buhari is bent on forcing cattle rustling onto the national […]
Appointments: Buhari vs. Jonathan
The Nigerian federation is getting more deeply divided by the day. Some senior lawyers have argued that actions or inactions of leaders have helped and are helping to widen ethnic cracks. A recent article by US-based Dr. Okey Ndibe has questioned the inclusiveness of the appointments being made by President Muhammadu Buhari. The ethnic knives […]
Social Etiquette for WhatsApp Group Chats
I’ve been hunting the Web in search of rules that I can apply for a new WhatsApp Group just created. My search led me to think through and propose the following draft to our members. We are currently debating what to add, amend, and expunge from it. If you have the same challenge as me, […]
Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day?
Many people are wondering why Catholics don’t follow “every other Christian denomination” to celebrate Mother’s Day on the same date. The first and most important point to note is that there is nothing Christian about the celebration of Mother’s Day as it is inaugurated and celebrated these days; it is purely a secular celebration. The […]