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BY CHIKA OKEKE Family of late Music Icon, Onyeka Onwenu finally granted her final wish to be buried in a quite and private funeral ceremony.  News Rider recounted how Onwenu had requested that she should be buried when she exits the earth.  "Do it quickly, quietly and privately. Celebrate me with prayers, lunch or dinner afterwards. Share some jokes about me and laugh. "Make merriment and then go about your business. If my friends want to celebrate with me, they should do so while I am alive, so that I can enjoy it with them, not when I am gone and have no idea about this. That is me Onyeka Onwenu." Known as 'Elegant Stallion', Onwenu's funeral service was held at the Fountain of Life Church in Ilupeju area of Lagos State on Friday, August 30.  Her two sons, Tijani and Abraham Ogunlende accompanied the pallbearers to usher in her body during the service.  Onwenu's remains were placed in a white coffin and transported by a white chariot to her ...

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja           Kenneth Okonkwo and Peter Obi  More Moles Will Be Exposed –LP A former spokesperson for the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kenneth Okonkwo has exited the party, citing the inability of the leadership to address internal crisis. In a statement posted on his X handle on Saturday, Okonkwo noted that he had hoped the LP Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi would build a solid party that would overthrow the kakistocrats and kleptocrats after the 2023 general election but it did not happen.  "After the 2023 general election, Nigerians, including me, had high hopes for the Labour Party. I believed that Peter Obi will seize the momentum and build a solid party of integrity that will have the solid base that we need to overthrow these kakistocrats and kleptocrats,” he said. "However, I continued in his defence believing he will still privately bring the needed solution to LP problems, (but) to no a...

        Gov Peter Obi The Appeal court on Wednesday declined the request by Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to scan and make copies of the election materials from INEC ‘s database. Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led three-member panel said that granting the order sought by Obi would hamper the elections scheduled for Saturday. Ikyegh faulted Obi and LP for repeating their request to be allowed to scan and make copies of the electoral materials in INEC’s possession. He held that granting the order would amount to tying down the hands of the electoral body and preventing it from carrying out the functions assigned to it by the 1999 constitution. The court had on March 3 ordered INEC to allow the applicants to inspect and carry out digital forensic examination of all the electoral materials used in the conduct of the elections. Also, to provide them the Certified True Copy (CTC) of result of the physical inspection of the BVAS. The panel held tha...