ARISE News Channel Donates N1bn to Western Delta University to Set Up Media & Technology School Fayemi offers school of policy implementation to institution Peter Obi, ex-Ekiti governor to become visiting lecturers Peter Uzoho The Western Delta University,
Oghara, Ethiope West local government area (LGA) of Delta state rarely had it so good as it did
at the weekend as hefty monetary donations and offers of sundry help tumbled in at its 15th Founders'
Day celebrations and lecture. The Chairman of THISDAY/ ARISE News Channel, Prince Nduka
Obaigbena, opened the financial floodgates as he announced a donation of N1 billion on behalf
of the broadcast station to Western Continued on page 5
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Sudan: Nigerians Trapped Between Sudan, Egypt, Send SOS Michael Olugbode in Abuja As the ceasefire by warring factions in the Sudanese crisis draws close, some Nigerians, who were trapped at the border between Sudan and Egypt, have cried out that their lives may
be in danger if the Nigerian government fails to take immediate action to evacuate them. The stranded Nigerians, in a viral video, claimed that they were left in the middle of nowhere by bus drivers
contracted by the Nigerian government to transport them from Sudan to Egypt, where they were promised to be flown back to Nigeria. The Nigerian government had repeatedly shifted the date of arrival of the trapped Nigerians
to the country, thereby creating apprehension among citizens on the safety of the 5,500 students that have shown interest in getting evacuated back home and several thousand other citizens still trapped in war-torn Sudan. In the viral video, over
400 Nigerians said they were denied access to Egypt, which subsequently led the contracted drivers into attempt dropping them off about a kilometre from the designated entry point into Egypt from the Sudanese border. They said it was their protest
that made the buses, whose drivers had attempted to drive off after dropping them, to be parked in sight. A female voice of one of the Nigerians, speaking in Hausa, Continued on page 5
NLC, CSOs Plead With Judiciary to Save Nigeria’s Democracy Say INEC has driven a nail into the electoral coffin of country NLC threatens to name, shame corrupt judges Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Sunday Aborisade, Udora Orizu in Abuja and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark International Workers’ Day today, organised labour and the civil society coalition, under the aegis of Citizens' Democratic Movement, have urged the country’s judiciary, especially judges of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, to help safeguard democracy by doing justice to all the election petitions brought before them. The movement, comprising several civil society and youth organisations, insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had seriously damaged the country's democracy with its poor showing at the Continued on page 5
WESTERN DELTA UNIVERSITY 15TH FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATION… L-R: Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi; Former Delta State Governor/Founder, Western Delta University, Oghara, Chief James Ibori; Former Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and Chairman of THISDAY/ARISE News Channel, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, at the 15th Founders' Day celebration and lecture of the university held in Oghara, Ethiope West local government area of Delta state…weekend
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