Kwara APC crisis: Abdulrazaq, ex-party chair disagree over campaign funding
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State on Saturday broke his silence on the crisis rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, saying the disagreement began before he became the...
View ArticleBandits on the rampage, attack air force patrol in Zamfara, Kogi Assembly
Suspected bandits went on the rampage during the week, attacking at least three hallowed institutions in the country: the Kogi State House of Assembly Complex; Olusegun Agagu University of Science and...
View ArticlePolice detained me for days, said I would die for selling Biafra newspaper...
A newspaper vendor in Asaba, Delta State, Mr Patrick Onwanaha, who spent 13 days in police detention and was recently granted bail by a court, narrates his ordeal to MATTHEW OCHEI What is your name? My...
View ArticleLet Buhari have London
As last week closed, Nigeria ruler Muhammadu Buhari was on the verge of returning to the United Kingdom for “medical care.” He was to have departed for London on Friday, but the trip was postponed....
View ArticleHow I went through hell as young artiste –Olamide
Popular rapper and YBNL honcho, Olamide Adedeji, popularly known as Olamide, has said that he went through hell trying to make it as a young artiste and that’s why he is passionate about supporting...
View ArticleAbandoned widowed ex-banker finally gets befitting home after PUNCH report,...
Home is where you lay your head at night to sleep in peace and with dignity. And finally, home for Mrs Esther Kanebi is a neat and sparsely furnished self-contained apartment built on the dingy spot...
View ArticleMany IPOB, ESN members killed, three camps destroyed in Imo –Police
The Nigeria Police Force said several members of the Eastern Security Network and Indigenous People of Biafra had been killed during a shootout in Imo State. It also said three more camps linked to the...
View ArticleUTME results: JAMB suspends USSD, directs candidates to website
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has suspended the use of the USSD code in checking results of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The development was due to some...
View Article2023: INEC raises special panel, targets 200,000 electronic voting machines
•American, British, Nigerian, Chinese manufacturers, others eye supply contract With less than two years to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has proposed to buy...
View ArticleBorno gov suspends French NGO over alleged firearm training
Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, has directed the immediate suspension of the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, popularly known as ACTED. The French humanitarian...
View ArticleSynagogue appoints TB Joshua’s wife as GO, prepares for funeral
There are indications that Mrs Evelyn Joshua, the wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, will replace him as General Overseer of the church. Evelyn and Joshua...
View ArticleBuhari orders NDLEA to raid drug hideouts in forests
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). has described Nigeria’s drug war as deadlier than the fight against insurgency and banditry and other threats to the stability of the country....
View ArticleProtest in Kwara community as gunmen kill pregnant woman, kidnap husband
Gunmen on Saturday killed a pregnant woman, Hawawu, and kidnapped her husband, Lukman Ibrahim, on Ojoku Road, Offa, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Sources said Lukman, a young...
View ArticleAtiku group wants ex-VP PDP’s consensus presidential candidate
THE Atiku Support Organisation, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, to adopt former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, as its consensus candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The group made...
View ArticleAuditor general queries NPA’s N44bn unremitted tax, N88bn admin spending
The Office of the Auditor General of the Federation has issued more queries on the finances of the Nigerian Ports Authority, alleging various irregularities in the accounts of the agency for 2018. The...
View ArticleAPC power blocks begin battle, Buhari’s defunct party eyes chairmanship
Power blocs within the All Progressives Congress have started the scramble for the control of the party’s structures, a few days after the approval and release of new dates for its ward, local...
View ArticleOsinbajo, others for ICPC workshop
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will join other dignitaries at a two-day training for Nigerian negotiators, organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission....
View ArticleTroops repel attack, bandits steal phones in Kaduna council
Troops of the Operation Safe Haven on Sunday repelled bandits attack on the Zango-Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A statement by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home...
View ArticleAssault: Senate insists on grilling CCT boss despite petitioner’s withdrawal
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition has, for the third time, summoned the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Mr Danladi Umar. The development followed the failure of...
View ArticleDikio allocates 70% amnesty scholarship slots to ex-agitators
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dikio (rtd), has given an insight into how percentage slots of the reviewed scholarship scheme of the agency will be...
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