Wrestler Agiomor sounds warning to Olympic foes
Nigerian wrestler, Ekerekeme Agiomor, has warned potential opponents at the forthcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics to underestimate him at their peril. Agiomor, who will be making his Olympic debut in Tokyo,...
View ArticlePneumococcal Infections
A pneumococcal infection is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is also called the pneumococcus. It is a common member of the bacterial flora colonising the nose and...
View ArticleOsinbajo advocates private sector investment in health sector
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said advocated private sector investment in the country’s health sector, saying the government is striving to attain Sustainable Development Goals three and...
View ArticleNo to manual transmission of results, say CSOs
No fewer than 42 civil society organisations have rejected the Electoral Amendment Bill (2021) being proposed by the National Assembly. The CSOs in a statement on Sunday said the manual transmission of...
View ArticleMexico defeat: Home-based players will get better, says NPFL stars
Nigeria Professional Football League players have blamed inexperience for the Super Eagles B’s 4-0 loss to Mexico in an international friendly in front of a packed LA Coliseum on Sunday. A brace from...
View ArticleAisha Buhari tourney: Falode pledges good competition
The Director of Organisation, Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Football Tournament, Aisha Falode, has assured of the preparedness of the organisers to deliver a top-notch football showpiece befitting...
View ArticleAFN opens Olympic camp in Abuja
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s camp for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics opened in Abuja on Sunday, The PUNCH reports. Secretary-General of the AFN, Adisa Beyioku, in a letter dated July 2 and addressed...
View ArticlePolice probe video of naked politician accused of working against Biafra
Fear has descended on Imo State following a video circulating in which a popular politician in the Orsu Local Government Area of the state, popularly known as Matador Enyi-Oha na Osru, was shown stack...
View ArticlePIB: Dangote refinery, others to buy crude in naira
Holders of refining licences in the country can pay for domestic crude oil supply in naira, according to the Petroleum Industry Bill passed by the National Assembly on Thursday. Companies holding...
View ArticleCommuters stranded, vehicle burnt as mob barricade Osun highway over okada...
Sn angry mob, on Sunday, burnt a car travelling on the Osogbo/Iwo bypass, Osogbo, Osun State, after it rammed into and killed a commercial motorcyclist. The incident, which led to the total blockage of...
View ArticleBandits attack Zaria leper colony, kidnap nursing mother, six others
Some bandits in the early hours of Sunday raided the staff quarters of the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre, Zaria, Kaduna State, and abducted seven persons, including a nursing mother. It was...
View ArticleDelta APC chieftain’s police orderly, driver shot dead by assassins
Pandemonium broke out at the Airport junction, Effurun, Delta State, on Sunday as suspected assassins shot dead a police orderly and personal driver of a notable chieftain of the All Progressives...
View ArticleCollapsed road threatens lives, property in Akwa Ibom
Residents of Ikpa Road and its environs in the Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have raised the alarm over the collapsed section of the community road. PUNCH Metro gathered that the road,...
View ArticleEnsure quick release of abducted students, Buhari tells security agencies
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has charged the military, police, and intelligence agencies, to ensure the safe and early release of all kidnap victims, largely students in Kaduna...
View ArticleKatsina Assembly considers bill to ban street begging
A bill seeking the prohibition of street begging in Katsina State scaled through second reading at the state house of Assembly on Monday. The executive bill seeks a four-year prison term or an option...
View ArticleEkiti turns heat on randy teachers as rape cases rise
ABIODUN NEJO writes that Ekiti State Government appears set not to relent in its fight against rape and other sexual offences as it takes the war to the doorsteps of teachers, who ordinarily are...
View ArticleChina’s one party rule: 100 years and counting…
Before the 2015 general election in Nigeria, senior leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party had boasted of their desire to rule for “65 years”. That dream, aspiration, plan, scheme, whatever, was cut...
View ArticlePolice beg for clue as gunmen kill Enugu bizman
The Enugu State Police Command, on Monday, confirmed the assassination of an Enugu-based businessman, Ifeanyi Okeke. Okeke, who was the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of AutoEase Service...
View ArticleLagos Assembly passes bill to ban suspects’ parade before media
The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the state barring the police from parading crime suspects before the media. According to a...
View ArticleAbuja pastor working to release detained Buhari-Must-Go protesters
The Department of State Services has refused to release five youths arrested at Dunamis Gospel Church for wearing ‘Buhari Must Go’ shirts. The youths were arrested by the DSS while leaving Dunamis...
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