Brugge striker Dennis joins Watford
Club Brugge forward Emmanuel Dennis has joined Watford, the newly promoted Premier League club has announced. The 23-year-old Nigerian spent part of last season on loan at Bundesliga club FC Koln,...
View ArticleBandits/herdsmen farm occupation: Insecurity grounds CBN borrowers, farmers...
I was kidnapped for a month, my crop destroyed, I don’t know how to pay CBN loan – Farmer We can’t support farmers with uninsured ABP loans, says Federal Ministry of Agriculture There are indications...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom health workers protest alleged salary slash
Medical interns comprising pharmacists and laboratory scientists working at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday protested against the decision of the hospital...
View Article‘Charmed’ Inspector arrested for gunrunning, 24 suspects paraded in C’River
Medical interns comprising pharmacists and laboratory scientists working at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday protested against the decision of the hospital...
View ArticleNPC, NBC bills not to moderate but criminalise journalism – NGE
The Nigerian Guild of Editors said on Tuesday that the Nigerian media was not a political opponent or enemy of the Federal Government. According to the NGE, many of the attacks on the media by...
View ArticleDeconstructing the Presidency’s mind on national issues
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, last week issued a statement condemning the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party governors’ position on some...
View ArticlePakistan seeks to gag media, yet again
The military-backed government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is bringing a law to establish an omnibus body to monitor all media platforms in Pakistan, including and digital platforms, television and...
View ArticleCleaners battle flooding as N’Assembly building roof leaks
Cleaners hired by a facility firm to maintain the White House complex of the National Assembly had hectic time scooping water from on the floor of the federal Parliament on Tuesday. Federal lawmakers,...
View ArticleSouth-East govs can’t decide actualisation of Biafra – IPOB
Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki THE Indigenous People of Biafra has said the governors of the South-East geo-political zone lacked the locus standi to decide for the people of the region on issues concerning...
View ArticleKano uncovers 3,268 govt teachers in private schools
THE Kano State Government has discovered 3,268 teachers that are on its payroll but posted to private, voluntary and community schools in the state. The Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of...
View ArticleS’South COVID-19 meeting ends abruptly, Edo blames agency
THE Kano State Government has discovered 3,268 teachers that are on its payroll but posted to private, voluntary and community schools in the state. The Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of...
View ArticleSFU police assaulted our VC over invitation letter – FUOYE
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View ArticlePolice didn’t beat PUNCHman, says Imo
THE Imo State Government on Tuesday denied reports that a correspondent of The PUNCH, Chidiebube Okeoma, was brutalised by security operatives from the governor’s office for covering a protest by a...
View ArticlePay Rivers, A’Ibom $3bn from recovered $62bn, court tells FG
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay $3bn to Rivers and Akwa Ibom States as their share from proceeds of crude oil sale. The court ordered the said...
View ArticleAyade appoints APC chieftain, two others as aides
THE Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has appointed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Cletus Obun, as Special Adviser, Strategic Communications. Obun was a member of the Cross River...
View ArticleBayelsa denies plan to scrap 32 development areas
DEPUTY Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has denied speculations that the Governor Douye Diri-led administration was planning to scrap the 32 Rural Development Authorities in the state....
View ArticleFG disobeys own law, flouts workers pension remittance
121,543 retirees have less than N550,000 in their RSA balance, says PenCom Payment shortfall, inflation, double stroke for workers – Ex-TUC president, Esele Seven years after the Federal Government...
View ArticleOgun APC members protest imposition of LG polls candidate
SEVERAL members of the All Progressives Congress in Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Tuesday, staged a protest over the alleged imposition of Adebayo Ayorinde as the chairmanship...
View ArticleBuhari will complete tenure despite call for removal –Ojudu
The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, on Tuesday said despite the increasing calls for the resignation of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), he...
View ArticleSuits challenging Oshiomhole-led APC NWC dissolution dismissed
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has struck out two suits challenging the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress. Delivering the...
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