Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, on Monday, swore in three judges who were shunned by the Godwin Obaseki administration during the swearing-in of five of their colleagues last year. He said he did it in fulfilment of his campaign promise to right the wrong of his ...

By Seun Opejobi Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has accused some state governors of writing laws from their living rooms. Dogara spoke during Channels TV’s Town Hall meeting on ...

His Royal Highness, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, has underscored the need for actions to be taken by Nigerians with a view to placing national interest above sectional and personal interests.Achebe who metaphorically likened Nigeria to a cow, said if the citizens continued to milk ...

United States President Joe Biden is visiting Angola this week on his first-ever bilateral trip to Africa as president – weeks before he leaves the post to Donald Trump. Biden is set to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Monday, after a brief stop in the West African nation of Cape ...

Hamas’s announcement comes as the group and Fatah discuss the Palestinian Authority’s management of post-war Gaza. Hamas says 33 captives held by the group in Gaza have been killed since the start of Israel’s nearly 14-month-old war in the besieged enclave. The group issued a video ...

December 2024 is bringing some serious heat to the meme coin scene. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or a newcomer looking to hop on the next big thing, this month’s top trending meme coins to buy in December 2024 are making waves, and you’ll want to get in on the action while you still ...

For four years, virtually all the country’s international airports operated without certification. Not that the airports were unsafe but they lacked many of the ingredients that make operating in the aerodromes very satisfactory. While these happened, many risks were taken or ...

By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja-The Inspector-General of Police, Dr Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered a comprehensive investigation into the allegations of police culpability during the Aug. 1 #EndBadGovernance protests.The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on ...

By Francis Ugwu Princess Chineke, a Nollywood actress has joined the U.S. Army. The former beauty queen who represented her state in the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, MBGN, pageant has traded her crown for a soldier’s uniform, making a ...

By Casmir Nwankwo Ebonyi State governor, Francis Nwifuru, has given workers in the state 72 hours ultimatum to resume work or face dismissal. The governor also threatened to replace them after their dismissal from duty. Nwifuru’s action ...

By Enahoro Iyemefokhai Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has sworn in three judges who his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, refused to swear in, despite the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC. The three judges were sworn into the ...

  The Chief Executive Officer of Yoruba Gidi Online Television, Olakunle Fasugba, has been summoned by the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) at its Annex in Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, over allegations of conspiracy, cyberbullying, serious threat to life, and forgery. ...

The United Kingdom (UK) has pledged a contribution of £1.98 billion to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), in a bid to support countries with low-income economies. The UK’s £1.98 billion pledge to IDA21 represents ...

Barring any last-minute changes, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon retire about 1,000 of its employees before the end of the year, investigations by Daily Trust have shown.Reliable sources at the apex bank’s headquarters revealed that the retirement would gulp over N50 billion in ...

JOS—FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to a revelation by former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), that he (Gowon) intervened with the late Gen. Sani Abacha to spare Obasanjo’s life during his imprisonment. Obasanjo was among those detained by ...

By Abdul Babajide President Bola Tinubu has disclosed that the economic policies that he initiated upon his assumption of office are now yielding the desired results. Tinubu, who acknowledged that the policies were harsh on the people, stated ...

By Favour Olekanma President Bola Tinubu has said that Nigerians were living a “fake good life” prior to the removal of the fuel subsidy. Speaking at the 34th and 35th combined convocation ceremonies ...

By Favour Olekanma Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has revealed that certain individuals are benefiting from the ongoing insurgency in the state. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday, Zulum disclosed that the ...

Outgoing US president says his son was ‘selectively’ and ‘unfairly’ prosecuted due to his family name. United States President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter ahead of his sentencing on gun and tax convictions despite a previous pledge not to use his presidential powers to grant ...

Rebel groups in northwestern Syria say they are pushing towards the city of Hama after taking control of nearby Aleppo in a lightning offensive that started last week. The attempted southern advance on Sunday comes on the fifth day of the surprise rebel offensive as Syrian and Russian ...

Beijing lodges ‘serious protests’ with the US saying it ‘strongly condemns’ Taiwanese leader’s stopover in Hawaii, Guam. China has pledged “resolute countermeasures” following the United States’ decision to approve more arms sales to Taiwan, just hours before the island’s President ...

A 59-year-old Nigerian businessman, Sylva Ezeokoli, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for allegedly smuggling 700 grams of cocaine concealed in his stomach. The arrest was made on Friday at the E-Arrival ...

    Its a judicial attack on Rivers people – Ankio Briggs       Emmanuel Nlewedum, Port Harcourt     A Coalition of all Rivers State Local Government Chairmanship Candidates in the October 5, 2024 Local Government Elections in the state, has reacted to the Abuja Federal High Court’s decision ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Lagos State government has denied reports that it has placed a ban on sachet water. The Minister of the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this clarification on Sunday in a statement posted on his official X account. The commissioner’s comments followed a ...

A simple family matter that ordinarily would have been resolved amicably without any third party lingered for 10 years because of misinformation as those involved express their regrets. OGUNTADE ISMAILA reports.Before trouble ensued, for years, two relations, Abayomi Arodu and Oluwatoyin Osho, ...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has launched a new Licensing Framework for Application-to-Person (A2P) services, aimed at strengthening the structure and transparency within the country’s telecommunications industry.The announcement, made on Friday by Reuben Muoka, NCC’s Director ...

The Aare Atunluse of Awori Kingdom and the Chairman, Mapcotec Nigeria Limited, Aare (Surveyor) Dr. Segun Osifeso, has described President Bola Tinubu’s recent desire to look into the case of the minors arrested in connection with the #EndBadGovernance protest in August as one of the ...

By Francis Ugwu United States President-elect, Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on the bloc of countries known as BRICS countries if they try to replace or move away from the U.S. dollar. The bloc is made up of Brazil, Russia, ...

By Francis Ugwu United States President-elect, Donald Trump has named longtime ally, Kashyap Patel to serve as next director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Intelligence, FBI. Trump announced Patel’s appointment in a Truth Social post on ...

Hamas is open to discussing "all ideas and proposals", a senior official of the Palestinian group told AFP, as representatives arrived in Cairo Saturday for talks on a possible ceasefire in Gaza. The group has "not received any new offer or proposal so far", the official said, speaking on ...

… Rebuilding American Strength Will Take Buy-In at Home and Abroad—and From Trump Himself Predicting the incoming Trump administration’s China policy— and China’s likely response—is a guessing game. In his first term as president, Donald Trump’s transac­tional approach often differed ...

Yabacon Africa has announced that it will be empowering innovators by providing them with N1m grant to support their projects in the return of its flagship annual event, Yabacon Meet 2024. The event, which will come up at The Zone, Gbagada, Lagos, on December 7, 2024, with the theme: ...

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have triggered widespread workforce reductions in the tech industry throughout 2024. As companies restructured to integrate AI-driven efficiencies, nearly 100,000 employees were laid off, highlighting a seismic shift in workplace ...

The Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has stated that the only person they recognize as leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, not Simon Ekpa.The body also dismissed insinuations from some quarters that there has been leadership crisis within Ohaneze Ndi Igbo since the death of its ...

Onozure Dania The Lagos Division of Appeal Court, on Friday, nullified the conviction of the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Olufemi Olaleye, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece. Olaleye was discharged and acquitted by the appellate court ...

Medical experts have raised the alarm over the increasing cases of prostate cancer across the country, advising Nigerians to always seek medical attention on time. The experts, who spoke to Saturday PUNCH at a recently concluded 29th Annual General Meeting and ...

Malaria vaccination is to commence December 2nd, 2024, in Kebbi and Bayelsa states, Saturday PUNCH reports. This was disclosed to our correspondent on Saturday by the Head of Public Relations Unit at the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Remi Adeleke; ...

Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has approved the payment of “13th month” salary to workers in the state civil service. The governor has also approved the policy of automatic employment for first class graduates of Edo extraction from any university in Nigeria and ...

By Jim Ochetenwu The Adamawa State Government has raised the monthly allowance of National Youth Service Corps members, NYSC, posted to the state to N20,000. The corps members had previously been drawing N10,000 each per month, meaning a 100 ...

By Favour Olekanma The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has issued a warning to the international cable television network, GOTV, urging it to stop airing the Christian televangelism programme Faith on its main channel. This was contained ...

Brutalised by a military general and his boys over the right of way, an Abuja-based health worker, Vershima Mker, shares with AYOOLA OLASUPO how he sustained a head injury from the attack, his detention at the police station and the quest for ...

The Nigerian Army has released the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) founder, Fisayo Soyombo. The Acting Deputy Director of Public Relations, 6 Division of the Army, Danjuma Danjuma, had earlier on Friday announced the arrest of the investigative journalist alongside ...

Chris Maiyaki, Acting Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, says the commission will continue to encourage the establishment of more universities notwithstanding the criticism. Mr Maiyaki made the disclosure on Friday in his lecture at the 22nd convocation ceremony of ...

UN nuclear watchdog’s report comes as Iran prepares to hold talks with European nations over its nuclear programme. Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it plans to install more than 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium, the United Nations nuclear ...

The Osun State Government has announced that the implementation of the newly approved minimum wage of N75,554.20 for civil servants will commence on December 1, 2024. The approval follows the successful conclusion of negotiations between the state government and ...

The arraignment of a former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, was stalled on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, due to the absence of his defence counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed (SAN). Mohammed was reportedly unaware of the hearing date, leading to his absence in court. ...

By Francis Ugwu The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reappointed Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its Director-General for a second term. This was announced by the WTO in a post on X on Friday. The ...

By Priscilla Dennis Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has voiced the North’s opposition to President Bola Tinubu’s Tax Reforms Bill currently before the National Assembly. In an ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has paid a condolence visit to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno over the demise of his wife, the late Patience Eno. The Vice President who arrived in the Akwa Ibom State capital Uyo on Friday, around 11:47 GMT, immediately proceeded to ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, of defilement and sexual assault by penetration of a minor.Dr. Olaleye had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower ...