Day: October 2, 2021

Mr Olugbenga Bankole, the newly elected President, Old Students Association of Oronna High School, Ilaro, Ogun, on Saturday tasked colleagues to strive in giving back to the society, especially the school. Bankole urged old students who graduated from various schools to endeavour in their individual or group capacity, to contribute their own quota to develop…

Former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, on Friday accused governors of being undemocratic, saying they micromanage local governments but would not tolerate from the Federal Government some of the things they do to the third tier of government. He said he was an advocate of letting sub-nationals have more resources, but that governors are wont…

  All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, says he is healthy but only undergoing physiotherapy in London. Tinubu said this while addressing members of the House of Representatives northern caucus that visited him in London on Friday. The former governor, who has been in the United Kingdom for the last three months since undergoing knee…

I won’t take the COVID-19 vaccine jab, I’m not a guinea pig – Oyedepo   The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has explained that he will receive COVID-19 vaccine for the sake of the gospel. He stated this on Friday night during the monthly Holy Ghost Service programme…

  Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has urged security operatives to stop killing bandits that are ravaging villages, abducting schoolchildren and killing Nigerians. The controversial cleric asked that they should rather be respected and accorded human rights. “The bandits also have empathy as we have; they have families, children. The first step is to use…

  Protesters in the early hours of Friday stormed the Dantata Bridge on the popular Airport Road in Abuja, demanding the resignation of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The protest coincided with the nation’s 61st Independence Anniversary. The protesters, wielding large banners, made bonfires on the highway. As of the time of filing…

  The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has, on behalf of the United States Government and the American people, extended best wishes to Nigerians on the 61st anniversary of their country’s independence. Blinken, in a statement titled, “Nigeria National Day,’’ sent to Saturday PUNCH by the US Consulate General, Lagos, on Friday stated…

  Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Friday received some members of the House of Representatives led by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila at the Government House, Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital. The lawmakers are in Akure to pay their last respect to the late Omolafe Adedayo, popularly known as ‘Expensive’ who…

  Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Friday received some members of the House of Representatives led by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila at the Government House, Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital. The lawmakers are in Akure to pay their last respect to the late Omolafe Adedayo, popularly known as ‘Expensive’ who…

  Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Friday said  that his administration had in the last two years returned five public schools to their original owners. Fayemi said  this during the inauguration of a model school as part of the activities marking the 25th anniversary  of the creation of the state. “We  returned some schools…

  The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has said those agitating for Nigeria’s disintegration should be decisively dealt with. Yerima Shettima, National President of the AYCF, made the remark while backing President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to deal with agitators like Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Sunday Igboho. Buhari had…