Day: May 15, 2022

Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed yesterday said Nigeria had the potential to become the world’s biggest economy if properly developed. Mohammed made the remark in Jos, the Plateau capital, while declaring his intention to contest for president on the platform of the PDP and soliciting for the votes of delegates in the state. The…

Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The Udom Emmanuel Campaign Council on Sunday described as spurious, an allegation that the Governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel, who is aspiring to be Nigeria’s president next year, is planning to block his fellow aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from having a meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) delegates from…

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects over the killing of a young man by commercial motorcyclists in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that the father of two was killed over N100 balance by the motorcyclists. It was learnt that the victim, who was a sound engineer,…

Wale Oluwo, an associate of former Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, and the Chairman of the Akinwunmi Ambode Campaign Organisation, recently joined the 2023 governorship race of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos. He tells KAYODE OYERO that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has not impressed the people of the state with his performance, vowing to unseat the incumbent…

The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday announced the appointment of Mr Joeé Santos Peseiro as the new Head Coach of the Senior Men National Team, Super Eagles. The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Mr Peseiro, according to a statement by NFF’s spokesperson, Ademola Olajire.…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged stakeholders and delegates of the All Progressives Congress in Jigawa State to vote in the interest of the younger generations during the party’s presidential primary election. Osinbajo stated this while interacting with stakeholders and delegates of the APC in Jigawa, according to a statement by his media aide, Laolu…

The World Bank has said that Nigeria’s oil production declined in 2021 due to a lack of maintenance and the loss of infrastructure efficiency. It added that Nigeria was yet to benefit from increasing oil prices as a result of declining oil production and fuel subsidy. The Washington-based bank said this in a new report…

Some terrorists were reported to have invaded Kurmin Sata, some few kilometers away from Millennium City in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state, killing one person and abducted about 20 residents of the area. An official of the Joint Task Force who spoke on condition of anonymity said the attack took place in the…

Indications have emerged that the refusal of political parties to submit to the Independent National Electoral Commission their annual financial statement as required by the constitution and the Electoral Act has prevented the commission from monitoring their finances and publishing the same as mandated by the constitution. INEC confirmed to Sunday PUNCH that it audited the accounts of…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), “over his failure to probe allegations that over N1.48 trillion reportedly spent on maintaining the country’s four refineries between 2015 and 2020 may have been stolen, mismanaged or diverted into private pockets.” According to SERAP, the government reportedly…

Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, has visited the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The governor quoted the IPOB leader as saying that he would preach peace when released. Soludo made this known in a post on his Facebook page on Saturday night after visiting the IPOB leader. He…

A heavily armed 18-year-old white man shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a “racially motivated” attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said. The gunman, who was wearing body armor and a helmet, was arrested after the massacre, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told a news conference.…