Beyond the Headlines
Delta State College of Education Provost, Warri, Mary Edema, is currently enmeshed in an alleged fraud, SaharaReporters has reported. The provost, as reliably gathered, used N36m to build two toilets in the institution funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior staff of the institution told our correspondent […]
Ibe Pascal Arogorn How can Nigeria military become so nub to have moved down the most wanted Bandit in Benue state ,Gana ? They seem to have forgotten how Bokoharam insurgency ignited in 2009 which is far to go. Unlike Donald Trump of America who is known for his impenitent chutzpah ,hubris and ego ,Who […]
Prof. Florence Banku-Obi has been announced as the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar (Unical), 45 years after, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Announcing the result on Friday in Calabar, Sen. Nkechi Nwaogu, Pro- Chancellor and Chairman of Unical Governing Council, said the process of the selection was transparent. Nwaogu […]
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has once again invited the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, to its office in Jos, the Plateau State Capital. Mailafia, who was also the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has previously been interrogated by officials of the security […]
The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Friday approved castration as punishment for anybody convicted for rape in the state. This follows the amendment of the State Penal Code (No.5), law of 2017 which stipulates stiffer penalties for rapists in the state as part of the effort to protect women and children against any form […]
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary on Friday of the Sept. 11 attacks, with both candidates separately visiting the rural Pennsylvania field where one of the hijacked planes crashed. Biden and his wife, Jill, will first attend a morning ceremony in lower Manhattan in New York, where al […]
No fewer than 16 persons have been killed and over 2, 000 houses destroyed by floods in Bauchi State since the beginning of 2020. Checks by our correspondent revealed that the flooding occurred in several local government areas of the state. The State Emergency Management Agency confirmed this in an interview with The PUNCH on […]
A Spanish court on Friday sentenced a former Salvadoran colonel to 133 years in prison for murdering five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American nation’s civil war. Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 76, was found guilty of the killings which took place in November 1989 when the Jesuits were acting as a mediator […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, inaugurated the Special Purpose Vehicle for Presidential Power Initiate to assist the government in improving the delivery of power in the country . Members of the committee inaugurated by Buhari include the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami ( SAN) , the Minister of […]
The Presidency on Friday says the prices of food items in the country are dropping as a result of the agricultural reforms of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President ’ s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity , Mr Garba Shehu , made this known while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily […]
