Beyond the Headlines
The Ebonyi government says it will offer amnesty to bandits and other criminals who are willing to repent and lay down their arms. Uchenna Orji, the state commissioner for information and orientation, stated this on Friday. Stakeholders have expressed different views on whether there should be negotiations with bandits or if they should be granted […]
Two suspects have been arrested by the police over their alleged involvement in impersonation during the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration. The suspects identified as 50-year-old Sesan Obasa, and his alleged accomplice, Salvation Terhembe, were arrested and paraded before journalists at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in Bwari, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday regretted that despite his shoot-at-sight order on non-state actors bearing AK-47, smuggling of arms and other contraband still thrives in the country, saying that people are merciless towards the nation. He spoke Friday at the presidential villa, Abuja during the 6th regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), […]
Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni, has denied any rift between him and Senate President Ahmed Lawan over the 2023 presidency. There is an online report that Buni and Lawan were at daggers-drawn over 2023. But a statement on Friday […]
Former Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead. Her media aide, Bala Maina, confirmed the incident to Channels Television via the telephone on Friday. The ex-minister was said to have passed away at an undisclosed hospital in Cairo, Egypt. She was 61 years old. Al-Hassan was […]
The Nigerian army says 11 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were killed, following an attack on the police command in Imo state. Mohammed Yerima, army spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. TheCable had earlier reported that security operatives foiled an attack on a police station in Imo state. According to […]
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Friday, said the Federal Government was set to prosecute some high-profile Nigerians and businessmen for financing terrorism. He however did not disclose the identities of the suspects or the number of people affected. Malami disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential […]
The national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, on Friday said that there was no going back on its ongoing nationwide strike. The polytechnic teachers equally condemned the way some rectors were being appointed into some polytechnics across the country. Anderson Ezeibe, National President of ASUP, who stated this at the Federal […]
After two years, Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, sacked all the local government chairpersons in the state and appointed caretaker chairmen, the Supreme court, Friday declared the dissolution of the local government councils as illegal. The apex court in its ruling on today also declared the replacement of the council chairman with caretaker committees […]
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal which okayed the deregistration of National Unity Party and 73 others. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission last year deregistered the political parties over their inability to win any election during the 2019 general elections. In […]
