Beyond the Headlines
The United States Embassy in Abuja has announced that it will be reducing its public operations for security reasons. In a statement seen by TheCable, the embassy said the services that will be affected include routine American citizen services and the education advising centre. It added that the new measure will take effect from July […]
After a protracted legal tussle, the family of Efunloye Tinubu has taken over property at Akobi Crescent, Surulere after legal tussle that lasted three years. The land measuring 8.994 acres located at Akobi Crescent, off Fashoro Lane, Surulere, became a subject of legal matter when a retired colonel, Tunde Oyedele challenged the family in a […]
The deadly violence that has rocked South Africa for the past week was planned, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday, as authorities said they had identified 12 suspects. “It is quite clear that all these incidents of unrest and looting were instigated, there were people who planned it and coordinated it,” he said as he arrived […]
It was a raucous scene at both chambers of the National Assembly yesterday, over the mode of transmission of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on election day. Trouble started when the red chamber attempted to amend Clause 52(3) of the new Electoral Act. The joint National Assembly Committee on INEC and Electoral […]
State assembly members from northern states of Nigeria have rejected the call to zone the 2023 presidency to the south, arguing that the south has had more years in power than its northern counterpart since 1999. Meeting under the aegis of Nigeria Northern States Legislature Forum in Abuja, on Thursday, they also posited that Governor […]
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, has listed eight times Primate Elijah Ayodele’s prophesies “hit the crossbar.” Adesina listed Ayodele’s failed prophesies on Friday while reacting to the latest prophecy that Nigeria would disintegrate between 2035 and 2040. Adesina, in his article titled Some Prophets See Nothing, however, advised Ayodele […]
Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits were said to have shot dead a serving senior military officer in the Nigerian Army, identified as Major General Hassan Ahmed, after which his wife was said to have been abducted. The incident reportedly occurred late in the evening on Thursday in Abaji, on the outskirts of Abuja, the […]
The Chairman of Football Association, Imo State, Chief Amanze Uchegbulam, has advised Governor Hope Uzodimma to sell off the state own Heartland Football Club to Imo people for effective management. Uchegbulam, who stated this while speaking to sportswriters in Owerri on Wednesday, said that Imo people loved the club and could afford to buy the […]
The British High Commission and a law firm in London, Bindmans, have sought the consent of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to take up his case. The PUNCH gathered on Thursday that Kanu’s Nigerian lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, delivered two forms to the IPOB leader on Wednesday during a visit to […]
The enforcement team of Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) has sealed 30 factories for infractions, ranging from unhygienic production environment, failure to comply with regulatory provisions, and non-adherence to good manufacturing practice. Executive Secretary of LASWARCO Mrs. Funke Adepoju said the enforcement was in line with the commission’s mandate to protect residents from consuming […]
