Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, on Friday, cautioned Africa’s most popular reality TV show, BBNaija to prevent housemates from using the platform to campaign for their preferred presidential candidates. This is coming following a subtle campaign for Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi by Head of House, Eloswag on Thursday. Vanguard reported that Eloswag […]
Nigeria’s indigenous vehicle manufacturing company, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing (IVM) has filed a lawsuit against the Imo State Government over its failure to pay or service a debt worth N2.5 billion. The amount was for the purchase price of the various IVM Vehicles including their parts which IVM manufactured, sold and delivered to the State […]
Popular Hip-hop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable has apologised to the organisers of the Nigerian prestigious music award, the Headies, following his disqualification. Portable was nominated in the Best Street artiste and Rookie of the Year categories at the award alongside Av, Fave, Magicx and Ugocci. The Headies disqualified Portable as a […]
A serving senator of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed the move by his opposition colleagues to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader of his party, over the security challenges bedevilling the nation. Senator Elisha Abbo, who represents Adamawa North senatorial district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, made his position […]
Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, says some security challenges bedevelling Nigeria can be solved if the financial lifeline of terrorists are cut off. Aregbesola spoke on Friday in Abuja at the inauguration of a 10-member inter-ministerial committee set up to implement the adoption and implementation of the assigned roles to the ministry. The minister […]
The immediate-past Senate Minority Leader and the Senator representing Abia South, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that irrespective of ones political affiliation, it will be difficult to campaign against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. According to Senator Abaribe who recently dumped Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and defected to the […]
Former Senator of the Rivers South-East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, have said that he is a member of the Social Democratic Party. This is as the former Secretary to the Rivers State Government restated his commitment to the growth of internal democracy in the politics of Nigeria. Abe, in […]
A hoodlum, identified as Mr Somadina Agwara has confessed to have taken part in many operations that led to the killing of many policemen in different parts of the Anambra state. Agwara, who hails from Umudiala Village in Ezinifite, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, made the confession while being interrogated by […]
With an escalating demand for foreign exchange for both goods and services by Nigerians, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has assured that it would continue to make deliberate efforts in the foreign exchange sector to avert further downward slide in the value of the naira, which it said was fuelled by speculative tendencies. […]
AIR travellers have begun groaning bitterly under the prohibitive fares airline operators have rolled out for flights within Nigeria as a one-hour flight now costs over a hundred thousand (N100, 000) naira. When The PUNCH visited the domestic wings of the Lagos airport on Tuesday, many of the travellers lamented the sharp increase in […]
