Beyond the Headlines
Thirty people were killed when a bus plunged into a river in central Kenya at a notorious accident blackspot, a local official said Monday. The accident occurred late Sunday when the bus was travelling from the town of Meru to the coastal city of Mombasa. The bus plunged off a bridge about 40 metres […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed that the former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu has lobbied to be a vice president on a Muslim-Muslim ticket to President Muhammadu Buhari. Both Atiku and Tinubu eyeing to be the nation’s President in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All […]
Security personnel in Abuja have arrested an ad hoc staff of a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre for issuing fake vaccination cards to some international travellers. The Head of Public Relations of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Mohammad Ohitoto, disclosed this in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Monday. The suspect, Dauda […]
BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation, has expressed concerns over the poor fiscal performance of the federal government’s 2022 budget and the growing subsidy payments. BudgIT said this in a statement on Monday signed by Iyanu Fatoba, assistant head, media and communications. The organisation said the fortunes of Nigeria have worsened in the last eight months. […]
Students of Federal Government College (FCG) Kwali, Abuja, have been evacuated from their hostels following an attack at a nearby community. Parents trooped to the school on Monday morning to evacuate their children from the unity college located at Sheda village, on the ever busy Abuja-Lokoja highway. Our reporter, who visited the college on […]
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said there was no time he bought and submitted two nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Party (APC) simultaneously. He made the clarification on Monday in reaction to the controversy trailing his senatorial aspiration following his loss at the party’s presidential primary election […]
A group known as Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has called for the resignation of Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), over the insecurity in the country. Mohammed Danlami, spokesman of the group, in a statement on Monday said the NSA has run out of ideas in tackling the security challenges in the country, and […]
Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian athlete to win a World Athletics Championship gold as she stormed to victory in the women’s 100m hurdles in Oregon on Sunday. Amusan, who had obliterated the world record in an astonishing semi-final where she clocked 12.12sec, powered over the line at Hayward Field in 12.06sec. Her winning […]
Chidozie Ekesinachi, brother of siblings, Chukwuemeka, 20, Ifechi, 18, allegedly killed by state owned Ebubeagu Security operatives at Awo Omamma in the Oru East Local Government Area of Imo state, penultimate Sunday while returning from a traditional wedding ceremony, has described as false the news making the rounds that his mother was dead. A […]
The families of the train victims picketed the Ministry of Transportation on Monday to protest against the continued stay of their loved ones in the terrorists’ den. This came after the terrorists released a video where the male victims were being mercilessly flogged. The families who have been at the ministry since 6 am […]
