Security operatives at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja have dispersed protesters and journalists from the facility with gunshots, Punch is reporting. The security operatives aimed at protesters and journalists who ran for cover. A car belonging to a Premium Times reporter was shot at while in motion. Details later…
Public policy think tank, Nextier, has asked the Federal Government to liaise with neighbouring countries and regional bodies to boost joint border surveillance. The body stated this in a development report titled ‘Nigeria’s Northeast Belt of Insurgency and the Challenge of Refugees’ released by its researchers on Saturday while reacting to the death of […]
Immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is still on the run 107 days after being declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission. EFCC had on April 18, 2024, declared Bello wanted in connection with an alleged case of money laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88. Saturday PUNCH recalled that a […]
Saturday 03 August 2024 Perception of greener pastures abroad misleading – Nigerian-born UK councillor, Asumu Labour will ground states that refuse to pay N70,000 minimum wage – Osun NLC chair Discos throws Kaduna Govt House into darkness over N2.9bn debt Miyetti Allah seeks support for FG’s livestock ministry N’Assembly, Afenifere condemn Igbo ethnic profiling […]
Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has spent no fewer than1,133 days in the Department of State Services detention, Saturday PUNCH can confirm. Kanu, who was arrested on June 27, 2021, in Kenya and subsequently extradited to Nigeria, is facing charges of terrorism, treasonable felony, and inciting violence through […]
Two persons have been reportedly killed during an attack on a military checkpoint along the Amangwu axis of the Amasiri-Owutu road in the Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. According to an eyewitness, the attack was carried out in the early hours of Friday by gunmen who operated on a motorcycle. The eyewitness […]
US Vice President Kamala Harris effectively secured the Democratic party’s presidential nomination Friday, confirming her remarkable rise to party standard bearer in November’s showdown against Republican Donald Trump. Harris, 59, was the sole candidate on the ballot for a five-day electronic vote of nearly 4,000 party convention delegates. The first Black and South Asian […]
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called on the public to ignore the viral threat on social media X, demanding Igbo citizens to leave Lagos State in the next one month. According to the threat, all South-Easterners must vacate Lagos State, or face massive protests slated to hold from August 20th -30th, 2024. […]
A total of 3,173 Nigerian-trained nurses and midwives were licensed to practise in the United Kingdom in one year, Saturday PUNCHreports. This is according to the latest report on the number of nursing and midwifery professionals on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, obtained exclusively from […]
Kaduna Electric has disconnected electricity supply to the Kaduna State Government House and other state government facilities due to unpaid bills totaling N2.9bn. A statement by the Head, Corporate Communication, AbdulAzeez Abdullahi, on Friday, noted that Kaduna Electric made repeated attempts to resolve the issue, including consultations with state officials, before issuing a disconnection […]
