Four people, including a soldier, were reportedly killed by suspected cultists at North Bank, a suburb of Makurdi, Benue State, on Friday. Clashes among rival cult members have been on the increase around the North Bank area in the past few weeks. According to eyewitnesses, those killed on Friday were innocent people who were attacked […]
Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged President Bola Tinubu to implement the order of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group to release the IPOB leader. Ejimakor said the president should not follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, former President […]
Amid the rising wave of inflation gripping the country, no fewer than 15 Northern states spent an approximate sum of N45bn on different poverty alleviation programmes in the first six months of 2024, an investigation by Sunday PUNCH has revealed. On Friday, the National Bureau of Statistics reported that Nigeria’s inflation rate surged to 33.88 […]
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo state and the candidate of the All Progressive Congress is leading in all the 13 local governments so far declared by INEC. The collation officer, Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi, said that the collation of the remaining five council areas will resume by 5 am today ( Sunday). Prof Akinwunmi, who announced […]
The Police Service Commission has stated that there were instances of vote buying at several polling centres during the Ondo State governorship election. PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, said some staff deployed staff to monitor the conduct of police officers and observed that vote buying had become a recurring issue in elections across the country. “There […]
The court of appeal in Abuja has affirmed Tajudeen Baruwa as the president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). A three-member panel of justices led by Hamma Barka affirmed the March 11, 2024, judgment of the national industrial court in Abuja, which reinstated Baruwa for his second term as the union’s president. […]
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has declared that Nigeria is currently under a state capture. A statement by his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Saturday, quoted Obasanjo to have said this while delivering in his keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University New Haven Connecticut, USA. The statement said the former President’s address […]
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has stated that it’s yet to know the reasons for the total blackout in Imo State and some parts of Umuahia in Abia State, since Thursday morning. In a statement titled Loss of power supply to Imo State and parts of Umuahia by the EEDC’s Head of Corporate Communications, […]
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa has indicated that Nigeria’s ongoing economic reforms are struggling to deliver meaningful results, even 18 months after their implementation. The report, presented on Friday at the Lagos Business School (LBS) by IMF Deputy Director Catherine Patillo, highlighted a mixed performance of […]
A 32-year-old man, Onyiuke Nwedeogu, has allegedly set himself ablaze after a misunderstanding with his wife in Ndiechi Igbeagu, Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It was learned that the couple had a conflict last Sunday morning when Onyiuke had a quarrel with his wife, Felicia Nwedeogu which led to the beating of the […]
