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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said God used him to make the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, the state governor in 2007, claiming that the Amaechi said he was next in his life after God. Wike said this in an interview with BBC Pidgin in Port Harcourt, the state capital, monitored by Punch’s correspondent. He […]

Power consumers have raised the alarm that power distribution companies were now selling the free meters that were provided for electricity users by the Federal Government. In October 2020, the Federal Government inaugurated the National Mass Metering Programme in respect of which the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a framework for financing the scheme. The […]

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano said several videos showing him stuffing bales of dollars into his pockets in 2018 were fake. “No doubt the video is fake,” Ganduje told the BBC Hausa Service on Friday. “We are making some underground plans, which we will not reveal. But I assure you it is fake, and all those behind […]

The former lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye on Friday said he is full of regret for supporting the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Buhari contested under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) six years ago and defeated ex-President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples […]

Primary and secondary school teachers in Imo State on Thursday staged a peaceful protest over the state government’s failure to pay their salaries for 12 months consecutively. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the protest, which was held in front of the Government House, Owerri, temporarily halted human and vehicular movement in the […]

A cook, Emmanuel Oko, who once worked with a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says the ex-minister once chased him around the house with a knife because he was not happy with his cooking. Oko, who worked for the ex-minister for six months, said his salary was N150,000 but Fani-Kayode was fond of […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the perceived risks associated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine cannot be compared to its benefits. The vaccine has been generating controversies amid reports that some people experienced blood coagulation disorder after using it. Several European countries have temporarily suspended administering the vaccine on their citizens. In a communique issued […]

The Chairperson and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, has decried the high rate of illicit drug trafficking in Lagos State. Mr Marwa, a retired brigadier-general, spoke during a visit to the agency’s command in Lagos for an on-the-spot assessment of its facilities. He said the state was responsible […]

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed three states in the country with worst unemployment cases in the fourth quarter of 2020. The NBS had on Monday released report of unemployment in Nigeria, with 23.2 million Nigerians jobless as at the fourth quarter of last year. The figures translate to 33.3 percent unemployment rate […]

A Bill that will empower the National Assembly to summon the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Governors of States has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Representative Sergius Ogun, seeks to amend the constitution to compel the President and governors to respond to issues of security […]

Despite the World Health Organization (WHO) and European regulators reassuring it is safe and expressing confidence in it, many more countries are suspending the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine adding to a growing concern about the vaccine Nigeria recently received almost four million doses of. Germany, France and Italy on Monday joined a growing list of countries to  temporarily suspend the […]

The Federal Government has  emphasised the need for Nigerians to be vigilant to end attacks on schools and abduction of students. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who stated this  in an interview with Punch on Monday, indicated that government could not secure every school in the country. According to him, government has […]

Shehu Sani, a former Senator, has taunted President Muhammadu Buhari over the frequent attacks by bandits. Usually after such attacks, the president issues warnings to the armed men through Garba Shehu, his spokesman. After the abduction of schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara State, the president had said bandits were not more powerful than his government. Warning […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged to court over the plans of his government to borrow an estimated N895billion from Nigerians. The money is the accumulation of balances in dormant bank accounts and unclaimed dividends. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) filed a lawsuit on Friday asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain […]