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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is slowly becoming a failed state and a basket case that urgently needs to be pulled from the brink of collapse. He said this in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech titled, ‘Moving Nigeria Away from Tipping Over’ at a consultative dialogue attended by various socio-cultural groups including […]

Lawmakers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age of 14. State governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai needs to sign the bill for it to become law in the north-western state. He has previously supported castration to prevent rapists from re-offending. The move follows public […]

The rise from N138.62 to N151.56 per litre of petrol in Nigeria, has garnered lots of reactions, with negative vibes surpassing the positive. Presidency were not left out as the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Malam, Garba Shehu, waded-in in defense of his master. He advised Nigerians not to be swayed […]

The Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has commenced investigations of a suspected fraudster for concealing 2,886 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards and four Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards in noodles. The suspect:  Ishaq Abubakar was handed over to the EFCC  by  the Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday, September 10, […]

The Federal Government has directed the Chief Medical Directors and Managing Directors of federal tertiary hospitals to “immediately” commence the use of consultants and doctors on the National Youth Service Corps to provide routine services. The government also directed that locum staff should “be brought in when and where necessary to forestall services’ disruption when […]

A prominent Ukrainian church leader who previously said the Covid-19 pandemic was “God’s punishment” for same-sex marriage has tested positive for the virus. Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kiev Patriarchate, is reportedly stable and undergoing treatment. The church announced in a Facebook post on September 4 that Filaret had tested positive for Covid-19. “His Holiness […]

The Debt Management Office on Wednesday released Nigeria’s total public debt stock as of June 30, 2020, and put the country’s entire debt at N31trn, indicating an increase of N2.38trn within a space of three months. Nigeria’s total public debt stock includes the debt stock of the Federal Government, the 36 states, and the Federal […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said Nigerian elites should judge his administration with fairness. The President was speaking at the closing of the first-year ministerial performance review retreat held in Abuja. “I want the Nigerian elites, please encourage them, to judge us fairly,” Buhari said, arguing that his administration has done more for the country […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, said President Donald Trump of the United States of America once caught him off guard, when he asked him “why are you killing Christians”. Buhari who spoke on a lighter note at the concluding session of the ministerial retreat for Ministers and Heads of Ministries, Department and Agencies MDAs at […]

Government on Monday stamped a note of finality on the removal of subsidy on petrol. It said the adjustment of tariff on electricity is driven by the need to guarantee efficiency in power supply. The price of petrol went up from N138.63 to between N162 and N164 per litre last week after the September price […]

The Federal Government on Monday said despite the recent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit to N162 per litre, the price of the commodity in Nigeria remained among the cheapest in Africa. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this at a press conference in Abuja. Mohammed was joined at the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has said the regime headed by President Muhammadu Buhari is pushing Nigerians to the wall with its “arrogant display of insensitivity and total disregard to the demands by the citizens,” calling for an immediate downward review in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol). The opposition party described the attempt […]

Pope Francis has previously warned the Roman Catholic congregation against slander and bearing false witness. In 2018, he drew criticism for describing allegations of covering up child abuse against Chile’s Bishop of Osorno ‘calumny’. Pope Francis has warned his flock that gossip is a “worse plague than COVID.” The pontiff warned the faithful gathered for […]

Workers in the nation’s power sector, over the weekend, faulted the recent hike in electricity tariff, arguing that Nigerians were being made to pay for darkness. The workers, in a statement through the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, lamented that the tariff was hurriedly increased and implemented amid poor service delivery, lack of consultation […]

The life of a pregnant woman may have been saved if the doctor that was to operate on her was not allegedly held by policemen enforcing the COVID-19 lockdown on the Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos State. Punch gathered that the surgeon was held for about one hour, as entreaties that she was on an emergency call, […]

Following the resumption of international flights in Lagos and Abuja airports from Saturday, investigations by Sunday Punch have revealed that there will be about 15,000 passengers flying into the country weekly. The Federal Government had after shifting the resumption of international flights from August 29 to September 5 noted that only the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, […]

International flights finally resumed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Saturday after operations were suspended in March due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The first flight from Lebanon, which landed at about 2:30 pm, was operated by Middle East Airlines. A visit to the airport by Channels Television’s correspondent, Bukola Oketunmbi,  showed […]

The Trade Union Congress and 79 other civil society organisations and labour unions under the aegis of the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond codenamed ASCAB, are set to hold nationwide protests and strike action next week over the increment of the fuel price and electricity tariff. It was learnt that the Nigeria Labour Congress, […]