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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, […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced that it will embark on an indefinite nationwide strike from Monday. The National Executive Council of the resident doctors said this was part of its resolutions at a virtual meeting held on Wednesday. The meeting which was attended by over 200 doctors – NOC, NEC, past […]

Many Nigerians on social media have called on former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, to stop online complaints about irregularities in the country if he is not willing to lead physical protests. The citizens said that they want the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party to lead a protest against the recent increase in […]

Lionel Messi’s father and agent, Jorge, has dropped a hint that his son could spend at least one more season at the Camp Nou. Daily Times had earlier reported that Jorge Messi arrived Catalunya on Wednesday ahead of talks with the Blaugrana board concerning the future of the want-away 33-year old little genius. Jorge Messi had […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has reiterated that the federal government is no longer fixing the pump price of petroleum products in the country. Mr Sylva made this known while briefing journalists on the increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol. Recall that the Petroleum […]

The Federal Government will continue to monitor the activities of terrorists online to control radicalisation of Nigerians by terrorist groups and other violent cells, the President has said. President Muhammadu Buhari explained that this was important following the huge traffic online and growing constraints on physical contacts and movements due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the reported increase in the price of petrol to N151 per litre and electricity tariff to N66 per kwh. In a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party described the increase as callous and cruel, alleging that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was […]

Orji Uzor Kalu, senate chief whip, says he would not hesitate to serve as Nigeria’s president if given the opportunity by the electorate. As gathered by Daily Times, Kalu made the statement in Minna during a private visit to two former leaders of the country —  Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar. The former governor of […]

Electricity consumers, Labour unions and key stakeholders in the economy on Tuesday kicked against increase in electricity tariff implemented by power distribution companies across the country on Tuesday. Those that spoke to The Punch on the tariff adjustments included the Nigeria Labour Congress which vowed to resist the increase, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria which […]

An African American cyclist, Dijon Kizzee has been fatally shot by Los Angeles County police, the latest instance of police killing a black man. However, both the county Sheriff’s Department and the lawyer representing Kizzee’s family gave different accounts of the shooting on Tuesday. Benjamin Crump, lawyer to the 29 year-old cyclist, said the cyclist […]

Nigeria’s steadily abating Coronavirus infection rate is due mainly to the decline in testing by states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Monday. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Control told Nigerians not to celebrate the reduced positive cases being reported as a flattening of the COVID-19 curve. Speaking during the […]