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Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity has strongly asserted that his principal is not compelled by any law to make public his assets for second term. The spokesman made this statement on Monday evening on Channels TV while reacting to the demand of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability […]

A Kenyan pastor stabbed his wife during a church service and then slit his throat in a murder-suicide witnessed by the shocked congregation, local police told CNN on Monday. On Sunday, Elijah Misiko, an assistant pastor with the Ground for God’s Gospel Church in Mombasa, left his front row seat and approached his wife, senior […]

Sale Mamman, minister of power, says the “cabal” in his ministry are bent on denying Nigerians electricity. The minister said this while reacting to the criticism which trailed his suspension of some top officials in the ministry. Mamman had suspended Damilola Ogunbiyi, former managing director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Marilyn Amobi, managing […]

Pastor Tunde Bakare on Sunday listed what he described as the true enemies in Nigeria. The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, made the disclosure while delivering his state of the nation address. Bakare said the true enemies are found in every level of government, from the local to the state to the federal […]

Organised labour, industrialists and  civil rights groups on Sunday condemned the hike in electricity tariffs by the Federal Government. Labour, in an interview with Punch, described the electricity tariff hike as a daylight robbery considering the epileptic power supply in the country. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on its part,  berated the  Federal […]

These two newborns might be twins, but they don’t exactly share a birthday — having been born in completely different years and decades. Dawn Gilliam and Jason Tello, of Pendleton, Indiana, rang in the new year in a special way: with one birth before and one birth after the clock struck midnight. The twins — […]

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has warned British citizens against travel to Iraq or Iran amid heightened tension following the U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force. “Given heightened tensions in the region, the (foreign office) now advise people not to travel to Iraq, with the exception of the Kurdistan […]

The hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should concentrate on strengthening and rebuilding the party for now, rather that dissipating energy on the 2023 elections, the PDP presidential candidate in last year’s polls, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar warned on Friday. Atiku said it was not time yet to start discussing about the elections. “Our preoccupation […]

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States’ killing of Iranian military general was carried out to prevent an all-out war. At a brief appearance before the media in Florida, Mr Trump accused Qassem Soleimani of plotting “sinister attacks” against U.S. citizens and interests in the Middle-East, which prompted him to order an […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Saturday announced the immediate review of electricity tariffs in the country from January 1. The order was issued to the 11 electricity distribution companies (DISCos) on December 31, 2019, but published on the Commission’s website on Saturday. Signed jointly by the Chairman of the Commission, Joseph Momoh, and the Commissioner […]

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said he will love to contest against the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the presidential poll in 2023. George said this during a telephone interview with Punch on Friday. The PDP chieftain said Nigeria’s future looked bleak as the […]

Liverpool made it an entire calendar year without a Premier League defeat as the runaway leaders beat Sheffield United 2-0 on Thursday. Jurgen Klopp’s side moved 13 points clear of second-placed Leicester thanks to goals from Egypt forward Mohamed Salah and Senegal winger Sadio Mane at Anfield. Liverpool’s 19th win in 20 league games this […]

Data from the US travel and tourism office shows a 21 per cent drop in the number of Nigerians travelling to the country, the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of 2019 October, 34,000 fewer Nigerians travelled to the US compared to the previous year. After a sustained period of growth between […]

The federal government has ordered electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to adopt electronic platforms for the payment of energy bills across the country. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said the move is to reduce the aggregate technical, commercial and collection losses the DisCos are battling with. The commission asked the DisCos to leverage on available […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that he will leave office in 2023. He gave the assurance in a New Year letter to Nigerians sent to Premium Times by the presidency. “I will be standing down in 2023 and will not be available in any future elections,” the president wrote. “But I am determined to […]