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The campaign office of Atiku Abuabakar has described the opposition presidenital candidate of being a job creator. The office also took a jibe at President Muhammadu Buhari saying he has never run a successful job creating enterprise. “Now we urge the Buhari Presidency and the APC to mention even one successful private endeavour that the […]

Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar cannot orchestrate the change Nigeria needs to progress. Speaking during Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television, Ezekwesili said Abubakar,  who won the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not any better than the President Muhammadu Buhari. According […]

Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, says Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, is Nigeria’s incoming president. In a statement on Sunday, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu’s special adviser on media, commended the party for the “transparent, free, fair, credible, and peaceful process”. He said the process that led to the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his performance and that of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), since he rose to power in 2015. The President spoke about his performance in the early hours of Sunday at the national convention of the APC in Abuja after he was affirmed as the party’s presidential candidate. “We […]

Muhammad Sanusi II, the emir of Kano, says Nigeria may remain the poverty capital of the world till 2050 and beyond. Speaking at his honorary induction into Sigma Club, at the University of Ibadan over the weekend, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria  said based on current realities, Nigeria and DR Congo […]

China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law. Mr Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from the city of Lyon in France, where Interpol is […]

Polls have now closed in Cameroon in a presidential election that has been disrupted by a number of violent incidents in English-speaking parts of the country. The BBC’s Ngala Killian Chimtom, in Yaounde, reported on the run-up to the polls, as the octogenarian leader, Paul Biya, seeks a seventh term in office. A large poster […]

The Federal Government on Sunday said it would soon address the agitation for the upward review of the national minimum wage in a manner that will make workers and all Nigerians smile. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, made the promise in his remarks at the 22nd Choir Anniversary of […]

Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has emerged as presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the 2019 general election. Duke polled 812 votes to defeat his close rival, former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, who polled 611 votes at the party’s National Convention held at Old Parade Ground, Abuja. […]

Nigeria’s former minister of education and co-founder of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ movement, Oby Ezekwesili, has joined the growing number of candidates aiming to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari when Nigerians go to polls early 2019. Mrs Ezekwesili on Sunday emerged the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria. The party’s chairman, Ganiu […]

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke, who was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, sat impassively in a dark suit — his shoulders slumped — as the verdicts were read in the […]

FIFA has suspended Sierra Leone from world football over claims of government interference. The suspension comes after FIFA sent a letter to the country’s Minister of Sports expressing “grave concern” about the removal of the football association president, Isha Johansen and the association’s General Secretary, Christopher Kamara. In a statement, FIFA said: “The Bureau of the […]

A former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has formally declared her intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ezekwesili made the declaration in a statement titled, ‘Why I am running for the Office of President’ and exclusively obtained by Punch on Saturday. She […]

The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, on Friday said the Federal Government plans to spend huge sum of money on infrastructure upgrade at airports across the country. Sirika, who made this known during the opening of the Legend Hotel Lagos Airport Curio Collection by Hilton, at the Lagos airport, disclosed that the […]

The Chinese president of Interpol, the international police agency, has vanished. Meng Hongwei was not on French soil when he was last seen, according a senior French law enforcement official, who declined to say whether he was in China. Meng’s wife went to police in Lyon, where Interpol is based, Thursday night to report his […]

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, says Nigeria’s debt appears high because the country is currently facing a low revenue challenge. Mrs Ahmed, during a visit to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Headquarters on Friday in Abuja, stressed the importance of improving revenue generation to enable Nigeria to achieve its economic objectives. “People have raised […]

Nike has said it is “deeply concerned” by rape allegations against footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. The US sportswear giant – which has a contract worth a reported $1bn (£768m) with Ronaldo – said it would “continue to closely monitor the situation”, the Associated Press reports. EA Sports, which also has a contract with Ronaldo, made similar […]

The Universal Basic Education Commission has said that the population of Nigeria’s out-of-school children has increased from 10.5 million to at 13.2 million. The UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hammid Bobboyi, stated this in Abuja on Thursday during a United Nations Children’s Fund briefing on out-of-school children. Bobboyi, who was represented by the Director of Social […]