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More trouble for Nigeria as COVID-19 hits harder with 1,133 fresh cases reported on Wednesday. This is the second time Nigeria is recording over 1,000 cases and the second highest since February when the pandemic broke out. The highest figures of 1,148 so far was posted on 18 December, 2020. The new figures represent an […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday indicated that it might resume its suspended strike in February if the Federal Government failed to implement agreements it signed with the lecturers. The National President of  ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this in an interview with Punch in Lagos,  while shedding more light on the decision […]

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Bashir Ahmad the Personal Assistant to the President, on Digital and New Media revealed this on his Twitter page. He tweeted, “President Muhammadu Buhari receives former President, Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.” According to Jonathan, he […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said his only regret as a minister is that some Nigerians have failed to appreciate that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing so much with little resources. Mr Mohammed stated this at a Special Forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. […]

Federal Government workers on Grade Level (GL) 12 and below have been directed to stay at home for a period of five weeks. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCS), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, issued the directive in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. She asked the workers not to come to work […]

The Department of State Services  has alerted Nigerians about plans by “enemies of state” to unleash terror on vulnerable places,  including critical infrastructure, places of worship, as well as recreational centres during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. It said the plot would be executed through the use of explosives, suicide bombing and other weapons. […]

Academic activities in public varsities will resume next month, Labour and Employment Minister Dr. Chris Ngige has assured. His assurance followed the outcome of the Federal Government negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at last Thursday’s parley. According to the minister, parties will be back at the negotiating table […]

President Buhari has ordered the closure of all bars, night clubs, pubs and event centres, and recreational venues for the next five weeks to contain the spike in COVID – 19 pandemic. Also ordered to be closed included all restaurants, while schools would remain closed till at least till January 18, 2021. The government also […]

There was confusion at the National Identity Management Commission offices across the country on Monday as Nigerians thronged registration centres to obtain their national identity numbers. Punch correspondents who monitored registration centres in  Lagos, Plateau, Kano and Gombe states as well as the Federal Capital Territory, observed that people struggling to register disregarded COVID-19 preventive […]

Igbo leaders, elders, and academics across Nigeria and in the Diaspora rose from a summit at the weekend with a call for an enabling law compelling all political parties to insert rotation of presidency clause in their constitutions. This was contained in the communiqué issued by participants at the end of the sixth World Igbo […]

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has described the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic as being more deadly than the first, going by the increasing number of new infections and deaths in recent times. It further lamented the non-adherence of Nigerians to the non-pharmaceutical measures of hand washing, sanitizing, proper use of face masks, and […]

European countries banned flights from the UK on Sunday and the WHO called for stronger containment measures as the British government warned that a potent new strain of the virus was “out of control”. As the World Health Organization urged its European members to strengthen measures against a new variant of Covid-19 circulating in Britain, […]

State governments on Sunday renewed COVID-19 protocol enforcement as the country battled increasing cases of coronavirus. Officials of  states including Lagos, Anamba, Ogun and  Kaduna  on Sunday told Punch that as from Monday (today),  they would  step up enforcement of COVID-19 preventive measures such as wearing of face masks, social distancing in vehicles and hand […]

A former Governor of Cross River state, Donald Duke, has expressed displeasure with the way the #EndSARS protest was handled by President Buhari’s administration. He noted that the president should have listened to their grievances. He said, “If you have children who are protesting, no matter how nonsensical you may think it is, you have to […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to honourably resign after he admitted failure of his administration to stem insecurity in the country. Secondus, who was reacting to the president’s admittance that a lot needs to be done to improve security and that Security […]