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US President-elect, Joe Biden, says his first task in office is to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. Biden stated this in his acceptance speech, which he delivered before a crowd of supporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night. The president-elect said he believed part of the mandate from American voters is […]

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation has said there is no sufficient evidence to prosecute the 33 operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad indicted in last year’s report of a Presidential Investigative Panel, Sunday Punch has learnt. The AGF’s office has therefore asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, to set up […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden on his election as new President of the United States. In a statement on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President noted that the victory came “at a time of uncertainty and fear in world affairs.” “Your election is […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the United States Vice President-elect, Kamala Harris, has Nigerian DNA because her father is from Jamaica where many slaves were taken to from Africa. Obasanjo said this in a congratulatory message to the President-elect of the US, Joe Biden. He wrote, “I felicitate with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as the […]

Former US President, Barack Obama, on Saturday, hailed the reported election of Democrat challenger Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, as the next US president-elect and vice-president-elect, respectively. Major international and US-based TV networks projected on Saturday that Biden won the US presidency over Donald Trump, a victory sealed after the Democrat claimed […]

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder and president of LoveWorld Incorporated, also known as Christ Embassy, said President Donald Trump is hated by many because he supports and protects Christians. The clergyman made this known while speaking in his church on Friday, November 6. Pastor Chris said, “There are those who think that Trump, the President of […]

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has denied knowledge of the people posting campaign posters of him as vice presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election running with Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi. Governor el-Rufai made the denial while fielding questions from journalists after he met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has obtained a court order freezing the accounts of 20 #EndSARS promoters till January 2021. The order was pursuant to a motion ex parte filed by the CBN before a Federal High Court. The certified true copy of the order obtained by an online medium, Peoples Gazette, showed that the CBN applied […]

Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, says it is better to lose power and gain honour. Jonathan, who made this known in a Facebook post on Friday, recommended this ‘philosophy’ to all leaders facing ‘challenging situations at the polls’. He wrote, “Nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any citizen. It is better to gain honour […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appealed to Nigerians yet to feel the impacts of his Administration and those who feel the government is not doing enough to bear with the government. The President made the appeal in Ilorin at a town hall meeting with the traditional rulers, youths, students, organised labour, market women and other […]

The active users of telecommunications services in the country stood at 199 million, as of July 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The new figure is an increase from 184 million subscribers, about 15 million, from the previous year. This, NCC said, represented about 7.5 per cent increase in total subscription within the period under review. […]

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has rued the recent destruction of properties in Lagos State, saying he almost cried after seeing photos of the damage. “I have spent time to see some of the pictures of the destruction done on public properties in Lagos and I nearly shed tears,” the governor said on Thursday […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, said he has not purchased an official car for himself since he assumed office last year May. The governor, therefore, charged other governors to look into their expenditure profile and do away with unnecessary spending to increase state revenue for the government to have more resources to meet […]

The Senate on Thursday told State House officials to restrain President Buhari from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House clinic becomes functional this year. The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to […]

The Chinese authorities have temporarily suspended entry into China by Nigerians and other nationals in Nigeria holding valid Chinese visas or residence permits due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Punch correspondent learnt that the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Philippines and a few others were also affected by the policy. It was gathered that the decision was […]

The International Criminal Court, ICC has said that it will “analyse materials” it has received about the violence which hit Nigeria last month following protests against police brutality. The ICC chief prosecutor’s office told the BBC that contrary to an earlier report, it has not already opened a “formal preliminary examination” into the unrest. Youths […]

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says the government cannot meet the request of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) due to present economic situation in the country. ASUU is demanding N110bn for revatilisation of tertiary institutions amongst other requests. Ngige, who stated this on Wednesday night while briefing journalists immediately after a […]