Obama to meet Buhari, shuns Philippines President
Eniola Akinkuotu United States President, Barack Obama, will meet President Muhammadu Buhari on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly gathering this week. Obama will discuss with...
View ArticleEFCC traces Lagos, Bayelsa properties to Jonathan’s ex-aide, Dudafa
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced properties worth N1.5bn to a former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei...
View ArticleBuhari, VP, ministers, lawmakers, others earn N9.18bn yearly
Everest Amaefule, Abuja Twelve months after the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission pledged to give the nation reviewed salaries and allowances for political office holders,...
View ArticleJibrin owns £1.558m in UK bank, NYCN alleges
John Alechenu, Abuja The National Youth Council of Nigeria on Sunday said it had traced £1.558m (N825m) to a United Kingdom account allegedly owned by the embattled former chairman, House of...
View ArticleMy gov ambition not for personal gains –Obaseki
Alexander Okere, Benin The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Edo State governorship election, Godwin Obaseki, has dismissed the speculation that his desire to govern the state is to...
View ArticleJibrin is a psychiatric case, ignore him –Doguwa
John Alechenu, Abuja The Majority Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has dismissed the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, as a psychiatric...
View ArticleTroops rescue 43 captives, recover 500 cows from B’Haram
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 43 captives from Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East part of the country. This is as fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force hit fresh...
View ArticleEdo: INEC to meet DSS, Police, others
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission is planning to have a meeting with the leadership of all security agencies on the Edo State governorship election....
View ArticleBomb explosion injures 29, man stabs eight in US
Olaleye Aluko with agency reports No fewer than 29 persons were injured in a bomb blast which occurred in the neighbourhood of Chelsea in Manhattan in New York, United States. The bomb explosion...
View ArticleLooters should be barred from politics, says Maitama Sule
Friday Olokor with agency reports A former Minister of National Guidance, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, has said public officers convicted of looting public funds should be barred from partaking in...
View ArticleAmbode warns unions, motorists against flouting traffic rules
Sesan Olufowobi Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State says road users, especially members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria, must...
View ArticleAPC accuses Wike of wasting Rivers resources
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has accused the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, of squandering over N200bn of the state’s resources. The APC also...
View ArticleReps set for rowdy session as N’Assembly resumes today
Niyi Odebode, John Alechenu and Eniola Akinkuotu The House of Representatives may witness a rowdy session as it resumes today (Tuesday) in connection with the alleged budget padding scandal in the...
View ArticleJudges giving conflicting judgments under probe –CJN
Friday Olokor, Abuja The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Monday, declared that judges, who in the recent past in the country, gave conflicting judgments from courts of concurrent...
View ArticleAl-Makura’s aide evicts PUNCHman, threatens havoc
Umar Muhammed, Lafia The Special Assistant to the Nasarawa State Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ahmed Tukur, has evicted PUNCH correspondent, Umar Muhammed, and another journalist from the state...
View ArticleOne killed, houses razed in C’River communal clash
Mudiaga Affe, Calabar At least one person was killed on Monday while two others sustained bullet injuries following hostilities between indigenes of New Netim and Odukpani towns in the Odukpani Local...
View ArticleTension as policemen kill 70-year-old Abia hunter
Ogbonnaya Ikokwu, Umuahia There has been tension in Amaekpu Ohafia community in the Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State following a clash between youths of the community and policemen attached...
View ArticleTwo jailed for stealing Nokia battery, phones, others
A N Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced a 19-year old man, Happy Okotie, to six years’ imprisonment for stealing. Okotie was sentenced along with a 25-year-old man, Kingsley...
View ArticleSpeeding trailer driver kills pedestrian
Samson Folarin A trailer driver, Kabiru Ademola, has been arrested by the police for allegedly crushing a pedestrian to death in the Mushin area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the driver was...
View ArticlePolice arrest man who battered wife’s niece
Samson Folarin The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Mr. Rasak Alabi, the man who allegedly battered his wife’s niece, Latifat Adeyemi, for using an air conditioner in their house in the Ikorodu...
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