Buzz… social media diary: Is PDP in debt?
Reports say the Wadata Plaza headquarters of the PDP in Abuja has been in total darkness because of the inability of the party’s leadership to pay its bill. A member of staff said the party owes...
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I have always enjoyed Prof. Sabella Abidde’s articles in The PUNCH until the recent one titled, “14 years prison term for same- sex marriage”?, published on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. I want to start by...
View ArticleAmaechi shuns Patience Jonathan’s Port Harcourt event
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife of...
View ArticleOndo Assembly suspends member over fetish items
Ondo State House of Assembly on Wednesday suspended indefinitely a member representing Ose State Constituency, Mrs. Fola Olasehinde, for allegedly harbouring some fetish items in her apartment, located...
View ArticleTree planting, panacea for disaster control —Mimiko
Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on Wednesday encouraged residents of the state to embrace the habit of planting economic trees as a means of averting natural disasters as well as improving...
View ArticleCovenant varsity denies ex-VC’s suspension
Covenant University has denied allegation that its former Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aize Obayan, was suspended as the Director of the Education Commission of the Winners Chapel for altering examination...
View ArticleAmaechi to petition Jonathan on Rivers crime wave
RIVERS State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed worry over the declining level of security in the state. Amaechi said cases of armed robbery and...
View ArticleOgun police kill 24 robbery suspects, arrest 150
The Police in Ogun State on Wednesday said they killed no fewer than 24 armed robbery suspects during gun battles and arrested 150 others in the state in the last six months. The command also said it...
View ArticleCourt to hear lawyer’s suit against Lekki-Ikoyi bridge
A Federal High Court, Lagos has fixed Thursday (today) for the hearing of complaints by a legal practitioner, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, that the Lagos State Government has started toll collection on the...
View ArticleEdo okays 27.5% for teachers
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, approved the implementation of the 27.5 per cent Teachers Special Allowance for secondary school teachers in the State. The development, according to...
View ArticleEx-police officer inflicts machete cuts on wife, flee
The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday began a manhunt for a former police officer, Mr.Tajudeen Adeniyi, for attempting to kill his wife, Moyosola, by allegedly inflicting 12-centimeter machete cuts...
View ArticleInduction of labour
Induction of labour is the initiation of labour by artificial means when the pregnancy is mature enough to deliver a viable foetus (baby). Induction become necessary when there is obvious risk either...
View ArticleNDLEA seized N33bn drugs in 2012’
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said on Thursday that it had recovered over 3.4 million kilogrammes of hard drugs while 21,871 drug offenders had been convicted since the agency began...
View ArticleProject extension: Stakeholders give LAMATA conditions
Residents of Ikorodu in Lagos State have resolved to support the state government in the extension of the Bus Rapid Transit route from Mile 12 to Ikorodu on the condition that those affected by the...
View ArticleNavy impounds alleged toxic ship in Lagos
The Nigerian Navy on Thursday impounded a Belgium Vessel, MV Euro Cargo Saleno, suspected to be carrying toxic waste on Lagos waters. Commander, NNS Beecroft, Naval Base Apapa, Commodore Chris...
View ArticleNGF crisis: Kwakwanso is deceitful, says Jang
Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, has said his Kano State counterpart, Alhaji Rabiu Kwakwanso, is bearing a moral burden in his explanation of what transpired at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum...
View ArticleOAU explains controversy over undergraduate’s baby
Authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, say a 400-level engineering student, Miss Oyinlola Rotimi, did not attempt to flush her newborn baby boy down the toilet at Moremi Hall on...
View ArticleOshiomhole flays Labour silence on NGF crisis
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Thursday frowned on the silence of the Organised Labour on the controversy surrounding the Nigeria Governors’ Forum election. He particularly criticised the...
View ArticleN1.7bn subsidy fraud: Two accused get N500m bail
An oil marketer, Mr. Samuel Owa, and a cargo surveyor, Onassis Wajutom, were on Thursday granted bail by a Federal High Court, Lagos, following their arraignment for about N1.7bn fuel subsidy fraud....
View ArticleEconomists should stop misleading Nigerians on nation’s debt —DMO
The Director-General, Debt Management Office, Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, in this interview with Okechukwu Nnodim, says economists should stop giving misleading interpretations of Nigeria’s debt profile...
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