A Special Adviser to the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and the party’s Predential Campaign Council, PCC, Osita Chidoka has described Governor Nyesom Wike’s endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state for a second term. Chidoka made this assertion in an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday. …
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, says the best measures to reduce the nation’s high debt burden are collection of more taxes, and effective blocking of revenue leakages.Ahmed said this at a workshop on tax expenditure organised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission in Abuja, on Tuesday. The…
France and Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has been ruled out of the World Cup in Qatar after having an operation on a hamstring injury. Kante, 31, suffered the injury during Chelsea’s 2-2 home draw with Tottenham on 14 August. In a statement, the club said that the procedure was a success but Kante is expected to be…
Atiku Dey Carry Him Supporters Go Where Dem No Know: Funny Responses As Wike Endorses Sanwo Olu Help me e dey carry me go where I no know, was a famous cry by a Road Traffic Officer who was caught in a wrong brawl with a commercial motorist, the lady kept screaming “Help Me E…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a three-man fraud syndicate, who allegedly defrauded their victims of the sum of $954,960 before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. The EFCC docked the alleged fraudster, who presented themselves to their victims as officers of the International Police Officer (Interpol), on allegations of conspiracy,…
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, hit the social media space for the wrong reason on Monday when he was caught up in a gaffe while delivering a speech at KadInvest in Kaduna State. In what one of his campaign media aides later described as a Freudian slip, Tinubu said Governor…
The Australian government, on Wednesday, warned its citizens to desist from travelling to Nigeria over the recent flooding that has ravaged some parts of the country. This was contained in a travel advisory issued to Australians on the consulate’s website and obtained by The PUNCH, it read, “There have been significant casualties and widespread damage…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday reassured Nigerians that there is no plan to discard the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the electronic transmission of results. Addressing participants in Abuja at a training of master trainers on technologies for 2023 general elections, INEC Chairman, Prof, Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission is…
Peter Obi’s ‘Obidient’ movement shakes up Nigerian presidential race The 61-year-old former governor emerges as first credible third-party candidate since return to democracy in 1999. Only a few months ago, the contest for Nigeria’s presidency in February’s elections was billed as a straightforward battle between two wealthy septuagenarian veterans who had been on the political…
University of Lagos student, Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has denied killing the deceased in a confessional video that was played before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday, October 18. This was her claim when the court…