The Federal Government is currently gearing up to put the Transmission Company of Nigeria, up for sale, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The fresh move comes on the heels of stalled negotiations between the Federal Government and the National Union of Electricity Employees as the latter threatens to shut down the economy. A source close to the…
Ancient Greeks are credited with saying the truth is often the first casualty in war. I think in political campaigns, truth is also the first casualty, and we have started to see that already in the current election cycle in Nigeria. In this column, I highlight a few of the unrelenting lies about Labour Party’s…
FG APPROVES THE DREDGING OF ORASHI RIVER TO ATLANTIC OCEAN Gov. Hope Uzodimma has again, given Imo people another reason to smile as the Federal Government has approved the dredging Orashi River to the Atlantic Sea which will serve as the first sea port in the South East region. This new development is coming days…
World Athletics & Commonwealth 100M hurdles champion,Tobi Amusan is excited as she visits her alma-mater, Our Lady Of Apostles secondary school in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.She donated the sum of 1 million naira for renovations of the school. An excited Tobi is seen in the video walking with security men and protocol officers while smiling and…
Iran has deployed a “special women’s unit” of gun-wielding commandos to crack down on the protests that have erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody Iran has deployed an all-female police unit armed with assault rifles in a bid to quell the protests that have swept across the country in recent days….
2023: You’re beating drums of religious war, Northern Christian Youths tell Dogara, others By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja AHEAD of the 2023 elections, the Northern Christian Youth Initiative (NYCI) has condemned the activities of politicians using religion under any guise as basis for their political rallies and electioneering campaigns. The group condemned the attacks by former…
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has recalled how the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and a former Senate President, Saraki rebuffed former President Goodluck Jonathan’s pleas to rescind their decision of leaving the party in 2014. Wike said the Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tanbuwal was among those, who humiliated Jonathan after the…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after she declined a last-minute demand to wear a head scarf. Some 40 minutes after the interview was scheduled due to start and with Raisi running late, an aide…
I finally carried out my social experiment. I drove around Ikeja at about 11:50pm, in mufti, in a private car. I passed through two police points. I spent five seconds at the first without a word from the police officer. He simply waved me on. I spent thirty seconds at the second. Officer: You be Uber?…
Operators of commercial tricycles in Awka, the Anambra State capital have protested the enforcement of a monthly N15,000 tax by the state government.Tribune Online gathered that the operators complained over the constant hounding of their members by policemen, personnel of OCHA Brigade, a civil security outfit in the state, and operatives of Anambra Vigilante security…