Bayo Onanuga is the founder of The News Magazine and PM News. The News Magazine was one of the magazines that fought the military in the 1990s. It was always getting banned and its journalists were always getting arrested. Bola Tinubu was also involved in the pro-democracy campaign and I guess it was at that…
The immediate younger brother of Director of Protocol to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Kenneth Eboigbe, and his followers, on Sunday, dumped People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressive Congress (APC). In his remark, he said his decision to dump the PDP for APC was because APC picked a youth in the person of…
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the federal lawmaker representing the Enugu East Senatorial District at the upper chamber, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has called on his supporters to dump the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. He told the members of his Ebeano political family to dump the “Obidient Movement”.The former Enugu State governor, who…
The founder Motivating African Youth Initiative, Ogenna Walter Ekwubiri has hosted and moderated a panel discussion at the just concluded International Women Power Conference Africa 2022. The panel had as members, former member House of Representatives from Abia State, Nnenna Ukeje, the Founder When in Need Foundation { WIN FOUNDATION} Chief Chetachi Nwoga- Ecton, Amb….
NIGERIA’s fiscal crisis worsened last month as the country again failed to meet up with the daily production quota the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) allocated it. The production figure dropped by 6.2 per cent, from 1.16 million barrels per day (bpd) recorded in June to 1.08 million bpd in July. The slump came…
Some Soldiers enforcing a curfew imposed on two local government areas of Enugu State have reportedly killed a 62-year-old man, Joseph Uja, in Enugu Ezike. Enugu-Ezike is in the Igbo-Eze North LGA, one of the councils affected by the 6pm to 6am curfew. The second council is Igbo-Eze South. PUNCH Metro gathered on Sunday that…
By Adesina Wahab Parents, on the platform of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have said they can only beg members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off their strike if government considers the reports of the various committees set up to look into the matter and come out with…
The recent impeachment threat against President Muhammadu Buhari in the National Assembly may have fizzled out. The development followed the emergence of fresh facts on government’s efforts in tackling the security challenge across the country. The threat was issued by Senators mainly from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, July 26 in the aftermath…
Former lawmaker, Dino Melaye, on Saturday, alleged that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, sees the presidency as his “entitlement and retirement benefits”. The PUNCH reported on August 4 2022 that the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, designated Melaye, and Dr. Daniel Bwala to serve as his spokespersons for the 2023 presidential…
Daredevil robbers engaged operatives of Area B Apapa of the Lagos State Police Command in a gun duel in a bid to escape arrest. The robbers, however, fell to the superior firepower of the police operatives, IGBERETV reports. The robbers, Sodiq ’m’ aka Foreigner, was recently released from prison and Habeeb ‘m’ aka Kiki, have…