Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday said that it has so far withdrawn 64 Certificates of Return and re-issued them to persons declared winners by courts of law, after the 2019 general elections. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the presentation of Certificates of Return to Zamfara State Governor-elect, Deputy governor-elect and members-elect…
Not fewer than 15 prisoners killed during clashes between inmates at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said. The clashes broke out around 11:00 am (1500 GMT) during visiting hours at the facility, located some 28 kilometers (17 miles) from state capital Manaus. “It was a fight…
An Imo State High Court presided over by Justice K. A. Ojiako, has described the forceful entry, demolition of staff quarters of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri and rendering of the institution’s pensioners homeless, as “illegal, unconscionable and portrayed the defendants as people that have no respect for the rule of law”. Okorocha…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, signed into law the 2019 Appropriation Bill. The President’s assent officially makes the bill become law and signals the commencement of the 2019 fiscal budget. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma had earlier sent out invitations for the event. The invitation read in part, “Dear Sir/Ma, On…
The popular Nigerian rapper star, Michael Ugochukwu Stephens also known as Ruggedman has slammed a the popular blogger and daughter of Former Governor of Oyo State, Kemi Omololu- Olunloyo with a cease and desist order to prevent her from further alleged defamation of his character in the Naira Marley’s case who is in EFCC’s custody….
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, over the weekend said the new minimum wage will take effect from April 18, 2019, when it was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. It would recalled that the Federal Government on May 14, 2019 inaugurated a committee to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries…
The founder of Champions Royal Assembly, Pastor Joshua Iginla, has acquired a private jet, The PUNCH has learnt. Iginla announced this during a sermon in Abuja on Sunday. The cleric, who admitted two months ago to have cheated on his wife and impregnated a woman, was said to have informed the members of his church…
Nigerian Air Force says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji has destroyed bandits’ camp and neutralised dozens of bandits in air strikes it conducted at Doumbourou Forest in Zamfara State. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation…
Not fewer than five Nigerian soldiers have been killed while a number are missing after an ambush by Boko Haram’s Islamic State-backed faction, security sources said on Sunday. Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province on Friday opened fire on a column of civilian vehicles under military escort in the northeastern Borno State, according to…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, is seeking an agreement between Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries to end the practice of Nigerian girls being used as sex slaves in Mali. At a presentation to the ECOWAS Parliament during its First Ordinary Session on Saturday, NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli told…
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