Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, presented a cheque for N75 million to Immaculate Heart of Mary Specialist Hospital, Nkpor, Anambra State, on Thursday. Obi, while handing Read more…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged President Bola Tinubu to ensure those complicit in the alleged scandal involving the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, are brought to book. In a Read more…
Young Austrians are getting too fat to join the military, Defense Secretary Klaudia Tanner warned during a press conference on Thursday, attributing last year’s decrease in the number of military conscripts to growing obesity among the youth. The year 2023 Read more…
Greece’s center-right government is planning to submit a draft law allowing same-sex marriage, despite long-standing opposition from the country’s influential Orthodox Church and some lawmakers. In an interview with the state-run ERT broadcaster on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced: “What Read more…
The United States and its allies are weighing how to shut down attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia against commercial ships in the Red Sea, after American and British officials said Tuesday that their warships had intercepted one of the Read more…
HUNDREDS of Nigerian retired soldiers, who defended the country during the 1966 Civil War, yesterday, took to the streets of Ibadan, Oyo State capital, over unpaid pensions since they retired 44 years ago. The ex-servicemen, armed with placards with varying Read more…
A chieftain of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, Daniel Bwala, on Wednesday, said he is committed to supporting the administration of President Bola Tinubu, even if that requires him to defect to the All Progressives Congress. “I told Read more…
The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau SAN, has set up two key committees to organize the Annual General Conference (AGC) 2024 and review lawyers’ fees. In separate statements on Tuesday, NBA announced the appointment Read more…
The investigation into the sleaze in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation deepened on Wednesday with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission investigators quizzing several top civil servants linked to the scandals. This was as The PUNCH learnt Read more…
A few hours after dissolving the board of directors governing Polaris, Union, and Keystone banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria has appointed new executive directors to oversee the affairs of the deposit money banks. The apex bank, in a statement signed by Read more…
Yemen’s Houthis have fired dozens of missiles and drones toward Red Sea shipping lanes in one of the group’s largest attacks to date. The Pentagon called the offensive a “complex” operation, but claimed to have repelled the strikes. US Central Command (CENTCOM), Read more…
Two Ukrainian drones have crashed into an oil facility in the western Russian city of Oryol, causing a fire and injuring three people, local Governor Andrey Klychkov has said. The “enemy” attack on the city around 350km south of Moscow targeted a “fuel Read more…