Saturday, 20 April, 2024

Tag: Breaking


Acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Iliya Damagun, was bullish on Thursday after he survived the push to remove him from the position.  The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the main opposition party was expected to Read more…


The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has queried the continued stay in office of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu. Recently, many party members have raised concerns about the ongoing tenure Read more…


NLNG has recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) as part of the second phase of its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP). The purpose of such a relationship was to raise Read more…


Russia is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Karabakh, a region previously outside Baku’s control, the Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said reports of the move that had appeared in Azerbaijani media were correct. What was formerly the self-proclaimed Read more…


The job of commanding a nuclear submarine should go to smart and well-qualified officers. Or at least that’s the case in Western navies. Not so in the Chinese navy. Except for engineers, Chinese submarine officers tend to come from military Read more…


The presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has bemoaned the perennial power situation in the country. He said the collapse of the national grid a record 141 times in 11 years called for urgent, Read more…


The  Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Olayemi Cardoso,  said yesterday that the apex bank is not defending the Naira with the nation’s foreign reserves. He was speaking against the backdrop of the recent decline in Nigeria’s foreign Read more…


The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP GF) has said that Thursday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting will not discuss leadership change. This is contrary to expectations that the session will deliberate on the fate of Ambassador Iliya Damagun who Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday was granted a warrant by a Federal High Court in Abuja to apprehend Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State. The warrant was issued following an ex parte motion filed by Read more…


The Speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Liman, on Wednesday, warned Bello El-Rufai, the son of the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, against threatening and intimidating the House over the investigation of his father’s tenure. The state Read more…


The risks of a global war will only increase if Ukraine becomes part of NATO, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico warned on Tuesday, promising that his country will block Kiev’s accession.  Accepting new countries into the US-led military bloc requires Read more…


Arewa PUNCH investigations have revealed that as more Boko Haram insurgents who surrender their arms and ammunition to the government and renounce acts of terrorism and banditry continue to be reintegrated into the life of normalcy, there are big concerns that the Read more…