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Rivers 2025 budget plans for Fubara’s return – Ibas
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Natasha: Appeal Court strikes out Akpabio’s motions, imposes N100,000 fine
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Power play: PDP convention caught in Wike-Makinde camps crossfire
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2027: Oyo broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat’s posters flood Ibadan
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19-year-old Nigerian artiste beaten to death in Ghana
Tinubu woos Wike to join APC
President Bola Tinubu has stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress will welcome the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, if he decides to join the party. Tinubu gave the inv...
11th June 2025
Rivers 2025 budget plans for Fubara’s return – Ibas
The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd), has said the proposed N1.48tn 2025 budget anticipates the return of suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara and other affected p...
11th June 2025
Natasha: Appeal Court strikes out Akpabio’s motions, imposes N100,000 fine
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has struck out two motions filed by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, and awarded costs of ₦100,000 against him. A three-member panel of the Court o...
11th June 2025
Power play: PDP convention caught in Wike-Makinde camps crossfire
The battle for the soul of the Peoples Democratic Party has reportedly pitted the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, against the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike. The two political gl...
11th June 2025
2027: Oyo broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat’s posters flood Ibadan
The posters of popular Ibadan-based broadcaster, Hamzat Oriyomi, have flooded the streets of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in the build-up to the forthcoming 2027 general election. The posters with...
11th June 2025
19-year-old Nigerian artiste beaten to death in Ghana
A 19-year-old upcoming Nigerian artiste identified simply as Destiny has been beaten to death in the Volta Region area of Ghana. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on May 28. It was gathere...
11th June 2025
FG budget cut leaves 1,500 health workers without pay
Over 1,500 health professionals under the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria have not been paid salaries in the last 20 months. The inability of the council to pay stemmed from the directive of t...
11th June 2025
OPay extends N1.2bn 10-year scholarship initiative to Benue varsity
Nigeria’s leading financial technology company, OPay, has extended its N1.2bn 10-year scholarship initiative to students of Benue State University, marking the institution as the seventh beneficiary...
11th June 2025
Indian, Dangote workers arraigned for diverting N4bn diesel
An Indian citizen, Tukur Shamsudden, and 12 individuals were on Tuesday arraigned by the operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, for alleged conspiracy and unlawful diversion of Aut...
11th June 2025
FCTA renames ICC Tinubu Centre, cancels free services
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has announced the renaming of the Abuja International Conference Centre as the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre. This came ...
11th June 2025
Deadly flood: Niger communities battle stench from decaying corpses
Nearly two weeks after devastating floods swept through Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State, residents are complaining about the stench of decaying corpses believed to be those of flood victims...
11th June 2025
Saudi’s Aramco delays Nigeria’s crude-backed $5bn loan
A new crude-for-loan deal between the Federal Government and Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco, worth $5bn, has stalled and is struggling to reach an agreement following the recent decline in crude pri...
11th June 2025
APC chieftain, Jesutega Onokpasa, dies
An All Progressives Congress chieftain, Jesutega Onokpasa, is reportedly dead. The lawyer and prominent political commentator died on Monday. Announcing his demise on his X account on Tuesday, a pro-A...
10th June 2025
Only coalition can unseat Tinubu in 2027 — Dele Momodu
A two-term Presidential aspirant and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday, submitted that only a coalition of political parties can wrest power from President Bola Tinu...
10th June 2025
Dangote vows downstream overhaul to ‘shake’ oil sector
The President of the Dangote Group and founder of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Aliko Dangote, says there will be an announcement of what he calls a major ‘shakedown’ in the entire country soon....
10th June 2025
Tears, joy as Nigerian pilgrims depart Saudi after Hajj
Nigerian pilgrims for the 2025 Hajj are set for a home-bound journey, as Saudi Arabia, on Monday, announced the successful and peaceful conclusion of the Hajj pilgrimage for the Islamic year 1446. Ove...
10th June 2025
Jonathan treatment comment: APC threatens to sanction Ndume
The All Progressives Congress has cautioned former Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, over his recent comments warning that ex-President Goodluck Jonatha’s treatment awaits President Bola Tinubu in 2027....
10th June 2025
Defections: Hurricane Tinubu sweeps 12 more senators, Reps
•APC courts four PDP govs, 10 A’Ibom NASS members to join Eno, two Edo, Nasarawa senators to quit SDP, LP Ten National Assembly members from Akwa Ibom State elected on the platform of the Peoples ...
10th June 2025
Lagos alternative power boom exceeds national grid capacity – Report
Off-grid and self-generated electricity in Lagos State has surpassed Nigeria’s entire grid-connected capacity, a new report by the Africa Finance Corporation has revealed, raising concerns over the ...
10th June 2025
Money my husband kept for Nigeria ‘vanished’ after his death - Maryam Abacha
Maryam Abacha, widow of former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has rejected long-standing allegations that her late husband looted billions of dollars during his time in office, insisting...
9th June 2025
Why Awujale was absent from 2025 Ojude Oba — Festival coordinator
The Coordinator for the 2025 Ojude Oba festival, Dr Fassy Yusuff, on Monday said that the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Adetona, could not attend the annual festival held on Su...
9th June 2025
Matawalle, Zamfara gov face off over defection plot
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has insisted he will remain in the Peoples Democratic Party where he was elected as the fifth civilian governor of the state. The decision was in response to overt...
9th June 2025
Petrol subsidy removal yields $84bn gain, 40 roads – Report
The Federal Government has stated that the removal of the petrol subsidy by President Bola Tinubu ended a historic financial drain that cost Nigeria over $84bn and has helped finance 40 critical road ...
9th June 2025
Discos raise bills 107% despite poor power
Electricity distribution companies recorded a shortfall of over N202bn in their revenue collections for the first quarter of 2025, despite a rise in electricity billing across the country, an analysis...
9th June 2025
Naira to stabilise at N1,600–N1,650/$ – Rewane
Economist and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Limited, Bismarck Rewane, has projected that the naira would trade within N1,600-N1,650 to a dollar in the near term. Rewane said this during h...
9th June 2025
Ground rent: 34 embassies risk closure Tuesday
Thirty-four embassies in Abuja risk being closed down by the Federal Capital Territory Administration over unpaid ground rents spanning 11 years, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH, however, learnt that the...
9th June 2025
Sanwo-Olu's Sallah homage to Tinubu calms speculated rift
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday received a delegation of prominent Nigerians who paid him Sallah homage at his residence in Lagos as part of the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. Among those present were Lag...
8th June 2025
King of steeze returns: Farooq Oreagba steals show again at Ojude Oba 2025
Farooq Oreagba, the charismatic cancer survivor who became the unexpected star of the 2024 Ojude Oba Festival, has done it again. This year, he returned with the same effortless steeze and magnetic pr...
8th June 2025
Defection: PDP moves to flush out disloyal members
The Peoples Democratic Party is set to overhaul its South-South zonal and state structures in a sweeping move aimed at flushing out disloyal members and forestalling further defections. A member of th...
8th June 2025
Experts warn as states, LGs’ bank debts hit N4tn
States and local governments owed a combined N4.09tn to banks and the Central Bank of Nigeria as of December 2024. Fresh data released in CBN’s latest quarterly statistical bulletin showed that the ...
8th June 2025
Lagos APC members protest imposition in council
Some members of the All Progressives Congress in Yaba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State have kicked against the alleged imposition of a chairmanship candidate for the upcoming July 12 loca...
8th June 2025
