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Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in the Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has been burnt down by arsonists. A statement released by INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye on Monday via the Agency’s verified twitter handle, said the attack happened at 11:48pm on Sunday July 3, 2022. According to the INEC spokesman, the …

Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged his supporters to be tolerant of other viewpoints. The former Anambra State Governor made the appeal in a post on his verified Twitter handle, yesterday, following his supporters’ criticism of Poju Oyemade, senior pastor of Covenant Christian Centre, who had attacked Obi on social media. . Oyemade had …

A member of the Birnin Emirate in Kaduna State, Danmasani Birnin Gwari, Zubairu Abdulra’uf, said that for over two years, N400m was paid to bandits as tax and harvest fees before farmers in Birnin-Gwari can have access to their farms. Illustration picture. The former Managing Director of Kaduna State Media Corporation, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna …

…Tinubu pushes for Shettima, stakeholders in dilemma …Ignore N-West, pick your running mate from N-Central, North-East APC tells Tinubu Strong indications emerged, weekend, that governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are insisting on a sitting colleague to be picked as vice presidential candidate to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the 2023 election, following the …

…Tinubu pushes for Shettima, stakeholders in dilemma …Ignore N-West, pick your running mate from N-Central, North-East APC tells Tinubu Strong indications emerged, weekend, that governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are insisting on a sitting colleague to be picked as vice presidential candidate to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the 2023 election, following the …

DStv is in trouble, as most of its subscribers are beginning to abandon its use for other favourable alternatives. A survey carried out by Economy&Lifestyle showed that seven of every 10 households make use of either DStv or GOtv for entertainment and information purposes.  However, the survey also noted that the reason subscribers are abandoning the platform now  is basically …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okawa The loyalists of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have listed conditions for the resolution of the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party. Supporters of the governor, in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday, said it was not late for the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to revisit the …

Desperation in politics pursued single-mindedly with a chronically pathological forgetfulness of Isaac Newton’s third law of motion that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”, and Maria Daniels’ thesis that “life has its ups and downs, and problems arise when we want life to be our way when we want it to meet all of our expectations” …

The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project and other education rights groups, such as the Reform Education Nigeria and Education Rights Campaign, have knocked the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the prolonged shutdown of academic activities in the nation’s tertiary institutions. The PUNCH reports that the strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities entered its 140th …

GEN. T.Y. Danjuma must be saluted for his gift of prescience. Even before the insecurity in the country became pestilential and affected a large swathe of the North, the taciturn statesman had warned Nigerians to prepare to defend themselves from the onslaught of foreign marauders who were determined to take over their ancestral homelands. At the time, the General was upbraided …