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The All Progressives Congress (APC), Ghana Chapter, has urged the party’s Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu to pick a female as his running mate. The Chairman of APC Ghana, Mr Oghenosa Micheletti, who made the appeal in a statement on Friday, recalled that Tinubu, who fielded a female running mate, Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele ((1999-2003), helped him run a successful government. …

“We feed our family and also pay children’s school fees with proceeds from this business,” one of the women said. His striking, vulnerable eyes pounced on every object in the large earthen compound where he gathered his toys. Mojeed flocked around his 25-year-old mother, Taiwo Abduljelil, while she got busy with cloth weaving. His father was also seated at the …

As  the Friday, June 17 deadline issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to political parties to submit names of their presidential standard bearers draws closer, tension has  enveloped the camps of the two major political parties as they struggle to pick running mates. While the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is expected to pick from …

PUNCH Investigations on July 29, 2021, published a three-part undercover story on the mindless killings by soldiers in Imo State. Succour has come the way of the family of a businessman, Noel Chigbu, who was killed by soldiers on July 30, 2021. The Federal High Court in Owerri on May 12, 2022, awarded a N200m judgement against the Nigerian Army. …

The presidential candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday evening paid an unscheduled visit to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the latter’s Aguda House residence, Abuja. The APC flag bearer also visited President Muhammadu Buhari before proceeding to Aguda House. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Tinubu defeated Mr Osinbajo and 12 others at the just concluded presidential …

• Party primaries set new exchange rate ceilings• BDC operators run out of supply as politicians warehouse dollar• Fear of higher political risk spreads across markets• CBN’s rigidity stalling capital inflow, says Yusuf The currency market may have defied experts’ prediction that the informal segment would witness a momentary glut of dollars as political party delegates, who reportedly made a …

A 13-man Edo State Productivity Committee to sustain the government’s efforts at stimulating productivity and driving the state’s industrial growth was inaugurated on Thursday by the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. During the inauguration of the committee, headed by Barr. Joel Edionwe, at the Government House in Benin City, Obaseki said his government remains committed to engendering progress. The governor …

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Interior, has declared Monday, June 13, as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day which comes up on June 12. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr M. L. Shuaib Belgore, on Thursday. He congratulated Nigerians …

The National Security Council, on Thursday, revealed that the Islamic State, West African Province masterminded the deadly attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State that left over 25 people dead on Sunday, June 5, 2022. Scene of the attack The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this to State House correspondents, shortly after the over three-hour council meeting …

• Urges issue-based, violence free campaigns Former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated presidential election flag bearers of various political parties particularly Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples democratic Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All peoples Congress, Peter Obi of the Labour Party  as well as others for the emergence at the conclusion of party primaries, urging them to …