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Sends 4-man delegation to condole Kano gov President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa. The President while leading the nation in mourning Tofa, described him as a politician of note, who was also a promoter of Islamic culture and civilization. In a tribute to the …

*Ex-Lagos governor brushes aside roadblock against direct primary *He will contest – Support Group Irrespective of the roadblock against  the compulsory direct primary option in the selection of political party candidates for the 2023 general elections, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will contest the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary, multiple sources within and outside his camp have disclosed. However, his efforts …

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the arrest of private security guards at Brooks Estate, Magodo, Isheri for allegedly delaying and denying him entrance into the estate. It was gathered that the police boss had gone to the estate in his convoy to meet a “strategic partner at a function” on Saturday when the incident happened, according report …

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance totalling N52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. The ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, noted in an interview with Sunday PUNCH that there was a possibility that the union would still go …

No fewer than seven traditional rulers and their family members have been abducted in the past two weeks, Sunday PUNCH findings have revealed. Checks by our correspondent indicated that between December 15 and 31, gunmen attacked  traditional leaders in different parts of the country, including the South-East and South-West, after a security advisory by the Department of State Services. While …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has expressed strong support for the emergence of a President of Southern extraction in line with the rotation and zoning convention guiding the composition of government at various levels in Nigeria. Ngige, who is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) argued that …

The Nigerian economy slipped into another recession in 2020, reversing three years of recovery that followed the 2016 recession. The 2020 recession was necessitated largely by the containment measures put in place against COVID-19, which affected aviation, tourism, hospitality, restaurants, manufacturing, and trade, thus disrupting the global economy. The economy contracted in the third quarter of the year by 3.6 …

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has invited three players to replace Napoli star, Victor Osimhen, Cyprus –based Abdullahi Shehu and Watford attacker, Emmanuel Dennis in the Super Eagles squad to the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, which begins in Cameroon next weekend. Lively Osimhen’s positive test to the coronavirus pandemic a couple of days ago, and injury to the versatile …

A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry. Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move defending a “pragmatic” approach. The October decree covers for example the …

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to envisage a positive 2022 “with hope and with the unyielding determination that our hope and collective toil will succeed in bringing forth a more prosperous and just nation. Hope that things will be better.” Asiwaju Tinubu stated this in his New Year message, …