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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 …

In one of the cases, gunmen ambushed and killed an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. At least 51 people were killed in the past week (June 26 – July 2) by non-state actors across Nigeria with a majority of the victims being security officials. The figure indicates an increase when compared to the …

…Assures of infrastructure upgrade to sustain reforms in education Edo State Government is contemplating the idea of returning schools to the missionary as they keep to standards, Governor Godwin Obaseki said at the weekend “Government is contemplating the idea of returning schools to the missionary as they keep to standards. The government is considering it in order to help bring …

Edo State is fast becoming a hub for petrochemical industries, opening the state up for more investment in the oil and gas industry, according to the state government. Officials said this is sequel to the 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) Duport Refinery promoted by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Duport Midstream Company Limited (DMCL) ready for …

A woman, identified as Mrs Onwanna Nnenna, from Nando, Anambra State, has allegedly pushed her 14-year-old maid, identified as Ijeoma Nwafor, from a four-storey building. The incident was said to have happened late on Saturday at Otu Street, Awada, Onitsha, according to report by the Punch. The victim survived the jump, but with serious injuries and is currently receiving treatment …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Unidentified gunmen today, Sunday July, 3 kidnapped two catholic priests in Edo State. They are Rev. Fr. Udo Peter of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Uromi and Rev. Fr. Philemon Oboh of St. Joseph Retreat Center, Ugboha in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. Their abduction came exactly a week after …

Over 40 per cent of households in Nigeria own and use generators to meet their electricity requirements, figures contained in a power sector report jointly put together by a research firm and a financial institution, showed. It also stated that the affected households spent about $14bn annually to fuel their generators, as the power supply from the national grid continued …