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Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has kicked at the resolution taken at the National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), zoning the national chairmanship to the North and described it as contradictory and a threat to the consolidation of democracy in Nigeria. Spokesperson of the CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said in Kaduna on Saturday, that it is contradictory …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the appointment of Prof. Faith Osamagioghomwenwi Osadolor as the Solicitor-General/Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Justice. The governor also appointed Ozavize E. Salami as the Executive Chairman of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., announced the appointments in a statement made available …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has congratulated Dr. Osahon Enabulele on his emergence as the President of the World Medical Association (WMA). The governor, in a statement, described the feat as phenomenal and a testament of Dr. Enabulele’s commitment to promote excellence and professionalism in the medical profession over the years. Enabulele is a Chief Consultant Family Physician and …

*VP headlines UN High-Level event on Energy Transition, meets COP26 President-Designate *Interacts with academic community at Imperial College, Global Energy Alliance Nigeria’s Government is already making efforts to use large shares of clean energy sources, in its commitment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, but “limiting the development of gas projects, poses dire challenges.” This is why the international …

The Concerned APC Stakeholders, a political group, has expressed worry that the ruling party has continuously toed the path that brought down the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.  The stakeholders, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, said the party’s values of fairness and inclusiveness have been abused and violated by certain individuals using the president’s name as cover …

…INEC gets N100 b for 2023 elections …Revenue not debt is the biggest challenge -FG …Agencies face sanction over targets The Federal Government has prioritized spending on defence & security, infrastructure and education with the sectors getting a combined N5.15 trillion allocation in the 2022 Budget proposal. From the proposal, defence and security got N2.41 trillion (15%); infrastructure N1.45 trillion …

It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for …

After decades of trials, the world has potentially found a new silver bullet against malaria, one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases. Malaria kills about half a million people yearly, nearly all of them in sub-Saharan Africa, including 260,000 children under five. On Wednesday, and in a historic announcement, the World Health Organization (WHO), for the first time, approved for …

A Nigerian physician and former president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Osahon Enabulele, has emerged as the president-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA), a global association of physicians founded on September 17, 1947. Mr Enabulele, 50 years, who currently serves as the president of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) is the first to be so elected from the West African …

Nollywood Actor, Chiwetalu Agu, on Friday, donned the same ‘Biafra outfit’ that landed in trouble with soldiers when he was released at the Army Headquarters in Enugu State. The PUNCH had earlier reported that soldiers on Thursday arrested the actor around Upper Iweka Bridge in Onitsha for wearing an outfit with Biafra inscriptions. Agu was reportedly on a charity mission to …