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Prominent member and gubernatorial aspirant of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, Dr. Dennis Osahon Aikoriogie has resigned his membership of the party, following what he described as a hijack of the party by money bags, undermining the democratic process. The reason behind his decision which sent shock waves through the party is his belief that the party’s primary …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Eighty suspected cultists were paraded on Monday by the Commissioner of police in Edo State (CP) Mohammed Dankwara amid ongoing intensified fight against the menacing cult-related violent crimes ravaging in the state. Arms and live ammunitions recovered from some of them were displayed during the parade at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters, Benin City on December …

A Catholic priest in Nebraska died Sunday after being stabbed at a parish rectory, the Archdiocese of Omaha said. Police identified a suspect in the case late on Sunday. The archdiocese said in a statement, published by the Catholic News Agency that Father Stephen Gutgsell was assaulted “during an invasion at the rectory of St. John the Baptist Parish in …

• We are dying of hunger, citizens cry out • Minimum wage earners to spend 90% of income on rice• I pretend there’s no Christmas, says school teacher • Improve business environment to create jobs, FG urged. Many households are not finding it easy as the ability to purchase daily and basic needs is becoming a tall order for many …

The organised Labour and the Federal Government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of N35,000 wage award to workers. Workers in the Federal Civil Service, in separate interviews with our correspondent on Monday, noted that the Federal Government only paid N35,000 wage award for September. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy by …

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigeria’s Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen, on winning the CAF 2023 Men’s Player of the Year award. The president, in a release issued on Tuesday by his Media Adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, also celebrated the remarkable achievements of Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria’s Super Falcons, who clinched the 2023 CAF Women’s Player of The Year for the …

The members of the Northern Regional Caucus of the House of Representatives have pledged N450 million worth of infrastructure to the victims of the drone attacks in Tudun Biri community, Igabi Local Government of Kaduna State. They announced the gesture yesterday ,when they visited Government House, Kaduna to  commiserate with the government over the recent bomb incident . The 13 members were …

Bank customers’ agony over the prevailing Naira scarcity increased, yesterday… Bank customers’ agony over the prevailing cash scarcity increased, yesterday, as more banks resorted to rationing cash withdrawals while Point of Sale Operators, PoS, operators, hiked transaction fees by 100 per cent.Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN in a move aimed at ameliorating the situation, suspended charges for cash …

Universities across the country may witness strikes in 2024 due to the small budget allotted to the education sector and poor remuneration, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has said. Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, Prof. Emmanuel Oshodeke, explained that during the campaign and election earlier this year, President Bola Tinubu promised to increase the Education sector to …

The federal government, yesterday, hinted that it might consider returning to the National Assembly to seek the lawmakers’ approval for a supplementary budget next year if the government surpassed its revenue projections. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s N27.5 trillion 2024 appropriation bill is currently being considered by the federal legislature. Addressing a joint sitting of the National Assembly Committee on Finance, …