Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Friday inaugurated 69 lock-up shops, 108 open stalls, a motor park, a new road network and a modern restaurant constructed by the Ibadan North-East Local Government at the Agodi-Gate Market, Ibadan. Speaking at the commissioning event held at Araromi Market, Agodi-Gate, Ibadan, the …
The Nigeria Immigration Service has assured Nigerians that passport services remain available nationwide despite the relocation of passport printing operations to its Central Personalisation Centre at the Service Headquarters in Abuja. The service said the move was purely operational and would not affect the processing…
The Nigerian Army on Friday graduated 1,178 Special Forces troops from the 10th batch of its Advanced Infantry Training Programme, charging them to uphold human rights and the rule of law while confronting terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other security threats across the country. The six-month training, conducted u…
The Anambra State Special Anti-Touting Squad Agency in collaboration with the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, has arrested a mother and her accomplice for selling her baby for ₦2.9 million in Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The mother of the child, identified simply as M…
The Lagos State Government has arrested 27 suspected hoodlums for allegedly vandalising a newly constructed bridge linking Festac Town to Alakija during a midnight enforcement operation. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, saying the arrests …
…the Presidential Air Fleet should be maintained. The question is why the comfort and mobility of public officials should receive more predictable funding than the equipment, logistics and operational resources required by personnel confronting terrorists and bandits. We call for the immediate release of duly appropriat…
…programmes at least twice within the timeframe and send evidence or reports of the mobilisation activities to the NEC through the secretariat. It added that the reports should indicate the level of preparedness and mobilisation for the strike action. While decrying the alleged reluctance of the government to conclude n…
England striker Ivan Toney has been charged with assault following an alleged incident at a nightclub in central London. The 30-year-old Al-Ahli forward was charged on 31 July in connection with an incident that occurred on Wardour Street, Soho, on 6 December. Toney has been charged with assault causing actual bodily h…
…operatives, in collaboration with community members and local vigilantes, immediately mobilised and trailed the suspects, leading to the arrest of one Ibrahim Musa, 23 years, of Bizagula Ward, Potiskum, in possession of the stolen transformer cable. "During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the offence, while two…
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Ojo Adekimi, has commissioned the renovated 'C' Division Police Station in Oja-Oba, Ilorin, urging officers attached to the division to demonstrate greater professionalism and improved service delivery in line with the enhanced working environment. The state Police Command dis…
The Federal Fire Service has launched a nationwide mandatory Fire Warden Training and Certification Programme for organisations that receive an average of 50 or more persons daily. The service announced the programme on Friday in a statement jointly signed by the Commandant of the National Fire Academy, ACF Umetali Pet…
John Obi Mikel, the celebrated Nigerian football legend, is known for his illustrious career on the pitch, but his personal life is equally intriguing. At its centre is his stunning and business-savvy partner, Olga Diyachenko. She is a Russian entrepreneur and former model and has been with Mikel for over a decade.Form…
…the extractive industries between 2021 and 2023.Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Shehu, disclosed that Nigeria spent ₦1.16 trillion on fuel subsidy in 2021, while another ₦1.20 trillion was deducted from the Federation's crude oil sales proceeds duri…
…the potential uses of drone-carrier systems.The tactic is designed to overcome the mobility limitations of smaller drones, particularly FPV drones. Ukraine has already experimented with several types of drone "motherships", including large drones that transport and release smaller drones closer to their targets. Ground…
Singer, Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has reacted after his twin brother, Peter Okoye (Mr P), alleged that their late mother mistreated his wife, Lola, during the latest episode of his ongoing tell-all series on the P-Square family feud. In a post shared on his social media pages on Friday, Rudeboy appeared t…
Chinese exports and imports soared in July, official data showed Friday, as the manufacturing powerhouse benefits from a global AI boom lifting overseas demand for its tech products. The world’s second-largest economy last year achieved a historic trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion, helping its manufacturing sector …
Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago. has said the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline corridor will open up the state’s industrial potentials to investors. He said the project, a 1,000 square kilometre corridor of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline that runs through Niger State is an Industrial Development Zone which …
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday said the state faces a deficit of about 40,000 doctors and another 40,000 nurses, while its health sector requires at least N100bn above current budgetary provisions to meet the needs of its growing population. The governor also disclosed that more than 1.5 million …
Former Tottenham Hotspur defender Toby Alderweireld has urged his old club to sign Victor Osimhen, insisting the Nigeria striker’s proven goalscoring record makes him the answer to a problem that has persisted at the club since Harry Kane left for Bayern Munich in 2023, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. “Victor Osimhen is a …
Former Youth and Sports Minister, Jim Nwobodo, and Dutch coach Johannes “Bonfrère” Jo have offered contrasting accounts of the circumstances surrounding the coach’s reward and the alleged missing medal, 30 years after leading Nigeria’s Dream Team to Olympic football gold at Atlanta ’96, The PUNCH reports. Nwobodo, who …
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has described education as the most effective weapon against insecurity, poverty and ignorance. As such, he urged governments at all levels to invest more resources in education rather than focusing solely on military responses to insecurity. Kukah said…
Several customers of a real estate company, Bliss Legacy, have accused the firm of failing to allocate plots of land they paid for, demanding refunds running into millions of naira. One of the aggrieved customers, Anna Tuale, whose one-man protest at the company’s Obakhavbaye office in Benin, the Edo State capital, rec…
A road crash along the Kaduna-Zaria Expressway on Saturday morning claimed the life of a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Dr. Umar Sani Bebeji. His childhood friend and colleague in the university’s Faculty of Arts, Zubairu Lawal Bamalle, confirmed the incident to Arewa PUNCH, sayi…
Poultry farmers in Lagos State have appealed to the Lagos State Government to accelerate the establishment of an egg powder factory to curb millions of naira lost due to unsold eggs. The appeal came during the annual summit of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, held recently in Alausa, where the a…
The United States has supported 200 young entrepreneurs with training to prepare their products for the Nigerian and American markets under the U.S. Alumni-Led Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund Manufacturing Programme, strengthening its commercial partnership with Nigeria. The eight-month programme, which ran from Janu…