. …Confusion over APC’s screening of presidential aspirants …Party chair, Adamu briefs president …Aspirants intensify scramble for 2,340 delegatesl24 hours after, APC again adjusts timetable …Voting moneybags has disastrous consequences, the pro-Osinbajo group cautions delegates By Clifford Ndujihe & Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA All eyes are on President Muhammadu Buhari as the ruling All Progressives Congress, […]

A Junior Secondary School 2 pupil of Simple Faith Schools, Agbara, Lagos State, Emmanuel Amidu, has died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Surulere. The victim’s father, Akinola Amidu, claimed that the 12-year-old was flogged by a teacher when he went to school on Thursday, May 12, 2022. He said his son started vomiting shortly […]

Bishop Matthew Kukah Gunmen early Wednesday broke into one of the parishes presided over by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent gathered that the armed hoodlums kidnapped two priests and two others in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, in the Kafur Local Government […]

A former Commissioner and a female contestant for the Kwara North Senatorial primary election, Hajia Aisha Ahman-Pategi has disowned the results of the Peoples Democratic Party’s primary election held at Shao in Moro local government area of Kwara State on Monday. The results of the primary elections in the five local government areas constituting the […]

Mr Tambuwal’s refusal to announce his preferred governorship candidate is giving room for speculations, especially among the supporters of the top aspirants in the Sokoto PDP. Several politicians in Sokoto State have indicated interest to succeed Governor Aminu Tambuwal under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but none of the aspirants is at ease as the governor has not indicated […]

•We’ve identified those terrorising Anambra —CP •Insecurity in S-East not imported —Umahi •Herdsmen butcher palm plantation keeper in Ebonyi community  By Vincent Ujumadu & Peter Okutu, AWKA FOLLOWING the heightening state of insecurity in Anambra State, the state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has said that his administration has drawn a battle line against the criminals, […]

  Barring any last minute change, the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will hold this weekend in Abuja. Already, different aspirants, have been criss-crossing the country in attempt to woo delegates to vote for them. As the aspirants try to outwit each other, the coast is clear how the delegates in respective […]

– Demand release of their children in Yola    Terrorists who kidnapped passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train that was attacked on 28th March 2022 have urged the government to release their children allegedly kept in a Yola detention facility. They threatened to start killing the passengers in captivity within 7 days unless their demands […]

The crisis has hit the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State with one of the governorship aspirants, Alhaji Sani Sha’aban, protesting against the congress which produced 2,619 delegates. The PUNCH had reported that the Appeal Committee for the Ad hoc Delegate Congresses of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, on Saturday, upheld the congress […]

Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has dissolved the state executive council, while his chief of staff, Emeka Woke and his Senior Special Assistant on Protocol were sacked . The dissolution and dismissal was contained in a special government announcement signed by Governor Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Kekvin Ebiri, in […]