Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court annulment takes years. The Philippines is the only place outside the Vatican where divorce is outlawed. Pro-divorce advocates argue the ban makes it harder for couples to cut ties and remarry, […]

Stakeholders have advocated for the development of strategic communication plans to mobilise national support for effectively conveying Africa’s narratives. The Account Management Director of Insight Publicis, Oluwaseyi Layade, disclosed this at a conversations-and-cocktails event, to commemorate Africa Day and Africa Communications Week 2023, hosted by Quadrant MSL and other communications professionals, which was held recently […]

A faith-based non-governmental organisation, CrimsonBow Sickle Cell Initiative has called on the government to give more attention to people living with sickle cell. The NGO which facilitated free medical tests, screening and medication for about 200 patients in Lagos, charged the government across levels to be more attentive to the plights of sickle cell patients, […]

The Nigeria Basketball Federation is planning big for the 2023 edition of the National Women’s Basketball League sponsored by Zenith Bank, NBBF president Musa Ahmadu-Kida has stated. Already, the federation has concluded plans to expand the women’s league with a view to improving the quality of the teams that would compete in the elite women’s […]

The Chief Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Festus Keyamo, has said President Bola Tinubu did not remove fuel subsidy. According to him, a section of the media is “mischievously twisting the narrative to read that Tinubu’s government has removed subsidy,” despite President Tinubu proclaiming that subsidy was gone while giving his inaugural […]

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund is expected to develop a model to tackle the out-of-school menace in Nigeria by 2027, The PUNCH reports. Though the number of out-of-school children as of May 2023 cannot officially be verified by our correspondent at the time of filing this report, a 2022 report by UNESCO estimated that […]

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has warned pilgrims against patronising unapproved food vendors. The Nigerian pilgrims are currently undergoing the Islamic religious rites for the 2023 Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The commission’s Coordinator in Madina, Alhaji Ibrahim Mahmud, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on […]

A total of 118 exhibits have been presented before the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in his case against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and the PDP approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Tinubu, who contested under […]

Finally, justice on Tuesday came the way of the family of a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who was murdered in November 2021.  An Osun State High Court passed a death sentence on an Ile-Ife hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin,   and  two of his staff, BOLA BAMIGBOLA writes The already tense atmosphere […]

Telecommunication firms have begun to phase out old Unstructured Supplementary Service Data shortcodes for new harmonised ones as directed by the Nigerian Communications Commission. With this move, famous USSD codes such as *556# are now outdated. Customers of MTN Nigeria told The PUNCH that old USSD prompts now redirect them to a message that reads, […]