The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of denying him access to electoral documents despite paying N6 million. Atiku is challenging the declaration of President of Bola Tinubu by INEC at the February 25 presidential polls. Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat 17 other candidates […]

Two different Speakers emerged in the seventh Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday. They are the immediate past Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, who is seeking a third term as Speaker and Hon. Daniel Ogazi, a member representing Kokona East constituency in the Assembly. While Balarabe-Abdullahi was elected at a sitting which took place […]

Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th Senate, one of the contestants for the Office of the Senate President, Abdulaziz Yari, has advised his co-aspirants not to contest the will of God, noting that the choice of the supreme being for the office will emerge at the end of the day. Yari, a […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, once again summoned the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, over a $53 million judgement debt arising from the Paris Club refunds. The presiding judge, Inyang Ekwo, mandated that the court will not hear Emefiele’s motion for stay until he appears before it. The PUNCH, in 2022, reports […]

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England saw a record number of gonorrhoea cases and the highest level of syphilis in decades last year as sexually transmitted infections spiked, the UK Health Security Agency said on Tuesday. There were 82,592 gonorrhoea diagnoses in 2022, a yearly increase of 50 per cent and the largest annual number reported since records began, according […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria on Tuesday advised President Bola Tinubu to ensure a balance in his appointment of security chiefs and other top political positions, stressing that this would assist in stabilising his administration. According to the religious group, it would be crucial for the appointments to reflect the diversity of Nigeria, with qualified […]

A Nigerian-born British data management lead at the Bank of England, Abel Aboh, has been appointed to the board of the Data Lab Scotland, a leading innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence in Scotland, United Kingdom. Aboh is among the 20 new board members to oversee the centre’s Governance, Innovation, and Education Advisory Boards […]

Some farmers, under the auspices of the Oluwa Forest Reserve Farmers in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, have condemned the demolition of property on their farmlands by the state government. The chairman of the group, Abayomi Isinleye, while speaking on the development on Tuesday, said the demolished property located at various farm settlements […]

The House of Representatives has demanded an investigation into the killing of Kenneth Gyang to ensure justice is done with compensation for his family and proper medical care for the injured. Rep. Dachung Bagos, a Peoples Democratic Party representative from Plateau State, made this statement after the plenary on Tuesday in Abuja approved a resolution […]