•Three PMS vessels arrive, transport fares jump as major marketers raise fuel price Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has reportedly suspended the sale of Premium Motor Spirit – popularly called petrol – to independent marketers after it hiked the product’s price on Tuesday. This is even as three vessels berthed at the Apapa, Lagos jetty on…
An eighty-one years old man, Adeleke Oke alongside two other persons have been apprehended by operatives of the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly raping a 12-year old girl in Offa, Offa local government area of Kwara State. Aside from Oke, the two other suspects include 37 years old Sikiru Lawal and…
A 14-year-old boy has shot dead four people, including two students and two teachers, and as well injured nine more others when he opened fire at a high school in the US State of Georgia on Wednesday. The suspected shooter who is also a student at the school had been brought to the Federal Bureau…
There was pandemonium in Ilisan Remo in Ikenne Local Government on Tuesday as a detachment of soldiers and police clashed with some Hausa youths over their insistence on killing an army officer alleged to have been part of a two-man gang who had attacked one of them and wanted to disappear with his motorcycle. Our…
Following the increase in petroleum pump prices on Tuesday, more residents, including civil servants in Borno have abandoned their vehicles to embrace trekking, horse riding, and the use of bicycles and tricycles for mobility. During a tour of Maiduguri, the state capital in the early hours of Thursday, PUNCH Online observed that there were fewer…
Ologunagba claimed that under the Tinubu administration, 150 million Nigerians have sunk below the poverty line. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Federal Government to reverse the latest hike in the petrol pump price, describing it as a brutal assault on the sensibility of Nigerians PDP in a statement on Wednesday by its…
The Osun State CARES Results Area 2 (RA2), being implemented through Fadama Platform has significantly advanced agricultural development and food security in the State under the supervision of the Osun State CARES Coordinating Unit (SCCU) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. From inception to date, the Delivery Platform carried out numerous successful projects…
Nigerian Paralympics powerlifter Esther Nworgu said on Wednesday claiming the silver medal in Paris was “like heaven” having dislocated her shoulder just two days ago. Iwogu, who lost the use of her legs as a child, only missed out on gold in the bench press to defending champion in China’s Cui Zhe in the up…
● Approves Draft Procurement Amendment Bill Towards the conclusion of the teachers’ recruitment exercise, the Osun State Executive Council has directed the Ministry of Education to conduct interviews for applicants within the cut-off range adopted after the recruitment test. The Council presided over by Governor Ademola Adeleke gave the directive after receiving updated reports from…
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, on Tuesday, insisted that President Bola Tinubu has not been unfair to the North in appointments, pointing out that the President filled key security positions with northerners. This decision, according to Matawalle, is because Tinubu understands the security situation in the North, particularly the North-West, and he…
