No US president has met a Syrian leader since Bill Clinton saw Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, in Geneva in 2000 in a failed effort to persuade him to make peace with Israel. Donald Trump became the first US president in 25 years to meet a Syrian leader on Wednesday after he offered sanctions relief in…
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has said Nigeria needs $10 billion annually for 20 years to have a steady electricity supply. Speaking at the inauguration of a 2.5 megawatt solar hybrid power project at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, the minister identified inadequate maintenance, insufficient investment, and the inability to upgrade transmission…
Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been announced as the headliner of the 2025 Things Fall Apart Festival, a week-long celebration of Chinua Achebe’s literary legacy. The Centre for Memories, organisers of the festival, in an Instagram post on Tuesday, said the festival will take place from June 29 to July 5, 2025, at the…
US President, Donald Trump, on Wednesday, told interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa that his order to lift sanctions on Syria is a major policy shift, describing it as an “honour”. White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt said Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman praised Trump for lifting sanctions on…
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has disclosed that his administration has built three functional Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in each of the 351 electoral wards since inception. He expressed his administration’s willingness to share the template with the Federal Government in its plan to build 8,800 PHCs across the country. Makinde made this disclosure…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 717 confirmed Lassa fever cases out of 4,881 suspected cases from January to May 4, 2025, in 18 states, across 93 local government areas. This was disclosed in the latest situation report by the NCDC on its website on Wednesday. So far, the country has…
•Rectors, provosts, principals, examiners to meet JAMB chiefs, candidates decry results discrepancies The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Thursday review the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination following what it described as “unusual” public complaints. A notice seen by The PUNCH in Abuja confirmed that the review meeting would bring together…
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, on Wednesday, declared that there was no fraud uncovered in the student loan scheme.Alausa made this known at the end of a meeting held with Vice Chancellors, officials of the National Universities Commission, Nigerian Education Loan Fund and the Federal Ministry of Education. Alausa also described the statement…
Governance in Osun State over the last two decades has seen contrasting approaches between the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). By comparing the impactful tenures of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola (2003–2010) and the ongoing administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke (2022–present) under the PDP with the 12-year APC era led by Ogbeni…
