Egyptian authorities have sent over 500 students back to Sudan following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate. According to a voice note of a Nigerian official obtained by our correspondent on Friday morning, students without passports or ETC had been instructed to stay back. The official…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 is declining, following the spike in China after it country lifted restrictions. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, at the 15th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, said it was very pleasing to see that the downward…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lashed at the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) for linking the man bathing at the entrance of its secretariat to the party, noting that the APC should stop putting members of the PDP in the imaginary lense of its desperate and fetish members. The…
Millions of electricity consumers may be plunged into darkness in the coming weeks as the Federal Government via the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity distribution companies from the national grid. PUNCH findings showed the development followed notices of disconnection from the grid served on…
President-elect, Bola Tinubu has dared his critics on social media to continue saying whatever they like on various online platforms, saying it is a free speech society. Tinubu insisted that his reason for telling the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, that he would not refund the cost of the flyovers he constructed in Rivers…
Medical doctors have performed a first-ever brain surgery on a baby with a deadly genetic disorder while it is still inside the mother’s womb. The yet-to-be-born baby was diagnosed with a vein of Galen malformation at 30 weeks and children born with this kind of condition have a 30 per cent chance of dying before…
Troops of the armed forces, according to Defence Headquarters, have in the last two weeks eliminated 30 terrorists and apprehended 48 in various operations across the North-Central and Northwest. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami said this on Thursday in Abuja at the bi-weekly news conference on the operations of the armed forces….
● Says ” We have Strong Faith in the Judiciary” Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has attributed recent lies and falsehood spewing from the state APC as a consequence of extreme hallucinations arising from advanced stage of depression within the APC leadership. In his first press statement as a brand new substantive…
Veteran pop singer, Chris Mba, has died after a long battle with heart issues. The musician, who was famous in the 1980s for his jerry curl and hits like ‘Funky Situation’, ‘Baby Don’t Cry’, ‘Making My Way’ and ‘Love Everlasting’, died on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Michael Odiong, the General Manager of…
The Federal and State Governments in the country have been put on notice, to either stop the increase in tuition fees in all tertiary institutions across the country or face the hardest-ever student uprising. The declaration was made by the National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Usman Barambu while speaking…
