The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won’t leave Nigeria despite pressure being mounted on him to do so. The PCC claimed that the pressure being mounted on the former Anambra State governor from some quarters was the handiwork of mischief makers who were bent on derailing…
Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, on Thursday, slammed the government of the United States of America for congratulating Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Adichie, in a letter addressed to the US President, Joe Biden, expressed her dissatisfaction over the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria, describing it as not only marred by technical faults but deliberately…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted two outgoing Ambassadors in farewell audiences at State House, Abuja. The affected Ambassadors, who had kind words to say about their tour of duty in Nigeria, include Eustaquio Januario Quibato of Republic of Angola and Dr Fahad Obaid Al Taffaq of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The outgoing Angolan ambassador…
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Imo Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma and his Delta counterpart, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, have charged the Nigeria media to keep upholding the virtue of objectivity in their reportage of national issues. They spoke at the Political Economist Merit Awards ceremony in Lagos, Thursday, which was highlighted by the public presentation of a book titled Nigeria Heroes and Sheroes: Diary…
By Sarafa Olabode The Court of Appeal judgement upholding the election of Governor Ademola Adeleke is widely adjudged as one of the best in recent judicial history. Compared with the judgement of the Tribunal, the Appeal Court restored judicial normalcy based on laws and precedents. The Supreme Court is not likely to have problem with…
Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the incoming administration must work to facilitate national moral rearmament and reconciliation, following the divisiveness occasioned by the just concluded general elections. This he said had the potential to bring about healing and to assuage Nigerian youths who were angered by the…
As airlines continue to experience delays over the scarcity of aviation fuel called Jet A1, petroleum marketers, The PUNCH has gathered, are being denied access to fuel aeroplanes at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. According to the Chief Commercial Officer, Green Africa, Obi Mbanuzuo, FAAN is restricting…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sympathized with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state over its pronounced agony on the no-love lost between Governor Ademola Ademola’s government and workers, warning that no amount of cheap rhetorics will wash away the ignoble records of the erstwhile ruling party’s in…
The Plateau State Governor-elect, Caleb Mutfwang, has promised to incorporate local hunters and vigilante organisations into the peace and security architecture of the State to complement the fight against insecurity. While promising to build bonds of unity, he said the relationship between herders and indigenes was only one aspect of the crisis in Plateau which…
