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The UN’s top humanitarian official in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has said that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Schmale told journalists in Geneva on Wednesday that the number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition had doubled in one...

Gov. Bassey Otu and his wife, Rev. (Mrs.) Eyoanwan Otu, 3rd and 4th left. Hon. Emmanuel Ironbar, Chief of Staff to the Governor, 1st left, Deputy Comptroller of Corrections, Effiong Edet, Mr. Adeyinka Adebayo, Comptroller of Correction,, Cross River, 5th left and Chief Imam, Calabar Central Mosque, Olowolayemo Kabir, during...

The Family of former APC Presidential Aspirant, Mr. Tein T.S. Jack-Rich CON, has described recent accusations of corruption against the former Aspirant as false and politically sponsored. The family in a statement through his media desktop said the accusations making the rounds in the past two days on some online...

Foremost Tinubu support group, Disciples of Jagaban (DOJ) has organized a special prayer session on Arafat day in honour of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. In an interview with the organizer of the special prayer session, Engineer Mohammed W. Yahaya, Coordinator DOJ North Central, said it became necessary to organize the...

…Writes Police IG Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over threats to his life allegedly from a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva. Frank who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said...

Kalthum Foundation for Peace (KFP), a charity organisation, says the former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, did his best to restore peace and security to the country as army chief. The Chairperson and Founder of KFP, Ummu Kalthum-Rabiu, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja....

President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited 38 uncompleted road projects worth N979bn from the Muhammadu Buhari government, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The projects were identified through an analysis of the 2023 budget and cross-checked with the national monitoring and evaluation platform, EYEMARK, which was launched by Buhari in December...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, broke his silence on the petrol subsidy removal ‘challenge’ that he left for his successor, Bola Tinubu, saying had the policy been implemented, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tinubu would have lost the last general polls. Speaking through his erstwhile spokesman, Garba Shehu,...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it paid N307.408 billion as petrol subsidy payment in May 2023. The national company disclosed this in its monthly presentation to the federation account allocation committee (FAAC) meeting on June 22, 2023. Subsidy or under-recovery is the shortfall for the underpriced sales...

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has ordered the Accountant General to stop the salaries of 10,800 workers employed by his predecessor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Before it took over, the new administration had accused Ganduje’s government of illegally employing over 10,000 workers when it was about to leave office....