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Suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa State, Barr. Hudu Yunusa Ari, will be brought in to testify for Aishatu Dairu (Binani), the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Adamawa in the 2023 general election, our correspondent has gathered. Recall that on Monday 10th July 2023, a Federal High...

A Federal Capital Territory High Court has been told that the immediate past attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, cannot use the office he occupied for about eight years to pursue personal interest.  An international businessman and property developer, Mr Cecil Osakwe, through his...

The National Association of Academic Technologists has expressed concern over the recent 200 per cent increase in fees in federal universities, saying that it may lead to students dropping out of school. NAAT also kicked against the dissolution of Universities Governing Boards and asked the Federal Government to reinstate the...

The Federal Government has filed an eight-count charge against former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah at a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing her of falsely claiming to have lost her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate, among other allegations. The charge was filed on June 26, 2023, according to...

President Bola Tinubu has departed Guinea-Bissau after attending the 63rd Ordinary session of the Economic Community of West African States. Tinubu, on Sunday, emerged as the Chairman of the ECOWAS of West African States.

A report by FITC has revealed that bank customers in Nigeria lost N472m to fraud in the first quarter of 2023. It was also disclosed that there was a total of 12,553 cases of fraud recorded within this period. This was according to the Q1 report obtained by The PUNCH...

A member of the House of Representatives representing Ideato North/South federal constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, has accused Imo State Governor and chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum, PGF, Hope Uzodimma, of being the brain behind APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu’s rejection of National Assembly’s principal officers...

The Nigerian Pilot Newspaper has said it is set to expose all that transpired in the last governorship election of March 18 that also took place in Adamawa State. A lot has been said and written about what happened during the election which led to Ahmed Dahiru Binani of the...

Residents of Farinkasa Kerana and Sabon Gari communities in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State were on Sunday thrown into mourning following fresh attacks by gunmen which left 12 persons dead A grieving resident, Mathew Habila, who confirmed the incidents to The PUNCH in Jos on Sunday said the...

USAID Advancing Nutrition Project in Nigeria has engaged stakeholders with a view to ending child wasting and severe acute malnutrition in Nigerian children. According to data by UNICEF, 2 Million children in Nigeria are severely acutely malnourished, with only 2 in 10 having access to the right care and services...