Bayelsa PDP, APC clash over Diri’s support for Tinubu - Punch Newspapers
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri.
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri.
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Photo: Chairman, NiTERAC, Emeritus Prof. Peter Okebukola
The arrested suspects. Photo: Ekiti Police Command
Three people have been killed, and four others injured after a two-storey shopping complex under construction collapsed in Owode-Ede, Osun State. The incident occurred late on Friday, trapping workers who were reportedly staying in the building to continue their work the followin...
The African Democratic Congress has accused President Bola Tinubu of using the Federal Government’s proposed N50,000 monthly cash relief as an election gimmick. This is as the party alleged that the initiative is aimed at regaining public support ahead of the 2027 general electio...
File: Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar.
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A Dowen College swimmer, Jochebed Amos-Penda, clinched a gold, a silver and two bronze medals at the third edition of the NNPC-SNEPCo Interschool Swimming Competition at the Ikoyi Club 1938 in Lagos. Amos-Penda competed in the girls’ 11-12 age category. She won gold in the 50-met...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan. Photo: INEC
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo speaking at the event. Photo: Taiwo Bankole
German car giant Volkswagen said it aims to export at least 300,000 vehicles made in China each year by 2030, as well as technologies it is developing in the country. Europe’s biggest carmaker has been mired in crisis because of Chinese competition, weak demand in key markets and...
Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Fansan Yamma, have killed three suspected terrorists and recovered an AK-47 rifle, ammunition and a motorcycle during an encounter in Kaduna State, while also recovering 28 cows and 13 sheep from suspected cattle rustlers in Kano State. T...
The Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, CP Muhammad Bello, has confirmed the “rescue of three of the six Islamic clerics kidnapped on September 12 while travelling to Talata Mafara, Zamfara State.” Bello gave the confirmation in an interview with select reporters on Friday in G...
The Labour Party has urged Nigerians to support its candidates in the 2027 general elections, citing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election as an example of how voters can use the ballot to advance social democracy. The party said Lula’s victory demonstrated ...
A 15-year-old Ghanaian boy, Javits Frimpong, has been shot dead while walking near his school in the Bronx borough of New York, United States, CBS News reports on Thursday. Frimpong was shot once in the abdomen shortly before 9:30 am on Thursday near East 171st Street and Crotona...
The All Progressives Congress in Adamawa State has lost over 5,000 members to the Allied People’s Movement. The defections came barely 24 hours after the inauguration of the party’s campaign team headed by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri. Abduralman Haske, who defected from the APC, is t...
File photo of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.