Новости за 18.04.2024

The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has lamented the deteriorating security situation across Nigeria and called for decisive action to free the remaining Chibok girls still in captivity. The former Anambra governor expressed anguish that 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014 have “continued to undergo different traumatic experiences at the hands of their

FA Cup replays will be scrapped from the first round onwards from next season as part of an agreement with the Premier League, the Football Association announced on Thursday. The FA had already dropped replays from the fifth round onwards and said the move to ditch them altogether had been agreed “in light of changes

The Defence Headquarters has described the recent agitation for the Yoruba Nation as laughable. The DHQ also raised the alarm that terrorists and their sympathisers were planning to blackmail the military following its onslaught on the insurgents. Some agitators of the Yoruba Nation had on Saturday invaded the Oyo State secretariat dressed in military camouflage

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, wanted for offences relating to economic and financial crimes. This was contained in a notice posted on the commission’s official Facebook page on Thursday. “Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, is wanted by the EFCC for offences relating to

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has approved the appointment of Major Maikano Adamu (retd.) as the Acting commandant of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards. In a statement on Thursday, the state Commissioner for Information, Munnir Haidara, said the appointment was with immediate effect. “The appointment of the acting CPG Commandant is a result

A mobile court in Oshodi has sentenced a man simply identified as Paul to nine months imprisonment for not using a pedestrian bridge and assaulting personnel of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps. The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Thursday. Wahab

The Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has bemoaned the obstruction of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from performing its constitutional duties. According to him, the EFCC has the power to invite anyone in the course of its investigation. His statement is coming after the EFCC’s effort

The National Assembly has again postponed the resumption of plenary to April 30, to allow for the full renovation of both main chambers. The Senate and House of Representatives had shifted resumption after its Easter and Eid recess to April 23, but on Thursday, it announced a rescheduling of its plenary resumption. The notice of

The candidate of the Labour Party in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has been invited by the state police command over alleged security breaches, involving shootings at the University of Benin last Friday. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, on Thursday in Benin City said the invitation was served on

An investigation has claimed that a German-American billionaire, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn peak six years ago, is suspected to be residing in Moscow with a Russian mistress. In April 2018, Karl-Erivan Haub, a retail tycoon, went missing while training for a ski mountaineering race in Zermatt, Switzerland. The billionaire was

At an academic conference some years ago, two students walked up to me after learning I was a Nigerian. They had based their academic projects on popular cross-dresser Idris Okunenye (Bobrisky) and they wanted to know a few things about her. Bobrisky was still a straw weight then but was not ignorable. One of them

The Kogi State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Senator Dino Melaye, engaged in a altercation with former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, at the PDP North Central Zone leadership meeting on Wednesday. In a post on his X handle on Thursday, Melaye stated that the confrontation stemmed from

The ruling All Progressives Congress has appointed Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, and former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, to superintend the Ondo governorship primary election slated for Saturday, The PUNCH gathered. Ododo will head the seven-man Primary Election Committee set up to conduct the shadow poll while Omo-Agege will serve as the Secretary. Other

The Nasarawa State Ministry of Health has said that no fewer than 7,345 residents of the state got infected with the deadly tuberculosis disease in 2023. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Gaza Gwamna, disclosed this to newsmen in Lafia, the state capital, on Thursday at a press conference to commemorate the 2024 World Tuberculosis