Ondo doctors begin strike over seven-month salary arrears

The Association of Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, has commenced  a 14-day warning strike over non-payment of seven months salaries to their new members. Members of the association, who staged a mini protest on the premises of the facility on Tuesday, vowed to ground the activities at the…

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Ondo ex-commissioner hopeful of APC gov ticket

As the primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State draws nearer, one of the frontline aspirants and immediate former Commissioner for Finance, Mr Wale Akinterinwa, has expressed confidence that he will clinch the ticket of the party at the forthcoming primary. Akinterinwa, who was at the state secretariat of the APC in Akure…

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Uganda court to rule on anti-gay law

Uganda’s Constitutional Court is due to rule, on Wednesday, on a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned as one of the toughest in the world. The legislation was adopted in May last year, triggering outrage among the LGBTQ community, rights campaigners, the United Nations and Western nations. Known as…

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DMO opens FG savings bond subscription at 18.06%

The Debt Management Office has opened subscriptions for two Federal Government’s savings bonds, each priced at N1,000 per unit at 17.06 and 18.046 per cent, respectively. It disclosed this in a statement accessed on its website by PUNCH on Wednesday. The DMO offered a two-year savings bond expected to mature on April 9, 2026, at…

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Shaibu’s impeachment panel begins sitting

The seven-man panel set up by the Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, to investigate the allegation of misconduct levelled against the state deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, began sitting on Wednesday. The panel headed by retired Justice S. A. Omonuwa, was set up by Justice Okungbowa following the resolution by the state House…

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Police comb suspected kidnappers’ hideout in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command, on Monday, combed suspected kidnappers’ hideouts and routes in the hills and bushes surrounding Apo-resettlement in Abuja. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The statement read, “The operatives of the FCT Police Command, led by the Commissioner of police, CP…

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Benue probe panel ready to quiz ex-gov Ortom

Five weeks after the inauguration of two judicial commissions of inquiry to look into the activities of ex-Governor Samuel Ortom while in office, Arewa PUNCH investigations reveal that they are now set to quiz him and his aides. Our correspondent reports that the state governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, had on February 26, 2024, inaugurated the two…

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