Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders on Monday invaded the Federal University Wukari in Taraba State and abducted two students. The Chief Security Officer of the university, Mr. Sule Gani, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with journalists in Jalingo. Gani said a male and a female ex-students of the university who came to…
Senegal’s new President, Bassirou Faye, on Tuesday, urged “more solidarity” among African countries “in the face of security challenges” after being sworn in as the country’s youngest head of state. The PUNCH reports that President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja Tuesday for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Faye. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of…
Leaders of the Edo State All Progressives Congress held a meeting between Sunday and Monday a t the home of ex-governor Adams Oshiomhole to resolve the internal crisis that emanated from the party’s governorship primary. The meeting was attended by the APC governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa. Also in…
The Nigeria Army, 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, on Tuesday, said that it has handed over 441 pawpaw sized substance suspected to be cannabis sativa weighing 223Kg to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Ogun State Command . The acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the Brigade, Lt Mohammed Goni, stated this in a…
The Ondo State Police Command, on Tuesday, said it had not arrested anyone over the looting of a truck reportedly conveying some items suspected to be palliatives along Ondo-Akure Expressway. A truck was on Monday evening attacked by some residents of Akure, the Ondo State capital . It was gathered that the bus, which was…
The Federal Government and the International Criminal Police Organisation have commenced the process of extraditing a Binance chief, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped from detention on March 22. Security agencies had in February arrested Anjarwalla and Tigran Gambaryan, two executives of the crypto-currency firm, Binance Holdings Limited, over alleged money laundering. They were detained in ‘a…
Five years after a near similar incident led to the killing of about 11 boys brigade and girls guide squad members, another similar skirmish was timely averted by the Gombe Police Command on Easter eve as youths in a mosque pelted the brigade squad with stones and other objects, destroying their drums and inflicting injuries…
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…
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…
The pump price of Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel, has dropped from about N1,700/litre which it sold for a few weeks ago, to around N1,350/litre in some locations across the country following the sale of the commodity by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery. It was gathered on Tuesday that the $20bn worth refinery started pumping…
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…
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…
