As the week comes to a close, PUNCH Online recaps the biggest headlines that dominated the news landscape. The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered all banks operating in the country to start charging a cybersecurity levy on transactions. The Federal Government directed Point-of-Sale operators to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission. Lagos carried out…
Gunmen, on Friday night, killed two policemen attached to the Enugu State Police Command. The policemen attached to the Ogui Divisional Headquarters were said to be conducting a stop-and-search along Presidential Road, Enugu when they suddenly came under attack by armed men. The incident was said to have happened around 9.30pm. While reacting to…
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, has attributed the Thursday abduction of students of Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, in the state to what he described as internal sabotage. He said preliminary investigation revealed that all the CCTV camera installed in the school were switched off during the attack. He, however, vowed to secure…
A Nigerian journalist, Ibraheem Mohammed, has been released from prison following interventions by the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute. According to a statement signed by IPI’s Legal Adviser and Chairman of the Advocacy Committee, Tobi Soniyi, Mohammed was released on Friday after a Nasarawa High Court sitting in Doma granted him bail,…
The Anambra State Commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Anthony Ifeanya, has said the ministry has concluded arrangements to embark on aggressive monitoring of petrol filling stations across the state. Ifeanya said the state government is embarking on the exercise with a view to apprehending any filling station found to have tampered with their meters….
Two herders and over one hundred cows have been reportedly killed in what appeared to be a reprisal attack in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau state A community leader in Kwal district where the attack occurred, Ezekiel Bini, told The PUNCH in Jos on Saturday that before the incident happened on Wednesday, a young…
The Nigeria Immigration Service said it is deploying e-border solutions in Kebbi, a northwestern state bordering Niger Republic. This followed a two-day working visit to Kebbi State by the Service’s Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap, for an on-the-spot assessment of the nation’s borders. A statement signed Saturday by the Service Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Udo, quoted Nandap,…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Adamawa/Taraba Area Command, has said it intercepted 12,435 litres of Premium Motor Spirit worth N10.8m being illegally exported to Cameroon. In a statement on Saturday, the command said that the PMS was intercepted within two weeks. The command added in the statement said the product was packed in 491 jerrycans, 25…
Amnesty International has condemned the Nigerian authorities for their failure to bring the murderers of Deborah Samuel to justice. Deborah, a Christian and a second-year student of Home Economics at Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was lynched by Islamic extremists and subsequently set ablaze on May 12, 2022. This occurred after she had advised…
The Zamfara State Government has insisted it will not bend to pressures to negotiate with bandits in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Manir Haidara, who reiterated the government’s stand, confirmed the kidnapping of farmers and the killing of a respected Islamic cleric to Sunday PUNCH in a telephone interview. Haidara disclosed that efforts were…
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has placed a N10m bounty on the heads of the killers of two policemen in the state on Friday. Mbah vowed that his administration would go after the culprits with every resource at its disposal to bring the killers to book. He made the vow while briefing reporters after…
A human rights group, Centre for Human and Socio-Economic Rights, has urged the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun to intervene in the obaship tussle gripping Iperu Remo, his hometown in Ikenne Local Government area of the state. The Chairman of the local government, Segun Ogunleye, is alleged to be at the centre of the tussle…
