The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has warned youths in the Okuama community and environs to shun violence and avoid being used as cannon fodders. A Tuesday statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Daniel Alabrah, noted that Diri urged the people of Igbomotoru 1 and 2 communities in the Southern…
The faction of New Nigeria People’s Party under the leadership of Major Agbo on Tuesday suspended the Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, for six months over his failure to appear before its disciplinary committee to defend an alleged Infraction on the party’s constitution. Yusuf’s suspension was announced by the National Secretary of the faction,…
Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz has disclosed that he wrote to 32 countries and spoke with dozens of foreign ministers following the major Iranian attack on Israel. He called for sanctions to be imposed on Iran’s missile programme and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a terrorist organisation. “This morning I sent…
Napoli are leaning heavily on proceeds from Victor Osimhen’s sale to shore up the team ahead of 2024/25, The Azzurri look to quickly shake off their nightmarish season that has seen them falter terribly in their Serie A title defence. The club’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, is aware that a decisive response is needed in the…
A Pro-Democracy group, ‘Kwara Must Change’, has told Arewa PUNCH that it is galvanising a political revolution in 2019 aimed at sustaining the newly installed progressive order in Kwara State come 2027. The group which disclosed that it rallied over 70 youth groups in 2018 to rescue Kwara State from the Saraki dynasty stressed that the mission…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, says the Nigerian Army has made considerable progress in stabilising the nation’s security in spite of a few obvious challenges. Lagbaja said this at the opening of the First Quarter of the Chief of Army Staff Conference 2024, on Tuesday in Abuja. He said but for…
The residents of Assakio and Ashige communities in the Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, have cried out for help from the state government following a recent heavy rainfall which collapsed the bridge linking the both communities. A peasant farmer who is a resident in the Ashige community, Musa Yahuza, told our correspondent…
The Gombe State Government has marked the last Saturday of every month as environmental sanitation across its 11 Local Government Areas. reports that the statewide monthly sanitation exercise was declared in line with Governor Muhammadu Yahaya’s bid to ensure hygiene across communities in order to mitigate communicable diseases. Disclosing this in a statement obtained by…
Indeed, these are difficult times for the associates and friends of the Maidalan Gombe, Alhaji Ahmad Shehu, following the loss of his six family members in a tragic road accident along the Gombe-Azare highway. findings reveal that a burst tyre contributed to the death of the six family members. The deceased persons were the immediate…
Abdulrasheed Bawa, the fourth Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has been conferred with the traditional title of ‘Tafidan Jega’, by the Jega Emirate Council of Kebbi State.checks show that while the former EFCC chairman was honoured with the ‘Tafidan Jega’ title, his uncle, Alhaji Ibrahim Yahaya Bawa, a former Executive Director,…
The Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources has disclosed that the removal of structures on the drainage systems is to prevent perennial flooding in the areas. The PUNCH reports that the state government had on Monday commenced the removal of contravening structures under the System 1 Drainage Channel Midstream (Odo Iya Alaro) Ojota…
The Chairman of the Isale Eko Descendants Union, Adeniji Kazeem (SAN), has sympathised with the victims of the fire incident at Dosumu Market on Lagos Island last week. A Tuesday statement notes that Kazeem made the remark on Sunday when he and members of the union visited the site of the fire incident to have…