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  • 5-year-old Pupil Drowns During Swimming Lesson Organized by School in Lagos, Distraught Father Reacts

    A 5-year-old pupil of the Redeemers Nursery and Primary School, Ogba, Lagos State, Chidera Eze, has reportedly drowned during a swimming lesson organised by the school in the Ikeja area of the state. Report has it that, teachers and caregivers of the school took Chidera and other pupils for the swimming lesson at the Ivory…

  • ASUU Strike: NANS, NAUS Threaten To Paralyze Activities at International Airports

    The National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) in collaboration with its counterpart in struggle, the National Association of University Students, NAUS, have threatened to ground activities at International Airports nationwide in continuation of its protests to end the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). NANS in a statement by its Southwest…

  • Why I Dumped APC For NNPP, Former Kano Governor, Shekarau

    Former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau on Wednesday gave reasons why he dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the seeming third force party , the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). Speaking at a press conference held at his residence in Kano, Shekarau stressed that he and his supporters exhausted every option to…

  • Why Court Rejects Nnamdi Kanu’s Bail Application

    Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to admit the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to bail. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 and jumped the bail, the court must first determine the real reason he jumped the bail before…

  • No Error In Scoring of UTME Candidates- JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board warned the public especially candidates of the last UTME to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were making false claims…

  • EFCC Arrests, Detains Former Speaker of House of Representatives

    Premium Times The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested and detained a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. Mrs Etteh, who was Speaker between June 6, 2007, and 30 October 30, 2007, was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday by operatives of the Special Duty Unit…

  • ASUU Strike: Students Threaten To Stop Osun Guber Election

    Punch Newspaper Students protesting the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Ile-Ife, Osun State on Tuesday threatened to stop the July 16 governorship poll in the state if schools were not reopened. The students, who converged under aegis of the Great Ife Concerned Students in collaboration with the Fund Education…

  • Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq Mourns Kano Explosion Casualties, Mobilizes For Evacuation of Trapped Victims

    The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has expressed shock at the gas explosion which left many people dead at Aba Road in Sabon Gari area of Kano state. The National Emergency Management Agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, announced that a building also collapsed as a result…

  • NYSC Gets New DG, General Muhammed Fada

    President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Fada as the new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps. Fada, from Yobe State, will take over from Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim who spent two tenures.A source made this known to Punch correspondent on Tuesday. “The Federal Government has appointed a new Director-General for…

  • Troops Arrest Prominent Radical Boko Haram Preacher

    Troop’s of Operation Hadin Kai prosecuting the war against insurgency have arrested a prominent radical preacher and leader of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād (JAS), Boko Haram terrorists group, Alhaji Ari-Difinoma. Sources said Ari-Difinoma, surrendered to troop’s 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama on Sunday, May 16, 2022. Ari-Difinoma was said to have been forced…