Category: News
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Just In: APC Postpones Presidential Screening
Punch Newspaper The screening exercise for the 25 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress earlier scheduled to hold on Monday has been postponed again. This is the second time that the National Working Committee of the party will be shifting the date of the presidential screening after it failed to hold last weekend. The…
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Buhari Sends Electoral Bill to INEC, Malami for Legal Opinion
THISDAY President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the new Electoral Act Amendment Bill to the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for legal advice, THISDAY has learnt. The president’s decision not to be in a hurry to sign the bill, it was…
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How 40-year-old Woman Narrowly Escaped Lynching in Bauchi Over Alleged Blasphemy
Deborah Samuel (Illustrative Picture)
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Nigerians To Pay More For Calls To Enjoy Free Healthcare
The Federal Government has introduced a new tax on phone calls in the nation to fund free healthcare for the Vulnerable Group in Nigeria. This is despite recent moves by telecommunication companies to increase the price of their services as a result of an unfavourable operating climate. The telecom tax in the equivalent of a…
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Why Some People Develop Headaches During sex –Neurologist
Punch Healthwise A Professor of Clinical Neurology and Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Ikenna Onwuekwe, has said that people with existing headaches are often more prone to having headaches when having sexual intercourse. The health expert urged people who experience headaches during sex not to take it lightly but…
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ASUU Calls For Immediate Sack of CBN Governor
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called for the immediate sack of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, over continued depreciation of the value of naira . The union said Emefiele should be fired because he had disappointed Nigerians and plunged millions into poverty. The Vice President of ASUU,…
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Gunmen Behead Abducted Anambra Lawmaker, Okey Okoye (Graphic Video)
A member of Anambra State House of Assembly, Okey Okoye, who was abducted by gunmen has been beheaded. After beheading him, his head was reportedly displayed at a motor park in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. The incident, which happened on Saturday, created panic in the community, which had been witnessing…
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Kano Police Give Update on Tuesday Explosion Recover Harzadous Materials
The Kano State Police Command on Saturday gave update on the explosion that killed nine persons in the state on Tuesday adding that, the explosion was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device, which went off from a shop that stored toxic chemicals and other hazardous materials. The command in a statement said members of the…
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OAU Students Storm Ooni of Ife’s Program To Protest ASUU Strike
Some concerned students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, on Saturday, stormed the venue for a programme, Royal African Young Leadership Forum, an initiative founded by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The students stormed the venue in protest of the lingering strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU . The programme…
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One Confirms Dead, as Another Building Collapses in Lagos
One person has lost his life following the collapse of two-storey building on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State. Report has it that the incident happened on Saturday afternoon, The PUNCH learnt that the building was under construction before its collapse. According to an eyewitness, the building collapsed after heavy rainfall at Freeman Road,…