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Mar 20, 2020

Lagos Assembly reconstitutes chairmen of standing committees ***assigns committees to removed principal officers, reassigns suspended members

As against the usual legislative norm, the Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday through a memo announced the reshuffling of chairmen of standing committees o...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: FG restricts int’l flights to Lagos, Abuja

The Federal Government on Friday announced restriction of international flights to Murtala Muhammad International Airport Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: Appeal Court fails to hear Oshiomhole’s appeal as scheduled

The Court of Appeal in Abuja failed on Friday to hear the appeal filed by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Osh...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: Rainstorm destroys over 50 houses in Ondo community

Over 50 houses have been destroyed by rainstorm at Imeruku Onigari community in Akure South local government area. Many electric poles were also felled by th...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: Court rejects suit challenging Supreme Court Justices’ appointment

A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit challenging last year’s elevation of four Justices of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. The Natio...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: OAU shut down over COVID-19

The Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife has been shut down until further notice. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarew...

Mar 20, 2020

PDP chief decries fake news about hotel

A former Senate Deputy Whip and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola (aka Alleluyah), on Thursday, dispelled...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: NYSC suspends CDS indefinitely

The National Youth Service Corps has suspended its weekly Community Development Service activities indefinitely. This is coming a few days after shutting dow...

Mar 20, 2020

240 parcels of Indian hemp intercepted in Kaduna

Mustapha Sarkin-Kebbi, Comptroller of the Nigerian Customs Service Zone “B” Federal Operation Unit, Kaduna yesterday said the unit had seized 240 parcels of Ind...

Mar 20, 2020

Three-storey building on fire in Onitsha

A section of a three-storey residential building was on Thursday gutted by fire along Moore Street in Onitsha, Anambra State. The inferno which started aroun...

Mar 20, 2020

Robbery leader to be hanged for stealing phones

An Ikeja high court has sentenced Muritala Salami to death by hanging. Justice Adenike Coker on Thursday convicted Salami, leader of a four-man robbery gang,...

Mar 20, 2020

CAN declares March 22, 29 days of prayer

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed churches in Nigeria to observe Sunday 22 and 29 March, 2020 as days of prayers against...

Mar 20, 2020

Reps to probe FMBN’s operations

The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe the operations of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN). The House mandated its Committee on...

Mar 20, 2020

NCAA suspends foreign trainings

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has taken steps to protect its workforce from the scourge of Corona Virus pandemic by suspending foreign trainings ....

Mar 20, 2020

Ondo govt orders school closure

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has rolled out measures to curb to tackle spread of corona virus in the state. This followed a suspected case of...

Mar 20, 2020

Oil price rises to $28 per barrel

Oil prices surged Thursday, rebounding from sharp losses on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump said he would get involved in the global price war between O...

Mar 20, 2020

BREAKING: Ben Murray-Bruce losses wife to cancer

A former Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Ben Murray-Bruce, has lost his wife to cancer, The PUNCH has learnt. She was 43-years-old....

Mar 20, 2020

COVID 19: Lagos Boxing Show on hold

The threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic has forced the postponement of the Lagos Monthly Boxing Show. The COVID-19 has already affected and reshaped the...

Mar 19, 2020

BREAKING: US approves chloroquine to treat coronavirus

The US has approved the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday. “We’re going...

Mar 19, 2020

Tears as Delta community reburies exhumed bodies

The 10 exhumed bodies of farmers reportedly killed by herdsmen in Uwheru Kingdom, Ughelli North council area of Delta state, were on Thursday, finally laid to r...