Vladimir Putin won a landslide victory in Russia’s presidential election, receiving 76.67 percent of the vote, the central election commission said on Monday. Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ever performance in Sunday’s polls, electoral officials said with 99.8 percent of ballots counted. Details soon… AFP
Alhaji Abdullahi Samaari (A patron of the Kwara State chapter of the Buhari/Osinbajo 2019 Re-Election Organisation) I think it is. It is for the greater good of Nigerians. The sequence of elections has since been announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission which is constitutionally empowered to do so. So, if there is going to […]
Festus Abu The Super Eagles will begin their camping in Wroclaw on Monday ahead of their friendly against Poland on Friday. Three-time African champions Nigeria will travel to London after the encounter to take on Serbia on May 27. Already, Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has invited 28 players for both encounters to prepare the Eagles […]
Jose Ramirez claimed the vacant World Boxing council super lightweight world title on Saturday with a 12-round unanimous decision over fellow American Amir Imam, AFP reports. Ramirez, a 2012 Olympian, remained unbeaten, taking his record to 22-0 with 16 wins inside the distance as he captured the title vacated by Terence Crawford when he moved […]
John Ameh and Leke Baiyewu The Senate and the House of Representatives have asked ministers and heads of agencies to heed President Muhammadu Buhari’s sack warning by appearing for the defence of the 2018 budget this week. The PUNCH’s investigations showed that after Thursday’s late-night meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, the Senate President, […]
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The World Bank has commenced preparations for the $500m Nigerian Electricity Distribution Improvement Project. It was learnt that the bank had conducted a fact-finding mission in the distribution sub-sector of the industry in order to ascertain how it could help boost service delivery by the power distributors. Documents made available to our […]
THE world’s greatest athlete Usain Bolt is set for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, NEWS.com.au reports. The retired Jamaican sprint superstar will attend the Games track finals in the second week of April as a celebrity spectator. The flamboyant eight-time Olympic champion will become arguably the Coast Games’ biggest drawcard, overshadowing royalty […]
TomTom and the Nigeria Football Federation has signed a three-year contract that confers TomTom as the Official Candy of the Super Eagles. At a joint media parley to announce the partnership and official signing of the contract, the Managing Director of Cadbury Nigeria Plc. Mr. Amir Shamsi said, “we are delighted to announce TomTom as […]
Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the Asaba 2018 Africa Senior Athletics Championships Solomon Ogba has named the Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick as the head of the Special Duties Sub-Committee for the event. Ogba, in a statement by the head of the Media and Publicity Sub-Committee Olukayode Thomas, said the Delta State […]
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo believes “no one will be compared” to him because there are not many who can rival his “talent” or “dedication”, Goal reports. Ronaldo came through the ranks at Sporting CP before joining Manchester United in 2003, developing into one of the world’s best under Alex Ferguson. He claimed his first […]
Idris Adesina Plateau United on Sunday crashed out of the CAF Champions League despite beating Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia 1-0 in Kano. The Tunisians went through 4-3 on aggregate having won the first game in Sousse 4-2. The country’s other representatives in the competition MFM of Lagos crashed out of the competition on Saturday […]
Substitute Timo Werner netted a second-half winner as RB Leipzig came from behind to shock Bayern Munich 2-1 on Sunday as the Bundesliga leaders suffered a first defeat since November, a stretch of 19 matches in all competitions, AFP reports. It was an historic night for sixth-placed Leipzig who have now beaten Bayern for the […]
Nike Popoola Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc is set to host the 6th Sovereign Trust Open Golf Tournament in conjunction with Ibadan Golf Club in Ibadan from March 23 to 25. Spokesperson for the organisation Segun Bankole said in a statement the tournament is the company’s contribution to the development of the game. He said, “Standard […]
Tony Okafor, Awka A mother of two unemployed graduates, whose name was given as Uzoaku, on Saturday hanged herself in Mgbakwu, in the Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the 66-year-old woman had complained to some people that she was angry that her two children, who graduated some years […]
• Cameraman drowns after shooting movie Afeez Hanafi The families of a candidate of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Awka, Anambra State, John Ezekwe, and a cameraman in Lagos, Victor, have been thrown into mourning after they drowned on Saturday. While Ezekwe drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel on Old INEC Road, […]
Chukwudi Akasike Lucky Joseph, who was allegedly tortured by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Rivers State Police Command, has asked for legal assistance, saying he wanted to claim damages for the injuries inflicted on him by the operatives. Joseph was shown in a video, which has already gone viral, being beaten after he was […]
Samson Folarin Two officials of an outsourcing company, Sambhu Nigeria Limited, have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defrauding the firm of about N8m. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects – Daniel Odeh and Jane Ejeh– were arrested by the police from the Sango Ota division before they were transferred to […]
Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta Eighteen persons reportedly died on Sunday in a multiple accident at the Alapako/Ogunmakin, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The victims were travelling to Lagos from Ibadan, Oyo State, in a Mazda commercial bus, with the number plate, KJA 278 DS, when the vehicle had a head-on collision with a Ford […]
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a woman, Mrs. Prisca David, for allegedly killing her stepdaughter, Veronica David. The killing, which happened on Friday at Ogwuaga-Abba, in the Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State, reportedly threw the community into mourning. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim’s father, Mr. […]
John Ameh and Leke Baiyewu The Senate and the House of Representatives have asked ministers and heads of agencies to heed President Muhammadu Buhari’s sack warning by appearing for the defence of the 2018 budget this week. The PUNCH’s investigations showed that after Thursday’s late-night meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, the Senate President, […]
Olalekan Adetayo and Ifeanyi Onuba Indications emerged on Sunday that President Muhamamdu Buhari cancelled his scheduled trip to Kigali, Rwanda, because enough consultation was not made before the Federal Executive Council approved the signing of the framework agreement for establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area. However, experts have cautioned the government against rushing to […]
•‘CCTV captured CBT centre owners collecting bribes from candidates’ Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it will release no fewer than 1.3 million results of candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday (today) after they had gone through security checks and found to be without […]
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A political party, the Action Peoples Party, has applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to be joined as a defendant in the suit filed by the Accord Party to challenge the constitutionality of the ongoing amendment to the Electoral Act by the National Assembly. The Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 […]
Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding is set to build a mausoleum for the iconic thespian, the late Chief Duro Ladipo, and rehabilitate his Mbari Mbayo Club with a view to turning it into a tourist centre. The Chairman of the CBCIU, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said the rehabilitation of the […]
John Alechenu and Friday Olokor The All Progressives Congress has appealed to Nigerians to support the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in its efforts to solve the nation’s security challenges. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. He […]