Новости за 14.01.2023

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has said he will continue to defend the interest of the Yoruba people and Nigeria as a whole, using his position in any little way possible. Adams said this on Saturday during his fifth anniversary as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland in Lagos. He said, “My

Several supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau State on Saturday lost their lives  following a road accident in the Mangu Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the supporters were returning to Jos after a rally in Pankshin LGA when a truck conveying them crashed in Panyam community of the

An Access Bank building located around Alogolo Police Station, Oluwaga, Ipaja area of Lagos, gutted fire on Saturday. In the videos from the incident shared on social media, the fire is seen blazing from the back of a row of Automated Teller Machines belonging to the bank. Passersby are also seen lamenting as they watch

Polaris Bank Plc on Saturday reacted to the judgement of an Ondo State High Court, ordering the Central Bank of Nigeria to set aside a contentious sum of N2bn. In a statement, the lender said it had yet to be served a copy of the judgment. The Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, the

A new Artificial Intelligence tool, ChatGPT, has raised concerns globally over its impact on education with its ability to produce high-quality essays with minimal human input. ChatGPT is the latest chatbot from OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, but has only been publicly available since November. It also generates text

A former member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Udughele, who was kidnapped on Monday in Ubeaja, has regained his freedom. Udugele was on his way to Benin when he was kidnapped by gunmen and taken into the bush for the purpose of collecting ransom. However, the spokesperson for the state Police Command,

Brentford on Saturday moved up to eighth place on the Premier League table after they beat Bournemouth 2-0 at their home, the Gtech Community Stadium. Forward Ivan Toney scored a penalty in the 39th minute with a right footed shot to the top right corner, following a foul by Bournemouth’s Marcos Senesi in the penalty

The presidential candidate of Labour, Peter Obi, will on Monday honour the invitation to speak extensively about his economic blueprint at Chatham House in London, United Kingdom. This was revealed in the statement issued by the spokesman of his presidential campaign council, Dr Yunusa Tanko, on Saturday. Tanko noted that Obi accepted the invitation of

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said generating solar energy in the northern part of Nigeria and other products like palm oil from the South can help to diversify Nigeria’s economy. Sowore, while replying to questions on the distribution of resources on NTA, said technology had taken over across the

The North-East Youths and Stakeholders Forum of the All Progressive Congress has knocked the spokesman of the APC campaign council, Festus Keyamo, for alleging that its decision to withdraw support for the party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, was a subtle blackmail. The group’s threat to dump Shettima over the gale of defection that

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has called on the political class to allow the judiciary to carry out its constitutional functions, saying society is dynamic. He gave the admonition while speaking during the book presentation/reception that concluded week-long activities marking the retirement of the Bayelsa State Chief Judge, Justice Kate Abiri, in Yenagoa on Friday. Jonathan

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, on Friday night held a closed-door meeting with former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Adebayo, who was accompanied by the leaders of the party, met Obasanjo at his penthouse residence in the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta. Adebayo also held separate meetings with

The Kano State Police Command headquarters at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government Area, was gutted by fire on Saturday, with many offices and files razed. The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command. It was gathered that the

The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention since 2021. Soludo made the demand in Awka, the state capital, during the campaign kick-off of the All Progressives Grand Alliance on Saturday. He

With just over a month to the February 25, general elections in the country, The Rotimi Victor Rhodes-Vivour Youth Empowerment Foundation, a  Civil Society Organisation based in Lagos, is seriously mobilizing Youths, Market Men, Women and Citizens to show interest, participate in the elections and ensure good governance in their overall interest. Addressing participants at

There was tension in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State on Friday as gunmen killed two members of the vigilante group in the community. The PUNCH gathered that the incident which happened on Thursday night led to the blockage and burning of tyres along the major streets at Amukpe by angry youths in

…burn house Some unknown gunmen have reportedly killed the uncle (name yet to be known) of the spokesperson for the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Ugochinyere. According to Ugochinyere in a seemingly distressed tweet on Twitter Saturday afternoon, the unknown persons are also setting a house ablaze, suspected to be his residence. “We need

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has reacted to Saturday PUNCH‘s review of security breaches; kidnappings and killings in the nation’s capital city in the year 2022. On January 7, 2023, Saturday PUNCH reported that over 69 persons were killed and 152 abducted during 194 attacks carried out by bandits and other criminals in the

Manchester United beat their Manchester rival, City 2-1 following a fierce game at Old Trafford stadium. Marcus Rashford’s strike in the 82nd minute gave United the late lead to triumph over their arch-rival. Manchester City were the first to score after substitute Grealish scored to give the away team the early lead, and then Bruno

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a couple, Busola Oyediran and her partner, Akebiara Emmanuel, for allegedly torturing her two children in the Egbeda/Idimu area of the state. The PUNCH gathered that neighbours of the couple who saw them subjecting the minors to torture resulting in the victims sustaining injuries on

The Lagos State Police Command has said that a woman, Fortune Obhafuoso, who claimed that a policeman allegedly connived with some yet-to-be-identified persons to pay her N185,000 after collecting her newborn against her will, actually planned to sell the baby for N3million. In an earlier PUNCH report, Obhafuoso, 35, was embittered as she gave an

The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to urgently convene a meeting with the service chiefs to address security concerns. Situation Room, in a statement signed by its Convener, Ene Obi, on Friday, while commending the extension of the collection of permanent voter cards, however, expressed

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday condemned the destruction of campaign billboards mounted by the Peoples Democratic Party in parts of Gboko. Some hoodlums had on Friday pulled down campaign billboards of Ortom that were planted in strategic places in Gboko town. Some of the billboards destroyed had no pictures of the presidential candidate

The Kwara State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party and its All Progressives Congress counterpart have engaged each other on altercations concerning the inauguration of projects in the state. Although PDP has been loud in its criticism that the state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, had not executed tangible projects in over three years of his administration,

Music streaming platform, Spotify, suffered a brief outage in the United States Friday night that left several users without access to the live music streaming platform. The platform is now back online. Several Spotify users reported the sudden stoppage of streaming, as some said they logged out and couldn’t log in again. “Everything’s looking much