Новости за 02.05.2023

As Nigeria joins the rest of the globe on Wednesday to mark the World Press Freedom Day, PUNCH Media Foundation will host a Twitter Space to celebrate journalists and media workers and to shape opinions for a free and safer space for the press to thrive. First marked on May 3, 1993, the World Press

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday failed to present witnesses in an alleged fraud case of $1.3 million dollars involving a Kano-based businessman and an All Progressive Congress Kano Central Senatorial District candidate, Abdulkarim Abdussalam Zaura. When the case resumed at the Kano Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Muhammad Nasir Yunus,

The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday said it had arrested a man, Rafiu Akinwale, over the death of one Prince Adesoji Adesida. Akinwale, also known as ‘Slow’, who is said to be a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress, allegedly pushed Adesida while the latter was trying to settle a fight between the suspect

The House of Representatives has asked the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to stop its plan to disburse the sum of $700m from the Cabotage Vessel Finance Fund. At the plenary on Tuesday, members of the resolved to direct the Committee on Local Content to “immediately commence investigations of the Cabotage Vessel Finance Fund

The recently-inaugurated Committee on the Status of Medical Education in Nigerian Universities has met with the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, to present to him an interim report on their assigned task. This is as the NUC reiterated its stance on the need for medical doctors in the academics to acquire Master’s

The Enugu State Government on Tuesday formally handed over the state diagnostic centre to the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, managers of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund. The State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, performed the handover during NSIA’s official launch of two of its flagship companies, the NSIA Advanced Medical Service Ltd (“MedServe”) and Equilease Systems Limited (“Equilease”),

After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems in across the world have started showing the first major signs of health system recovery, the World Health Organisation said in its report. The interim report on the “Fourth round of the global pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic: November

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party is presently meeting with members-elect of the House of Representatives on its platform, ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly. The Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Umar Damagum, and some members of the NWC were at the meeting holding at Transcorp Hilton in

…Appoints Minister of Power on governing council The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, in Abuja, approved the partial exclusion of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated from the Treasury Single Account. Buhari also granted the request of the Board of MOFI to charge management and transaction fees; and the inclusion of the Minister

Israeli strikes on north Syria’s Aleppo province overnight killed four Syrian officers and three Iran-backed fighters, putting the area’s international airport out of service, a war monitor reported Tuesday. During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on its territory, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah

The suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Adamawa State, Hudu-Yunusa Ari, has said he never regretted announcing Aisha Binani Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state. Speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday, Ari maintained that he acted

The Obatedo community in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State has cried out to the state government to intervene in the pollution of their river by a company waste being allegedly dumped into the river called Oluwa River.   To this end, the community has sent a petition to the Ondo State Environmental Protection

The former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has disclosed that Nigeria is at a loss for not having the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, as the country’s President. Osinbajo disclosed this at a virtual book launch titled, “Osinbajo Strides: Defining Moments of an Innovative Leader,” on Monday. The VP was one of the aspirants of

A coalition of members-elect of the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressives Congress and opposition parties has announced its decision to back any leadership zoning plan released by the ruling party for the coming 10th National Assembly. The leadership of the coalition, under the auspices of the ‘Joint Task – 10th

The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was entering his vehicle to go to work. The Uganda police, while sharing preliminary information about the killing of the minister, said the deceased was gunned

The suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu-Yunusa Ari, and other suspects have been arrested and are now in police custody and are currently being interrogated at the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, over alleged impropriety during the April 15 supplementary governorship poll in the state. The development was confirmed by the Force Public Relations

The Gombe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has expelled Senator Bulus Amos and a member representing Yamaltu/Deba Federal Constituency, Yunusa Abubakar, over alleged anti-party activities during the just concluded 2023 general elections. Amos, Vice Chairman Niger Delta Committee represents Gombe South Senatorial District of Gombe State. Recall that the Publicity Secretary of APC,

The House of Representatives on Tuesday wrote the United Kingdom government to interfere in the sentencing of the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance raised by a member, Toby Okechukwu, during the plenary session of the House. The

A nurse accused of murdering seven babies at the United Kingdom hospital where she worked denied on Tuesday ever trying to harm them, as she gave evidence at her trial. Lucy Letby, 33, who is also accused of attempting to kill another 10 babies in the neo-natal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest

Portuguese authorities seized 4.2 tonnes of cocaine packed among bananas on a cargo ship destined for several European countries, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. The cocaine entered Portuguese territory on board an Italian-flagged ship in the port of Setubal, located 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Lisbon. The “highly pure” cocaine has an estimated

The organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Tuesday directed workers in Imo State to withdraw their services across the state from Tuesday night. The PUNCH reports that the two unions said the decision followed the disruption of Monday’s Workers’ Day celebration supposedly by agents of the state government. In

The Delta State Police Command has neutralised one suspected kidnapper and arrested three others with severe gunshot injuries in Ughelli, Warri. The police command made this known in a statement signed by the spokesperson for the command, Bright Edafe, shared on their Twitter page on Tuesday. The police command also disclosed that its operatives recovered

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has denied an allegation against its Chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, that she prevented some Nigerians, especially of the South-East extraction, from boarding buses hired by the Federal Government to evacuate stranded Nigerians from the war-torn Khartoum in Sudan. A statement signed by NiDCOM spokesperson, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Tuesday, described the allegation

An unidentified man has been attacked by a mob in the Victoria Island of Lagos State for allegedly vandalising vehicles on A.J. Marinho Drive. The man was accused of stealing side mirrors from vehicles parked on the street on Tuesday, when he was caught, pursued and beaten. A security man, identified only as Ali, said

The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has been reappointed for a second term by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Her reappointment was contained in a letter written by Buhari, urging the Senate to confirm her. Dabiri-Erewa, a former Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, was