Новости за 09.06.2023

The University of Jos has deployed free shuttle busses to ease the movement of students and staff of the institution, following the removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government. The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Ishaya Tanko announced the development in a circular signed by the Senior Deputy Registrar of the institution, Abdullahi

The Lagos State Traffic Management Agency has refuted the claim that the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, banned officials of the agency from arresting errant motorists. The agency clarified that the governor did not say that LASTMA has to only manage traffic in the state. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Taofiq Adebayo,

The Ondo State Government has urged the parents and other stakeholders to support the recently introduced Education Endowment Levy for the development of the education sector of the state. It was gathered that the government introduced the endowment fund with every taxable adult to pay an annual levy of a sum of N1000 to enhance

Sunshine Stars coach, Edith Agoye, has fired a warning shot to eight-time champions, Enyimba, ahead of their 2022/23 Nigeria Professional Football League Super 6 playoffs match-day four meeting on Friday (today), The PUNCH  reports. Despite being the less-fancied team at the ongoing Super 6 playoffs, which will determine the ultimate winners of the league and

Organisers of the World Table Tennis Contender Lagos have tipped the younger Nigerian players participating in the competition to succeed, although they expressed their disappointment that Africa’s top table tennis player, Aruna Quadri, will not feature at the tournament. Quadri, in a post on the WTT Lagos Instagram account, announced that club engagements had prevented

The Joint Taskforce Committee on Refuse Evacuation in Kano metropolis, on Thursday, confirmed that it successfully evacuated over 400 trucks of waste within three days of operation. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Aliyu Yakubu Garo (Turakin Garo) disclosed on Thursday during the inspection and monitoring visit of evacuation of waste in

No fewer than 20 school officials, allegedly aiding and abetting examination malpractice, have been arrested by the West African Examination Council in its ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. The Council said that the arrests were made in various parts of the country. The Head, National Office of the council, Mr

The Nigeria Football Federation Thursday announced the arrival of the country’s U-20 team following their ouster from the ongoing U-20 World Cup in Argentina, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. According to the statement on the NFF Twitter handle, the players and their officials flew into Abuja on Thursday afternoon via Ethiopian Airlines. “The Nigeria U-20 team

Each Super Falcons’ player will get as much as $270,000 (N125m) if they win the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Punch Sports Extra report The least each player in the squad will get is $30,000 (N13m), that is if they crash out from the group stage. The windfall comes after world

The National Youth Council of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, has urged the President, Bola Tinubu and the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to include youths in their governments. The President of the council, Biliamin Oba made this appeal on Thursday in a statement made available to our correspondent while congratulating Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu, his deputy,

Manchester City are heavy favourites to win their first-ever Champions League as the super-rich club takes on one of Europe’s old guard in resurgent Inter Milan. Below are the battles that could define Saturday’s final in Istanbul: Erling Haaland v Francesco Acerbi Monster striker Haaland gives City a whole new dimension of attacking threat and

A United Kingdom-based film Promotions, Alexes, on Thursday, gifted a car to a popular Yoruba actress, Tobola Olayinka, popularly known as Iya Gbonkan in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The PUNCH reports that Iya Gbonkan had, in recent times, called on well-to-do in Nigeria to buy her a car as she was tired of going

Shooting Stars coach, Gbenga Ogunbote, in this interview with JOHNNY EDWARD, opens up on how the Oluyole Warriors redeemed their season after a poor start and what must be done for the Super Eagles to excel again What lessons did you learn from this season, after Shooting Stars avoided relegation? With reference to Shooting Stars,

Most residents in the Gateway Sparklight Estate area, opposite Mountain Top University, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, were unable to go out to carry out their various daily activities on Thursday after a flood took over the main road connecting them to the highway. Our correspondent, who visited the area on Thursday morning, could

The State High Courts sitting in Sokoto and Kaduna have convicted and sentenced five persons to a total of 15 years imprisonment for crimes bordering on impersonation, false pretence and other cyber crimes in separate suits filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. While making the judgment of Justice Muhammad Sifawa of the Sokoto

Nigeria international Cyriel Dessers could be heading to Glasgow Rangers as reports indicated that the Gers are closing in on the striker, who has been identified as a replacement for Alfredo Morelos. Teamtalk Thursday reported that Rangers were ‘well advanced’ in their chase for the Cremonese forward. The Ibrox giants lost the prolific Morelos on

According to Turkish outlet, Sporx, Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers have tabled an offer of £9m to sign Fenerbahce wing-back Bright Osayi-Samuel this summer. The versatile defender has also been linked with English clubs Leeds United and Bournemouth with reports claiming that Leeds United had opened talks over a move for the Nigerian. The 25-year-old began

Record holders for the most consecutive unbeaten games in the Nigeria Professional Football League, Bendel Insurance, have a mountain to climb ahead of their match-day four ties against reigning champions Rivers United in the ongoing 2022/23 NPFL Super 6 playoffs on Friday (today), as they seek to put an end to their streak of draws

For a good number of years, Dano Milk Nigeria has maintained consistency in their massive commemoration of World Milk Day on the 1st of June. As the most engaged dairy brand in Nigeria’s social media spheres, the brand never fails to wow with tailored World Milk Day celebrations that carry Nigerians along both online and

A woman identified as Onyinye Okafor was swept away by a flood that occurred as a result of a downpour recorded in the Oko community, the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday. The mother of five hailed from Etti in the Nanka community. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened on

A Delta State High Court 2 sitting at Effurun in the Uvwie Local Government Area has convicted and sentenced two persons, Theophilus Nwachukwu and Christopher Okoli, to death by hanging on for kidnapping, armed robbery and illegal possession of arms. The presiding judge, Justice R. Harriman, delivered the judgment on June 6, 2023, noting that

The Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria and Civil Defence Corps, on Thursday, said its personnel found a photographer identified as Usman Goga, hanged in his bedroom at Akula Quarters, the Babura Local Government Area of the state. The incident was said to have occurred on Wednesday. The command’s spokesman, Adamu Shehu, disclosed this in

There was pandemonium in the Ogbogoro area of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday when a man attached to a task force allegedly punched a tricycle rider identified as Esikak Esieme to death following an argument over a N200 ticket. PUNCH Metro gathered that the task force officials had stopped Esieme

Men of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested 19-year-old Auwal Abdullahi for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in a hotel. He was said to have left the victim in the hotel room for some of his friends to also take turns to rape her. They reportedly left their victim for dead at the hotel

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria on Thursday said the Court of Appeal, Lagos State Division, has dismissed an appeal brought before it by the Chairman of Global Fleet Group, Jimoh Ibrahim. It said Ibrahim was challenging the seizure of 12 of his assets by AMCON, and freezing of all his accounts over his alleged