Новости за 18.11.2023

The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that seven people lost their lives when the bus they were traveling in somersaulted at Okura in Ankpa Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. The  Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Samuel Oyedeji, had earlier confirmed three persons dead but the state Police Public

The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of Labour Party has called on its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to borrow a leaf from the Liberian election by congratulating President Bola Tinubu. Liberian president-elect, Joseph Boakai, who previously served as the 29th vice president of Liberia under former President

About 70 combatants and commanders were killed in a clash between Boko Haram and its rival terrorist group, ISWAP on Saturday. Competent sources told The PUNCH that the in-fighting between the two terrorist rival groups worsened in recent times with a fresh flow of arms and combatants from the Sahel ISIS to join ISWAP in

The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the death of three passengers in an accident along the Ankpa/Ayingba Road in Kogi State. The state Sector Commander of the FRSC, Samuel Oyedeji, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday, said Naval personnel attended to the accident victims in Okura before the arrival of

Liverpool have flown the parents of Colombian star Luis Diaz over to spend Christmas in England as they recover from the ordeal of being kidnapped in their homeland. Diaz’s father was released last week after being held for 12 days by the ELN guerilla group. Luis Manuel Diaz was seized along with his wife, Cilenis

Governors from the North West geopolitical zone have appealed to the African Development Bank to incorporate their states into the next phase of its Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones programme. The appeal came during a meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, between the governors and AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, which focused on agriculture, security, and other

The Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alternative Bank on sustainable development of the state. The PUNCH reported that the bank was launched in October 2023 by Sterling Financial Holdings with the task of creating wealth for all in a sustainable way, by doing things differently and taking a

The Governor of Ogun State,  Dapo Abiodun, has described the death of a former military administrator old Ondo State (Ondo and Ekiti), Major General Ekundayo Opaleye (retd.), as a great loss to the state and Nigeria. Opaleye reportedly died of a heart attack on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. He was military governor

A picture of a pothole posted on the official X handle of the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has gone viral as netizens compare what he described as a pothole to the state of Nigerian roads. The caption read, “Following today’s announcement, this could be the last photo of a politician pointing at a

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has said his administration will spend 30 per cent of the 2024 state budget on educational sector. Mba, who stated this on Saturday, in a keynote address at the 19th convocation ceremony of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Agbani, disclosed that education remains the state’s greatest

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency collaborated with gospel saxophonist, Omotola Ekerin, on Friday to enlighten Ejigbo students about substance abuse dangers. At a sensitisation programme held in Ejigbo Stadium, NDLEA officials and the musician known as “Omotola Sax” engaged over 500 students on illicit drug risks to discourage abuse locally. NDLEA’s Titilope Ologunluyi educated

The Host Communities Producing Oil and Gas has expressed concern that two years after the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 took effect, host communities in the Niger Delta had not started receiving benefits from the three per cent of oil companies’ operational cost prescribed by the law. The National President, HOSTCOM, Benjamin Tamaramiebi, said this during

The Federal Government has commenced the release of 4,068 inmates languishing in correctional facilities across the country over the inability to pay fines. The government said  N585 m was raised by cooperate bodies as Corporate Social Responsibility for that purpose. Speaking during the flag-off of the programme on Saturday, the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo,

The leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party has rejected the decision of the Court of Appeal which  sacked Governor Kabir Yusuf as the Kano State governor. The NNPP also expressed shock  at what it described as a miscarriage of justice. Addressing journalists on Saturday in Abuja, the acting National Chairman of the party,  Abba

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has disclosed plans by the Federal Government to establish coast guards, as part of efforts to enhance security along coastlines in the country. Oyetola spoke in his Iragbiji hometown in Osun State on Saturday at the 32nd edition of the annual Iragbiji Day celebrations, where money

Stakeholders have said the about three weeks strike embarked upon by members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria may affect the budgetary process in Gombe State. A Public Financial Management Specialist Oluwatosin Oke, said the strike would rub off on the gains of timely budget preparations in the state, adding that the possibility of

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, on Saturday, said the ruling All Progressives Congress in Benue State would not allow anyone to run away with the party’s mandate again. Akume stated this at the party’s stakeholders meeting held at Government House, Makurdi. The SGF, who was represented by one of

The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has said that the outcome of the just-concluded governorship election has confirmed that only one section of the state cannot produce the governor, rather the three tribes must unite to produce the governor. The governor spoke on Saturday at a stakeholders meeting of the All Progressives Congress held

The Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Dr. Lere Oyewumi, has called for a deliberate plan to end the inability of the country to produce enough food for its people. Oyewumi spoke in Ikire on Friday at the empowerment programme he organised for the people of Osun West Senatorial District, where constituents received 500 bags

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commended a professional slackliner and balance trainer, Jan Roose, for his capture of a “perfect Lagos selfie” while working on a project between the state government and energy drinks brand, Red Bull. The governor, who noted that Roose walked “in the sky from Sterling Towers to the Onome Rig,”

A business expert, Gideon Osi, has called on the government at all levels to make entrepreneurial studies compulsory in the academic curriculum of tertiary institutions in the country. This, Osi, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Gosima Group, said would inspire undergraduates to seek to become creators and not seekers of jobs upon graduation

Ogun State is to benefit from N500 billion in financial support being packaged by the African Export-Import Bank in conjunction with Access Bank. The state is to benefit from the fund along with three other states in the country. This was disclosed in Cairo, Egypt by Governor Dapo Abiodun, while speaking at the end of

The Nigeria Customs Service has moved to strengthen collaboration with the Nigerian Navy to battle smuggling activities within the country’s territorial waters. In a statement released on Saturday via X, formerly Twitter, the NCS Comptroller General, Bashir Adeniyi, said during a Thursday visit to the Naval Dockyard in Lagos that the Navy can maintain the

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has called for more investments in the nation’s health sector, saying doing so would checkmate medical tourism, generate foreign exchange and save the naira. The Speaker stated this when he received a delegation from the First Surat Group of Companies, a Turkish conglomerate in Nigeria, in

President Bola Tinubu has called on stakeholders to join hands with the government in assisting universities in the country. The President noted that the education sector should not be left in the hands of the government alone, saying all stakeholders must develop the sector. He made the call on Saturday, during his presidential address delivered