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The World Health Organisation has called for increased taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce deaths from drinking alcohol and unhealthy behaviours. The WHO, in a press statement on Tuesday, said globally 2.6 million people die from drinking alcohol every year and over eight million from an unhealthy diet. It said imposing taxes on

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition has ordered the arrest of the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso; Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein; and 17 others, over failure to appear before it for questioning on their functions. The motion for the arrest was moved on Tuesday by Fred Agbedi of

International and local travels of President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and their aides in 2024 may gulp N15.961bn The figure is contained in the 2024 Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly. The PUNCH reports that the nation’s N27.5tn budget christened, ‘Budget of Renewed Hope,’ was submitted to a joint sitting of the

Ahead of next year’s negotiation of a new minimum wage for workers in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress has said only an amount reflective of the current economic realities will be accepted. The NLC President,  Mr Joe Ajaero, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 19th edition of the NLC 2023 Harmattan School.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, has said President Bola Tinubu will not weaponise religion and ethnicity, saying this can seen from his appointment spread across religions and ethnic divides. Akume also said Nigeria should rest assured that Tinubu would deliver on his Renewed Hope agenda. The SGF spoke on Tuesday

In its continuous efforts to rid the state of the menace of street trading, operatives of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps and the Kick Against Indiscipline, on Tuesday, dislodged street traders around Aunty Kenny in the Agric area of Ikorodu. A statement by the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources said the

•One family loses 32 members, culprits must be punished, survivors, ACF, JNI tell military •Army chief begs victims, says soldiers mistook villagers for bandits, Tinubu, Atiku mourn Survivors of the accidental bombing of Tudun Biri in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Tuesday said they were bombed twice by the Nigerian Army.

Following the debates sparked by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, recently on who founded Lagos, SAMUEL BOLAJI writes on oldest history books attributing the founding of Lagos to the Yoruba and not Benin. The debate over who founded Lagos has been around for some time, with different commentators giving varying views on the

A Kwara State Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin has ordered the remand of an Ibadan-based herbalist, Sultan Ojuwoni, also known as Atakoro, and one Olaitan Ibrahim Olalekan at the Federal Correctional Service Centre, Oke-Kura, Ilorin till January 17, 2024. The state Police Command arraigned Atakoro and Olalekan before the court for the alleged rape and

Pandemonium ensued on Tuesday when hoodlums attacked officials of a task team belonging to the Lagos State Government during the road clearance exercise to open up the clogged Tincan Port access roads. Our correspondent learnt that the task team which comprised the Lagos State Truck and Cargo Operators Committee, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Nigeria

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, on Tuesday, said the state has been grounded economically by an alleged cabal, which hijacked the government of ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. It, therefore, demanded that Akeredolu should transmit power to his deputy, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, for governance to save the state from being driven into the

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Tuesday, raised the alarm that most departments in Nigeria’s public universities were short-staffed due to the resignation of lecturers in search of greener pastures. The academic body further lamented that the establishment of more universities had not solved admission problems. It called on the government to improve the

Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by $1.6bn to $32.97bn since the Central Bank of Nigeria tried to unify the country’s foreign exchange rates. On June 14, the apex bank asked Deposit Money Banks to remove the rate cap on the naira at the official Investors and Exporters’ Window of the foreign exchange market to

The Federal Government has cleared 4,081 civil servants out of a total of 17,000 originally delisted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. The civil servants have now been re-enrolled into the payroll of the Federal Government. The fate of the other civil servants is yet to be known. This development, which was made

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of four operatives involved in the alleged abduction of a hotel worker in Port Harcourt and consequently demanded a ransom to release him. The hotel worker simply identified as Darlington was reportedly arrested on his way to work at about 8pm last Friday when the police

No fewer than 9, 000 civil servants who sat the 2022 Federal Civil Service Promotion examinations failed. This is according to a list obtained by The PUNCH from the Federal Civil Service Commission. The PUNCH reports that no fewer than 13,000 civil servants sat the 2022 examination, which held in about 69 Computer Based Test

The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye, has budgeted N150m to empower the people of the ancient town in Oyo State. This is part of activities lined up for the presentation of staff to the monarch by the Governor of Oyo State. The Chairman of Central Planning Committee for the event, Prof. Adesola Adepoju,  disclosed

On Sunday night, troops of the Nigerian Army mistakenly bombed the Tudun Biri community in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. GODWIN ISENYO writes on the experiences of the survivors and the apologies tendered by the Army The Tudun Biri community in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State dreads bandits and

The President of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Prince Oluyemisi Adeaga, has said that the Diphtheria outbreak is currently affecting 32 out of 36 states in Nigeria. Adetayo stated that the outbreak was officially declared on January 20, 2023, and confirmed cases at the time stood at 111, with 22 recorded deaths and a case

12-year-old Daniel Nkanu has been announced as the winner of the 2023 edition of the MTN mPulse Spelling Bee competition. Daniel, a student of Intimacy with Christ International, Nasarawa, won the competition after spelling eight words correctly in a spell-off against 11-year-old Oluwadamilola Adeolu in the finale, which was held at the MTN Head Office

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday evening returned to Abuja from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, where he had been attending the COP28 Climate Summit. He arrived at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on return, at about 6:45pm Nigerian time; ending his six-day trip to the Arab nation. Tinubu who did

The Chairman of ThisDay/Arise Media Group, Mr Nduka Obaigbena will receive the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 32nd edition of the annual Diamond Awards for Media Excellence on Sunday in Lagos. Two other senior journalists, a former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian Newspapers Ltd, Emeka Izeze, and a former Managing Director and

THE disorderly Lagos traffic is back in the news with the recent release of two new reports. While the Global Traffic Congestion Rankings 2023 emphatically pronounced Lagos city as host to the worst road traffic worldwide, the Danne Institute of Research, a non-profit, said the chaos cost N4 trillion in economic losses annually. This is

Fast-rising Nigerian boxer Adeyemi Opeyemi trained with unbeaten Rilwan Oladosu at the Caicedo Sports Training Center in Miami, Florida as he prepared for his boxing debut in the United States of America, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The 23-year-old Opeyemi, who holds a record of nine wins in 10 fights, and one draw will be eager

President of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation, Musa Nimrod, has commended the Nigeria Women U-17 team following their victory over Cameroon at the ongoing  2023 girl’s U-17 African Nations Volleyball Championship in Abuja. Nigeria defeated Cameroon 3-1 (19-25, 25-20, 25-13, 25-22) in their second match of the championship in a match played at the indoor sports