Published February 23, 2021 Our ReportersThere were strong indications on Monday that a disagreement among bandits in Niger State was delaying the release of 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College , Kagara , who were abducted on Wednesday .A top government source, who confided in The PUNCH , said the bandits , […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 23, 2021 Bola Bamigbola , OsogboA former Osun State House of Assembly , Minority Leader , Akinwale Akinwole , on Monday , urged the Minister of Interior , Mr . Rauf Aregbesola, to accept Senator Iyiola Omisore as a member of the All Progressives Congress.Akinwale , who left Peoples Democratic Party while serving […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 23, 2021 Chidiebube Okeoma and Gibson AchonuTHE Peoples Democratic Party on Monday accused the Imo State Governor , Hope Uzodimma , and a former governor of the state , Rochas Okorocha , of turning the state into a war zone .The PDP spokesperson in the state , Ogubundu Nwadike, in a statement on […]
Continue ReadingThe people of Idanre Community in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo state have appealed to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to avert imminent bloodshed and breakdown of law and order in the state by intervening in the deputed lands between Akure and Idanre. They said the vast area of ancestral land of Olokuta, Aponmu and Ajebambo […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 22, 2021 Chukwudi Akasike, Raphael Ede , Ogbonnaya Ikokwu , Tony Okafor and Chidiebube Okeoma THE Caretaker/ Extra -Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has extended the ongoing nationwide membership registration /revalidation exercise until March 31 , 2021 .The first phase of the exercise was earlier scheduled to end […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 22, 2021 Samson Folarin, Maiharaji Altine and Adebayo Ayinla There was controversy on Sunday over the release of 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College , Kagara , Niger State , who were abducted on Wednesday ,Earlier on Sunday , officials of the state government said the victims , who were […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 22, 2021 Olalekan Adetayo and Chima AzubuikeTHE President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd .) , on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved.According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu , the President spoke while […]
Continue ReadingPublished February 22, 2021 Daud Olatunji , AbeokutaTHE former Minister of State for Works and Chairman of Southwest Agenda 23 , Senator Dayo Adeyeye , on Sunday said, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu remains the best candidate to succeed the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd .) […]
Continue ReadingSen. Rochas Okorocha has been arrested by Imo state government for personally leading the destruction and vandalism of security vehicles and breaking into the property of Imo State government. The former Governor this afternoon led armed thugs to break into the property of the state government, destroying security vehicles and other state government properties. He […]
Continue ReadingBy Ojebisi SAMUEL A leopard they say never changes its spots, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has developed a perchance for not only showing his colors in it’s true and distasteful form but also making a mockery of every mandate given to him to push for the greater good of all.Gone are those days when they advise […]
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