Day: May 5, 2021

Olalekan Adetayo, John Alechenu, Godwin Isenyo, Raphael Ede,  Dennis Naku and James Abraham 5 May 2021 Kindly share this story: The Peoples Democratic Party, the Arewa Consultative Forum, the Pan- Niger Delta Forum and the Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, on Tuesday took a swipe at the Presidency over an allegation that some leaders were plotting […]

Dayo Ojerinde 5 May 2021 Kindly share this story: The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan almost put him in prison because he thought he was a threat to his second term ambition. El-Rufai, in an interview published in The Point, said although Jonathan was his very close friend from when […]

Samson Folarin, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole and Godwin Isenyo 5 May 2021 Kindly share this story:  An Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday urged government not to take the threat by the kidnappers of students of Greenfield University, Kaduna lightly. Gumi, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH, said the Central Bank of Nigeria […]

Tukur Muntari 5 May 2021 Kindly share this story: The Kano State Hisbah Board has sacked a top official of the board who allegedly slept with a married woman in a hotel room in the Sabon Gari area of Kano metropolis. Recall that earlier this this year, the official was allegedly found in a questionable […]

Okechukwu Nnodim 5 May 2021 Kindly share this story: The 2021 budget of the Federal Government contains 316 duplicated projects valued at N39.5bn, BudgIT, a civic-tech non-profit organisation in Nigeria declared on Tuesday. BudgIT said its investigations further revealed that 115 of the duplicated projects were from the Federal Ministry of Health, describing the development […]

Agency Report 4 May 2021 Kindly share this story: A Malian woman gave birth to nonuplets in Morocco on Tuesday and all nine babies are “doing well”, her government said, although Moroccan authorities had yet to confirm what would be an extremely rare case.  Mali’s government flew 25-year-old Halima Cisse, a woman from the north […]