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Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti has been honoured with a commemorative plaque in London. Earlier this year Clash noted the paucity of representative by British heritage organisations of Black history, and pointed out a few examples. […]

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq hardly grants interviews. In this rare chat with a select group of journalists, he speaks on the challenges of governing Kwara, how insecurity in North-West and ban of open-grazing in Southern Nigeria […]

THE traffic situation along the Mile-2 end of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway worsened, yesterday, as hoodlums and touts working for both the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, […]

Strong indications emerged on Sunday that the Peoples Democratic Party might no longer give preference to retired generals and other former military officers in the sharing of positions. Sources, who confided in The PUNCH, explained […]

By Jemilat Nasiru President Muhammadu Buhari says he swore by the Qur’an to leave office after his tenure ends in May 2023. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Buhari said this on […]

Nigerians have cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari over the high cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise called cooking gas, in the country, urging him to take drastic measures to crash the price of […]

Bashir Magashi, minister of defence, says the need to follow due process is responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists. There have been calls for the federal government to declare bandits as terrorists, […]

It’s a dose of uncertainties for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with the mainstream developing cold feet as the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt continued to push forward its verdict on whether […]

Despite the glitz with which President Muhammadu Buhari launched Nigeria’s digital currency, eNaira, last Monday, indications have emerged that Nigerians have not embraced the use of the currency because they were yet to be properly […]

The venerable writer and Africa’s first winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the country as being in a mess and gradually disintegrating ‘before our very eyes.’ The renowned playwright spoke, […]

The African Union said Wednesday it had suspended Sudan until civilian rule in the country is restored, saying it rejected the military takeover as an “unconstitutional” seizure of power. The continent-wide bloc said it “strongly […]

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, insisted that the country must return to the 1963 Constitution to be on the right path. It emphasised that restructuring must take place before the 2023 general elections. In […]

Telecommunication subscribers are clamouring for a two-month extension of the October 31 deadline for National Identity Number-Subscriber Identity Module data verification. The President of National Association of Telecoms Subscribers, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, highlighted the need to […]

After speculations about his health and whereabouts since his re-arrest in June, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, finally appeared in court for his re-arraignment yesterday, eliciting […]

The Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering (NATE) says it is working on completing the process of total removal of dichotomy between polytechnic and university graduates. NATE National President, Ahmad Yabagi, stated this at the […]

A gas turbine generator unit and accessories ordered by the Rivers state government have been abandoned in The Netherlands since 2012. The scandal emerged at the meeting of the state executive council, where it was […]

Nigerian youths held memorial protests in Lagos and Abuja on Wednesday, one year after security forces violently suppressed mass protests against police brutality and bad governance. Under heavy police watch, dozens of protesters rallied in […]