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The school feeding rogramme proposed by the Federal Government should be done without any financial contribution from the states, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose said yesterday. He said it was wrong for the All Progressives […]

Twenty-three years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the family of the acclaimed winner, Chief MKO Abiola,  has asked the Federal Government to de-annul the election, declare him the winner and […]

The House of Representatives yesterday rejected an agreement reached between the Federal Government and MTN that the telecoms giant should pay a reduced fine of N330 billion ($1.7bn) as against the N1.04 trillion ($5.2bn) originally […]

BARELY three weeks after, Jafaru Sougie, the man who allegedly murdered his wife, Rose, in Oshodi, a Lagos suburb, is dead. The 48-year-old man died on Friday morning at the Police Hospital, Ikeja, where he […]

The gale of job losses being witnessed in the country due to the current economic hardship has caught up with Ecobank Nigeria, which has sacked over 1,040 of its employees. The PUNCH reported on Tuesday […]

Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday granted bail to detained Azibaola Robert, described as cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan. The judge granted Robert bail while ruling […]

The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to a gunman in the December San Bernardino shootings, despite a U.S. government policy of disclosing technology security flaws […]

Early last week, there was a mild drama at the resumed sitting of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to probe the clash between the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as the […]

It’s not just your imagination. If you’ve felt like you’re running out of options on Netflix faster than expected, you’re not imagining things.

We, the masses know our friends; we voted for Buhari, a miracle worker, not a magician. The road to miracles is laid with thorns, but it endures, while magic is instantaneous, but ephemeral. Rebuilding a […]

The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by ex-beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, challenging a Lagos High Court judgment which sentenced her to serve five years in prison for the death of […]

A monthly poll tracking the performance of governments at all levels in Nigeria, and providing feedback from the public to their elected officials, has recorded President Muhammadu Buhari’s first major approval rating slide. The February […]

    Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote group, is now richer than Donald Trump, Republican front runner; Roman Abramovich, owner of Chealsea football club and Oprah Winfrey, the richest black woman, put together.

Former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has congratulated the former president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, as he turns 91  thursday. Jonathan, who made this known in a congratulatory message sent to the sage yesterday, described Shagari as […]

Osun State Government has sealed off Globacom Communication office in Osogbo and its four base stations in the state over unpaid tax amounting to N532million. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the State […]

About 15 years ago, Niger’s main university had one mosque and students mingled freely. Now, there are at least 12 places of worship and male and female students sit in separate canteens for meals. “If […]

South Africa will probably return to being a net importer of peanuts as the worst drought in living memory cuts the country’s crop to the smallest on record. The nation may need to bring in […]