The Grundnorm

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has kicked against the initiation of new bills for the creation of new universities in Nigeria. ASUU wondered why the government would push for the creation of new universities while ignoring the existing ones currently in dilapidated states.

Sixty-six years old Willie Obiano spent his first night as former Governor of Anambra State in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, The PUNCH can confirm.

THE Debt Management Office on Thursday said Nigeria’s total public debt stock increased to N39.56tn in 2021 from N32.92tn in 2020. The Director-General, DMO, Patience Oniha, said this at a media briefing in Abuja.

The cloud of uncertainty over the zoning of the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has not fizzled out. Two chieftains from the North – Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal – have intensified consultations with stakeholders on their presidential ambition.

To douse simmering tension in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Caretaker Chairman Mai Mala Buni met with five governors yesterday on his return from Dubai where he went for medical checkup and in London where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested immediate past Anambra Governor Willie Obiano at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

The US Attorney’s Office at the Central District of California on Thursday described as false, reports (not by The PUNCH), that alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, committed over $400,000 fraud while in an American prison.

The Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, on Thursday, told members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Eastern Security Network, and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, that Igboland cannot achieve desired development by violence and killings.

Ebelechukwu, wife of former Governor Willie Obiano and wife of late Ikemba Nnewi, Bianca Ojukwu engaged in a free-for- all at the inauguration of Prof Chukwuma Soludo as Anambra Governor on Thursday.

The Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Mai Mala Buni on Thursday met with the Sani Bello-led committee who stood in while he was on medical vacation.

A few hours after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, commenced sales of nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2023 general elections, a group, the North East Business Forum, has obtained the forms for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

A former Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said he is the most qualified aspirant to become the next President of Nigeria. Tinubu also took a swipe at other presidential aspirants on the platform of the APC, who […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Wednesday declared that subsidy on power amounting to about N600bn during some period had now been stopped by the Federal Government. It also revealed that electricity tariffs were raised in February this year, and was quick to, however, state that the tariff […]

About one week after the Senate rejected the President’s request to amend the recently signed Electoral Act, 2022, the Federal Government has said it will explore all available options on the law. Before assenting to the amended Electoral Act on Friday, February 25, the President, Major General Muhammadu […]

The leadership impasse in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been halted by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President asked party members to support Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni as chairman of the ruling party by maintaining the “status quo”. He directed Buni to ensure that the convention […]