The Grundnorm

Fresh facts have emerged on how suspended super cop and former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari; as well as his deputy, ACP Sunday Ubua, allegedly received a combined N4.2bn from their separate bank accounts. The details are part of a report sent to the […]

• President asked Yobe gov to lead party to national summit – Source The Yobe State Governor and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, may supervise the party’s national convention on March 26. The PUNCH learnt on Sunday that the […]

The crisis between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, deepened yesterday. Obaseki took exception to Wike’s attacks on him and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not the personal property of the Rivers governor.

Some leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the national body and elders of the union in Lagos State have declared their support for embattled Lagos Chairman Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of candidates for Ekiti governorship election slated for June 18. This was sequel to the publication of the personal particulars of the candidates last month.

ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months. The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja last night

The Federal Government should give serious penalty for the serious economic sabotage carried out by importers of the bad fuel which has caused serious pains to Nigerians, a human rights organisation, under the aegis of Youth Arise for Undiluted Leadership And Development Initiative, has said.

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has advised women not to lose hope in their demands for legislation on gender-related matters. Lawan spoke in Agasa in Kogi State on Thursday against the backdrop of some gender-related bills that recently failed to scale through at the National Assembly in […]

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State intends to return as the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress once he returns from his medical leave, his leaked letter to the APC has revealed. The letter dated February 28, 2022, which was obtained by The […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s optimism about the capacity and future of the ruling party. He saluted the President’s understanding and concern for the perfection of the party’s internal processes to keep faith with progressive tendencies.

The Ebonyi State government has reacted to a report(Not by The PUNCH) that Governor Dave Umahi had threatened to support the agitation for Biafra if the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), allowed a Federal High Court judgment sacking him and his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, to stand.

The National Union of Road Transport Workers has suspended its Lagos State chapter’s Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, indefinitely.

Vice-President and facility sub-committee Chairman of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Oyewole Obalola, has said that the newly upgraded Tafawa Balewa Square Cricket Turf in Lagos will be a good test for the female national team, when the 6-nation invitational tournament gets underway later in the month.

Leaders and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Lagos State Council have called on the state governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to do everything within his power to forestall a repeat of the bloody crisis in Lagos.

The United Kingdom has seized all assets of Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich. He is one of seven oligarchs hit with fresh sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans over Russian invasion of Ukraine.