By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Labour Party (LP) has denied media reports that there is an ongoing merger arrangement with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.The National Secretary of LP, Umar Farouk, and Tai Obasi, media aide to LPstandard bearer, Peter Obi denied the report during a separate interviews with The Punch.The development is coming in the wake of media reports claiming that the trio of Atiku, Kwankwaso and Obi has opened a preliminary discussions on a possible merger with the aim raising a formidable team…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has stated emphatically that the planned merger arrangement of the Labour Party (LP) with the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso is not a threat to the ruling party. APC boasted that President Bola Tinubu will have no problem beating the trio again convincingly if the motive was to stop him from winning the 2027 presidential poll. The Director of Publicity for the ruling party, Bala Ibrahim, stated this in an interview with The Punch. Ibrahim dismissed the…
Yemi Alade took to her Instagram account on Tuesday, 22 August, 2023 to reveal that she only lost a nail and did not sustain any other injury. The ‘Johnny crooner’ said “On the 17th of August, we were in a car crash, somewhere between Barcelona and benicassim in Spain at 12:06(noon)” “I also experienced a minor medical emergency from exhaustion after performing on stage 7 hours after the incident on the same day and somehow, I ended up at the “after party (leave me o. my mind needed positive vibrations)” “Life is for the living… I didn’t want to put…
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu says Nigerians should look beyond the present situation in the country and see the bigger picture which has light at the end of the tunnel. She was speaking while receiving Wives of Service Chiefs and the Inspector general of Police led by the Wife of Chief of Defence Staff and President, Defence and Police wives Association, Mrs Oghogho Musa. The First Lady assured that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is doing everything possible to ensure that it cushions the effects of the fuel subsidy removal until…
The Department of State Security Service(DSS) Nigeria Police Force(NPF), Immigration Service and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have trained at least 1,200 hunters in Osun State on intelligence gathering. The trainees were drawn from all Local Government Areas in Osun State under the aegis of Nigeria Hunters and Forest Security Service. The participants were engaged in the area of inter-agencies relations, to better position them for the task of assisting in crime prevention. The 4-day training exercise was held within the premises of Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo, the state capital. Addressing the participants at the closing session of the training on Monday,…
Tragedy struck at World Bank junction roundabout in Owerri, Imo state capital on Thursday, 10 August , 2023 as a United Kingdom-bound Nigerian, Wisdom Chukumerem,30, was shot dead by armed robbers while withdrawing money from a Point of Sale operator. The deceased, a father of two, who hailed from Awo Ommamma in the Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, was shot three times. His immediate elder brother, Shedrack Anulika Chukwumerem, confirmed the sad development to The PUNCH during an interview in Owerri, on Monday, 21 August, 2023 after the police operatives released the mortuary tally to him and gave…
Ondo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun Corps alongside has arrested a 16-year-old armed robbery suspect, Sunday Ojo, nicknamed after the notorious armed robber, Oyenusi, who confessed to have participated in over 40 robberies Ojo was arrested alongside two other robbery suspects, 13-year-old Timileyin Femi, aka Anini and 16-year-old Matti Lowe, aka Osunbo. The teenager spoke with newsmen on Monday, 21 August, 2023 when he was paraded alongside other suspects. “l have lost count of the robbery operations I have been involved in. But they can’t be fewer than 40. I was overwhelmed by an evil spirit that motivates me…
By Kunle Rasheed In my country of birth, especially, the Yoruba race which I belong to, it is believed that the dead has no faults and as such my people love to paint the dead as immaculate, instead of chronicling the bad perpetuated while living. My people believe death has a magical power of erasing the sins and wrongdoings of anyone immediately oxygen becomes useless to such person. I may not be able to tell the way people in other lands see the dead, but amongst my ethnic group, it will be out of place to see someone die and…
The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun has said that for Nigeria to achieve the targeted poverty eradication, there must be conscious and systemic investment in education, food, housing, security and others. The advice came at a time that President Bola Tinubu inaugurated members of his cabinet that are expected to assist him actualise his renewed hope campaign manifesto. Jianchun, who spoke in Abuja on Monday at the unveiling of the Hausa edition of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book, ‘Up and Out of Poverty’ said there are many lessons from the book for Nigeria as both countries share so many…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has promised to unveil the administration’s foreign policy vision in few days time. The Minister gave this promised on Monday, 22 August, 2023 shortly after resuming work at the Ministry after he was swore in at the inauguration ceremony for ministers held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Tuggar, a former Nigeria’s Speaking at a reception at the over 200 sitting capacity Rotunda Hall which had sited his friends, supporters and staff of the Ministry were on hand to receive the minister, said it is the highest honour to have been asked to…