JTF Arrests 2 Britons, 12 Nigerians For Illegal Bunkering
The arrested Britons and Nigerians by the JTF for illegal bunkering…Rejects $66,500 bribe offerOperatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code named Operation Pulo Shield have arrested two...
View Article70 Years Old Man Dies Having Sex With A Married Woman
It was a shameful death for a 70 years old man identified as David, yesterday, when he slumped and died after having marathon sex with a married woman in a hotel in Benin City.He died at one of the...
View ArticleI Can’t Waste My Time On El-Rufai, He’s Too Small – Pastor Oritsejafor
CAN President, Pastor Ayo OritsejaforPresident of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in this interview with Ozioma Ubabukoh of The Punch, bares his mind on controversies...
View ArticleUniversity Autonomy Versus JAMB Control
What’s the point in conducting post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination by universities all over Nigeria particularly private ones when candidates’ good performance in that exam does not really...
View ArticleI’m Not In Competition With Anybody – Olamide
OlamidePopular rapper, Olamide Adedeji, aka Badoo, speaks with Jayne Augoye of The Punch about his career and relationship with fellow artistes.Olamide Adedeji, aka Badoo, comes across easily as one of...
View ArticleNigerian Stabs Another Nigerian To Death In Malaysia
A 25-year-old Nigerian, Oscar was reportedly stabbed to death on Sunday around 8pm by a fellow Nigerian near Shalimar society in Kondhwa in Malaysia.George Aimer, a Nigerian national is being accused...
View ArticleAfrica: First Ever Meerkat Rises From The Desert
Under construction, the first of 64 antennas that will make up South Africa's new radio telescope, the MeerKAT.The first of the 64 antennas of the MeerKAT telescope, the largest and most sensitive...
View ArticleGovernor Amaechi Pledges Medical School For State Varsity
Governor Mr. Rotimi AmaechiRivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has pledged his administration’s readiness to establish a medical school for the State...
View ArticleAfrican Central Bank Governors Seek New Funding For SMEs
The African Central Bank Governors have said appropriate mechanism should be established to tap into various sources of capital such as diaspora remittances, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and...
View ArticleImmigration Tragedy: Moro Accepts Responsibility
Mr Abba MoroThe Minister of Interior, Mr Abba Moro, has explained why the March 15 recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service was all inclusive.He also explained why he accepted responsibility...
View ArticleFG Charged To Include More Women In Leadership Positions
Government at federal and state levels, as well as corporate organizations, have been called on to work towards including women adequately in leadership positions to make Nigeria the world’s largest...
View ArticleWe Did Not Fail In Costa Rica – Flamingoes coach
Flamingoes head coach, Bala Nkiyu has said his side achieved a milestone at the 2014 Fifa Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica despite bowing out in the quarterfinals of the competition to Spain.The...
View ArticleNFF, Keshi Disagree On Super Eagles List
Super Eagles Coach, Stephen KeshiThere are strong indications that the Nigeria Football Federation and national team coach Stephen Keshi are headed on a collision course over the release of a...
View ArticleBelieve It Or Not, I’m Still A Virgin! — Adokiye
Adokiye KyrianSeductively beautiful, fragile and provocative wave-making singer, Adokiye Kyrian, who became UN ambassador of Peace in less than five years of her climb onto the stage of music in...
View ArticleWe Won’t Vacate Our Seats – Defected Reps
The 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of the House of Representatives, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, appealed Justice Adeniyi Ademola’s ruling that they...
View ArticleFG Earmarks $2.9tr For Infrastructure Development
The Federal Government has developed a 30 year Infrastructure Master Plan with a projected investment outlay of $2.9 trillion.The Supervising Minister of National Planning Ambassador Bashir Yuguda...
View ArticleGunmen Ambush Police Team Escorting Kidnap Suspects To Court
Gunmen, yesterday, ambushed a team of policemen escorting two kidnap suspects, earlier arrested, to court for arraignment, leading to fierce gun battle, during which the suspects were killed.Delta...
View ArticleConfab Will Move Nigeria Forward — Ikokwu
Says delegates must discuss burning issues urgently.Second Republic politician and one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Guy Ike Ikokwu does not believe that the ongoing...
View ArticleNational Confab: Delegates Want End To Bloodletting
Against the backdrop of the bloodletting and destruction of property by Boko Haram terrorists and Fulani mercenaries in the north and middle belt areas of the country, delegates at the National...
View ArticleWhy Basic Education Remains A Challenge In Nigeria — Wike
Despite the allocation of over N237 billion for basic education between 2009 and 2013, recent data shows that only about three million more students were admitted into the nation’s primary schools....
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