BREAKING NEWS

  The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has ordered the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),Zamfara State to produce documents requested by the petitioners in the subpoena issued on them. Tribunal’s Chairman, Justice Mohammed Garba issued the order on Wednesday on...

    Armed robbers on Friday morning invaded female hostel of the Obafemi Awolowo hall, University of Ibadan and carted away valuables. The invasion of the female hostel, The PUNCH gathered, occurred around 1:30 a.m. and was carried out by armed men numbering about 10. During the robbery operation, which...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Osun State and dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate Ademola Adeleke in the September 2018 election. The court in a split decision...

A pipeline explosion occurred at Ijegun, in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State in the early hours of Thursday, with two unidentified bodies, as well as many vehicles and shops burnt in a raging fire. This is according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report monitored by...

  The kidnappers operating around Ikire and other communities in Ibadan-Ife expressway have been arrested. The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 11, Mr Leye Oyebade, disclosed this at the ongoing Southwest Security Summit in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Zone 11 comprises Oyo, Osun and Ondo...

  The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday dismissed an application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, requesting permission to have access to the central server said to have been used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February...

Tragedy struck the labour movement in Nigeria on Friday as the President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) Francis Johnson, is dead. The General Secretary of the organisation, Okugbawa Lumumba, disclosed this to reporters on Friday. He reportedly died in the early hours of Friday. Johnson...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Monday, May 27, 2019 feature in a special interview on the network service of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) at 10 pm. This was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Femi Adesina. He said: “All television stations and other...

The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 23 presidential election, Peter Obi, has arrived the venue of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, which holds its inaugural sitting today (Wednesday). The PDP and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had jointly filed a petition to...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday night suspended its three-month strike following an agreement it reached with the Federal Government. As a result of the agreement which was signed between the union leaders and government officials, the leadership of ASUU announced the suspension of the strike action....