Nigeria’s power generation collapsed completely on Thursday at exactly 12.58pm to zero megawatt and this persisted for about three hours
Power electricity
Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single mega…Change: Power generation crumbles to 0MW for several hours
…Congratulates Winners Of State And National Assembly Elections
The Chairman of Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro. Felix Obuah has rejected the purported disqualification of the PDP Candidate for Akuku-Toru Constituency 2, Tonye Awari Alalibo, describing it as not o…Rivers PDP Rejects Disqualification Of Akuku-Toru Candidate, Faults Opobo/Nkoro Result
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday sentenced a school proprietor, Mr Babatunde Ibitoye, to 10 years imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping a 10-year old pupil of his school.
Ibitoye, owner of God’s Grace Nursery and Primary School, located at Fayemi Market, Agric Olope A…School proprietor jailed 10 yrs for raping pupil
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday flagged off the construction of a N5.7b worth flyover in Ado Ekiti, promising to deliver the project within 24 months.
Fayose
At the event, Fayose, who described the 1.2-kilometre flyover project as the first of its kind in the state said it was par…Fayose begins N5.7b flyover in Ekiti
An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight and forced it to divert to Cyprus demanding to see his ex-wife surrendered Tuesday after a six-hour airport standoff ended peacefully.
The hijacker, described by officials as “unstable”, had claimed to be wearing a bomb belt but no explosives were d…Egypt Air hijacker surrenders after Cyprus airport standoff
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt
The RIVERS State Government may have abandoned the multi-billion naira monorail project embarked upon by the immediate-past administration.
Nyesom Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike, who gave this hint on Monday while speaking on a national television programme,Sunrise,…Rivers abandons Amaechi multi-billion naira monorail project
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to reopen a case of alleged subsidy fraud against an oil company, MOB Integrated Services Limited, which is headed by Mr. Gbolahan Obanikoro, a son of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.
Obanikoro
The company was…EFCC revisits case against Obanikoro’s son over alleged subsidy fraud
A Senior Army Officer, Col. Samaila Inusa, was on Saturday reportedly kidnapped around the Kamazo area in Chikun Local Government of Kaduna State by yet-to-be identified gunmen.
The Army officer, who was said to be serving with the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Jaji, near Kaduna was in the…Gunmen abduct serving colonel in Kaduna
The Delta State House of Assembly has again refuted allegation in certain quarters of witch-hunting anyone as a result of the oversight function on the Independent Power Project (IPP).
In a statement issued on Sunday in Asaba by the House Leader, Hon. Tim Owhefere, the House expressed strict…DTHA: We are not after anyone – Majority Leader
Lazarus Anthony was 19 years old when he joined the Black Axe confraternity. By the time he turned 21, he had risen up the ladder to become the leader of a cell. However, Lazarus’ group’s area of operation, at Upper Sokponba in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, is far away from the four walls of…How we were lured into deadly Black Axe cults – Edo gang leaders
The Noble Adventure for Mankind Empowerment (NAME) Foundation has said that the election of a 32-year old man, Architect Thaddeus Irabor, as the State Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State showed the party has actually restructured itself.
PDP
It said the election of…Edo PDP has restructured – Foundation
El Rufai needs to be supported for plucking the courage to strengthen the principle of democratic citizenship in a multi-religious society, without sacrificing citizens’ right to promote the metaphysics that brings meaning to their private lives.
The principle of separation of Church/Mosque w…Nasir el Rufai and secularity of the Nigerian-State
President Muhammadu Buhari is conscious he has approximately three years left in office. Even more, he is aware he has so far not quite justified his election or the abundant goodwill and trust reposed in him by those who voted him last year. Addressing the National Executive Committee (NEC)…Why APC lost Rivers
The-yet-to-abate fuel scarcity in the country assumed a dangerous dimension yesterday in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State as three gunmen opened fire on motorists queuing for petrol.
The incident happened at one of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Filling Stations in the…Fuel crisis: Gunmen shoot at motorists on queue
President Muham-madu Buhari yesterday told Nigerians that the change agenda of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), will come faster if citizens imbibe the virtues of Jesus Christ and place national interest above selfish, personal and group interests.
President Buhari
Buhari in his…Easter Message: Change will come – Buhari tells Nigerians
Fidelis Soriwei and Jesusegun Alagbe
A suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, North-East Nigeria in April 2014, military and local government…Suicide bomber detained in Cameroon says she’s one of Chibok girls
There are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is making fresh moves to woo the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Buhari and IBB
Saturday PUNCH reliably learnt on Friday that before the President’s recent moves, the relationship between the duo h…Fresh power tussle in APC as Buhari woos Tinubu for support
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday dissociated himself from an advocacy group, #Istandwithbuhari, and demanded that the group should immediately stop claiming any alliance with the his administration.
Buhari’s position was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Pu…Buhari disowns #Istandwithbuhari advocacy group
The Police Service Commission has dismissed one Assistant Superintendent of Police and approved the reduction in rank of a Superintendent and an ASP over various established cases of misconduct.
The commission also rejected 23 appeals from dismissed policemen for reinstatement and restoration …Police dismiss ASP, demote others
The Public Relations Officer, 28 Task Force Brigade, Mubi, Adamawa State, Capt A.O. Fadare, says some of the women abducted by insurgents in Madagali have been rescued.
Fadare told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview that soldiers rescued the women while pursuing the…Boko Haram: Army rescues abducted women in Madagali
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, has filed two separate applications, one of which asks Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja, to disqualify himself from further presiding over his trial.
The other application by Metuh asks the…Metuh asks judge to disqualify self, wants trial halted
Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned calls for the sacking of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, describing those behind the calls as “Facebook manipulators and palm wine drinkers.”
Oshiomhole
The governor explained that the people spearheading the agita…Those calling for Emefiele’s removal’re palm wine drinkers – Oshiomhole
An Egor Magistrates’ Court, Benin, Edo State, on Wednesday sentenced a 47-year-old man, Rotimi Olayemi, to four years’ imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Olayemi, said to be an English teacher at the King of Kings College, had been arraigned on four counts bothering on sex…Edo teacher jailed for sexual assault
Former governors who were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Thursday that they were neglected by their successors.
Tele Ikuru, Deputy Governor, Rivers State
They lamented that their successors relegated them to the background in the affairs of the party in their…Our successors have neglected us – Ex-PDP govs
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, to continue to make sacrifices as his administration seeks to revive the nation’s economy.
Buhari said this while addressing members of the party’s NEC, at its formal NÉC meet…Buhari explains travel, other decisions to APC NEC
