The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Zamfara State has been enmeshed in crisis as two factional chairmen have emerged from its 2024 election of state officers. The immediate past vice chairman of the association Ibrahim Jibril was announced by the returning officer Mannir Bature as the winner of the election for the chairmanship position hav...
Internal crisis rocking the opposition, the People Democratic Party in Benue State has assumed a new dimension, with a two-thirds majority of the state working committee, allegedly loyal to former Governor Samuel Ortom, passing a vote of no- no-confidence on the state chairman, John Ngbede, the secretary, Joseph Nyam and the organising secreta...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the recent report issued by the Lagos State Police Command concerning the events at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka. In a statement signed by NANS Senate President, Afeez Akinteye and made available to our correspondent yesterday, the students association no...
•Governor Godwin Obaseki The Edo State Government has condemned what it called attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to negatively spin comments made by state governor, Godwin Obaseki, where he warned that if the party does not allow for a free and fair election in the state, it will be a […]
•Nze Chidi Duru Deputy National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Nze Chidi Duru, shares his thoughts with Sunday PUNCH about the economic hardship in the country, President Bola Tinubu’s reforms, and the political crisis rocking Kano and Rivers states, among other issues. Excerpts: What’s your assessment of President Bola ...
•A market place Nigeria’s inflation figure has reached a new high, hitting 34.19 % for June 2024, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of State Statistics (NBS). This is an increase of 0.24% points when compared to the inflation figure for May 2024 released by the NBS. “In June 2024, the headline […]
Crisis has again erupted in the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress as the federal lawmaker representing Kaura-named-Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency, Hon Sani Jaji and his supporters created another faction within the party. Addressing a press conference in Gusau on Wednesday, the chairman of the Sani Jaji-led APC faction...
It is a tale of woes as an acute scarcity of one of Nigerians’ most popular staple foods, bread, has hit Kaduna, Katsina, and Kano states. Checks by our correspondents revealed that the most-favoured staple was now as scarce as petrol or the highly-prized precious metal, Gold, reports NAN. It was observed that whereas the […]
•Tinubu As Nigeria battles an economic crisis sparked by the government’s twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of FX windows, United Kingdom-based Diageo joined about 15 other multinational companies that have exited the country in the past three years. Diageo is the latest to announce its departure on Tuesday, June 11 when ...
•Food stuffs The United Nations has again predicted that 82 million Nigerians, about 64 per cent of the country’s population, may go hungry by 2030, calling on the government to tackle climate change, pest infestations, and other threats to agricultural productivity. The prediction comes in the wake of a persistent hike in food prices in [&hel...

