•Terrorists The National Rescue Movement (NRM) has called for immediate end to kidnapping and other criminal activities in the country. The movement, in a press statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Sola Afuye, said the menace is a norm that must be stopped, saying the growing insecurity has shown the failure of government in [...
•Gov Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Government yesterday announced plans to carry out rehabilitation and laying of interlocking stones on a portion of Agege Motor Road, necessitating diversion of traffic today. Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi notified the motoring public going to Oshodi under the Bridge, en route PWD,...
•Governor Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Government has warned the popular e-hailing company, Uber Technologies System Nigeria Limited to comply with essential data sharing agreements or face sanctions that might affect its operations, including its users. In a statement signed today by the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun ...
•Oyerinde Mr. Adewale Oyerinde , Director-General of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), in this exclusive interview with Daily Independent, speaks on how if federal government reforms are deepened, and when necessary applied with human face the nation’s economy will stride on a trajectory of unlimited growth. Excerpts: We ...
•Nigerians looting warehouse Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory today looted a warehouse reportedly belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria over the current economic hardship across the country. It was learnt that the warehouse is situated in the Phase 3 Region of the FCT area of Abuja, reports Sunday PUNC...
•Professor Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government at all levels to desist from taking citizens for a fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at the Punch’s 50th anniversary lecture themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought [&hel...
At least 20 students of some boarding public schools in Potiskum, Fika, and Fune Local Government Areas of Yobe State have died from a suspected Meningitis outbreak. It was learnt that the deaths were recorded in Government Science Technical College, Government Girls Science Technical College, and Federal Government Girls College, all in Potis...
•Sanwo-Olu As Nigerians lament the high cost of living crisis in the country, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that Lagos State civil servants from Level 1 to 14 will come to work physically three times a week and work virtually for the two other days to ease economic pressure in the state. The governor, who […]
Days after governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) likened the situation in the country to that of Venezuela, Governor of Oyo, Seyi Makinde has said the party will in the next few weeks propose action plans that if adopted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government with turn around the […]
The pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has lauded the National Assembly for waking up to the reality of the need to cut costs of governance and restructure the political system in Nigeria. The organisation, in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, was however quick to ad...

