Scarcity of petrol continues to inflict pains on Nigerians across the country. Our reporters were at various petrol filling stations across the country to ask Nigerians how the crisis is affecting them. Virtually all of them cried out that the pains inflicted on Nigerians by the scarcity of petrol were becoming unbearable, reports Saturday Tri...
•Atiku and Tinubu Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, today, asserted that increase in tariffs of different services amounts to Nigerians subsidising the corruption and inefficiencies in government. In a statement he personally issued in Abuja, he said the plight of the Nigerian wo...
•Tinubu Strong reactions have trailed comments by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, that there would be a total blackout in the country in the next three months if the proposed electricity tariff hike is not implemented. Adelabu said this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, which is investigating electricity tariff hik...
Nigerian men have been ranked second in the list of Africa’s most handsome men according to a report by Insider Monkey. In the list, Kenyan men are ranked number one while Nigerian and Ethiopian men rank second and third respectively. Rwanda, South Africa and Angola men come fourth, fifth and sixth respectively on the list. […]
•Foodstuffs Prices of essential food items have gone up by at least 30 per cent between December and April in at least eight states, according to surveys by our correspondents. The development has made consumers in the country groan, saying the hikes in the prices of goods have affected their budgets, reports The PUNCH Prices […]
•German police near the Opera Square in downtown Frankfurt German police said today they had arrested 11 suspected members of a Nigerian mafia group behind a large-scale dating scam. The Black Axe gang was involved internationally in “multiple areas of criminal activity”, with a focus in Germany on romance scams and money-laundering, Bavarian ...
•Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shri G. Balasubramanian The Indian High Commission in Nigeria has vowed to sanction the workers at the Indian Language School, Ilupeju, Lagos who refused our correspondent access to the school facility for inquiries. Following online reports that the school was not admitting or welcoming Nigerians on its p...
•Abuja Chinese supermarket The management of an Abuja-based Chinese supermarket has come under fire for denying Nigerians entry into the facility. Our correspondent reports that entry into the supermarket, without any name inscription, is restricted exclusively to individuals of Chinese descent, reports The PUNCH. The supermarket situated at t...
•Gunmen At least 2,583 people were killed and 2,164 kidnapped in the first quarter of this year, a data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, a security risk management and intelligence company based in Abuja, has shown. The data, which recorded the number of killings and abductions across the country from January to March, showed [&h...
•Peter Obi in USA The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has restated that the hope for a new Nigeria is much possible if the right leaders are recruited at all levels of government. Obi spoke yesterday in West Orange, New Jersey, USA , at the Naija-We-Can Town Hall Event where […]