Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has directed all staff of his office who are part of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, to give their best to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Osinbajo issued the directive during a meeting with his staff members who are part of the PCC. Disclosing this, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ajuri Ngelale, said Osinbajo stressed the importance of the assignment. Ngelale, who is one of the spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima campaign organization, said the Vice President appealed to those concerned to carry out their duties without hindrance. …
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The federal government has evacuated 542 stranded Nigerians from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The evacuees, comprising 79 males, 460 females and three infants, arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, yesterday via Maxair charted flight. The spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Manzo Ezekiel, in a statement, said the returnees were screened by the health officials, profiled by various relevant agencies, cleared by the Nigerian Immigration Service and given transport fare by NEMA before leaving the airport. Director-General, NEMA, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, represented by Director of Finance and Accounts, Sani Jiba, urged them to learn from…
THE Northern APC Christian Forum, NACF, has asked Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, and other Christians faithful inaugurated as members of the party’s presidential campaign council to resign their respective positions. The Forum, which made the call at a briefing in Abuja yesterday, said doing so became imperative to protest what it described as the party’s adamant refusal to respect the religious diversity of its members and ensure balance in its presidential ticket. Speaking, General Secretary of NACF, Lukas Bako, raised the alarm that under the present arrangement in the APC, Christians would be subjected to untold persecution, if…
Bayelsa United, Bendel Insurance, El-Kanemi Warriors and Doma United will again wait till November before facing off in the Nigeria National League Super 4 play-off, no thanks to flooding that has ravaged some parts of Bayelsa State, where the tournament was scheduled to hold. The season-ending event was rescheduled to hold between October 25 and 29 at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa after floods forced the initial date of October 16 to 22 to be changed. NNL announced the new change in date in a statement signed by its Head of Media and Communications, Amar Ignis. “The…
Super Eagles forward, Taiwo Awoniyi scored the decisive goal as Nottingham Forest defeated his former club, Liverpool 1-0 at the City Ground on Saturday afternoon. Awoniyi put Steve Cooper’s ahead in the 55th minute. The 25-year-old initial shot hit the post but he reacted on time and tucked away the rebound. Awoniyi is now the first Nottingham Forest player to score in each of his first three Premier League starts at the City Ground. The forward has also registered three goals in nine league appearances for Forest this season. He was replaced by Joseph Worrall in…
The Federal Government has entered into partnership with Coursera, a global online digital skills acquisition platform, to train and empower 24,000 Nigerians with digital and developer skills in various fields over a three year period. Declaring the training open on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), noted that “we are championing a paradigm shift of prioritising hard, soft and social skills over theory and this collaboration will go a long way in supporting this shift. He said Coursera has been one of the world’s top…
Nigeria will face Australia, Ireland and Canada in the group phase of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup following the draw which took place in Auckland on Saturday. Holders and four-time champions the United States will face the Netherlands while Megan Rapinoe’s United States will also meet debutants Vietnam and a play-off winner at the finals in Australia and New Zealand. Details later.
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that his administration will phase out fuel subsidy if elected during next year’s elections. Aside from phasing out fuel subsidy, he promised to accelerate full implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act, implement additional favourable policies to attract investment in Deepwater assets within 6 months. These were contained in his manifesto exclusively obtained by The PUNCH on Friday. According to him, I will ensure the stability of petroleum product supply by fully deregulating the downstream sector and ensuring that local refinery capacity will meet domestic consumption needs. He…
Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team, The Flamingos, have defeated their United States counterparts via a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India. The Flamingos had never made it past this stage since the competition’s inception and faced a steep test against the free-scoring Americans. Still, the game, which was delayed for over two hours due to bad weather, proved to be always under control. Defender Omamuzo Edafe had initially opened the scoring for the Flamingos from the penalty spot in the 26th minute, but the Nigerian ladies were pegged back just…
National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has declared that any move by the Federal Government or its agent, including Labour Minister Chris Ngige to ban the union will fail. Osodeke said ASUU’s philosophy is premised on aligning with a worthy cause for the progress of the country’s educational sector and its positive multiplier effects on every other areas of the nation. The ASUU President also warned Vice Chancellors of public universities to shun dressing themselves in apparels of Chief Executive Officers (C.E.Os) of universities when in reality, they are just the…