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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says it is monitoring the new COVID-19 subvariants – EG.5 and BA.2.86 in four states. The NCDC in a statement on Saturday, said its COVID-19 Technical Working Group has been monitoring emerging variants from local to global level. The agency stated, “Our influenza sentinel surveillance sites continue […]
Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umaru Danbatta The Nigerian Telecommunications Commission on Thursday disclosed that Nigeria was rated eleventh in terms of Internet penetration and seventh in terms of mobile phone usage worldwide. The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta, said this at the opening ceremony of the two-day […]
‘PAINFUL knockout’: Spanish press pile in on Barcelona’s heartbreak as the Catalan side wave a ‘hard goodbye’ to their treble hopes – after Real Madrid THRASH their bitter rivals 4-0 in the Copa del Rey semi-final Spanish media piled on the criticism after Barcelona’s 4-0 loss on Wednesday Xavi’s Catalan side were thrashed by bitter rivals Real […]
National Assembly Complex The House of Representatives members-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and other opposition parties have formed an alliance ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, with the aim of determining the leadership of the parliament. Against the background of the moves by the ruling All Progressives Party […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London pleading for leniency for the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice, who were convicted of organ trafficking. The Ekweremadus were on March 28 convicted by the UK court after their trial on the allegation that they […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has raised the alarm about the proliferation of “dangerous” and “unregulated” bleaching creams in the market. The agency warned about the danger on Wednesday in a one-day workshop organised for media stakeholders in Enugu State titled, “The dangers of bleaching creams and regulatory controls.” Delivering […]
Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Segun Adewole, Solomon Odeniyi, Dirisu Yakubu and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The presidential campaign councils of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have challenged the Department of State Services to get tough with plotters of the interim national government. The councils, in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Wednesday in Abuja, said […]
Atiku Abubakar, Nyesom Wike and Iyorchia Ayu Dirisu Yakubu, Segun Adewole, El-ameen Ibrahim, Dennis Naku and John Charles The post-election crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn on Monday as a Benue State High Court, Makurdi, restrained Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of the party. The restraining […]
The legal team of Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party candidate for the March 18 governorship election in Lagos State, has said its client remains the party’s authentic standard bearer in the state. The Lead Counsel to Rhodes-Vivour, Mr Olagbade Benson, told newsmen on Monday in Lagos that three court cases instituted against its client’s […]
