The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has told the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Kolo Mele Kyari, to step aside to allow for an unfettered probe by the House of Representatives into the payment of N20 billion to a ghost consultant. The group …

THE Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the detention of Mr Adewumi Joseph Omotayo, a Director of  Finance and Account in the Federal Ministry of Power over financial crime hovering around Two Billion Naira, thirty three luxury homes, and for making payments for contracts that were never executed. …

PEOPLES Democratic Party’s governorship aspirant in Kogi State, Dino Melaye, has revealed how the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, allegedly begged him to ensure Atiku Abubakar picked him as his running mate. After losing the party’s presidential primary to Atiku last year, Wike had refused to work with the …

ARSENAL’s Premier League home game against London rival, Chelsea, has been postponed to May 2 because of policing issues, the Premier League confirmed on Tuesday. The game was earlier scheduled to be played on April 29 at the Emirates Stadium. According to the Premier League statement: “The initial scheduling of …

A coalition of Arewa elders on Tuesday warned politicians, particularly Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed over what they termed “unguided” post-election political utterances. The group’s warning was contained in a communique read after its meeting in Arewa House, …

THE Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday condemned the unapproved appointments made by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The legislature ordered the immediate withdrawal of letters given to officeholders whose nominations should have been scrutinised. The lawmakers decried how several appointees assumed office without due process which requires screening and confirmation. …

A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, has been announced dead. Mbadinuju was said to have died at the National Hospital in Abuja on Tuesday, at the age of 78 Mbadinuju, who was fondly called “Odera”, was the Anambra governor between 1999 and 2003 under the platform of …

A Zuba Magistrate Court in Abuja on Tuesday refused to grant bail to one Obiajulu Uja, who protested against the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while onboard an Ibom Air Abuja-Lagos bound flight. Uja, who was debarked from the plane and handed over to the police, had filed an application …

A final year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, has been reportedly beaten to death on suspicion that he stole a mobile phone. Sources on the campus told PUNCH Metro that the student was accused of stealing a mobile phone in Awo Hall on …

THE Independent National Electoral Commission has asked the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja to dismiss all the petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential  election. INEC had declared that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to win the …