The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, has predicted that Nigeria will likely see an increase in COVID-19 cases and a decrease in hospitalisation over the holiday season this year.   Adetifa, in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, claimed that the increase in travel …

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor (Dr) William Kumuyi, has inaugurated a global youth empowerment partnership programme to mentor teenagers, campus students, corps members and young adults.   The initiative, tagged Impact Academy, was conceived by Kumuyi to lift the nation’s youths to the ladder of …

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was on Sunday set ablaze by suspected hoodlums.   This was disclosed in a statement signed by the National Commissioner and Chairman,   Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Sunday.   This is …

The Police have arrested two persons in possession of 468 Permanent Voter Cards.   This was made known in a statement signed by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Sunday.   According to the statement, the offenders; Nasiru Idris, …

Support groups of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, have denied reports that they joined the All Progressives Congress.   The Atiku Support Organisation, on behalf of the groups, made this known in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Monday.   Signed by the …

There were indications, weekend, that the prolonged petrol shortage in Lagos, Ogun and  environs is worsened by illegal practices, especially arbitrary pricing and diversion, to unauthorised locations. Checks by Vanguard showed that some independent oil marketers, who complained about the high cost of lifting the product at depots, have devised means …

•Recoveries fall 18% to N28.7bn •Debtors battling economic shocks —Analysts THE volume of bad debt recovered by banks fell by 18 per cent, year-on-year, YoY, to N28.68 billion in nine months ended September 30th, reflecting the severe impact of the hostile environment on businesses across the country. Also as a …

OSOGBO—IT is a new dawn in Osun State and a new Sherriff is in town. Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was sworn-in, yesterday, as governor and he immediately hit the ground with tough decisions. First he directed that a panel of inquiry be set up to probe last …

Abuja—HOODLUMS have set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying, among others, 340 ballot boxes and yet to be determined quantity of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. The attack is the third on INEC’s local government offices in less than …

CHAIRMAN of the South West Governors Forum, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, weekend, said that the success of the security outfit, codenamed, Amotekun, in the region, shows that Nigeria’s security architecture must be decentralised. Governor Akeredolu noted that the country’s security architecture decentralization “is for effective security of lives and properties in …