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•Surulere wins Gold, Cash Prize in BOS Cup •Ifako Ijaiye-Ojokoro, Agege teams are runners-up The frills and thrills of the maiden Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu (BOS) Youth Cup came to the pinnacle on Sunday, with the final round’s team jostled for the first prize – a gold cup. Mobolaji Johnson Sports …

Marketers of petroleum products in the downstream oil sector have lamented their inability to access the N250bn intervention facility of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the National Gas Expansion Programme, more than one year after its introduction. Dealers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, and Premium Motor …

As a former principal officer in the Senate, what is your take on the friction between the National Assembly and state governors on the issue of direct primaries in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill? I don’t see any friction at all. In a democracy, there are always competing interests. Each …

The Federal Government has begun moves to prevent an industrial action in the country’s public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ three-week deadline ended on Sunday. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, said the ministry had written a …

Ohanaeze Ndigbo has vowed to expose those plotting to destabilise the peace in Enugu State. The warning came on the heels of a group led by one Obozoba, who claimed he was coming to lead a one million-man march in Enugu to demand Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s scorecard. In a statement, …

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has declared its supports for the walk of peace proclaimed by the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Sanwo-Olu. The group also warned religious leaders in the state against assuming the role of trouble makers. The rights group described Sanwo-Olu as a hard-working and a performing …

Alhaji Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has dismissed the branding of bandits as terrorists by the Federal Government, saying it shows they know who the bandits are all along He dismissed the agitation for Igbo Presidency and said it is not different from the agitation for …

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday, December 5, declared open the final match of the Under 21 BOS Youth cup tournament organised for all local governments in Lagos, Igbere TV reports. Sanwo on his Instagram page disclosed that the match is to be played between the Surulere and Ifako Ijaiye-Ojokoro teams. …

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, to suc­ceed President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s next leader. Even though Tinubu is yet to for­mally declare his interest in …

A former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said the Southeast is ready to kneel down and prostrate for other parts of the country to get the presidency in 2023. Ezeife spoke on Saturday at the United For Better Nigeria Initiative (UBNI) National Convention in Abuja. “It is …