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Lagos shuts federal lawmaker’s nightclub over noise pollution

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, on Saturday, shut down a popular nightclub, Quilox, on Ozumba Nbadwe Street, Victoria Island, for organising an event without a sound control permit. According to a statement on Sunday, the enforcement exercise, which was jointly carried out by LASEPA and the Lagos State...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Headlines

PDP, APC clash as Kukah slams Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress on Sunday clashed over allegations by the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) failed to fulfil his 2015 electoral promises. While the PDP backed the cleric, saying his assessment of Buhari’s...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Business

Nigeria missed 2022 poverty reduction target – W’Bank

The World Bank Group has said that the estimated per capita income growth of 0.7 per cent for Nigeria and the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2022 is insufficient to meet the challenging goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity in the medium to long term. In its new...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

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Pandemonium as policeman kills Lagos female lawyer

There was pandemonium in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Sunday when a policeman attached to the Ajah Police Station shot dead a female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem. gathered that the incident threw the community into confusion as the cop, who was with a team of policemen, fled the...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Sports

Onuachu takes swipe at former manager

spent four years at KRC Genk and played under different managers, Super Eagles forward, Paul Onuachu, has taken a blunt swipe at manager Bernd Storck, describing his former boss a cold and rigid man. The Nigeria international joined Genk in 2019 from Danish outfit FC Midtjylland and has...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Headlines

Muslims attend Kaduna Christmas service, Osinbajo, others celebrate

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday, described the message of redemption Christmas brings as a relief for himself, Nigerians and all of humanity. This was just as members of a Muslim group, popularly called the Shiites, attended a Christmas service at one of the largest denominations in Zaria, Kaduna...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Headlines

NDLEA intercepts Christmas Colorado, cannabis juice in Lagos

Consignments of Colorado concealed in vehicles imported from Montreal, Canada, and packs of cannabis juice flown in from South Africa, meant for distribution ahead of Christmas, have been intercepted. A statement on Sunday said men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized the drugs at the Tincan seaport,...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Business

Mass supply begins in Lagos, three others in...

A special joint arrangement by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and 30,000-member independent petroleum marketers will lead to mass supplies of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol in Lagos, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Ogara beginning next month, findings by have revealed. The move is part of the...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Entertainment

Supplementary budget will cause economic shocks 2023 —...

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has warned that the planned supplementary budget by the Federal Government will, amongst other consequences, cause economic shocks in the coming year. In a statement signed by its Director-General, Dr Chinyere Almona, the chamber noted that with few days to the end...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

Headlines

Task force clears illegal roadblocks after PUNCH report

A task force has cleared the illegal roadblocks on the Lagos-Badagry-Seme Expressway. This followed an investigation by our correspondent exposing how security agents used about 100 illegal roadblocks on the road to extort money from commercial motorists, motorcyclists, traders and residents. The President, Hengo Badagry Youth Association, Felix Godonu,...

PunchNews - 26 December 2022

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Politics

LP crisis deepens as Abure, Apapa bicker over...

The crisis rocking the Labour Party over its perennial leadership tussle took a twist on Thursday when the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja struck out the suit filed by one of the party’s aggrieved Imo State governorship candidates, Basil Maduka. The suit was an appeal against the decision of...

25 August 2023

Headlines

Bandits kill three, injure seven, kidnap eight in...

Bandits on Wednesday night stormed Gidan-damo village in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State where they killed three persons, injured seven and abducted eight others. An indigene of the area, Umar Sani told The PUNCH on Friday that the bandits who were on motorcycles arrived in the village...

25 August 2023

Business

Nigeria’s GDP growth slows to 2.51%

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product has slowed to 2.51 per cent (year-on-year) in real terms in the second quarter of 2023. This growth rate is lower than the 3.54 per cent recorded in the second quarter of 2022 According to the Gross Domestic Product report published by the NBS on Friday,...

25 August 2023

Sports

FIFA rankings: Super Falcons move up 8 spots,...

By Victor Okoye Nigeria’s women’s Football National team, the Super Falcons, have moved eight places up to become 32nd in the world and first in Africa in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday. Super Falcons were previously in 40th place in the rankings released in June before the...

25 August 2023

Headlines

Profiles of the deceased military personnel in Niger...

The Nigerian military is currently holding a mass burial for soldiers who lost their lives in an attack and plane crash in Niger state. Bandits ambushed the troops, resulting in the death of 14 soldiers and injuring seven others. To respond to the situation, the Air Force deployed an evacuation...

25 August 2023

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APC sweeps all council polls in Gombe

PmNews - 27 April 2024

APC sweeps all council polls in Gombe APC Published By: Kazeem Ugbodaga By Hajara Leman The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) won all the 11 local government chairmanship and 114 councillorship elections held

Man. United’s top four finish hope suffer setback, held by Burnley

PmNews - 27 April 2024

Man. United’s top four finish hope suffer setback, held by Burnley United held by Burnley Published By: Kazeem Ugbodaga By Kazeem Ugbodaga Manchester United’s quest for a top four finish suffered a setback on