NEWS UPDATES

No fewer than 501 Nigerian Army personnel have been court-martialled for indiscipline and other offences across the country, PUNCH reports. The figures were based on collated media reports between November 2019 and July 1, 2022. Saturday PUNCH observed that during the period under…

The delay being experienced by some police officers who participated in the Saturday, July 16 governorship election in Osun State is caused by the affected officers’ bank, not from the Police. Force Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi gave the clarification…

The Anambra State Government is set to embark on a massive revocation of the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of all land owners who fail to remit the statutory ground rent for properties in the state. The State Commissioner for Lands, Prof…

Prominent sociopolitical and cultural organisations, including pan Yoruba group, Afenifere; Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide; the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), and Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), have faulted the Federal Government’s reported plan to place a nationwide ban on commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada…

THE NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) has tackled Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed for declaring the union’s planned solidarity protest in support of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lingering strike over unmet demands by the Federal Government illegal. NLC…

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has rewarded each player of Rivers United Football Club with over N12m ($20,000) cash prizes and two weeks visit to Madrid, Spain for lifting the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League trophy. Members of the Rivers United Football Club,…

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has disassociated itself from any sit-at-home order scheduled for tomorrow in the Southeast. The group said unauthorised sit-at-home credited to Simon Ekpa in response to the murder of 14 innocent youths in Imo state should be…