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•Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President-elect Yakubu Maikyau; All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate Kashim Shettima; NBA President Olumide Akpata; Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning Tobenna Erojikwe; Guest Speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar; Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki; Social Democratic Party (SDP) …

  Nigeria ‘s Volleyball team Nigeria’s under-21 men’s volleyball team failed to finish in the top three in the 2022 African U-21 Men’s Volleyball Championship in Tunisia. The team lost 0-3 to their Cameroonian counterparts in the third-place match on Monday in Tunis. Cameroon prevailed 25-21 25-20 25-23. The Cameroonians …

The camps of two former governors of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau and Rabiu Kwankwaso have apparently thrown the New Nigeria People’s Party into crisis. Kwankwaso, who apparently has the upper hand in the contest to control the party’s machinery, appear not to feel disturbed about threats to decamp by the …

Figures from Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited on Monday showed that six international oil companies (IOCs) are to remit a total of N442.37bn in August 2022, being proceeds from the sale of domestic crude oil in May 2022. According to NNPC, the N422.37bn was for 8.887 million barrels of …

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told Punch that the meeting will hold at the …

Wole Soyinka Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has questioned the federal government’s decision to prescribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), but not Miyetti Allah. Speaking exclusively to Channels Television’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded programme that airs every Monday, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the …

Big Brother Naija season 7 housemate, Chomzy, has emerged the Head of House for week five and the first female to hold the position this season. This was announced after the Big Brother Naija Level Up housemates had their Head of House games on Monday evening. Following her emergence at …

The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has said that the administration of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and himself, will replicate the achievements recorded by Tinubu in Lagos if they both win the 2023 presidential election. The former Governor of Borno State stated this at …

In a suit marked EHC/216/2015, Agro Allied Development Enterprises, the claimant had sued Joma Frozen Food Limited, 1st defendant; Sterling Bank Plc, 2nd defendant and Godwin Obali Nwekoyo, 3rd defendant, following an alleged illegal sealing of its business premises by the defendants. AHigh Court sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government …

Shettima Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate has said the government Bola Tinubu, will replicate the “wonders” in Borno and Lagos states if elected president in 2023. The former Borno governor attacked those he called ‘pretentious politicians’ at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Nigerian Bar Association’s …