Punch Newspaper Headlines Today Wednesday 11th August 2021
Top Nigeria news Dailies Update from Punch Newspaper Headlines Today
Read also
Olympics: NFF rates Nigeria’s outing best in 13 years despite football teams’ absence
The Nigeria Football Federation has rated the recent performance by Nigeria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as one of the best in the history of the country. This is as the football federation failed to qualify the Super Eagles and Super Falcons for Tokyo 2020 despite football being Nigerians favourite sport with a historic Olympic…
Read More
Zuma riot: Nigeria Consul General to SA visits victims of looting
The Consul General of Nigeria to South Africa, Malik Abdul, on Tuesday, paid a solidarity visit to Nigerians affected by the recent unrest in Gauteng province. Abdul visited some of the business locations affected by the widespread rioting and looting spree at Jules Street in Johannesburg Central Business District. The News Agency of Nigeria reports…
Read More
BREAKING Assault: Return to Jakarta, foreign relations experts tell Indonesian ambassador
The Association of Foreign Relations Professionals of Nigeria has commended the recall of the Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, Usman Ogah, The association comprising serving and retired ambassadors, asked the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Usra Harahap, to return to Jakarta “until satisfactory explanation and necessary restitutive steps are taken by Indonesian authorities to assuage frayed nerves.” Describing…
Read More
Katsina assembly to write Masari over customs patrol vehicle accident
Katsina State House of Assembly on Tuesday directed its Clerk to write Governor Aminu Masari, seeking the disbandment of the Border Drill task force in the state. This was sequel to a motion moved by a member representing Jibia constituency, Mustafa Yusuf . Yusuf moved the motion following Monday’s ghastly accident involving the Border Drill…
Read More
COVID-19: Ekiti laments upsurge, begins enforcement of regulations
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday lamented the spike in the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last six weeks. Fayemi, who said the figures of 180 positive cases comprising 95 for July and 85 for the first few days of August were unacceptable, said, “It is imperative for…
Read More
EXCLUSIVE Alleged $350K fraud: Timeline, identity used by Gov Abiodun’s aide Abidemi Rufai
Abidemi Rufai, the suspended Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, allegedly boycotted the United States data system using 10 different emails in 14 days. A document obtained from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington also showed that Abidemi’s action allegedly violated Title 18, United States Code,…
Read More
Nigeria records 610 COVID-19 infections –NCDC
Nigeria on Tuesday logged 610 new COVID-19 infections, the second-highest in nearly six months, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on its website on Wednesday morning. It said the new infections took the country’s total confirmed cases to 179,118, from the 422 cases registered a day earlier. The NCDC added that the country’s active…
Read More
Ekiti court remands man for alleged serial robbery
An Ekiti State Magistrate Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday ordered that a 33 years old man, Ahmed Tijani, be remanded in the custodial centre for allegedly robbing his victims serially of their valuables worth over one million naira. The defendant was charged to court on a two-count bordering on armed robbery. The police…
Read More
Alleged sexual assault: Court adjourns Baba Ijesha’s trial till Sept 27
Ikeja Special Offences Court has adjourned until September 27, the trial of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha charged with alleged defilement. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the trial which was scheduled to continue on Wednesday did not hold due to the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, who currently attending…
Read More
Separate appeals stop case halting APC ward congresses in Bayelsa
Two separate notices filed before the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt have prevented a Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa presided over by Justice Iniekenimi Uzaka from proceeding with the hearing in a suit before the court stopping the All Progressives Congress from conducting its ward congresses in the state. Uzaka had on July…
Read More
Read also
You can also check
