Punch Newspaper Headlines Today Thursday 17th November 2022
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INEC to meet Ganduje, Ortom over 2023 elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission next Tuesday will meet governors, security agents and some presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 general elections. An interactive session, slated for Nicon Luxury, Abuja, will have the INEC Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye; Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje; his counterpart in Bauchi, Bala Mohammed; Benue Governor,
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Gunmen abduct Ogun businessman, in-law hospitalised
A businessman, Segun Oparinde, has been abducted by gunmen who ambushed him at the entrance of his house at Imeko, in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. During the operation which happened around 11.30pm on Tuesday, the gunmen allegedly shot Oparinde’s in-law, Bello Ibrahim, who rushed out when he heard the businessman shouting
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Lagos undergraduate defrauds company of N900,000
A 24-year-old undergraduate of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, Busayo Ayedun, is undergoing trial before a Yaba Magistrate Court for allegedly defrauding a company, CD Care Limited, of goods and cash worth over N900,000 in the state. The defendant is facing eight-count bordering on deliberate and unlawful conspiracy, felony, defrauding, deceit, pretence, stealing, forgery and
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Ghana disowns ‘unauthorised’ advisory against travel to Abuja
Ghana has disowned a security advisory issued on Wednesday, warning her citizens from travelling to Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Wednesday notice carried the name and logo of the Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. It indicated that Nigeria asked some hotels to close, citing “the directive by local authorities to hotels
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FG to support female commercial drivers
The Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, has promised to facilitate the support of the Federal Government for female professional and commercial drivers in the country. The minister made the promise when he received the leadership of Female Drivers Association of Nigeria in his office in Abuja on Wednesday. According to a statement by
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Agency arrests civil servants, retirees over N4.8bn fraud
Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency has announced that it has arrested some serving and retired civil servants in the state over a fraudulent contract worth N4.8billion, awarded in 2018. The agency’s chairman, Justice Eni Esan (retired), in a statement, on Wednesday, said the fraud was said to have been perpetrated by the individuals at the Oyo
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Two killed in Bauchi auto crash
Two people were killed after a vehicle in the convoy of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Bauchi State, Nuhu Zaki, collided with a motorcycle, The PUNCH learnt. One other person sustained bruises and a fracture in the fatal crash. The accident which occurred on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at about 2.25pm, at
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Lagos hoodlum caught selling phone to robbed victim’s wife
A former bartender, Jones Adewoye, has narrated before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos State, how a hoodlum, Felix Ayeye, was arrested while attempting to sell the phone he stole from him to his wife at their residence in the Ajah area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that
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Soludo vs Obi: A reality check or naked dance in marketplace?
ADELANI ADEPEGBA and DIRISU YAKUBU x-ray Governor Charles Soludo’s recent harsh evaluation of the performance of Peter Obi as governor of Anambra State, his dismissal of the chances of the Labour Party flagbearer in the coming presidential poll, and his criticism of the Igbo’s style in its quest for the nation’s number one seat, a
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NBC’s tyranny cannot hide their moral cowardice
The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission’s imposition of a N2m fine on AriseTV for the sin of airing a contrived report about a presidential candidate is one of those curious instances of bureaucratic efficiency. Coming after some government agencies had indicated they would not be pursuing the substantial issue of this presidential candidate’s association with narcotics, it
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