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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Dirisu Yakubu |Sami Tunji |Oluwakemi Abimbola |Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Nathaniel Shaibu
•NASS set to approve Tinubu’s loan request, foreign debt nears $70bn, economists worry over high debt-servicingNigeria’s public debt is set for another significant jump as President Bola Tinubu has requested the National Assembly’s approval to secure fresh foreign loans amounting to about $24.14bn.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Nathaniel Shaibu
The Peoples Democratic Party has criticised the Federal Capital Territory Administration task force for sealing off its national headquarters in Abuja over unpaid ground rent. At about 2:06 p.m. on Monday, the FCTA task force shut down multiple facilities—including the PDP national secretariat in Wuse Zone 5—citing non-payment of ground rent.
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2 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Nathaniel Shaibu |Dirisu Yakubu |Sami Tunji
Civic tech organisation, BudgIT Nigeria, says it has uncovered over 11,000 dubious projects worth N6.93trn inserted by the National Assembly in the 2025 budget. The organisation disclosed this in a statement published on its official X handle on Tuesday, describing the development as a “deeply entrenched culture of exploitation and abuse”, led by top-ranking members of the National Assembly.
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3 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Deborah Tolu-Kolawole |Dirisu Yakubu |Nathaniel Shaibu
Parents of the candidates affected by the human error which led to a glitch in the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination have demanded the postponement of the planned resit, which begins today, till June 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Nathaniel Shaibu |Abdulrahman Zakariyau
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has stated that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, will not stand a chance of winning the presidential election against President Bola Tinubu in 2027, if it does not change its zoning system. The Minister made the statement during a live media parley on Monday, where he cited the non-adherence of the Party to its constitutional provisions, regarding the zoning of the Chairmanship and Presidential candidacy of the party.
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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Olufemi Adediran |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Godfrey George |Nathaniel Shaibu
The suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Friday, countered a United States-based activist, Dr Sandra Duru, who alleged a plot to frame Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The lawmaker, in a statement issued by her media aide, Israel Arogbonlo, said all the recorded conversations played in Duru’s live stream were manipulated. The allegationsDuru, popularly known as Prof.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Adeyinka Adedipe |Godwin Isenyo |Bankole Taiwo |Solomon Odeniyi |Tukur Muntari |Collins Agwam | +3 more
•14 arrested as gov suspends security corps boss, illegal vigilante groupsThe Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Sunday, strongly condemned the killing of 16 hunters in Edo State, vowing that the perpetrators will be brought to justice. The CDS pledged, as the Edo State government said, that Governor Monday Okpehbolo had reached out to the victims’ families, the Hausa community leaders in the state, and the northern governors about the incident.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Dirisu Yakubu |Nathaniel Shaibu
The House of Representatives came under fire on Thursday for reversing its earlier decision on the removal of immunity for the vice president, governors and deputy governors. Civil Society Organisations, including the Centre for Accountability and Open Leadership and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, in separate interviews with The PUNCH, faulted the House’s decision.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu |Nathaniel Shaibu
President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, ordered priority treatment of persons injured in Wednesday’s tanker explosion at various medical facilities in Abuja. He also directed a thorough investigation into the incident that resulted in multiple accidents and loss of lives that occurred near Karu bridge, along the Abuja-Keffi Expressway, on Wednesday.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Solomon Odeniyi |Nathaniel Shaibu |Gbenga Odogun
The push to recall the suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District of Kogi State at the Senate, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, intensified on Thursday, with more groups in Kogi Central throwing their weight behind the process. A group of Ebira indigenes refuted the claim that the recall process was being sponsored and influenced with money by Akpoti-Uduaghan’s political opponents.
