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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu |Solomon Odeniyi |John Charles |Deborah Tolu-Kolawole |Nathaniel Shaibu
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday set up a committee to help restore sustainable peace to Benue State following last Friday’s massacre in Yelewata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, which saw around 200 people killed. Members of the peace committee selected by the President include former Military Governor of Benue State, Gen Atom Kpera (retd.), Senator George Akume, Senator Gabriel Suswam and Samuel Ortom — all former Benue governors.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Solomon Odeniyi |John Charles |Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Gift Habib |Nathaniel Shaibu
In a move to end the violence that has cost many lives and destroyed homes across several communities, President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday (today) hold a meeting with the stakeholders in Benue State and listen to their concerns firsthand. Over 200 people were reportedly killed within a few hours, including children and women, at Yelewata, Guma LGA on Friday night. The killers reportedly used sophisticated weapons and fuel to set houses ablaze.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | John Charles |Stephen Angbulu |Adetutu Sobowale |Solomon Odeniyi |Nathaniel Shaibu |Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis | +4 more
The military and the police have launched a joint, cross-border manhunt for the gunmen who killed around 200 villagers in Yelewata, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, on the night of Friday, June 13, 2025. Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa and Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun arrived in Makurdi and Yelewata on Monday to coordinate the operation that would target the suspected killers.
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1 week ago | 
punchng.com | Nathaniel Shaibu |Solomon Odeniyi |Olufemi Adediran
Ahead of the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum issued to ground rent debtors by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, landowners have continued to throng the office of the Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) to save their property from takeover.
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2 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Gbenga Oloniniran |Deborah Tolu-Kolawole |Solomon Odeniyi |Nathaniel Shaibu |John Charles |Umar Sani | +5 more
Anti-government protests and counter-rallies to drum up support for President Bola Tinubu in Abuja and six states held on Thursday as the country celebrated Democracy Day, The PUNCH reports. In Abuja, the Take It Back movement protesters’ plan to storm the National Assembly failed as heavy security deployment prevented access to the complex where President Tinubu addressed a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives as part of activities marking Democracy Day.
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2 weeks ago | 
punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu |damilola aina |Nathaniel Shaibu |Dennis Naku
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday attracted praises and knocks for the list of honourees he announced as democracy heroes. While some Nigerians lauded the President for his tribute to the heroes of the June 12, 1993 struggle, others lamented that key names were conspicuously omitted from the list. The late Moshood Abiola was named winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, regarded as the freest and fairest in the country, which was annulled by the military under General Ibrahim Babangida.
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
