Stephen Angbulu

Abuja

State House Correspondent at The Punch

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Articles

Tinubu to meet service chiefs over rising killings

2 days ago | punchng.com | Solomon Odeniyi |Stephen Angbulu |Dare Olawin |Bankole Taiwo |Maiharaji Altine |Isah Ojo | +6 more

President Bola Tinubu is planning to meet with the service chiefs to discuss the rising killings in Plateau, Benue and other parts of the country on his return to Abuja from his two-week working visit to Paris, the French capital. Tinubu returned to Abuja on Monday night after spending 18 days on a working visit and retreat in Paris and London.
Tinubu inaugurates census committee

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday inaugurated a high-level committee on the forthcoming national population and housing census. At the ceremony held at State House, Abuja, Tinubu mandated the committee to submit an interim report within three weeks, May 7, 2025.
Oil slump, Trump tariffs put Nigeria’s economy at risk - FG

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

The CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Farouk Ahmed, says the ongoing instability in global oil markets is negatively impacting Nigeria’s economy. He said while falling petroleum product prices may benefit consumers, the broader economic consequences are severe for Nigeria, which heavily relies on oil exports.
PMS imports drop by 30 million litres in eight months - NMDPRA

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

Imports of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) have plunged from 44.6 million litres a day in August 2024 to 14.7 ML by 13 April 2025—a fall of roughly 30 ML, or 67 per cent, according to the latest Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority supply tracker.
CAN challenges Kano’s blasphemy law after ECOWAS verdict

1 week ago | punchng.com | Solomon Odeniyi |Stephen Angbulu

The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to comply with the recent judgment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, which declared certain provisions of Kano State’s Shariah law, particularly on blasphemy, incompatible with international human rights standards.
Tinubu orders offensive as fresh Plateau attack leaves 51 dead

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu |James Abraham

President Bola Tinubu has strongly condemned the violence in Plateau State, urging the state’s leadership to find a lasting solution to persistent communal conflicts. This comes after at least 51 people were again killed by gunmen with scores injured in the early hours of Monday in the Zikke and Kakpa communities in Bassa Local Government Area of the North Central state, two weeks after deadly clashes in another part of the state left several people dead.
'Enough is enough,' Tinubu demands permanent solution to Plateau killings

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

President Bola Tinubu has strongly condemned the recent violence in Plateau State, which resulted in the deaths of over 40 people, urging the state’s leadership to find a lasting solution to persistent communal conflicts. “We cannot allow this devastation and the tit-for-tat attacks to continue. Enough is enough,” Tinubu said in a statement signed Monday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
ECOWAS ruling: Rights group urges Kano to repeal blasphemy laws

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

Rights group, Rivers in the Desert Nigeria, has called on the Kano State Government to immediately repeal its controversial blasphemy laws following a recent ruling by the Economic Community of West African States Court, which deemed them unlawful and incompatible with fundamental human rights.
Tinubu, US team discuss trade pact, tariff reforms

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

President Bola Tinubu has met Senior Advisor for Africa in U.S. President Donald Trump’s State Department team, Mr Massad Boulos, to explore what both sides called a “strategic economic and security partnership” built on mutual prosperity and regional stability.
Presidency dismisses US court order on Tinubu, Atiku differs

1 week ago | punchng.com | Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis |Stephen Angbulu |Gift Habib |Abdulrahman Zakariyau

The Presidency on Sunday dismissed any notion of fresh revelations emerging from a United States court order directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration to release files on President Bola Tinubu’s past investigation. It insisted that the records, which date back to a drug trafficking investigation in Chicago from the early 1990s, have been publicly available for over three decades and posed no fresh concerns for the President.