Wale Akinselure

6 days ago | punchng.com | Wale Akinselure

Executive Secretary, TETFund, Sonny Echono The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Mr. Sonny Echono, has emphasised the need for Nigeria’s tertiary institutions to evolve into innovation hubs while also continuing to produce skilled manpower for national development.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Wale Akinselure |Abdulrahman Zakariyau

The ruling All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, hit back at prominent economic, Prof Pat Utomi, for likening Nigerians experience under the administration of President Bola Tinubu to “the fascist conditions in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.” In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC condemned Utomi’s remark, describing it as “reckless, irresponsible and insensitive,” adding that such a comment “should be beneath a man of Utomi’s standing but has clearly cast...

1 week ago | punchng.com | Wale Akinselure |Gift Habib |Stephen Angbulu

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Wale Akinselure

Black smoke billowed from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening around 8 pm, signalling that the first ballot of the papal conclave ended without the election of a new Pope. An estimated 45,000 faithful had gathered in St Peter’s Square, eyes fixed on the small chimney that carries global significance. Smoke was expected shortly after 7 pm, but it took nearly an hour longer for the black plume to emerge, confirming an inconclusive vote.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Wale Akinselure

Zamfara House of Assembly The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has rejected the summons issued to the Benue and Zamfara State Houses of Assembly by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions.