The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission says the ongoing probe of alleged “questionable expenditures and financial misappropriation” in the Kano Emirate Council has no political motive. Muhiyi Magaji, the Chairman of the anti-graft agency, made the clarification in an
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) yesterday shared N467.8 billion as revenue for March to the federal, states and local governments. The amount was N38.7 billion more than the amount shared by the three tiers of government for February. The Accountant-General, Mr Ahmed Idris, who represented the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, at the […]
The Ahmed Makarfi led Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chided the Presidency for expelling The Punch Aso Rock correspondent, Olalekan Adetayo. Adetayo was on Monday expelled from the Aso Villa by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Abubakar Bashir over a report he did on Buhari’s health, which Bashir considered unpalatable.
The Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff, General Abu Shafiul Huq has urged the Nigerian Army to adopt both political and diplomatic lines of operations in its ongoing fight against Boko Haram in the country. He gave the advice on Tuesday in a lecture tagged, “Counter Insurgency Operations: Bangladesh Perspective”, held at the National Defence College,Abuja. […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advised that there is need for countries to close ranks to counter the threats posed by their activities of terrorist groups, saying networking among insurgent groups has increased. Osinbajo said the Federal Government was aware that terrorists “within our own borders are cooperating with ISIS”, adding that “such evil
Contrary to reports in some section of the media that a group known as Arewa foundation based in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia threatened to abort the Hajj 2017 exercise, the group has offered an insight on the issue. A statement jointly signed by its chairman and secretary respectively , Alhaji Ibrahim Sulaiman Yusuf Alhaji […]










