Author: Holly Fortini

The Kogi State Government has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to come clean on its prosecution of the immediate past governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, insisting that the funds of the state are not missing. The anti-graft agency on Thursday named Bello in an amended charge filed at the Federal High […]

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The Ministry of Transport has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Messrs MPH Rail Development Limited, a United Kingdom company for the implementation of the Port Harcourt–Enugu–Calabar–Abuja Standard Gauge Rail Line project under a public-private partnership framework. This announcement was made in a statement sighted on Friday on the ministry’s website. Under the MoU, the […]

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The 2023/2024 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals draw has just been completed at the UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. PUNCH Online reports that the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals first legs are planned for April 9 and 10, followed by the second legs on April 16 and 17. Here are the Champions League quarter-finalists draw: Arsenal (ENGLAND) […]

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A 60-year-old man named Bamidele Haruna was brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for supposedly showing a fake National Identification Number while acting as a guarantor in a case at the Federal High Court. The accused is being charged with three offenses related to conspiracy, forgery, lying under oath, and pretending to be someone else, as brought against him by the police. The prosecutor, […]

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President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori as the new Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS. Ilori, who is the first female to be appointed the Director-General of the agency, began her initial term of four years on February 22, 2024. The Head of Public Relations and Protocol […]

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