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In Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me, the narrative revolves around Akin and Yejide, a young Yoruba couple grappling with the challenges of childbirth and navigating their careers and emotional turmoil within their relationship. This story provides a poignant lens through which to examine reproductive health issues in Nigeria. According to the 2021 MICS/NICS report by

The state of the country’s economy has affected the real estate sector adversely in 2024, a report by Ubosi Eleh & Co. has stated. The report, titled “The Nigeria Real Estate Report 2024”, noted, “Although Lagos is the economic nerve centre of Nigeria, the current state of the nation’s economy has affected office real estate

The governments of Kano, Kebbi and Yobe states have relaxed the curfew they imposed as the nationwide hunger protest turned violent in their domains. In a statement on Sunday by its  Commissioner of Information, Baba Halilu Dantiye, the Kano State Government said it relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed last Thursday, when the protest started, to

The Nigeria Labour Congress has advised governors who can’t pay the new N70,000 minimum wage to quit office. The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, last week said his administration would not be able to pay the new national minimum wage of N70,000. Yahaya, who chairs the Northern Governors’ Forum, spoke at a meeting with labour

The Independent National Electoral Commission will hold by-elections to fill the vacant seats of four National Assembly members who passed away in 2024. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that the by-elections would be held after the upcoming Edo and Ondo governorship elections slated for September 21 and November 16, 2024, respectively. Since its inauguration in

One of the Labour Party’s governorship aspirants in Edo State, Kenneth Imasuagbon, has headed to the Court of Appeal to further challenge the emergence of Olumide Akpata as the LP candidate for the September 21 governorship poll. The Federal High Court in Benin had on July 15 dismissed Imasuagbon’s suit, wherein he sought Akpata’s disqualification.

The National Emergency Management Agency has distributed food and other relief items to the victims of the 2024 flood disaster in Kebbi State. The Head of the NEMA Sokoto Operation Office, Aliyu Shehu-Kafindangi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Gusau.  Shehu-Kafindangi said the gesture was in response to a request by the state

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed a law stipulating a five-year jail term for land grabbers as part of efforts to encourage investment in the state. This was disclosed at the weekend by the Speaker of the Assembly, Adeoye Aribasoye, during a chat with journalists in Ado Ekiti.  “Recently, the House of Assembly

Nantes manager Antoine Kombouaré has expressed concerns over the fitness of Super Eagles forward Moses Simon ahead of the 2024/25 season after the Nigerian suffered an ankle injury in the club’s friendly game against Laval, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Simon scored the winning goal from the spot in the 60th minute as the Canaries secured

Traders in Katsina State capital, Katsina State, on Sunday, decried low patronage following the nationwide #EndbadgovernanceinNigeria protests. PUNCH Metro had earlier reported that the protests had led to various degrees of injuries of unspecified number of both the security personnel and protesters, looting of government and private establishments as well as destruction of property worth

A 27-year-old man, identified as Tolu Falansa, was found dead in his apartment following a midnight fire incident in the Owode-Yewa community, located in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro learnt from a police source familiar with the incident on Saturday, who wished to remain anonymous due to a lack

Nigeria’s women became the first team from the African continent, men or women, ever to reach the quarter-finals of an Olympic basketball tournament on Sunday. The Nigerians clinched their place in the last eight by beating Canada 79-70 at the Pierre-Mauroy Stadium near Lille. The win means Nigeria are guaranteed to finish among the top

The World Health Organisation’s chief said on Sunday that he is considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing mpox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency. Since last September, cases have surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to a strain of the virus which has recently been

World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79sec to claim gold in a dramatic men’s Olympics 100m final in Paris on Sunday. Lyles became the first American, male or female, to win the event since Justin Gatlin won in the 2004 Athens Games. In a photo-finish, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson claimed silver, just five-thousandths of