Ismaeel Uthman
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Sex workers scramble as anti–HIV jab runs out (opens the original)
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Sex workers and other eligible Nigerians are increasingly seeking the twice-yearly injectable HIV-prevention drug, Lenacapavir, as growing demand depletes supplies in some states participating in the Federal Government’s pilot programme. Findings by Saturday PUNCH showed that Benue, Kwara, Gombe and Cross River states have experienced stock-outs barely months after the rollout of the long-acting injection. In Cross River, health workers said demand had risen particularly among sex workers, who c
Horror in NSCDC cell of death (opens the original)
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At first, Dauda Shehu and other detainees struggled to find space inside the cell. Then, according to him, they began struggling for something more basic — air. Shehu was one of 65 suspected illegal miners allegedly crammed into a cell at the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps office in Minna, Niger State, after their arrests on September 15 and 16. For three days, the detainees reportedly remained in custody. But what happened inside the cell has now become the subject of a national inve
2027: Parties court IDPs as insecurity threatens voting (opens the original)
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Major political parties have begun courting internally displaced persons ahead of the 2027 elections, Sunday PUNCH can report. The parties, including the African Democratic Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria Democratic Congress, Allied Peoples Movement and Social Democratic Party, have outlined plans to reach displaced Nigerians, even as uncertainty persists over how IDPs will participate in the elections. All the parties, in separate interviews with Sunday PUNCH, decried the displaceme
Terrorists plot attacks on Osun worship centres, markets (opens the original)
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The Department of State Services has alerted Muslim and Christian leaders in Osun State to an alleged plan by terrorists to attack places of worship and other public gathering centres as part of efforts to frustrate the 2027 general elections, Sunday PUNCH has gathered. It was learnt that the DSS held separate meetings with the Muslim community and the Christian Association of Nigeria in Osogbo on Wednesday, where the religious leaders were advised to take preventive measures against possible at
Post-election crisis tears Osun APC apart (opens the original)
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The defeat of the All Progressives Congress in the August 15 Osun governorship election has exposed deep divisions within the party, with its leaders trading blame over what went wrong, Ismaeel Uthman writes The August 15 governorship election defeat has plunged the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress into a fresh crisis, with party leaders and supporters trading accusations over who should take responsibility for the loss. Since Governor Ademola Adeleke was declared winner of th
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