Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has asked the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to complete the Trade Fair-LASU Gate portion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway within eight months. Sanwo-Olu gave the directive during an inspection of […]
Bode George, former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has indicated interest to contest as president in 2023. The Pathfinder Consortium, a group led by Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, George’s special adviser, made the […]
Data from the US travel and tourism office shows a 21 per cent drop in the number of Nigerians travelling to the country, the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of 2019 […]
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, became $4.3 billion richer in 2019 with his business investments in cement, flour and sugar. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the 62-year-old businessman ended the year with a net […]
The Nigerian Railways Corporation (NRC) has denied reports that a train conveying passengers from Kaduna to Abuja was attacked by gunmen on Thursday. There were reports that a train, which left the Rigasa train station […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to expect significant improvement in electricity supply across the country in 2020. In his New Year’s message on Wednesday, Buhari said his administration will create solutions to help separate […]
Nigerians living abroad remitted about $25 billion in 2019, the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has said. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said this on Tuesday while briefing State […]
Pope Francis has tendered an apology after slapping a woman on the arm for pulling him. The incident happened on Tuesday, the New Year’s eve, when the pontiff was making his way through the crowd […]
PUNCH was conspicuously missing among the national dailies that got front page advertorial from the presidency on Wednesday. The advertorial contained the New Year message of President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians. While the content splashed on […]
Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed the 2020 budget of the state into law. Nigerians in the past have criticised Lagos State’s budget for its lack of transparency. The move comes less than 24 […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting now behind closed doors with service chiefs at the Aso Villa, Abuja. No agenda was released prior to the meeting. But it is expected the president will receive briefings from […]
President Muhammadu Buhari came under heavy criticism yesterday for his failure to act in the alleged indictment of his Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, for a $550,000 security fund diversion. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu deflected […]
Nigerians’ hope of a better economic outlook in 2020 may not be realised unless some lingering challenges are addressed and the anxieties about more taxes, unfavorable government policies and higher inflation are doused, some members […]
Babatunde Fashola, the minister for works and housing, says the ongoing construction of Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway will be completed by the end of 2020. Fashola was speaking on Sunday while inspecting the rehabilitation work being carried […]
Fusilier Lee Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo is part of a deradicalisation programme in the jail where London Bridge attacker Usman Khan was an inmate, it was reported last night. Adebolajo, 34, is acting as an […]
A Pentecostal preacher drowned in a Costa del Sol swimming pool with his two children on Christmas Eve. Gabriel Diya, 52, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, died while attempting to save his daughter Comfort, nine, […]
Nigeria’s attorney-general and minister of justice has explained why the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria was not released along with former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki and the publisher of Sahara Reporters Omoyele […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said the N50 being charged Nigerians who use Point of Sale (POS) machines for transactions, is a misinterpretation of its directive by rogue merchants. CBN Director of Payment System […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reduced the withdrawal charge attached to transactions on banks’ automated teller machines (ATM) from N65 to N35. This is contained in a document entitled, ‘Guide to Bank Charges’ […]
In September 2019, MTN Nigeria became the first and only Nigerian company to have been awarded the Platinum Certification by the Investors In People (IIP) Body. In 2013, MTN became the first Nigerian company to […]
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