archiveSeptember 17, 2021

The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that it has not been informed about the court judgment ordering it to pay N20 billion in damages to Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. Peter Afunanya, spokesperson of the DSS who spoke on Friday said the court has...

The Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has sought the assistance of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) to stop migration of big Nigerian industries to other countries. A delegation of NACCIMA, led by its National President, Chief John Udeagbala, made this known in Abuja...

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said he will turn his back on former President, Goodluck Jonathan, if he ever defects to the All Progressives Congress, APC. There have been rumours circulating that Jonathan is on his way to dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the...

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to retain the benchmark interest rate at 11.5%, whilst keeping all other monetary parameters constant. This was disclosed by the Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele, while reading the communique at the end of the monetary policy...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has said that Nigerians will know the identities of terrorism financiers in the country at the right time. He disclosed this while featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ current affairs programme on Thursday. The President,...

  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says average price per litre paid by consumers for household kerosene increased to N400.01 in August from N397.34 in July. A report obtained from the NBS’s website by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, said kerosene price increased by 0.67 per...

  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday disclosed that solving mathematical problems saved him from insanity during his 27 months incarceration. Soyinka, said though, he disliked mathematics as a subject while he was in secondary school, the subject actually became his saving grace when he was undergoing over two-year incarceration...

A standard gauge rail being planned from Kano State in Nigeria to Maradi in Niger Republic is one of the projects President Muhammadu Buhari plans to fund with the fresh external loans he is asking the National Assembly to approve for his regime, The PUNCH has learnt. Buhari had asked...

Presiding Bishop of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Ibadan, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has cautioned clergymen in the country against serving God with levity. Bishop Oke who is also the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), urged Ministers of God to continue to develop themselves intellectually and...

The Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico, Hon. Adejare Bello, has presented his letter of credence to the country's President, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador. According to a release from his office,the ceremony which took place at the National Palace, in Mexico City, coincided with the presentation of similar letters from ambassadors of...