archiveSeptember 2021

  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...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has suspended its Chairman in Gombe State, Rev. Sunday Congo, for congratulating the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali-Pantami over his professorial promotion. Pantami was among seven Readers (Associate Professors) promoted to Professors by the Governing Council of Federal University of...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria is determined to ensure a prompt return of democratic rule to Guinea after the recent military coup. According to him, Nigeria wants the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to insist on a short transition programme that will usher in a new civilian...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed targeted sanctions on the leaders of the military juntas in Guinea and Mali, a move aimed at forcing the rapid return of the countries to democratic rule. The decision was taken at an extraordinary summit of heads of state and...

  Justice Ladiran Akintola of Oyo State High Court on Friday lambasted the Department of State Security (DSS) over the invasion of the Ibadan home of Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise called Sunday Igboho. The judge also awarded the sum of N20 billion against the DSS for its actions which he described...

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of SCOA Nigeria Plc, Dr. Massad Boulos has commended Unity Bank Plc and other banks for facilitating a credit facility of N15.5 billion for the importation and supply of 33 MAN Platform Trucks and equipment to construction giant, Julius Berger Plc. The equipment is...