archiveAugust 2022

    may not budget for capital project fuel subsidy ends June next year promises not to default on debt servicing   The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, on Monday said the government was proposing an aggregate expenditure of N19.76 trillion for the 2023 financial...

  Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Friday has disclosed that the Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.54 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of 2022. This is an improvement compared to the 3.11 per cent growth recorded in the previous...

Investors on the Nigerian bourse gained N532.1 billion on Thursday as the bullish run continued even as market capitalization nudged up by 2.02 per cent in the day trading. In what was a complete recovery from two consecutive losses recorded earlier in the week, the stock market’s equity capitalization rose...

Former Presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as part of efforts to galvanize support for the party’s 2023 candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will meet in Abuja, next week. The meeting is coming barely three months after some of them went head-to-head at the primary...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, met with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi; and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in London. Although details of the meeting were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, The PUNCH learnt that it was part of...

A 23-year-old call girl, Mary Olatayo, has been apprehended by the men of the Ogun State Police Command for selling her three weeks old baby at the rate of six hundred thousand naira. Olatayo was said to have shared a sum of N300, 000 with a friend and an accomplice,...

Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Barrister Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem has warned those he called purveyors of a campaign of calumny to desist from their evil plots against the education family, declaring that the campaign will fail. The Commissioner was reacting to an anonymous post being widely circulated...

  *VP launches SDGs 3&4 independent evaluation document *Says, goals align with FG’s desire to lift 100 million out of poverty in a decade Determined to improve effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria, the Federal Government will leverage existing institutional framework to promote stronger partnerships and...

  At a global programme tagged REACHOUT WORLD LIVE WITH PASTOR CHRIS, Christ Embassy will celebrate a historic milestone as the Rhapsody of Realities devotional is now in 7,000 languages of the world. No platform or publication in the world has ever been translated into 7,000 distinct languages. LoveWorld Incorporated,...

The Economic and Financial crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, August 25, 2022, secured the conviction of one Emeka Anaga before Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting at Abakiliki, Ebonyi State on a 38-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretence, forgery and uttering to the...