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  The founder/Chief Executive Officer of Moniepoint Inc., Tosin Eniolorunda, has said that it is more profitable to provide financial services to women than men. Eniolorunda said this in a statement shared with The PUNCH on Tuesday while highlighting the need to ...

  United Bank for Africa is set to empower Micro, Small, and Medium-scale Enterprises with wealth management skills in the last edition of its quarterly business series for the year. The pan-African bank said this edition of the business series, ...

  •Consular officers deployed to embassies in Spain, Malaysia, Brazil, others, concerns raised over state of country’s missions abroad The Federal Government has begun deploying consular officers to diplomatic missions worldwide before the anticipated release of the ambassadorial list. This ...

  Port Harcourt-based, Anambra-born architect, Engr. Asomba Andrew Egbuonu, has been k!lled by gunmen in Nnewi, four days before the burial of his late mother. Egbuonu was a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (FNIA). The General Secretary of ...

  The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 31-year-old man, Salisu Bala, on allegations of impersonating a police officer to extort and terrorise residents in the state. Bala was apprehended by members of the Police Special Constabulary at Koki ...

  A bill seeking to amend the Constitution and the 2022 Electoral Act to allow Nigerians in the diaspora to vote has passed its second reading in the House of Representatives. According to Channels TV, the proposed legislation, co-sponsored by ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has awarded Certificates of Return to Ondo State’s Governor-elect, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and his deputy, Dr. Olayide Adelami. The ceremony, held at INEC’s headquarters on Tuesday, was attended by notable figures, including the ...

  Days after the Court of Appeal in Abuja nullified his presidency, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya assumed office as the National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers on Tuesday. This marks the first time MC Oluomo has ...

  The Senate has removed the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, over alleged gross misconduct. This decision was made pursuant to Section 157(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999, as amended), which empowers ...

  The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, otherwise known as So-Safe Corps, has arrested 18-year-old Abdullahi Idowu, an ex-convict and Samson Ojo, aged 17, for theft of a generator’s engine parts at the Idiroko border area in ...

  A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram of Jesus to take confessions from Catholic worshippers, as seen in a wild viral video. “I was surprised, it was so easy, and though it’s a machine, it gave me ...

  President Bola Tinubu has dissolved the Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, and removed its newly appointed Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bernard Odoh, and Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Nwokike. He also approved the removal of Ohieku Salami as Pro-Chancellor ...

  The Federal Government has revoked all restrictions on the posting of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, paving the way for corps members to be deployed to private sector organisations such as banks and oil and gas companies. The ...

  Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is 67 today, November, 20, 2024 To celebrate one of Nigeria’s best president (not my words, but words of Nigerians today on X), Bayelsa Governor, Douye Diri, ex-senate president, Bukola Saraki, SilverBird Group CEO, Ben Bruce ...

  Globacom CEO, Mike Adenuga is alive This was confirmed by veteran journalists, Otunba Dele Momodu and Nifemi Oguntoye. Momodu in an X post last night, said he had a phone conversation with the reclusive billionaire. He said Adenuga confirmed ...

  US President-Elect, Donald Trump has confirmed that he intends to declare a national emergency over border security and deploy the U.S. military to implement a large-scale deportation of undocumented immigrants. Immigration was a central issue in Trump’s campaign, during which ...

  A woman mauled by dog in Boston on Monday that also hurt her husband and two police officers has d!ed from her injuries, investigators announced Tuesday. Officers responding to a report of people bitten by a dog in the ...

  The lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has appealed to the Senate to allow the widow of the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah to replace him as the representative of Anambra South Senatorial District. Ndume made this appeal during the ...

  A Hong Kong court has sentenced key pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial national security trial. Benny Tai and Joshua Wong were among the ‘Hong Kong 47 group’ of activists and lawmakers involved in ...

  Mr. Macaroni has strongly criticized the Tinubu-led administration, stating that its spokespersons lack the moral authority to condemn past governments.   In a lengthy post on his X handle on Tuesday, Mr. Macaroni expressed his frustration with the insensitivity ...

  No fewer than 25 persons have died and several others hospitalised following the outbreak of Gastroenteritis also known as Cholera in three council areas in Sokoto North, Silame and Kware local government areas of the state. The state commissioner ...

  We don’t put our dads in retirement homes in Africa. I can never do it — Rapper Phyno Nigerian award-winning rapper, Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike, popularly known as Phyno, has expressed his views on the trend of relocating elderly parents ...

  As part of its latest immigration policies, Canada has implemented a ban on the automatic conversion of study permits into permanent residency for international students. Under the new regulation, international students will be required to return to their home ...

  A drug trafficker, Nnamani Sunday, was on Monday convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Lagos State for attempting to export 800 grams of Cannabis Sativa, also called Marijuana, to the United Kingdom ...

  President Bola Tinubu has written to the National Assembly, seeking approval of a fresh N1.767tn as a new external borrowing plan in the 2024 appropriation act. If approved, the loan will be used to part-finance the deficit of N9.7tn ...