News

  Melania Trump has explained the real reason she swatted away husband Donald Trump‘s hand during a trip to Israel. The moment at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport sparked a media frenzy after it took place in May 2017. At the time, ...

  The National Association of Academic Technologists has issued the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to pay the five and a half months of withheld salaries among other demands, or its members will withdraw their services in universities. This ultimatum was ...

  A 20-year-old man, identified as Faisal Audu, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command in connection with the alleged murder of a hunter named Saheed Awolesi in the Sagamu area. Punch Online understood on Monday, that officers ...

  A somber day of commemoration has begun in Israel to mark the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks. As dawn broke, hundreds of people gathered at the site of the Nova festival to honor those k!lled there ...

  The Federal Government says it has commenced sales of crude oil and other refined products in naira. It said the initiative commenced on October 1, 2024 without providing further details on the contractual agreement signed and pricing of the ...

  Leading financial technology firm OPay has introduced its innovative Large Transaction Shield feature, designed to offer users greater control and security over their funds. In a statement released to The PUNCH on Sunday, the company explained that the feature ...

  Sterling Bank has teamed up with AfriGO and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System to introduce the “Independence Reward Programme”. Launched in commemoration of Nigeria’s 64th Independence anniversary, the bank noted in a release that the initiative sought to distribute ...

  Unity Bank Plc has hosted a capacity-building workshop aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs with digital marketing skills. The workshop, themed “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: AI and Digital Marketing Strategies,” brought together participants from various sectors to equip them with essential ...

  Coscharis Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of the Coscharis Group, has finalised plans to executive a $4bn renewable energy project to revolutionise Nigeria’s power sector. According to the firm, the initiative, the largest green energy project in West Africa, will ...

  The Federal Government is set to deliver up to 400,000 barrels of Nigerian crude oil daily to the Dangote refinery under its naira-for-crude agreement, a report by Bloomberg stated on Monday. It said this significant development is expected to ...

  Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, will swear in the newly elected council chairmen of the 23 local government areas today at the Executive Council Chambers of the Government House in Port Harcourt. The Rivers State Independent National Electoral Commission ...

  A pastor at the Church of The Brethren (EYN) Moduganari in Maiduguri, Borno State slumped and died while conducting a child naming and dedication service. It was gathered that Pastor Vincent Alaku was naming a child during service on ...

  A 19-year-old man identified as Abba Yusuf, allegedly stabbed his 60-year-old  father, Alhaji Dahiru Yusuf Maileather, to d@ath in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. The incident happened at the weekend at Sarkin-Noma quarters at about 8.30 p.m. The elder brother ...

  Lagos, 5 October 2024: FirstBank has announced the full restoration of services on Firstmobile, its mobile banking platform, following a downtime earlier this week which occurred following a recent upgrade of the mobile banking application. Firstmobile is now up ...

  Access ARM Pensions Limited has commenced its operations with N3tn in Assets Under Management. In a statement on Thursday, Access ARM Pensions stated that the newly formed entity, a merger of Access Pensions Limited and ARM Pension Managers Limited, ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday approved President Bola Tinubu’s request for a refund of about N24bn to the Kebbi and Nasarawa state governments, for the takeover of two airports built by the two states. Recall that on May 16, ...

The Action Peoples Party has won 22 chairmanship positions out of 23 in the Rivers State local government election. The Chief Election Officer of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, made this known on Saturday in Port ...

  Borno State Government has declared an outbreak of cholera with a staggering number of 451 cases recorded so far. This was disclosed on Friday by Prof. Baba Mallam Gana, the state’s Commissioner for Health during a press conference in Maiduguri. ...

  Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, disclosed on Wednesday that it paid over $2bn to content creators in 2023, marking a significant milestone in its monetisation efforts. This announcement coincides with the rollout of Facebook’s new Content ...

  Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the second-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. With a net worth of $206 billion — driven higher by a recent rally in the Facebook parent company’s stock ...

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed October 21, 2024, for the hearing of pending applications in a suit filed by an investment firm, Barbican Capital Limited against First Bank of Nigeria Holdings Plc over the alleged disputes ...

  The Federal Government has announced the exemption of 63 items from Value-Added Tax (VAT), as part of its latest fiscal reforms. This was revealed by the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, ...

  In a significant milestone for Nigeria’s creative economy, Minister Hannatu Musawa has announced a $200 million financing facility with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). According to Vanguard, this partnership aims to drive growth in the country’s creative industries, aligning ...

  Reno Omokri has taken to social media to share photos from his visits to the Presidential Villa and the residence of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Omokri posted a photo with President Bola Tinubu, taken on Nigeria’s 64th Independence Day anniversary, ...

  A 24-year-old welder identified as Adedeji has been confirmed d3ad after he was electrocuted at Nnamdi Azikiwe Street on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State. The deceased was said to have been working on the site of a ...