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  Wema Bank to Train and Empower 800,000 Nigerian Businesses …Signs MOU with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) Reinforcing its reputation as an institution committed to empowering SMEs, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative bank and pioneer ...

  By A.Ezekiel In a world where approximately 20% of new businesses fail within the first two years, 45% within five years, 65% within ten years, and only 25% make it to 15 years or more (according to the US ...

  A Magistrate Court sitting in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, has sentenced 21-year-old Adebanjo Segun to six months imprisonment for stealing a fowl. The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dyke ...

  A daring confrontation between the police and kidnappers in Plateau State has resulted in the deaths of two police officers and the arrest of four suspected kidnappers. The spokesman for the Plateau State Police Command, DSP Alabo Alfred, confirmed ...

  No fewer than 17 suspected thugs, who were planning a violent protest in the metropolitan city of Kano, were nabbed by the Kano State Police Command on Wednesday following credible intelligence reports. The suspected thugs were arrested by the ...

  An Army officer and a villager have been hospitalised while several cars were set ablaze in the Ette community of Ikot-Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State following a clash that erupted in the area on Tuesday. Our ...

  No fewer than five people have lost their lives, while 20 others are still missing following a head-on collision of two boats alongside the waterways in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, PUNCH Metro learnt on Wednesday. ...

  The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court ...

  The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court ...

  The release of General Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography, A Journey in Service, has sparked widespread controversy, with many Nigerians and human rights groups calling for his prosecution, writes Onozure Dania More than three decades after the annulment of the June ...

  The National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Chief Peter Ameh, has condemned the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC for hosting the caucus meeting of the party at the banquet hall of the Presidential villa. In a ...

  A chieftain of the National Democratic Coalition, Ayo Opadokun, has described former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida’s recent admission of wrongfully annulling the June 12, 1993 election as pretentious, dubious, and lacking remorse. Reacting to Babangida’s 420-page autobiography, Journey ...

  Why I’m not married, yet to have kids – Ruggedman Veteran Nigerian rapper Michael Stephens, popularly known as Ruggedman, has revealed why he does not have children. Speaking on a recent episode of TVC’s Your View Pidgin, the 51-year-old ...

  The reinstated Clerk of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olalekan Onafeko, has threatened a contempt suit against the acting Clerk of the House, Ottun Babatunde. The development followed the drama that occurred at the Assembly complex on Wednesday ...

  The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, has said that the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from the Economic Community of West African States has significantly increased the security burden on Nigeria’s military. ...

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday said it seized 87 truckloads of banned, expired and substandard medicinal products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs, male and female condoms, among others. NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. ...

  The Nigeria Immigration Service said, on Wednesday, that it arrested 378 illegal immigrants involved in fraudulent activities across Ogun State. According to a statement on Wednesday, the suspects were apprehended at their hideouts during a joint operation by officers ...

  A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him time to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged N1.96bn fraud. ...

  The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday, sought a bailout for the ruling party over N8.9bn election debts. Ganduje revealed that the party’s accounts had been garnisheed following the huge debt resulting from ...

  Popular singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, came under fire after he publicly accused the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mohammed Abba, of failing to uphold the rule of law as preparations for the local government elections in the ...

  Singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has never been a stranger to controversies. His latest spat with the law began after authorities sealed his uncompleted building and hotel over alleged illegal development without an approval permit.  He then ...

  Showbiz promoter and CEO of 03 Media, Alex Ozone, has been very instrumental in the promotion of afrobeats music. While the spotlight often shines on chart-topping stars, Ozone has been part of the relentless force driving the genre’s ascent, ...

  Wunmi Aloba, the widow of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has alleged that her father-in-law, Joseph Aloba, has taken the side of Naira Marley, one of the friends of her late husband accused of bullying ...

  A yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man has reportedly committed suicide in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The PUNCH investigations revealed that the incident happened on Monday morning at the L.Adisa area in the Akinyele Local Government Area of the state. Our ...

  Moise Kean has been discharged from hospital and is in no danger after collapsing on the pitch following a clash of heads during Fiorentina’s defeat at Verona, the Serie A club said on Monday. The 24-year-old Italian international striker ...