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Petrol price drops to N925/litre at private depots

04.02.2025

The loading cost of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) at private depots dropped to N925 per litre on Monday. The amount was a difference of N27 from N952 offered by the highest-selling depot last Friday. Marketers said this reduction was influenced by the decision by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery to reduce its ex-depot price of PMS,...

Edo SUBEB Deploys Team To Assess Fire Damage At Okaro Primary School, Urhonigbe

04.02.2025

The Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has deployed a team to assess the damage by the fire incident which occurred over the weekend at Okaro Primary School, Urhonigbe. The Executive Chairman of Edo SUBEB, Barr. Onomen Goodness Briggs, (Mrs) while setting up the team, said she is grateful that the incident took place...

NiMet, unions resolve differences as workers halt strike

04.02.2025

After the expiration of a two-week ultimatum, the management and staff unions at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency have agreed to suspend the planned strike by workers at the agency over welfare issues. The postponement of the strike was contained in a statement from NiMet. Earlier in January, the unions: National Union of Air Transport Employees,...

Court Adjourns Mompha’s Money Laundering Trial To March 13

04.02.2025

The trial of social media celebrity, Ismail Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, has been adjourned to March 13, 2025, by Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja. The adjournment came yesterday after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) presented its sixth prosecution witness in the ongoing money laundering trial against...

Banks clear major USSD debt to prevent service disconnection

04.02.2025

Nigeria’s telecom operators have kept Unstructured Supplementary Service Data services active as banks make significant progress in repaying their outstanding debts, preventing a potential disruption that could have impacted millions of users. The banks, which were at risk of disconnection due to a N160bn debt, have made substantial progress in clearing their liabilities, ensuring continued...

Nigeria Needs $200bn To Develop Gas Infrastructure – NEITI

04.02.2025

…Senate frowns at less than 1% solid minerals input to GDP The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), on Monday said Nigeria needed to inject about $200 billion to maximize gas infrastructure as the ninth highest producer of gas in the World and number one in Africa. This was as the Senate, seriously frowned at...

FG Targets $100bn GDP Boost With New Creative, Tourism infrastructure Plan

04.02.2025

The Federal Government has unveiled plans to position the country’s creative and tourism sectors as key drivers of economic growth, with the potential to contribute at least $100 billion to the nation’s GDP. This was announced by the Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism, and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, during a post-Federal Executive Council (FEC)...

OPSN chairman advocates united private sector for economic growth

04.02.2025

The Chairman of the Organised Private Sector of Nigeria, Dele Oye, has called for a united and inclusive private sector to drive sustainable economic growth. In a statement, Oye emphasised collaboration among OPSN member organisations to strengthen national economic advocacy following his emergence as OPSN chairman. Oye, who is also the National President of the...

OPS kicks as businesses lose N2.5tn to administrative bottlenecks

04.02.2025

Members of the Organised Private Sector, including the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, and the National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture have expressed worry over the N2.5tn annual losses by the business community to administrative bottlenecks. Speaking with The PUNCH on Sunday, the Director-General of SMEDAN, Mr Charles...

C’River: Seadogs Conduct Medical Outreach, Inaugurates Borehole Project

04.02.2025

National Association of Seadogs (NAS) on Friday stormed Idundu community with about twenty medical doctors and pharmacists for a medical outreach in a community that has long been forgotten by all tiers of government. Additionally, NAS also commissioned a borehole for the lone health center in the community, with the Clan head of Ukpong Atai,...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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