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PTAD pledges swift resolution of pensioners’ arrears

05.05.2025

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has assured pensioners of its commitment to addressing critical issues, including the payment of the N32,000 pension increase and other outstanding arrears. This was contained in a statement made available to our correspondent on Sunday, signed by the Head of Corporate Communications, Olugbenga Ajayi. According to the statement, the Executive...

Q1’25: Salary Adjustment Raises 9 Banks’ Personnel Expenses To N427.39b

05.05.2025

Nine listed deposit money banks (DMBs) spent a total of N427.39 billion as personnel expenses in the first three months of this year, according to the lenders’ unaudited financial statements for the period ended March 31, 2025. The amount is 26.67 per cent, or N89.99 billion, higher than the N337.41 billion that the banks spent...

Olanipekun inaugurates conference hall at Ekiti palace

05.05.2025

Legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, on Saturday inaugurated a multi-million naira conference hall donated to the palace of the Ogoga of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Adejimi Adu-Alagbado, by Igbekeleoluwa Foundation. Olanipekun, the Asiwaju of Ikere Kingdom, expressed satisfaction with the contributions of indigenes to the development of the community. He urged all well-meaning sons and...

Yusuf Tackles Ex-SSG Over Corruption Allegation Against Kwankwaso

05.05.2025

Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf yesterday debunked the allegation of corruption levelled against his government by the former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Abdullahi Baffa Bichi. Bichi had alleged that the state government pays former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso N2 billion monthly basis. However, Yusuf insisted that there was no truth in Bichi’s claim...

APWEN unveils innovation, resource hub

05.05.2025

The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, has unveiled its innovation and resource hub at the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Lagos. The Lagos Chapter Chairman of APWEN, Dr Atinuke Owolabi, said the inauguration was a bold declaration of the association’s commitment to providing access, tools, and opportunities for young...

Take advantage of FG housing scheme, AHCN urges members

05.05.2025

The Association of Housing Corporations of Nigeria has stated that housing agencies across the country must act swiftly or risk missing key opportunities under the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Housing Agenda. Speaking at the opening of a two-day strategic session in Abuja recently, the AHCN President, Eno Obongha, told members that the new federal housing...

Stakeholders canvass high-rise buildings to upgrade slums

05.05.2025

Stakeholders are advocating high-rise construction as a sustainable solution to upgrade slums without displacing residents. An analyst working on housing affordability in the US, Joseph Ogunlade, noted that Nigeria’s housing deficit was not just a matter of quantity, but primarily due to ineffective urban planning and land use policies. He said, “This has led to...

‘Cabals’ still fighting against our refinery — Dangote

05.05.2025

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he is still fighting for the survival of his $20bn refinery, stressing that the fight is not yet finished. Dangote expressed optimism that he would win the fight for the refinery, stating his determination to fight on. According to Semafor, an international news medium, Africa’s richest...

BCPG blames Ojodu building collapse on ignored recommendations

05.05.2025

The Building Collapse Prevention Guild has blamed the Ojodu building collapse on the failure of the Lagos State House of Assembly to implement recommendations earlier issued by the guild to avert such disasters. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer, BCPG, Ojodu Cell, Femi Ishola, the guild stated that the collapse of a three-storey...

United Capital grows revenue to N13.1bn

05.05.2025

United Capital Plc has reported a significant surge in revenue, hitting N13.1bn in the first quarter ended 31 March 2025, representing a 113 per cent increase from the N6.1bn recorded in the corresponding period of 2024. According to its unaudited consolidated and separate financial statements, the impressive revenue growth was largely driven by a sharp...

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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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