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Contract Staff: Tier 1 Banks’ Outsourcing Costs Up 35% To N119.9bn

30.06.2025

Nigeria’s largest tier-one banks— Zenith Bank Plc, FBN Holdings Plc (FirstHoldco), Access Holdings Plc, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO)—collectively spent a staggering N119.92 billion on outsourcing in the 2024 financial year, marking a sharp 35 per cent surge from N88.84 billion recorded in 2023. Outsourcing, though widely defended by institutions as a strategy...

Security Forces Rescue 13 Abducted Benue Link Passengers

30.06.2025

The 13 kidnapped Benue Links passengers that were abducted at Eke in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State have been rescued in a joint effort led by the police with local vigilantes. The LGA chairman, Adah Inalegwu, confirmed the rescue of the abductees yesterday. Inalegwu told Channels Television that the joint operations led...

Nigeria Must Boost Industrialisation Drive To Earn Respect Globally –Okwara

29.06.2025

Industrialist and Chief Executive Officer of Rimax Group, Chief Livinus Okwara, has harped on the need for Nigeria to scale up its industrialisation drive to be respected globally. Speaking at a press conference on Friday in Lagos to herald his coronation as Nnandigbo in the Diaspora later this year, the philanthropist said Nigeria must...

Security Operatives Rescue 13 Kidnapped Passengers

29.06.2025

The 13 kidnapped Benue Links passengers abducted at Eke in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State have been rescued in a joint effort led by the police and local vigilantes in the area. Confirming the development, the Local Government Area Chairman, Adah Inalegw, said the rescue of the abductees occured on Sunday, June...

Stakeholders Advocate For Increased Women Participation In Politics

29.06.2025

Stakeholders have called for greater inclusion of women in politics, urging them to join political and social groups across Niger State as part of broader efforts to promote gender equality and social inclusion in Nigeria’s electoral process. The call was made during a town hall meeting on Electoral Process, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, organized...

Finally, Sam Larry Breaks Silence On Mohbad’s Death

29.06.2025

Nigerian show promoter, Sam Larry, has finally addressed the allegations surrounding his involvement in the tragic demise of Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad. In a recent interview with social media activist, VeryDarkMan, Sam Larry broke his nearly two-year silence to the backlash and clarified his role in the viral confrontation video that...

Amanze Obi At Coal City Varsity, Charges Students On Intelligent Use Of AI

29.06.2025

Dr Amanze Obi, a frontline journalist and Senior Visiting Fellow at Coal City University, Enugu State, has charged students of the university to ensure intelligent deployment of artificial intelligence in their academic pursuits. In a matriculation lecture held last Friday at the university’s auditorium, Obi, who was the Guest lecturer at the 2025 matriculation ceremony...

Eradiri Applauds Fubara For Embracing Reconciliation

29.06.2025

Engineer Udengs Eradiri, former Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the last Bayelsa State gubernatorial election, has commended Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara for embracing genuine reconciliation aimed at restoring peace in the state. Eradiri specifically lauded Fubara’s decision to return to the political fold of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief...

Ondo NSCDC Arrests Four Suspects For Stealing Transformer

29.06.2025

The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civic Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested four persons for allegedly stealing transformer parts and telecommunication equipment. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Dan Aidamenbor, who made this disclosure on Sunday, said the suspects are Mogaji Ibrahim, 40, Umaru Adamu, 32, Abba Muhazu, 19, male, and...

UNESCO Honours Ogun NYSC Coordinator

29.06.2025

The UNESCO Institute for African Culture and International Understanding (UNESCO-IACIU) has conferred its prestigious Distinguished Leadership in Youth Entrepreneurship & Cultural Promotion Award on Mrs. Olayinka D. Nasamu, the Ogun State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). This was contained in a statement released by the Institute on Sunday. According to the statement,...

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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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