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9M 2025: First Holdco’s Gross Earnings Up 17% To N2.6trn

02.11.2025

First HoldCo Plc. has released its unaudited results for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, reporting that its gross earnings rose by 17.1% yo-y to N2.64 trillion compared with N2.25 trillion in the corresponding period of last year. The results also showed that interest income increased by 40.4 per cent y-o-y to N2.29 trillion...

High Lending Rate: Man Considers Raising Funds From Capital Market

02.11.2025

Amid the country’s fledging economy and the manufacturing sector’s resilience following the foreign exchange stability and others, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has urged the Federal Government that the time was ripe to release the N1 trillion meant for the country’s manufacturing sector under its stabilisation plan scheme. Similarly, MAN has stated that the...

NLC: We’ll Resist Moves To Politicise Workers’ Compensation Fund

02.11.2025

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has condemned a proposed amendment to the Employees’ Compensation Act (ECA) currently before the Senate, describing it as an attempt to “capture and politicise workers’ funds.” Speaking at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Labour Correspondents’ Association of Nigeria (LACAN) in Abuja, NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said the union would...

Tinubu Receives PDP Defectors To APC In Southern Kaduna

02.11.2025

President Bola Tinubu has received no fewer than 10 political heavy weights from the opposition PDP and their supporters in Southern Kaduna into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu, represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, received the defectors yesterday at a grand rally held in Kafanchan, Headquarters of Jema’a Local Government Area....

Insecurity: Military, Security Agencies Helpless –Gen. Williams (Rtd)

02.11.2025

Major–General Ishola Williams (rtd) is the Executive Secretary of Pan – African Strategic Policy and Research Group (PANASTRAG). In this interview with JOHNSON AYANTUNJI, the one -time director, Training and Policy of the Nigerian Army bares his mind on the state of the nation. He speaks on insecurity, the defections of the opposition governors and...

PDP Splits As NWC Factions Suspend Each Other

02.11.2025

The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has deepened as two factions of the party emerged over the weekend. The two factions, one led by the National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, and another by the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, are laying claims to the leadership of the party. The party’s planned National Convention...

FG Releases N43.3bn To Health Workers

02.11.2025

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to improving the welfare of doctors and other health workers, with over N43.3 billion already disbursed or in process for payment to address outstanding arrears, allowances, and training funds. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Salako, who made the disclosure at a highlevel meeting...

15% Fuel Tax: Experts Caution Against Cost Of Living Crisis, Inflation

02.11.2025

Nigerians are bracing for another surge in fuel prices following the Federal Government’s approval of a 15 per cent import duty on petrol and diesel, a policy economists warn will push petrol prices beyond ₦1,000 per litre and further strain the cost of living. President Bola Tinubu approved the new advalorem duty to protect local...

Tinubu To Trump: Your Characterisation Of Nigeria Not Reflective Of Our Reality

02.11.2025

President Bola Tinubu has said that characterisation of Nigeria as being religiously intolerant did not reflect the country’s national reality. The President said this in direct reaction to the allegation of genocide against Christians in the country and characterisation of Nigeria as a ‘country of particular Concern’ by President Donald Trump of United States of...

Constitution Review: North, South Demand 31, 24 New States

02.11.2025

As the National Assembly gears up for yet another round of amendments to the 1999 Constitution, the Joint Adhoc Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives have received proposals for the creation of fifty- five (55) new states in Nigeria. The proposals are coming from groups within the existing thirty -six (36) states and...

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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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