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PAP: Ex-Agiators Commend Otuaro’s Commitment

24.09.2025

…Congratulate him on his Birthday The Phase 2 Ex-agitators under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) have commended Dr Dennis Otuaro, the current PAP Administrator, for his commitment to transparency, reforms, and stability in the Presidential Amnesty Office. Noting that his efforts have set a new standard for service delivery in the programme, the group also...

Forum To Spotlight Potential In Nigeria’s Energy Sector

24.09.2025

As Nigeria’s oil and gas sector gradually enters a defining new chapter, marked by bold policy reforms and renewed investor commitments, there is the need to reopen the investment space yet to be fully tapped. Recent remarks from Olu Verheijen, Special Adviser on Energy to President Tinubu, further underscored growing confidence in the sector. She...

FirstBank To Launch Financial Services For Blind, Physically Challenged

24.09.2025

FirstBank, the premier West African bank and a leading financial inclusion service provider, is set to introduce tailored financial services for blind, partially sighted, and physically challenged customers across its operations. This initiative is part of FirstBank’s broader continuous commitment to promoting Financial Inclusion and Diversity, which is shown in its policies, partnerships and initiatives...

H1’25: GTCO Posts N600.9bn Pre-Tax Profit

24.09.2025

Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) has reported a profit before tax of N600.9 billion for the first half of 2025, underlining the strength of its core banking and financial services operations despite the absence of last year’s windfall from fair value gains. The Board of Directors has also declared an interim dividend of N1.00...

Nigeria’s Elite Distance Runners Storm Ile-Ife For Historic Olojo 5km Race

24.09.2025

The ancient city of Ile Ife, revered as the cradle of civilisation, will host the first-ever Olojo Festival 5km Road Race this Thursday, drawing the best of Nigeria’s distance running talent. The race is part of the iconic Olojo Festival, a celebration of creation, renewal, and the spiritual authority of Ile Ife in Yoruba cosmology....

OPS: Interest Rate Cut Marks Significant Shift For Growth

24.09.2025

Members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) have unanimously hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s decision to cut lending rate. Specifically, CBN at its 302nd Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja, yesterday reduced its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) or lending rate by 50 basis points, settling at 27 per cent from 27. 5...

Harmonisation: MAN Lauds FG On Introduction Of Tax Stamp

24.09.2025

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has lauded the Federal Government’s efforts to harmonize and modernize tax administration, and promote greater accountability within Nigeria’s tax system through the enactment of the Nigeria Tax Act 2025. Disclosing this to New Telegraph in Lagos, the Director-General of MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, said: “Our members widely welcomed the Laws...

TUC Dismisses Claim Nigeria’s Refineries Didn’t Work

24.09.2025

The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, on Tuesday dismissed claims that Nigeria’s state-owned refineries never worked. Osifo, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today program, explained that the problem was not inactivity of the refineries but inefficiency. He, however, posited that the country’s refineries were shut because they were operating at...

Africa Must Finance Its Mineral Wealth, Assert Power In Global Supply Chains –Tinubu

24.09.2025

President Bola Tinubu yesterday called for a complete overhaul of the global financial architecture governing Africa’s mineral resources. Tinubu, represented by Vice President, Kashim Shettima, made the call at the 2nd Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa, held on the margins of the 80th Session of the United...

Lack Of Rail Maintenance, Training, Cause Asham Train Derailment

24.09.2025

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has released the preliminary report on the derailment involving train number AK 1, operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), with locomotive registration CDD5c2 2701. The Director, Public Affairs and Family Assistance, NSIB, Mrs Bimbo Oladeji, said the report represents early findings and is subject to further analysis, adding...

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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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