Access Bank Plc Thursday disclosed that its business combination deal with Diamond Bank Plc, which aims to produce Africa’s largest retail lender by customers will be...
Shortage of water, dearth of electricity supply, non-patronage, poor funding, obsolete equipment and shortage of staff and insecurity, are the major challenges facing general hospitals in...
The fate of Arik Air as regards what to do with it has attracted mixed feelings among industry stakeholders. Industry experts though foresee a bleak future...
The Supreme Court is to finally resolve the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries logjam tomorrow as it delivers its judgement on an appeal brought...
Former football star, John Fashanu, has urged Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi to lay claim to regular action with Middlesbrough after joining the Championship side on...
The sacked Executive Secretary of the Teritiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) Abdullahi Bappa Bichi, has said that he was removed from his post for resisting to...
The latest bridged financial institution in Nigeria, Polaris Bank Limited, is ready for sale but the entire process would be on hold for now pending the...
Detectives may have found more “suspicious” funds in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen’s accounts, The Nation has learnt. There are also “suspicious” transactions, including...
The implementation of Nigeria’s 2019 budget is faced by a fresh threat as crude oil production adjustment agreed by member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum...
A total of 17.9 million new bank accounts were opened in the country in 2018, latest data obtained from the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) shows....
Moves by the Federal Government to create 117,181 jobs under the sugar development plans between 2019 and 2020 seem to have crumbled due to low sugar...
The Managing Director and CEO of Arit of Africa, an information communications and technology (ICT) firms in Nigeria, Ronke Okeremi, has advanced reasons why financial data...
Three of Nigeria’s international customers who were supplied up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in 2018, are still indebted to the country, a quarterly report...
A judge of Federal High Court, Justice Muslim Hassan, has summoned the Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Mukthar Usam and the Managing...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) says the World Bank needs to review the indicators for composition of the Ease of Doing Business Index...
A Prof. of Economics, Prof. Peter Emeka Arinze of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) has said that in as much as Nigerian workers have the fundamental...
Commuters and residents of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have decried the slow pace of work on the road, which caused a gridlock at the weekend. The first rain...
FORMER Kaduna State governor Balarabe Musa and a civil society organisation, the Centre for Democracy (CD) yesterday accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of laying the foundation...
Residents of Asaba, the Delta State capital and its environs, have sent a Save- Our-Soul (SOS) appeal to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over the imposition of crazy...
An executive bill sent to the Senate last year seeking to concentrate the control of water resources under the Federal Government has died a natural death...
Three investors are in talks with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria to acquire Aero Contractor, The PUNCH correspondent has learnt. It was gathered that the...
The visitation panel set up by Governor Kayode Fayemi to look into the activities of some tertiary and health institutions in Ekiti State have recommended that...
Detectives probing the finances of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, have turned their searchlight on his salary account, it was gathered yesterday. And...
The Independent National Electoral commission has been accused of frustrating the efforts of would-be voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) with less than a...
Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), Ikeja branch have grilled the Oba-elect of Ikeja, Alhaji Samsondeen Adeleye for two hours over a petition it...
Even before the first ballot for the 2019 general elections is cast, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has already lost governorship election in Rivers and Imo...
Contractors handling the Lagos State Monorail project and the state have differed on the actual cost of the project. The state government, at the inception of...
The Police Service Commission may appoint new members of the Police Management Team, including additional Deputy and Assistant Inspectors-General of Police this week. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt...
Lagos State is a melting pot where the sublime and the ridiculous exist side by side. The Centre of Excellence is never short of dramas and...
In order not to be caught in the web that had just entangled the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, top politicians, civil servants...
The contractors handling the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will make good use of the dry season by increasing the pace of construction work on the...
The Kano State Government has revoked three contracts awarded to Tiamin Multi Services Ltd, a company belonging to Aminu Mohammed. Mr Mohammed is believed to be...
Dennis Aghanya and President Muhammadu Buhari, Facebook photo posted by Aghanya on September 15, 2010 The Executive Secretary, Anti-Corruption and Research- Based Data Initiative, Dennis Aghanya,...
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has bemoaned the high number of investors that deserted the maritime industry in 2018 over the bad state of...
The new Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has decided to retain all serving Deputy Inspectors-General (DIGs). Top police source, who disclosed this yesterday, said four...
The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has said the funds generated by Federal Government through the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC),...
Some contractors among the 10 exploration and consulting companies that won mining contracts in the country are facing stiff funding challenges due to inability to access...
Nigeria’s ambition to be a yam exporting country may be threatened by poor infrastructure and quality control, The PUNCH correspondent has learnt. Yam does not feature...
State governors have intensified their call for a review of the nation’s revenue-sharing formula if they must pay the proposed N30,000 new National Minimum Wage, The...
The Federal Government has ordered that restrictions be placed on five bank accounts belonging to the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. ….But the...
There are indications that the ‘safe territories’ on the Lagos waters known as the Secure Anchorage Area, SAA, may have come under attacks by sea robbers....
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, yesterday said the committee set up by the federal government to review the Africa Continental Free...
Deposit Money Banks (DMB) in the country could rake in billions of naira from charges for various services they would offer Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and...
Following the sacking of Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Limited (VSSL) and the return of Private Sector Partnership (PSP) waste operators to the metropolis on the order of...
An activist, Kayode Bello, has accused the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, Mr Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, of assault. He also said that...
BANKS are scrambling to recover huge loans from lawmakers before the 8th Assembly rounds up in June. Investigations showed that in 2015, at the beginning of...
Operators of Computer- Based-Test (CBT) centres have been warned by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) not to charge more than the approved N700 service...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it is awaiting the transmission of an executive bill on the new minimum wage from the Presidency to the National...
The Coalition of Ethnic Nationalities for the Atiku Agenda has rejected the replacement of the Lagos Police Commissioner, Edgal Imohinmi, with Kayode Egbetokun, a former Chief...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the ongoing industrial dispute will continue except certain acceptable conditions are met. It said to end...
