News as it breaks
A female marketing employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has committed suicide. The deceased, 32-year-old Amarachi Ugochukwu, was said to have drunk an insecticide. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on Monday within the premises of the bank. Ugochukwu had around 1pm made her way into the…
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have commenced investigations into the activities of eight suspected oil thieves in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This was disclosed in a statement on the official X handle of EFCC on Thursday. According to the statement, the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited Civil Society Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations interested in observing the February rerun and by-election to apply via an online portal on or before January 17. INEC said this in a notice issued by its acting Director, Electoral Party Monitoring, Hauwa Habib, in Abuja…
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has said that the achievement of peace and security in the South-East is the prerequisite for demanding for the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The deputy speaker said this…
A few hours after dissolving the board of directors governing Polaris, Union, and Keystone banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria has appointed new executive directors to oversee the affairs of the deposit money banks. The apex bank, in a statement signed by the acting Director of Corporate Communications, Sidi Hakama,…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, urged the men’s football team, Super Eagles, to win the upcoming TotalEnergies CAF African Cup of Nations tournament, stating that the triumph of the Eagles would bring succour to the citizens. The governor noted that the victory would help reinvigorate the people who…
The naira fell to N1089.51/$ on the official Investor and Exporter window on Tuesday. The currency fell by 27.19 per cent from the N856.57/$ it closed on Monday, according to data from the FMDQ Securities Exchange. On Tuesday, the naira opened trading at N922.22/$, rose to a high of N1251/$…
9/1/24 Cost/PBAT President Bola Tinubu has approved a massive cost-cutting exercise across federal establishments, including the Presidency. Briefing State House correspondents on the exercise, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said the crux of the directive was to reduce cost on official trips.…
The best graduating student in the Department of Physics at Yobe State University, Damaturu, Ms Surayya Muhammed Kabir has been announced as the Girl-Child Education Ambassador of an International NGO, the OCI Foundation. The Organization’s Champion in Yobe State, Mr. Bashir Muhammad Rancass, announced this while presenting an award to…
After facing a 12-hour marathon interrogation by anti-graft operatives on Monday, ex-minister Sadiya Umar-Farouq returned home on Monday night and is expected to resume Tuesday at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja. The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development is facing…
