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My husband treated well, seemed comfortable – Excaped Binance executive’s wife
The wife of Nadeem Anjarwalla, the Binance executive at the center of the squabble with Nigerian authorities, Elahe, last week told The Sunday Times, UK,…
Tinubu Approves Creation of Renewed Hope Infrastructure Fund to Bridge Infrastructure Gap
•FEC: $35bn required for funding annually •Okays N1.267trn for 28 roads, bridges President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of new…
Meet Senegal’s youngest President-elect: Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Senegal has just elected its youngest president -Bassirou Diomaye Faye who was the opposition leader that led the race in Senegal’s presidential election. Faye will be taking over as the country’s fifth president from…
NCC drags MTN, Karl Toriola, others to court over copyright infringement
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), has filed charges against MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd. and four others over alleged copyright infringement. The charge with NumberFHC/ABJ/CR/111/2024 filed in the…
Nigeria’s money supply hits historic N95.56 trillion in Feb 2024 despite MPC’s tightening stance
Nigeria’s broad money supply (M3) has surged to a new historic high of N95.56 trillion as of February 2024 despite the hawkish tightening stance of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). This figure represents a…
OBITUARY: Amaechi Muonagor, the journalist who became actor ‘by accident’
Following his months-long battle with kidney failure, Amaechi Muonagor, the ace Nigerian actor, passed away on March 24, 2024, at the age of 61. For many who watched him while growing up, Muonagor was quite a character on…
We won’t abide by UN security council ceasefire resolution on Gaza – Israel
The has passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group. The new resolution was adopted on Monday after a draft proposed by the United States to end the war in…
Subsea cable repairs might take eight weeks, says MainOne
MainOne, a West African digital infrastructure service provider, says the timeframe to repair the cables is estimated at six to eight weeks. On March 15, the company had said its undersea submarine cables might take one…
Professional Bankers Are Not Supposed To Be Wealthy, Except You’re Stealing – Sterling Bank CEO
Sterling Bank’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Abubakar Suleiman has claimed that professional bankers who are wealthy may be stealing. He…
Ruling coalition’s candidate, Ba congratulates opposition Faye in Senegal presidential election
Senegal’s former Prime Minister Amadou Ba has congratulated rival opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye for winning the presidential election. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the…
Edo: CJ reviews Deputy Governor’s impeachment probe panel
WITHOUT giving reasons for his action, the Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has reviewed the constituted 7-man panel to investigate the allegation of constitutional infractions attracting…
Racism reducing my desire to play football, says Brazil’s Vinicius
Brazil winger Vinicius Junior said his desire to play football was reducing as incidents of racial abuse aimed at him piled up in Spain, during a tearful media appearance Monday. The Real Madrid forward has suffered…
Israel angry over US abstention on Security Council ceasefire vote
Israel reacted angrily on Monday to the first UN Security Council vote to demand an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza war, after its closest ally the United States abstained, while fighting raged in the Palestinian…
Okuama Killings: Let displaced villagers return home, N-Delta leaders beg Tinubu
•Another communal clash looms in Delta •FG should tackle cultism, give monarchs power to control youths •Killing of military personnel has political undertones, says Commodore Olawunmi, retd SOME leaders of the…
Naira up to N1,430/$ in parallel market
The naira yesterday appreciated to N1,430 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,470 per dollar last weekend. Similarly, the naira yesterday appreciated to N1,408. 04 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange…
Jubril Adewale Tinubu : A Shoulder to Lean On
There is the popular saying that ‘kindness is like a snow that beautifies everything it covers. For Oando Group Chief Executive, Jubril Adewale…
Ex-DSS boss criticises NSA’s handling of fleeing Binance Executive
A former Assistant Director, Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, has bemoaned how a fleeing executive of Binance, Nadeem Anjarwalla, escaped from the custody of the Office of the National Security…
FG’s grains arrive eight states, distribution continues
Some portions of the 42,000 metric tonnes of assorted grains provided by the Federal Government to help cushion the food crisis in Nigeria have arrived in at least eight states across the country, while the movement…
Ondo Speaker, 15 lawmakers endorse Aiyedatiwa’s gov ambition
No fewer than 15 members of the Ondo House of Assembly have officially declared support for the incumbent governor of the state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to clinch the ticket of the All Progressives Congress and win the…
FG deducts N415bn state allocations for debt servicing
The Federal Government has deducted over N415bn from state government allocations to service their external loans, according to findings by The PUNCH. This was according to data from the Federation Account Allocation…
Binance chief: FG contacts INTERPOL, soldiers held over detainee’s escape
The Federal Government, on Monday, contacted the International Criminal Police Organisation and issued an arrest warrant for the apprehension of one of the detained executives of a global crypto-currency firm,…
CBN directs BDCs to sell dollar at N1,269
The Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that it will be allocating $10,000 to each Bureau de Change operator at N1,251/$. This was contained in a circular made available to The PUNCH and signed by the bank’s Director,…
Gumi has been invited for questioning over comments on bandits’ activities – FG
The federal government says Ahmad Gumi, the Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, has been invited for questioning over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. Mohammed Idris, minister of information and…
Fed Govt begins trial of man who accused Fashola of writing PEPC’s judgments
The Federal Government has commenced the prosecution of a man, Ibezim Chike Victor, accused of being behind some publications, claiming that the former works and housing minister authored the judgments of the…