Several weeks ago, my 80-year-old paternal uncle, who is a community leader, called me to ask whom between Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu he should vote and canvass support for. That was a strange request considering that in 2019 he resisted my entreaty to him to not vote or campaign for Buhari because of the…
The Court of Appeal has granted the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) permission to appeal the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered the union to call off its strike. The court, however, granted the application on the condition that the union obeys the ruling of the lower court and calls off the…
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider has announced its commemoration of the 2022 edition of the Customer Service Week scheduled to be globally celebrated on 3 – 7 October 2022. The event themed: “Celebrating Service” will be marked across its FBNBank subsidiaries in over half a dozen countries which include FBNBank…
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) is in hot soup as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has ordered the bank to pay N540.5 million in damages to Pastor Emmanuel Omale of the Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry and his wife, Deborah over false claim that they laundered N573 million for former chairman of the EFCC,…
•Vonita,the multi – talented performer who was the lead actor in the much talked about movie, Ada Owerri has announced that she will be out with her new hit single titled ” I will serve the Lord “this week The young, enterprising and naturally gifted lady who featured Lyta in a trending song ” Shakara”…
Adeola Adeoti, the author of ‘Canticles Of A Happy People’ and a performance poet was one of the facilitators at the just concluded Lagos Poetry Society writing workshop held on September 30, 2022. The event which was held on zoom was attended by many aspiring poets and established names in the literary world. Adeola took…
Lagos Set for ‘Green Worship 5.0’ as Worship4Change Holds Benefit Concert on Oct. 3 All is now set for this year’s ‘Green Worship 5.0’, a benefit concert organised to raise awareness and support for indigent children, orphans, and children with special needs. The concert, organised annually by Worship4Change, a leading not-for-profit organization in Nigeria will…
The rift in the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party took a fresh twist on Friday, as Saturday PUNCH reliably learnt that 16 other members who had yet to refund the controversial housing allowance to the party were under intense pressure to do so. This, according to findings, is to pit the NWC members against…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday evening, nullified the nomination of Governor Isiaka Oyetola and his deputy governorship candidate, Benedict Alabi, as candidates of the All Progressives Congress in the last governorship election in Osun State. The court premised its judgment on the grounds that the former APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Mai…
Nigeria’s federal government has charged Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman of Zinox Group, his wife, Chioma and 11 other suspects to court over alleged N170.3 million contract fraud. On September 9, 2022, Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, filed a 17-count charge against the suspects in suit No. FCT/HC/CR/469/2022 at the High Court of the Federal Capital…
