The Federal Government, on Monday, announced that no unlicensed petroleum product dealer would be allowed to load products from June 1, 2023, as it vowed to shut down such businesses beginning from that day. It warned that from June 1, 2023, anyone who wants to deal on petroleum products must obtain a licence, stressing that […]

Residents of Dan Lawal, Kurmin Kogi Ward, in the Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna State, are lamenting the continued blackout being witnessed in the community. PUNCH Metro learnt that trouble started in the area in 2015 when a rainstorm wreaked havoc in the community, destroying electricity infrastructures like electric poles and others. Our correspondent […]

Some suspects who allegedly banished a widow from the Umunankwo community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State have been arrested and arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrates’ Court in Awka, the state capital. The suspects and defendants identified as Lazarus Uzor, Anozie Uzor and Valentine Okwuosa, a brother to […]

Oil and gas companies paid a total of N346bn as penalty for flaring gas in five years, according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria. The amount was marked as part of the federally collected revenue. Gas flaring is the surface combustion or burning of natural gas, often associated with crude oil production when […]

The Federal Government and the International Organisation for Migration evacuated no fewer than 3,363 stranded Nigerians between January and May 2023. This is according to figures obtained from the  IOM and the National Emergency Management. Checks by our correspondent on Monday showed that 2,518 stranded Nigerians were evacuated from Sudan; 538 from Libya; 294 from […]

Parallex Bank Limited has been recognition as the Most Innovative Bank of the Year 2022 by Champion Newspapers, and Regional Bank of the Year 2022 by National Daily Newspaper. In a statement issued by the bank, the Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of National Daily Newspaper, Mr Sylvester Ebhodaghe, said Parallex Bank’s successful […]

The Chancellor, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said efficient management of self, time, and resources is crucial to fulfilling destiny. Oyedepo said this in his speech titled, ‘Espousing the virtues of responsibility’ during the ninth convocation ceremony of Landmark University. He reminded the graduates that during the period of their study, […]

LARA ADEJORO writes on how the failure of the government to address the demands of doctors led to industrial disharmony in the health sector and how it can be resolved The failure of the government to meet the long-pending demands of doctors and other healthcare workers usually plunges the fragile health sector into a health […]

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday has shown that white people have the highest racial bias. A team from Harvard and Tufts gathered data from more than 60,000 subjects who took part in 13 experiments that tested their implicit biases. An overwhelming majority — over 90 […]

The Centre for Media, Policy and Accountability has called on journalists who report on corruption cases and anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria to back the implementation of Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Performance Public Reporting project. The group made the admonition on Monday during a media parley with journalists on the anti-corruption beat in Abuja. CMPA is implementing the […]