Tag: Entertainment

Five of the six sisters of the Al-Kadriyar family who were kidnapped by bandits in the Bwari area of Abuja recently have regained their freedom on Saturday night. As of the time of filing this report, our correspondent could not independently verify whether the girls were rescued by security operatives or were released after their […]

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has assured residents of the FCT that there is no need to panic, adding that he and the security agencies are not sleeping, and are aware of the security challenges in the territory. This is even as the Minister on Tuesday, summoned an emergency closed-door meeting […]

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and his ex-deputies approved for themselves an upward review of their salaries without presidential approval. The CBN Special Investigator, Jim Obazee, who disclosed this in his report to President Bola Tinubu, said the former CBN governor and his deputies decided at the 758th meeting of […]

At least nine persons including three females and six males, narrowly escaped death when their vehicles collided along the Orile-Imo section of the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway on Sunday. PUNCH Metro gathered that the vehicles including a Toyota car and a Mitsubishi bus, were on a high speed when they collided which led to the Mitsubishi bus […]

Nigeria lost about N289.6bn crude oil revenue in November 2023 following a plunge in the country’s oil output last month, when compared to what it pumped in the preceding month of October. An analysis of the country’s latest crude oil production figures, obtained from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission in Abuja on Sunday, showed […]

President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, again urged Nigerians to be patient with his administration, pledging that the country would  “shortly emerge into a new dawn of prosperity, peace, and irreversible progress.” The President said he would continue to roll out more palliative measures to ease the hardship occasioned by the discontinuance of petrol subsidy, and […]

Some residents of Lagos State, on Sunday, lamented what they called “economic hardship” which, according to them, has negatively affected this year’s Christmas celebration. In separate interviews with our correspondent, residents decried issues such as a hike in costs of groceries and transportation as well as the current scarcity of cash being experienced in the […]

The Lagos State Government, on Sunday, sealed Quilox Club, Victoria Island, over environmental and safety infractions. The state government also “strongly warned” Sol Beach, the Good Beach, Landmark Beach and other social centres across the state to ensure that adequate considerations were made towards the safety and well-being of their neighbours and citizens of the […]

The Department of State Services has called on all operators of recreation and worship centres to be vigilant during the yuletide season. The service equally urged the citizens to be security conscious and pay attention to their environment. The Director, PR and Strategic Communications, Department of State Services, Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Friday, […]