Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was buried on Friday in Abuja. Malafia had died at the National Hospital, Abuja following a brief illness on September 19. Luka Binniyat, spokesman for the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) had said Mailafia, who took refuge in Makurdi, Benue state, following…
A Nigerian man identified as Uche Raymond Okoye has been found guilty on 10 count charges involving in love scam and obtaining money by false pretence. Okoye, better known as Uche Parker, had been on trial after he he was indicted for being part of an international criminal network in which women are befriended on…
In what will come across as a really mind-shattering development, a massive explosion at the Kubwa village market, a suburb of Abuja, has claimed five lives while scores of shoppers and traders were also injured. The explosion was believed to have been caused by adulterated kerosene. The incident sparked panic as traders and shoppers ran…
Preparations and arrangements are in full flight ahead of the 4th edition of the Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit (NDIS) summit aimed towards exploring revenue creation through investors and immigrant entrepreneurs to Nigeria. The Summit, themed “Partnership & Linkages For Post Covid Economic Growth” is slated to hold between November 16-17, with the aim of…
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU), the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Univeristies (SSANU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), on Friday swept the campus of Osun state Univeristy, Osogbo, in celebration of the exit of the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Prof. Labo Popoola. The JAC and the former…
Nurudeen Solagbade is one of the survivors of the horrific Ikoyi building collapse and he has a lot to be grateful for. When he met with The PUNCH correspondent, he shook his head intermittently in disbelief, wiping off tears with his right palm. For about two minutes, Nurudeen Solagbade, could not utter a word from…
A young man simply identified as Lateef has thanked God for surviving the horrific Ikoyi building collapse. According to The PUNCH, it was observed that the impact of the building collapse affected Lateef’s left eye, chest, back and right leg. The 32-year-old artisan said he never believed he could have another shot at life after…
GIOTV reports that Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused him of planning her arrest. Precious has alleged that despite being in court with her estranged husband, former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode is using his political power to fight against her. In a post shared on her…
Actress Zainab Balogun has mourned her cousin, Samuel Iwelu, who lost his life in the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos. The body of the UK returnee was retrieved from the rubble of the collapsed 21-storey building and confirmed dead. Zainab took to her social media page to write ; “Dear Sammy, I really don’t…
According to a new report by Forbes, American investor and second richest man in te world, Jeff Bezos has sold $2b worth of his stock in Amazon, the world’s biggest retailer Bezos sold the shares earlier this week while he was in Glasgow at the COP26 climate summit. The sale came as Bezos, the…