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The UAE Central bank this week instituted another policy restricting Nigerians who don’t work in their country from operating accounts in any of their local or foreign banks. They say this is to prevent money laundering by Nigerian legislators which ...

Gov.Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa state on Tuesday, promised automatic employment to any newly deployed corps member who marries an indigene of the state. He made the pledge while addressing 2015 NYSC Batch ‘A’ corp members, during their swearing in- ceremony ...

The Labour Party, LP, has called on President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to stop public servants in his administration from going abroad to receive medical attention. The party made the call on Sunday through its National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadir Salam, in an ...

This is a sad story of Tunde Azeez, a 33-year old truck driver who allegedly stabbed his friend to death. According to Tunde, his mission was pure, but his late friend, Lukmon took it otherwise and the story changed. A ...

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari says he does not know how to tell Nigerians that he will not be able to turn the economy around quickly as promised. “The expectation is too high and I have started nervously to explain to people ...

Read the EFCC press statement below. A 19-year-old suspected internet fraudster Ojosipe Adebayo, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice A.O Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on a two- count -charge ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has denied media reports suggesting that he made derogatory remarks about the Igbo people in a lecture he delivered at Harvard University, US. Below is his disclaimer: I have just read a statement attributed to ...

A violent riot was reported yesterday close to Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge in Lagos State. It was purportedly brought on by okada riders protesting against the police who shot one of them. Suburbanites were encouraged to use other routes.

Governors of the All Progressives Congress are meeting with the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt. The meeting, it was gathered, would be the first to be attended by the governors jointly since the conduct ...

President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has sent former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as his emissary to South African President Jacob Zuma to lobby for the candidacy of Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, as president of the African Development Bank. This ...