Parents of the 39 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna, yesterday staged a protest, demanding the release of their children. The protest took place at the school premises located along Airport road in Kaduna. Some of the students of the institution also joined in the protest in solidarity for their […]

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc yesterday announced a final dividend of N2.70 dividend per share for the year ended December 31, 2020, following the release of its audited results for the year. The dividend, added to the 30 kobo interim dividend paid last year, brings the total dividend to N3.00 per share. According to the results, […]

The National Association of Resident Doctors says the families of frontline doctors, who died of COVID-19, have been abandoned despite N500bn released by the Federal Government last year for the COVID-19 response. The National President of NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday. Recall that the Chairman of the Presidential […]

The Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State Sector Command, has booked a driver, Isiaka Sanusi, who was flagged down by an operative on suspicion of dangerous driving during the Sector Commander’s special patrol operation at Ewekoro According to a statement on Wednesday, the FRSC noted that there was the need for the country’s roads to […]

Reacting, the Chief Press Secretary the governor, James Eze said, “The opposition is marooned; they are at sea.” He said the governor did not cerebrate his 7th years in office but used the opportunity to inspect the projects he executed in the state within the period under review. Eze said, “Governor Obiano did not hold […]

Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) has said ethnic nationalities in the Middle Belt and southern Nigeria have begun the process of orderly transition to full self-determination and sovereignty. The NINAS, which is the umbrella body for ethnic nationalities from the Middle Belt, South-East, South-South and South-West, said those who were bent on governing […]

Rampaging bandits have killed two persons in Kaduna State following multiple attacks on communities, including on the convoy of the Emir of Birnin Gwari, Alhaji Zubairu Mai Gwari II, whose vehicle was riddled with bullets. In a statement yesterday in Kaduna, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, said security agencies […]

The federal government yesterday unveiled plans to spend $1.5 billion to revamp the Port Harcourt refinery. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, told State House reporters in Abuja after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the refinery, which will […]

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged the federal government to restart the Safe Schools Initiative launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Abuja in May 2014 to protect schoolchildren from abductions. Okonjo-Iweala, who is on an official visit to Nigeria said in an interview with ARISE NEWS […]

Spokespersons for the Senate and the House of Representatives, Senator Basiru Ajibola and Hon. Benjamin Kalu respectively disagree on the financial situation of the National Assembly, prompting Chuks Okocha to ask if National Assembly is broke Despite an increase of over Three Billion Naira in the yearly budget for the National Assembly, there are indicators […]