At least six employees of the Ministry of Health in Ebonyi State have been arrested for allegedly stealing government property. The suspects were reportedly apprehended on Saturday night at the ministry’s premises while attempting to move the items to points of sale. Governor Francis Nwifuru disclosed the arrests in a statement issued on Sunday by […]

No fewer than 331 senior civil servants have been promoted in the federal civil service, Sunday PUNCH gathered. The 331 new directors were among the 697 candidates who sat the oral interview on Monday, November 4, 2024. In May 2024, the Federal Civil Service Commission put out a notice for the year 2024 promotion/evaluation process […]

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has expressed dissatisfaction over the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s (NNPC) failure to meet its crude oil supply targets under the naira-for-crude initiative. Since the programme’s launch in October, NNPC has not delivered the agreed minimum of 385,000 barrels per day, with Dangote requiring 650,000 bpd to operate efficiently. The refinery […]

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ruled that the Nigeria government is accountable for the unlawful detention and mistreatment of Nigerian student Glory Okolie, even as the court awarded N10 million in compensation. The Court gave this ruling on Thursday 21 November 2024 and issued directives to safeguard human rights of the student, a statement […]

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after participating in the 2024 G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tinubu returned to the country on Saturday night after arriving at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the company of his wife, First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu. The president, who was invited to the summit by […]

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has revealed that 98.98 per cent of depositors in commercial banks and 99.27 per cent of those in microfinance banks in the country are now fully insured under its revised deposit insurance coverage. This was disclosed yesterday at the 2024 NDIC Editors Forum held in Lagos, where the corporation […]

A section of the ceiling in Obehie Magistrate Court in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State on Friday, collapsed while the Court was in session. Though no one was hurt during the incident, it caused confusion among those in the building. The building according to an indigene of Ukwa West, had been in a dilapidated […]

The Taraba State Government has announced the temporary closure of the Danbaba Suntai Airport in Jalingo to facilitate ongoing upgrade works aimed at modernising the facility. This is contained in a press statement released by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Transportation Development, Kwantar Genesis, and made available to journalists in Jalingo on Friday. According to […]