The Nigeria Economic Summit Group has warned that the Federal Government could face revenue shortfalls if it does not increase the value-added tax rate as part of the ongoing tax reform process. The Chief Executive Officer of NESG, Dr Tayo Aduloju, made this statement during an interactive media session held over the weekend in Abuja. […]

Thirty-five states voted N214 billion for local security outfits, defence initiatives, and the purchase of arms and equipment in their 2025 budget, The PUNCH reports. Despite the substantial funding allocated to eliminate insecurity, no fewer than 367 individuals have been killed during Yuletide and Sallah celebrations between 2019 and 2025. The states’ budgets are contained […]

The General Overseer of a new generation church in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, simply identified as Elijah, has been arrested by the police for alleged homosexuality. PUNCH Metro gathered that the cleric whose church is on Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, landed in trouble after videos of him indulging in the act were leaked […]

Operatives of the Department of State Security have arrested two principal suspects involved in the killing of 16 Nigerians of northern extraction in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government last week. According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpehbolo, Fred Itua, the suspects were arrested by operatives of the DSS […]

The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, threatened to withdraw oil blocks from owners that have failed to develop them. This is against the backdrop of the Federal Government calling on international oil companies operating in Nigeria to ramp up investment in the country’s oil and gas sector, emphasising that the current […]

A mini-bus has crushed an employee of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority to death in an accident that occurred in the Ketu area of Lagos State on Monday night. The Permanent Secretary OF the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to the perm sec, the […]

The family of Memunah Abdulrahman is appealing to the public for assistance after their five-year-old daughter was abducted by a suspected kidnapper in the Ejigbo area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt on Tuesday that the missing girl was abducted on March 9, 2025, while she and her sister were returning from an Islamic school. […]

The Executive Secretary of the International Supreme Council for Peace Africa, Ambassador Simeon Uwah, has highlighted the remarkable sacrifice made by former President Goodluck Jonathan in conceding defeat during the 2015 general elections. Uwah described Jonathan’s decision as one of the most defining moments of democratic maturity in Africa. In the 2015 general elections, Jonathan […]

Federal Government has vowed to tighten the noose on Organised Immigration Crime (OIC) while canvassing effective border control. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said this when he addressed newsmen on the sidelines of the ongoing Border Security Summit in Lancaster House, London, United Kingdom. He called for collaboration with the Sahel and West African […]