Lagos State witnessed a significant drop in movement on Saturday as residents observed restrictions imposed for the local government elections taking place across the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). Initially scheduled to begin at 3:00 a.m., the restriction on vehicular and waterway movement was later revised to run […]

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Kaduna State, Prof. Saidu Babura-Ahmad,has pledged that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, would credibly conduct the three bye-elections in the state scheduled for August 16, 2025. Babura-Ahmad made the pledge on Friday in Kaduna during a ‘One-day Stakeholder Engagement’ on the forthcoming polls in three constituencies. The Resident Commissioner […]

Enugu State Government, under Governor Peter Mbah, earlier this week, floated an airline, the Enugu Air. Thus becoming the second state to own a commercial airline in Nigeria and the first in South East Nigeria. The first is Ibom Airline, which was set up in June 2019 and wholly owned by the Akwa Ibom State […]

Dele Momodu, a former Director of Strategic Communications of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Committee, has denied allegations of contracting one Black Diamond Kitchen in 2022 to supply Small Chops and owing the outfit the sum of N380,000. Momodu, a former presidential candidate, said he has never met such a person or visited any Black Diamond […]

 Canada will face a 35 percent tariff on exports to the United States starting August 1, President Donald Trump said Thursday in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney. It was the latest of more than 20 such letters issued by Trump since Monday, as he continues to pursue his trade war threats against dozens […]

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, under Nigerian Exchange Group, NGX, Limited, recorded a historic milestone as investors gained N1.806 trillion in a single day. This development follows a significant rise in the All-Share Index, ASI, which surged by 2,457.13 points, or 2.01 per cent, to close at 124,446.80, crossing the 124,000 mark for the first time, […]

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has stated that Nigeria’s state-owned refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna may never function properly again, despite the reported $18 billion spent on their rehabilitation. Speaking while hosting members of Global CEO Africa at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Dangote revealed that his decision to construct the […]

A three-year-old boy, Chibuike Uba, has lost his life after falling into an open soakaway at Babarinsa in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred on Wednesday when the boy’s mother, Utoro, visited her aunt in the community. It was gathered that Utoro, who resides in the Epe […]

The management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, have confirmed the death of Miss Isabella Ajana, a 100-level student in the Faculty of Law and has launched investigation into the circumstances leading to the incident. This is barely four days after a 300-level student of the Department of Microbiology at the institution, identified […]