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Protest as Lagos policemen enforcing ban kill motorcyclist

Policemen attached to the Sagamu Road Police Division, Lagos State Police Command, have allegedly shot dead a motorcyclist, Stephen Alabi, aka Doctor, at Sabo Market, in the Ikorodu area of the state. Alabi and his colleagues were said to be at a park close to the Sabo Market when...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

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UK targets 2024 for King Charles banknotes circulation

The first banknotes bearing the image of King Charles III are set to enter circulation by mid-2024, the Bank of England said on Tuesday as it unveiled their designs. “The portrait of The King will appear on existing designs of all four polymer banknotes (£5, £10, £20 and £50),...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Sports

Qatar 2022 Top 10 goals

All eyes were on Argentina’s perpetual number 10 at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Sunday’s final, but a fit-again Angel Di Maria wanted a slice of the action alongside Lionel Messi and scored one of the all-time great team goals at a World Cup. Messi was unsurprisingly involved in a...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

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Court stops Emefiele’s arrest, groups back CBN gov

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reportedly stopped the Department of State Services from arresting the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, over allegations bothering on “acts of financing terrorism, fraudulent activities and economic crimes of national security dimension.” The DSS had reportedly filed...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

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Tinubu meets labour leaders, promises to tackle unemployment

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday met with the leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress among others. At the event, the organised labour presented the APC candidate with their demands which included a total war on corruption. Tinubu told the labour leaders...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Business

NGX retail transactions hit N26.62bn

Retail transactions in Nigerian Exchange increased by 10.69 per cent to N26.62 billion in the month of November, data from the country’s local bourse revealed. The data from the Nigerian Exchange indicated that retail transactions added N26.62bn in the month from N24.05bn in October 2022. As of 30 November...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Business

FITC advocates funding intervention for movie industry

The Financial Institutions Training Centre has urged financial institutions in the country to create funding interventions for Nollywood to enable it to be more productive and have a greater impact on the economy. The FITC Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Chizor Malize, stated this at the fifth edition of the...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Headlines

We’ll do better than men

Female governorship candidates in different political parties, on Monday, promised to be better than their male counterparts if elected into office during the 2023 elections in Nigeria. They also carpeted most politicians, especially the governors, for their failure to deliver dividends of democracy to the electorates who voted them...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Business

FG shops for investors, N4tn

The Federal Government has said it will require N4tn to drive the gas expansion plan in 10 years. A document on ‘Nigeria’s Cretaceous Basins: The Potentials for Gas’ by the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission obtained by The PUNCH on Monday, said the sum would be needed for incremental...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

Politics

Catholic priest, Assembly Speaker test popularity

All political parties have intensified their campaigns, and the struggle for control of Benue State in the upcoming 2023 governorship elections has officially begun. In the scheduled March 11, 2023, governorship election, candidates from no fewer than 14 political parties will contest the number one seat in the “food...

PunchNews - 20 December 2022

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Anambra police threaten clampdown on cultists over incessant...

The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Aderemi Adeoye, gave the warning in a statement issued by the command’s spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga on Friday. Adeoye, who described the cultists as “murderers,” said they are not fit to live among decent human beings in the society, warning that nobody...

25 August 2023

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Port Harcourt refinery begins operations December

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, on Friday, announced that the Port Harcourt Refinery Company would begin operations in December this year. He disclosed this while inspecting the rehabilitation exercise at the Port Harcourt Refining Company plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, according to...

25 August 2023

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Port Harcourt refinery begins operations December – FG

25 August 2023

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Oyo rescues dropout UNN student, twin daughters in...

The Oyo State Government says it has rescued a homeless woman and her twin daughters off the streets within the Ibadan metropolis. The rescue team, which comprises top management officers of the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Inclusion, was led by the Commissioner, Toyin Balogun on Thursday. This...

25 August 2023

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Tinubu taps Dekalu-Thomas as MD/CEO of NELMCO

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mrs. Mojoyinoluwa Dekalu-Thomas as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMCO). She is to serve for a term of four years. Dekalu-Thomas had served as the Acting MD/CEO of NELMCO since the tenure of...

25 August 2023

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