A hunting expedition ended in tragedy as a hunter, Sunday Ijiola, was allegedly shot dead by a colleague, Atanda Agbobiado, in a forest at Pakoyi, via Owode Ketu, Yewa North Area of Ogun. Our correspondent learnt that the incident happened on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, when roughly fifteen hunters ventured into the forest to hunt. It was further gathered that the hunters separated themselves to keep a prey from escaping. According to a PUNCH Metro Police source that our correspondent spoke with on Sunday, the deceased, 43, was said to have been mistaken for the beer they were pursuing in…
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Central Bank of Nigeria, on Monday, revoked the banking licence of Heritage Bank Plc. The revocation is with immediate effect, according to the CBN. The apex bank said the decision was taken following the commercial bank’s failure to improve its financial performance, which posed a threat to financial stability. CBN Acting Director of Corporate Communication Department, Sidi Ali, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said Heritage Bank management had been unable to stem the decline despite various supervisory steps taken by the regulator. It noted that with no reasonable prospects of recovery, the CBN took the action to…
Organised labour, on Monday, shut down all entry points of aviation agencies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja in compliance with the nationwide indefinite strike action jointly declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. The ongoing strike is to press home the workers’ demands for the implementation of a new National Minimum Wage. The strike has, however, affected flight operations at the nation’s busiest airport, leaving airlines and passengers stranded at the airport entrances. The workers’ action is coming barely 24 hours after the Aviation unions…
Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, officially joined the ongoing strike by the organised labour. The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress had last Friday declared a nationwide strike scheduled to commence on Monday after negotiations between them and the Federal Government broke down. The Federal Government had failed to meet the unions’ minimum wage demand. ASUU in a statement on Monday addressed to the branch chairpersons and zonal coordinators, the association’s President, Emmanuel Osodeke, directed lecturers in universities across the country to join the strike as an affiliate of the congress. The statement read, “The NLC has…
…as TCN accuses Labour of obstructing grid restoration across the country Samuel Adesola, Abuja Transmission Company of Nigeria, on Monday, announced the total shutdown of Nigeria’s power grid by labour unions as the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress commences. The shutting down of the national grid reportedly occurred at about 2:19am on Monday. NLC and TUC began a nationwide strike on Monday in protest against the N60,000 minimum wage proposal of the Federal Government. In a statement on Monday morning by TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, the transmission firm announced the shutdown of the national power…
The planning committee for the 6th annual anniversary lecture of Penpushing Media, owners of globally known online newspapers and television, has announced July 25, 2024 as the date scheduled for its annual event.Chairperson of the committee, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, made this known to journalists in a statement, adding that the theme of this year’s edition is ‘Infrastructure as a tool for National Cohesion’ The statement disclosed that the event which is designed to be educative and a contribution to social growth will take place at the auditorium of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) located along Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta. Akiyode-Afolabi stated…
By Tom Garba It was a hilarious moment, an exchange of pleasantries and laughter, joy by many people during an event of the Ekklisiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN) otherwise known as the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria’s (CBN) inauguration of newly elected officials in Kwarai, Mubi as they beheld the Governor of Adamawa State, Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and His Brother and Political Friend, Senator Ishaku Abbo had hot hugs, shock hands warmly. Fintiri and Abbo became the center of attraction to thousands of worshippers who admired their show of Love and reunion and who are known across…
Samuel Adesola, Abuja Barring any last minute change of mind and plans, workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress will down tools nationwide, literally shutting down the various sectors of the Nigerian economy. Already, the leadership of the National Assembly and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, in a last ditch efforts, have intervened with a view to preventing the planned nationwide strike from commencing as scheduled on Monday. But their intervention last night failed to achieve any result as both the NLC and TUC have insisted on going ahead with the commencement of the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has rescheduled its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for 24,535 candidates. JAMB rescheduled the UTME due to thesubstantial non-compliance with its standards in the centres of the affected candidates. The board also directed affected candidates to print their supplementary Examination Notification Slips from Tuesday, 4th June, 2024, to ascertain their designated examination centres. In a statement he signed on Sunday, JAMB’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the Board has also released additional 3,921 withheld results. The statement reads in part: “The Board has painstakingly analysed the process and conduct of the 2024…
…say they’ll ‘discuss National Assembly appeal with Labour organs’ Despite last-minute efforts by the National Assembly leadership to prevent the shutting down of the nation’s economy by the unions over the new minimum wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress insisted on Sunday, that their planned indefinite strike will begin as scheduled. Both the NLC and TUC said their decision to down tools nationwide stands. Both unions however said that they will meet and discuss with its organs the appeal made by the leadership of the National Assembly on the need to suspend the planned strike and allow…