Month: June 2021

Sunday Aborisade 15 June 2021 Kindly share this story: The management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund is expected to appear before the Senate Public Accounts Committee today (Tuesday) to answer more questions on the query issued to it by the Auditor General for the Federation. The SPAC is currently scrutinising the 2018 AuGF […]

Samson Folarin 15 June 2021 Kindly share this story: There has been outrage over the demolition of 12 churches on 2nd Avenue, FESTAC Town, Lagos State, by officials of the Federal Housing Authority. Our correspondent was told that a market and a car mart were also affected in the exercise carried out on Sunday. PUNCH […]

Amarachi Orjiude 15 June 2021 The value of the naira to the dollar fell from 196.99 in December 2015 to 410 in April 2021, reflecting a 51.95 per cent decline despite the various foreign exchange policies introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria to strengthen the currency. According to a monthly document obtained from the […]

Olamide Francis 15 June 2021 Kindly share this story: The Synagogue Church of All Nations has confirmed the burial programme of its late General Overseer, Prophet TB Joshua. The PUNCH had reported on Monday that the late cleric would be buried on July 9, 2021, on the premises of his church in Lagos State. The church […]

Temitayo Jaiyeola, Kariola Mustapha, Amarachi Orjiude and Sami Olatunji 15 June 2021 Kindly share this story: • $719.61m used to service Chinese loans since inception in 2015 The Buhari’s administration has borrowed $2.02bn as loans from China from 2015, data obtained from the Debt Management Office on Monday showed. According to the statistics obtained from […]

Zambia President Edgar Lungu collapsed in the capital, Lusaka, during a national defence day event on Sunday, local media reported. Shortly after, Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Simon Miti, issued a statement to reporters and the State TV, assuring the local public and the international community that President Lungu “is well and has continued to […]

Daud Olatunji 14 June 2021 Kindly share this story: A 35-year-old housewife, Blessing Agoro, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her four- and two-year-old daughters. The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at the Redemption Camp Divisional Police Headquarters by her husband, Oluwaseyi Agoro. The Police […]

Samson Folarin 14 June 2021 Kindly share this story: Respite is not in sight for motorists and commuters plying the Long Bridge, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as hoodlums have continued to launch attacks on users of the road. PUNCH Metro learnt that despite efforts by the police and the surrounding communities to end […]

Fans beat Players in Pillars, Akwa NPFL game in Kaduna Kelvin Ekerete 14 June 2021 Kindly share this story: Violence once again rocked the Nigeria Professional Football League after fans encroached the pitch and disrupted the tie between Kano Pillars and Akwa United at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna on Sunday. Kano Pillars and […]

John Alechenu 14 June 2021 Kindly share this story: THE son of the acclaimed winner of the June 12 presidential election, Kola Abiola, has said Nigeria’s democracy the way it was currently being practiced was not what his late father, Chief MKO Abiola, and several Nigerians died for. He further said it was not the […]