Nigeria at 56: The titanic in trouble?

  Today, Saturday, October 1, Nigeria turns 56.  I want someone to please direct me to towns and villages where the confetti of celebration will be rocking the atmosphere.  I will need an approximated headcount of Nigerians who will put on some dancing shoes singing “Kumbayah”....

Wishing Nigeria more bumpy roads at 56

  With the nagging reality of economic recession, it is quite unlikely that the drums would be rolled out to celebrate Nigeria’s 56th anniversary on Saturday. Without a doubt, these are hard times for our dear nation. The signs are, indeed, not palatable. There is hunger in the land. Of...

‘Lagos consumes N1.6bn worth of cattle daily’

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending on Thursday said about 8,000 cattle and small ruminants valued at N1.6bn were being consumed in Lagos State daily. The Managing Director, NIRSAL, Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, stated this at a programme to celebrate the movement...

Preventing the ATM from ‘swallowing’ your card

  One of the most embarrassing experiences a bank customer can have while using the Automated Teller Machine is when the machine withholds his/her card without dispensing cash. The ATM is expected to work like a mobile bank that should enable you to have access to your funds anywhere and...

Economy: Buhari to seek captains of industry’s help

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he would be reaching out to captains of industry from across the country in the coming months to assist him in implementing his administration’s agenda for the economy. Buhari said this in a keynote address he delivered at the opening of the...

Naira in free fall, plunges to 480/dollar

  The naira plunged further against the United States dollar to a new record low of 480 on Thursday, down from 472 it recorded on Wednesday. The currency had continued its two-week free fall on Monday, closing at 445 to the dollar after tumbling to 439 on Friday. On Tuesday, the currency...

Recession: Furore over asset sale proposal

  The recent National Economic Council’s endorsement of the recommendation by the Minister of Budget and Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, on the need by the Federal Government to sell some national assets to tackle the ongoing recession have provoked a major controversy in the country. The country...

Tinubu vs. Oyegun: The battle for 2019 begins

  The recent call by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, that the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, should resign has shown cracks in the party, which may set the pace for the 2019 presidential election, GBENRO ADEOYE writes   For...

CBN Gov’s wife kidnap: IG deploys helicopters along Benin-Agbor Road

  In a bid to track the abductors of Mrs. Margaret Emefiele, the wife of the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has deployed helicopters along the Benin-Agbor Road, where the incident had taken place. Idris, it was gathered, had also...

Nigeria @56: Nigeria not on track, say Ekweremadu, Fasoranti, others

  The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has called for sober reflection as Nigeria marks its 56th Independence anniversary. He said there is the need to return to the path of true federalism as envisioned by the country’s founding fathers in order to move it forward. Ekweremadu...

Obama congratulates Nigeria

  The United States President Barack Obama, through his Secretary of State, John Kerry, has congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the country’s 56th Independence anniversary. In a statement on Friday, he, however, noted that much remained to be done to provide economic opportunities...

Boko Haram kills 14 soldiers in Niger

  Niger’s army said Friday that 14 of its soldiers and scores of Boko Haram fighters had been killed during a multi-month sweep operation in the nation’s southeast. Defence ministry spokesman Colonel Moustapha Ledru told state television that “123 terrorists” had been killed and “a large...

Forgery: FG searches for more evidence to nail Saraki, Ekweremadu

    The Federal Government has started searching for more facts that can further prove the involvement of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, in the alleged forgery of Senate Standing Rules, 2015.  Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday that...

I’ll continue to blame my predecessors for Nigeria’s woes – Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said despite the criticisms of many, he would continue to blame his predecessors for Nigeria’s woes. He said, passing the buck, which people have been frowning on, was important in order for Nigerians to know what went wrong with the country. Buhari...