FOREIGN: Pastor, wife die trying to rescue 13-yr-old son from drowning
A pastor, Felisberto Sampaio and his wife, Inalda died as heroes while making an effort to save their 13-year-old son from drowning at Camaçari Beach in Paraíba, Brazil, last Tuesday. The teenage boy, Ian Sampaio was drowning and his parents jumped into the ocean to save him but they met their demise, according to Daily Mail. Felisberto, 43, and Inalda, 42,...
ASUU may sue FG over withheld salaries
The Academic Staff Union of Universities may drag the Federal Government over its members’ eight months’ withheld salaries, The PUNCH has learnt. ASUU will resort to the court, it was learnt, once the government goes ahead to pay members of the parallel union, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics. Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, disclosed this in an interview with The...
Alleged graft, treason: Tinubu, Atiku seek each other’s arrest, disqualification
Alleged graft, treason: Tinubu, Atiku seek each other’s arrest, disqualification The intrigues trailing the race for the presidency assumed a dangerous twist, yesterday, as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, called for the arrest and disqualification of each other over allegations of graft. Tinubu...
FG begins minimum wage review
The National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission says it has initiated process for the review of the National Minimum Wage. NSIWC’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr Emmanuel Njoku, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Njoku said as part of the process to review the minimum wage, which would be due in 2024, the commission had held series of...
Rabiu Becomes Fourth Richest Man in Africa
Founder/Chairman, BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu has claimed the title of Africa’s fourth-richest man, displacing Egypt’s richest person, Nassef Sawiris. This is coming months after Rabiu rose to the position of Nigeria’s second-richest man by exceeding the fortune of Nigerian telecom tycoon Mike Adenuga. According to information from Forbes, Rabiu’s net worth has increased by more than $2.4 billion in...
Bank borrowing from CBN rises 260% to N21.87tn
Deposit Money Banks borrowed the sum of N21.87tn from the Central Bank of Nigeria via the Standing Lending Facility window and Repurchase Lending platform in 2020, according to the CBN financial data. This represents a 260 per cent increase when compared to the N5.744tn recorded via the same windows in 2022. It, however, represents a 19.3 per cent decrease when...
Oil earnings rise by N363bn in three months
Nigeria is making progress in oil earnings following improvements in security in the Niger Delta region, as the country raked in an additional N363bn from crude oil sale in the months of October, November and December 2022. Figures obtained from the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources on Sunday, showed that the country’s oil production rose by 1.014 million barrels per...
Veteran Actor, ‘Papa Ajasco’ is Dead
Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, who was a stand-in character for Papa Ajasco in the popular 1996 Sitcom has passed on. A theatre practitioner, journalist and lecturer, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, announced the death of the veteran, on his Twitter page yesterday. “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with @National Troupe and one time stand in...
Exhibition match: Ronaldo, Messi clash confirmed for Jan 19
Cristiano Ronaldo will play against Paris Saint-Germain on January 19 as part of a combined Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal XI. The match will see the Portuguese veteran come up against old foe Lionel Messi. PSG are travelling to Riyadh to take part in the exhibition match. Ronaldo will feature in a side consisting of team-mates from current Saudi leaders Al-Nassr and players from...
Millions of uncollected PVCs force INEC to shift deadline
•13.87m cards printed for valid registrants •Agency probes alleged extortion From Damian Duruiheoma, Enugu, Sunny Nwankwo, Umuahia and Adamu Suleiman, Sokoto Millions of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are yet to be collected a few days before the deadline. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) admitted this yesterday, 24 hours after it gave the list of registered voters as 93.47 million. The electoral agency...
