Sequel and in response to a recent statement made by the Benin oba regarding the historical founding of Eko (Lagos), His Royal Majesty, Oba Sulaiman Adekunle Bamgbade, the Olofin of Isheri and revered successor of the ancient throne of the Aworis’ progenitor, has affirmed to the Awori Heritage Alliance of North America that Eko (Lagos)…
….,.Wins Bank of the Year Africa 2023 .. . .. ..Subsidiaries Come Top in Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. Africa’s Global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has again demonstrated its prowess on the international stage as it clinched nine prestigious awards at The Bankers…
Some patients in a hospital Source:File The migration of doctors and other health workers to other countries is taking a toll on hospitals across the country as the institutions have reduced the number of their outpatients and surgeries due to a shortage of manpower. The PUNCH investigations on Sunday showed that almost all the health…
Gilbert Chagoury, the Lebanese-Nigerian businessman, is in the country’s delegation to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In a list published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the billionaire was named as a “confidante” of President Bola Tinubu. The Nigerian State House is listed as Chagoury’s “organisation” while it was indicated that…
President Bola Tinubu By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor IN the last six months, the three tiers of government- Federal, States and Local Councils, have shared N5.57 trillion as allocation from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, according to Saturday Vanguard’s checks. Within the period, which is President Bola Tinubu’s first six months in office, having assumed power on…
Yusuf Galambi, a lawmaker representing the Gwaram federal constituency of Jigawa in the house of representatives, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu presented a budget without details to the parliament. On Wednesday, Tinubu presented the 2024 appropriation bill of N27 trillion before the joint sitting of the national assembly. The president said the budget would cement macroeconomic…
FILE: A nurse A yet-to-be-identified Nigerian nurse in the United Kingdom has been reportedly sacked by the management of her hospital after she was found praying for an elderly patient. The self-acclaimed online doctor, Harvey Olufunmilayo, disclosed this via his X handle, @drolufunmilayo, on Thursday. Although PUNCH Metro cannot verify this claim as of the…
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, arraigned a couple, Oriyomi Idowu and Ruth Idowu, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on 20-count charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering, stealing, retention of stolen property,…
A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, how the inability of a defunct commercial bank (Diamond Bank) to disburse huge sums of money prompted the airlifting of N1.219billion cash to former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose for…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to probe alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions. A communique of the 96th annual national conference of the PSN, titled, ‘Jewel City 2023,’ also raised alarm over the unregistered two million drug sellers in…
