Author: Shad Bauswell

At least 100,000 very small businesses all over the country have gotten the first payment of N50,000 through the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme, which is also called the Trade Grants Scheme. Doris Uzoka-Anite, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, shared this information in a private conversation with our reporter on Friday. Nano businesses are small enterprises that have […]

Read More

An auto mechanic, Jonathan Marcus, who often worked as a chauffeur to an elderly couple in Abuja, Adebola Ezekiel, 80, and his wife, Abiodun Ezekiel, 79, have been arrested over their gruesome murder at their residence at Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja on March 31, 2024. Marcus was among several suspects paraded by the Commissioner […]

Read More

The Gift of Chess, a New York-based non-profit organization with the mission of distributing chess sets around the world, has disclosed that Nigerian chess expert Tunde Onakoya experienced severe vomiting and stomach pain on Thursday during his ongoing marathon but did not give up. Onakoya and his United States counterpart, Shawn Martinez, are both attempting to break […]

Read More

Pep Guardiola has revealed Erling Haaland could miss Manchester City’s FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday. Haaland was substituted before the start of extra time in City’s Champions League quarter-final second-leg defeat against Real Madrid on Wednesday. Guardiola said after the penalty shoot-out loss that the Norway striker asked to be withdrawn […]

Read More

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Friday, led a test run of the newly installed electronic gates (e-gates) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, affirming that the project was almost completed. Tunji-Ojo announced plans to deploy the e-gates for full operation by the following week. Joining him were top officials including the […]

Read More

The ruling All Progressives Congress has distanced itself from the report attributed to its Kano State chapter, suggesting that the Presidency might be involved in the attempt to remove Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman. The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Felix Morka, rejected the claim during an appearance on Arise TV on Thursday.

Read More

The South-West zone of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria has elected 45 new executives into various positions across the six states in the zone, to run the affairs of its state chapters in the next four years. This was according to a statement made available to PUNCH Online on Friday. The statement noted […]

Read More