April 2024

Premium Pension Limited, a Pension Fund Administrator in Nigeria, has said its total assets experienced significant growth in 2023, reaching N1.134tn by 31 December, 2023. It disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Online on Thursday. The fund convened its 19th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday at its office headquarters in Abuja where…

The Borno State Police Command has arrested four persons in connection to an attempt to burn the Mafa IDP camp in Mafa Local Government Area of the state. The arrested persons were Malum Usman, 16; Bulama Bukar, 14; and Rawa Usman, 11; as well as their alleged sponsor, Babagana Umar, 40. The PUNCH recall that,…

The Code of Conduct Tribunal has suspended the Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-corruption Commission, Muhyi Magaji, following allegations of misconduct and breaches of public officer’s conduct. Magaji, who is facing charges ranging from alleged conflict of interest to false asset declaration and accepting bribes, was arraigned in Abuja on Thursday. The…

Aftermath of President Bola Tinubu’s signing into law of the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education)(Repeal and Re-enactment) Act, 2024, the Presidency has revealed why the former act was repealed. According to an explainer by the President’s Special Adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, the repealed Student Loan Act, 2023, had challenges that border “on governance and management,…

The Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has promised that the International Criminal Police Organisation will soon re-arrest Nadeem Anjarwalla, the Binance Regional Africa Manager, who escaped from custody in Nigeria. Egbetokun said this on Thursday while fielding questions from journalists at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja. Egbetokun said, “I am…

Justice John Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded N5m damages against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for wrongfully parading a photographer, Nasiru Saidu-Ali, popularly known as Kozzo, as a fraudster. The incident happened in May 2019 when the photographer was arrested from his Abuja home and his photos splashed on the…

The Inter-Agency Joint Task Force of the Federal Road Safety Corps has seized 35 trailers carrying a total of 982 passengers along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and in Bauchi-Maiduguri area last week. The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Jonas Agwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The statement revealed that the operation was…

Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps have arrested 46 persons in Oshodi Oke and Ile Epo areas of Lagos for crossing the highway without using the pedestrian bridges. The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this known in a post on his X handle on Tuesday. The caption…

The Association of Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, has commenced a 14-day warning strike over the non-payment of seven months’ salaries to their new members. Members of the association, who staged a protest on the premises of the facility on Tuesday, vowed to ground the activities at the…

Transporters and other trade unions in Plateau State under the auspices of Plateau State Joint Transport, Traders and Marketers Association, on Tuesday, announced that there would be a sit-at-home across the state on Wednesday, April 4, 2024. The spokesperson for the group, Abubakar Garba, who disclosed this at a press conference in Jos, the state…

The late legendary folk music artiste, Olujimi Solanke, will be laid to rest on Friday, April 5, at a private cemetery. Funeral services will take place at the Methodist Church Nigeria, Ipara-Remo, Ogun State. Solanke, who passed away on Monday, February 5, 2024, at the age of 81, was a multifaceted artist known for his…