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- June 25, 2024
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Business registration possible in 24 hours, says CAC ambassador
The ambassador for the Corporate Affairs Commission, Michael Nwabufo, said business registration can now be completed within 24 hours through the new special registration portal. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos on Monday, he urged business owners to take advantage of the innovation and beat the July 7 deadline for mandatory business registration set by the Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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NDLEA recovers 3.33 tonnes of cannabis, others in Ogun
The Ogun State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said it recovered 3.33 tonnes of cannabis sativa and 10.949kg psychotropic substances between January and May of this year. Other seizures made during this period were 0.017kg of cocaine; 227.0 litres of skuchies; 11.0 litres of codeine and 0.129kg of methamphetamine. The NDLEA state Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Missing three-year-old boy found after PUNCH report
A boy named Abdul-Muqsit Willoughby, who was reported missing shortly after the Eid-el-Adha prayer on Sunday, June 16, 2024, has been found after a PUNCH Metro report. The toddler’s father, Fuad, excitedly shared with our correspondent in a phone conversation on Monday that the boy was dropped off on a nearby street by an unknown Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Bamise: Defendant’s injury in prison delays trial
The trial of a Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, accused of raping and murdering 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, was stalled on Monday due to the defendant’s leg injury sustained in prison. At the resumed hearing at the Lagos State High Court in Tafawa Balewa Square, an official from the Ikoyi Correctional Centre informed Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Rising food prices and insecurity
ECONOMIC hardship is not subsiding. According to a fresh note by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the persistent hike in food prices is worsening poverty levels. ACCI President, Emeka Obegolu, says the situation affects small-scale businesses adversely, adding that basic meals are becoming unaffordable to most citizens. He said the surge in prices Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Senate writes AGF, meets Cardoso over N30tn loan probe
The Senate through its Ad – hoc Committee investigating how N30 trillion Ways and Means facility was obtained and spent by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has written the Office of Accountant General for the Federation, demanding some documents regarding the loans. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Isah Jibrin (APC Kogi-East), said the panel Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Missing Ogun pregnant woman faked abduction, found in Kwara – Police
The Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, said a pregnant woman, Rahemat Lateef, who claimed to have been abducted by some unknown gunmen while going to the state hospital at Ijaiye, Abeokuta for child delivery, is a case of fake kidnap. The spokesperson for the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this on her Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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UNIZIK graduate escaping prankster’s tricycle robbery dies, friend hospitalised
A fresh graduate of the Department of Quantity Surveying, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Ifunanya Miracle, aka Bliss, has lost her life during an attempt to escape a yet-to-be-identified prankster’s robbery on the premises of the school in the Awka area of Anambra State. Ifunanya’s friend, identified simply as Peace, a student in the Department of Pure Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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Cleaner bags life jail for sexually assaulting baby in church
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old cleaner, Saviour Udoh, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl on a church premises. Justice Ramon Oshodi held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt, stating that the defendant’s action Read More
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- June 24, 2024
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I miss the years of handwritten letters
Tech-wise, our younger days in the 1970s, 80s and 90s cannot be compared to these days, but they were not boring. We had no Facebook, Twitter (now X), Instagram and TikTok. We only had radio stations, TV stations, videos, music, novels, magazines, and comics. But most importantly, we had the handwritten letter, which we sent Read More
