The Federal Government has fulfilled its 25-year old pledge to former Super Eagles coach Clemens Westerhof. The Federal Government had pledged to give the Dutchman a house for winning the 1994 AFCON, and it was redeemed on Monday at the Federal Ministry of Works, Power and
Many state governments have refused to employ teachers since 2015 despite an acute shortage of teaching personnel in public primary schools across the country, investigations by The PUNCH have shown. Findings showed that some schools, particularly the ones in the rural areas, had as few
The Federal Government has approved N47.43bn for the Nigeria Air project in the 2019 budget, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has said. Sirika disclosed this while explaining that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was misquoted in reports which stated that he
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has complied with the Supreme Court judgement nullifying the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries in Zamfara State. The decision was reached after the electoral umpire’s emergency meeting following the judgement. The judgement ordered INEC to return the first runners-up, who have fulfilled the
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the N8.91tn 2019 Appropriation Bill into law. Punch reports that Buhari assented to the bill on Monday, in the presence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Danjuma Goje; the Minister of
In February 2019, smartphone manufacturers, OPPO recently made an official grand entrance into Nigeria. At the time, a representative of the company said OPPO planned to launch a device in Nigeria. The OPPO F11 was the promised one and it eventually came to Nigeria following
Techpoint Inspired 2019 is just around the corner! It’s said to be West Africa’s largest tech conference scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 at the Pistis Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. And it promises to be different on this third edition of Techpoint Inspired.
Zlatan Ibile is back with a bang. This is the Zanku Master at his best. With all the controversies going on, one would the music artist would give it break, it seems he is just starting and plans on dishing out more content for his fans.
Sharing is intrinsic to Ramadan. From sharing the experience of fasting to sharing experiences with friends and family, people cook, shop, reconnect and socialize more than at any other time of year. Increasingly, this sharing takes place across the Facebook family of apps. People who
In line with the determination to develop its tourism potentials, Plateau State has approved a new tourism policy for the state following a draft that was submitted to it by the Commissioner of Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Hospitality, Mrs. Tamwakat Weli, who in partnership
The May 29 handing over and taking over ceremony will be low key in Plateau State, the state Deputy Governor Prof Sunni Tyoden has said. He also said the state government would tow the line of the Federal Government in making the event low key.
ONE // FLESH BEAUTY You may have listened to yesterday’s podcast episode. If you didn’t, backtrack now and go listen. It is one of my favorite episodes we’ve done so far as we have Linda Wells (the founding editor of Allure and founder of Flesh Beauty) on
What is Loom? (It depends on who you ask!) According to the Cambridge Dictionary, Loom means to appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object: And in the world of BitCoins, Loom Network is a blockchain-based platform designed with large-scale social apps and games in mind. The platform has been developed with the idea
Rema is one of Nigeria’s rising stars and is currently enjoying success with his super catchy new EP, Iron Man. One of the EP highlights is “Dumebi,” a melodic shoulder-shaker that has seen the teen from Benin City soundtrack countless YouTube and Instagram dance challenges. The “Dumebi” video,
Adewura Latifat Bello boarded a bus heading to Egbeda from Ikeja on May 15th, 2019 and had spoken to a family member when she got to Cement bus stop and since then, no one has heard from her. She’s 26 years old and is about 5