Fear has gripped residents of the Umunjo community in Irete, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, following an attack by suspected herdsmen that left a vigilante operative and another man dead on Monday. The Imo State Police Command has confirmed the incident and deplo...
Cardiff’s Principality Stadium has emerged as an option to salvage the long-awaited heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, with the Welsh venue reportedly willing to accommodate the broadcast demands that have stalled plans for a fight at Wembley Stadium, PUN...
Former Chairman of Odu’a Investment Company, Dr Segun Aina, has urged the government to invest in human capital, strong institutions and ethical leadership, warning that infrastructure alone cannot guarantee Nigeria’s sustainable development. Aina, a former banker, stated this in...
Security agencies have heightened surveillance around schools, NYSC orientation camps, places of worship and other vulnerable locations following intelligence indicating plans by terrorists to launch coordinated attacks across the country. The Nigeria Police Force, in a security ...
The Federal Government, led by the Minister of Education, Dr The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, on Monday met with the leadership of organised labour over the controversial concession of King’s College, Lagos. The meeting came as workers of the Federal Unity Colleges, under...
Speakers at the Global Town Hall Meeting organised by the LoveWorld Ministry of Information in Lagos recently.
Nigeria has created its first local World Rugby educators as the country develops its rugby coaching and refereeing structures. This will enable the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation to reduce reliance on foreign educators for technical programmes as the country’s technical exper...
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners has commended President Bola Tinubu for the commencement of payment of N18bn in outstanding severance benefits to 2,700 former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways, describing the intervention as a long-awaited relief for beneficiaries who had wa...
Nurses at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, have urged the Federal Government to prioritise their welfare, improve working conditions and provide adequate resources to enable them to deliver quality healthcare services to patients. The Dean, Faculty of Nursing,...
Nigeria’s newest telecommunications operator, Lebara, has commenced commercial operations nationwide, opening its mobile services to customers as it seeks to carve out a position in the country’s increasingly competitive telecoms market. The company disclosed this in a statement ...
Nigerian dancer and entertainer Iweh Odinaka, popularly known as Poco Lee, has been granted bail in the United Kingdom ahead of his appearance at the Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The court confirmed the development in an email to PUNCH Online on Monday,...
About 60 aged seafarers under the Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria have decried unpaid pensions 31 years after the Nigerian National Shipping Line went into extinction. The MWUN, in a statement on Monday by its Head of Media, John Ikemefuna, explained that the union seafarers h...
Royal Exchange Plc has said the revocation of Royal Exchange Prudential Life Plc’s operating licence by the National Insurance Commission will not affect its financial position, operations or regulatory standing, stressing that it ceased to own or control the life insurer in 2022...
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Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Abubakar Bagudu. Photo: Premium Times.
People walk past an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on September 14, 2026.
The Nigerian Army has commenced an investigation into an allegation of sexual abuse involving a serving officer, Cap Etim Essien, attached to the Headquarters 3 Division, Jos, Plateau State. The Army disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday by the Acting Deputy Director, ...
Medical drama series The Pitt leads the nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards with 25 nods, ahead of comedy series Hacks, which received 24 nominations. Horror-comedy series Widow’s Bay has emerged as the early leader at the awards, with eight prizes already won in mainly technica...