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Six months after the inauguration of its modern cocoa processing factory in Akure, Johnvents Industries Limited, has announced that it has processed about 5,000 metric tonnes of cocoa for export....

https://punchng.com/johnvents-processes-5000mt-of-cocoa-eyes-improved-forex-earnings/

•FEC approves N23bn for power projects in six states The Federal Government has said efforts to ensure steady power supply nationwide is being frustrated by terrorists who are vandalising criti...

https://punchng.com/grid-collapse-terrorists-sabotaging-rehabilitation-efforts-says-fg-2/

— as production slumps by 11.63 million barrels Revenues accruable to Nigeria from the sale of crude oil crashed by about N500.6bn between January and May this year, findings from various oil a...

https://punchng.com/nigeria-lost-n500-6bn-crude-oil-in-five-months-investigation/

Sterling Alternative Finance has launched an ethical investment platform called Altinvest. During the launch in Lagos, Sterling Alternative Finance, which is the non-interest arm of Sterling Bank...

https://punchng.com/sterling-bank-launches-ethical-investment-platform/

A coalition of States Internally Generated Revenue Services across the 36 states of the Federation has launched a fresh investigation into how the Federal Government is remitting the Pay As You E...

https://punchng.com/states-probe-shortfall-in-fgs-paye-remittance-2/

The President, Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, has said that rising inflation, among other challenges, are compounding naira volatility. In a statemen...

https://punchng.com/rising-inflation-others-worsening-naira-volatility/

The immediate past Chairman of Southwest-owned strategic investment and asset management firm, Odu’a Investment Company Limited, Segun Aina, has expressed optimism that the strides made during ...

https://punchng.com/odua-investment-on-track-for-record-growth-ex-chair/

Nigeria is a leading market for smartphones in the world but efforts aimed at manufacturing the devices locally have been slow, TEMITAYO JAIYEOLA writes Every year, about 63 million devices are s...

https://punchng.com/nigerias-long-walk-to-phone-manufacturing/

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reiterated the need for the government to partner with the private sector to ensure that residents have access to affordable accommodation. Th...

https://punchng.com/well-partner-private-sector-on-affordable-housing-sanwo-olu/

The Lagos State Government has said it would develop long-term solutions to tackle the increasing pressure on water supply and sanitation in the state. The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State ...

https://punchng.com/lagos-to-prioritise-improved-water-supply/

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has announced that the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs would be leaving for London, the United Kingdom in two days to see Senator Ike Ekweremadu and ...

https://punchng.com/ekweremadu-ensure-justice-prevails-senate-tells-fg/

The impeachment process against the Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has been halted by an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan. Justice Ladiran Akintola gave the order on Wednesday wh...

https://punchng.com/court-stops-oyo-deputy-govs-impeachment-adjourns-till-july-5/

Tukur Mamu, a negotiator and media consultant to controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has disclosed that Mohammed Al’Amin, one of the remaining 50 abducted Abuja-Kaduna train passen...

https://punchng.com/negotiator-says-abducted-train-passenger-shot-families-beg-reps/

As part of efforts to tackle unemployment in the state, the Lagos State Government in collaboration with an Information Technology start-up firm, SkillPaddy, has organised training for youths. Th...

https://punchng.com/lagos-govt-firm-train-youths-in-tech-skills/

As a way of promoting exportation of made-in- Nigeria goods and agricultural produce, the Kaduna Inland Dry Port, KIDP, is set to commission the pilot operations for Nigeria’s first Domestic Ex...

https://punchng.com/kaduna-dry-port-to-pilot-export-warehousing/

In a bid to boost the deep blue project, the Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a $2.78m exchange of note agreement with the Japanese government for an economic and social development progr...

https://punchng.com/nigeria-boosts-deep-blue-project-signs-2-7m-deal-with-japan/

The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, has warned members against cargo diversion, bunkering and smuggling of petroleum products. The National President, NARTO, Othman Yusuf La...

https://punchng.com/stop-cargo-diversion-smuggling-narto-warns-members/

A ship captain, Afred Oniye, has said that over 70 per cent of Nigerian seafarers do not have jobs Oniye, who said this in an event to mark the 2022 World Seafarers Day in Lagos recently, explain...

https://punchng.com/over-70-of-nigerian-seafarers-jobless-expert/

APM Terminals has expressed support for the Federal Government’s drive to connect the Apapa Port to the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. A statement by the terminal operator quoted the Co...

https://punchng.com/apm-terminals-plans-rail-link-to-apapa-port/

Bank statements are important in monitoring your account activities but it is often overlooked due to how they can easily be generated. However, in a time of cyber crimes and fraudulent activitie...

https://punchng.com/why-you-should-monitor-bank-statements/

Unity Bank has said it will commence the eight edition of its flagship Entrepreneurial Development Initiative, Corpreneurship Challenge across 10 locations in Nigeria, with new entrance in Delta ...

https://punchng.com/unity-bank-plans-n10m-business-grant-in-entrepreneur-initiative/

I read an article by one Abimbola Adelakun with the above headline, which appeared in the PUNCH newspaper edition of Thursday, June 23, 2022. The article is one in a series by the author on perso...

https://punchng.com/re-this-is-not-how-ganduje-will-find-redemption/

Nkiru Eze, the grieving mother of Chidera, a five-year-old pupil of the Redeemers Nursery and Primary School, Ogba, who drowned during a swimming lesson at the Ivory Health Club in Ikeja, Lagos S...

https://punchng.com/redeemers-schools-response-to-my-sons-death-wicked-insensitive-eze-mother-of-drowned-nursery-school-pupil/

WITH the 2023 general elections just eight months away, the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a seamless voter registration exercise across the country is dist...

https://punchng.com/need-for-a-tidy-voter-registration-process/

A tragedy just happened in Lokoja. Again. This is not the first time and we pray (and hope) that it will be the last. But the truth is that if we do not start making a deafening noise from this v...

https://punchng.com/lokoja-and-the-terror-that-comes-with-fire/

As electioneering heats up, the tensed debates around the religion of the presidential candidates will steam. Presently, the religious dialogue is about the savviness of a “Muslim-Muslim” tic...

https://punchng.com/what-is-there-to-vote-for-if-not-religion/

Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the Wimbledon third round for the 16th time on Wednesday as career-long rival Andy Murray suffered his earliest-ever exit from the All England Club. Top ...

https://punchng.com/djokovic-breezes-past-kokkinakis-to-make-wimbledon-last-16/

Youths from Calabar South, Bakassi and Akpabuyo Local Government Areas of Cross River State have urged the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State to allow party stakeholders to produce...

https://punchng.com/youths-protest-choice-of-cross-river-pdp-gov-running-mate/

A group known as the All Progressives Congress Frontier Coalition has commended the Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, for the role he played in convincing some aggrieved senators elected under...

https://punchng.com/apc-group-lauds-orji-kalu-for-stopping-defection-of-aggrieved-senators/

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Wednesday, replaced the Chairman of the Kano Pillars Football Club (Sai Masu Gida), Surajo Yahaya, with the Chairman of the Kano State Sports Commissi...

https://punchng.com/ganduje-sacks-yahaya-appoints-galadima-as-kano-pillars-boss/