Abuja map Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 24, 2025 busted a Ponzi Scheme Academy and arrested 133 suspects in Abuja. They were arrested at the Compensation Layout in Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, following actionable intelligence on the existence of the Academy. The Academy, named Q University (a.k.a Q-Net) is in the business of recruiting gullible young Nigerians who are trained to recruit more gullible citizens into the scheme with the promise of getting unrealistic profit returns. The suspects are enrolled into a training codenamed: “Special Training for New Generation…
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Ojudu Senator Babafemi Ojudu, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), previously served as Special Adviser on Political Matters to former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. In this interview with Daily Trust, the journalist-turned-Ekiti Central-senator assesses the prospects of the opposition leaders’ recently formed coalition, the National Assembly’s response to President Bola Tinubu’s state of emergency declaration for Rivers State, and other key issues. With the ongoing realignments among opposition parties, do you think a coalition strong enough to challenge the ruling party in 2027 is feasible, or are we likely to see a repeat of fragmented opposition efforts?…
Jonathan President Bola Tinubu congratulates former President Goodluck Jonathan on winning the 2025 Sunhak Peace Founders’ Award. President Tinubu applauds the former President for his consistent advocacy for peace, harmony, and communality, a patriotic endeavour that has earned him global recognition. The President states that Dr Jonathan’s winning the Sunhak Peace Award affirms his bold efforts in peacebuilding and promoting democracy in Africa and beyond. The President recalls the former President’s historic acceptance of the results of the 2015 presidential election and his peaceful handover of power to an opposition party, which bolstered the nation’s democratic profile. President Tinubu celebrates…
L-R: Prof Frank Ojadi, Director, Export Management Program, Lagos Business School; Stella Nwuke, Team Member, Export & Agriculture Division, Fidelity Bank Plc; Emem Bassy, Managing Partner, Peony Dynamic Resource Limited; and Emmanuel Nwalor, Team Lead, Export & Agriculture Division, Fidelity Bank Plc; at the closing ceremony of the 18th edition of the Fidelity Bank Export Management Programme (EMP 18) held at the Lagos Business School recently. Tier-one lender, Fidelity Bank Plc, has once again highlighted the importance of promoting non-oil exports as it recently hosted the 18th edition of its dedicated capacity development training tagged Export Management Programme (EMP 18).…
…says “No tolerance for environmental infractions” The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has reinforced its commitment to tackling indiscriminate waste disposal across the state, adopting a two-pronged approach of strict enforcement and innovative waste management solutions. The agency has vowed to ensure full compliance with environmental laws, with ongoing legal action against offenders and sustained waste collection measures. Speaking on this today on Lagos Talks 91.3 FM with the Guru, the Managing Director/CEO of LAWMA, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, noted that surveillance and enforcement teams were operating round the clock, to track and apprehend individuals who flout waste management laws, stressing…
In a video dated November 2024, the Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele stated that the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC) will face some issues in the year 2025. Primate Ayodele made this revelation in a video sighted by this publication, making it known that if the party doesn’t resolve the crisis that would come up within the party, 2025 would be a year of defections from the party. As it is known that defection is always a thing of opposition parties and bearing in mind that President Tinubu has spent barely two years in his…
Ichie Arinze My dearest friends, today, March 24, 2025, is the birthday of the first born of our family, Ichie, Sir Azuh Arinze, KSM, the cerebral publisher of YES International Magazine and bestselling author of many bestsellers. Kindly join me in celebrating and thanking God for His unending love and protection on this great and compassionate brother of mine, the one and only – Biggest Bros. Ichie Odenigbo Azia, happy birthday once again, dearest brother and role model. May God continue to protect and prosper you, Amen. Keep smiling and soaring. My young family and I rejoice and celebrate with…
Pope Francis appears at a window of the Gemelli hospital before being discharged following a five weeks hospitalization for pneumonia, in Rome. Pope Francis greeted and thanked the faithful from a balcony of Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Sunday, the first time the 88-year-old has been seen in public since his admission on February 14. “Thank you, everyone,” a weak-sounding Francis said into a microphone, as he sat in a wheelchair waving gently to hundreds of people gathered below, doing a thumbs-up sign. Punch
The ongoing dispute over the ownership and control of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service, EMTS, which is the holder and operator of 9Mobile Telecommunication licence has got messier as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja resumed hearing in the suit. Keystone Bank has brought a motion seeking to be joined as a party to the suite, a proposed statement of defence and counter-claim which discloses triable issues and also demonstrates applicant’s interest in the subject of this suit. The bank in its counter-claim is seeking among other reliefs that the resolution of the 5th defendant passed on December 7, 2023,…
Policeman The police authority in Cross River State has detained a police Inspector, Effiong Bassey, who was suspected to be mentally deranged, for killing a bystander and injuring two in a shooting incident that occurred on Sunday. PUNCH Metro learnt that in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Irene Ugbo, that Bassey, attached to the Atakpa Division in Calabar, had returned from his night duty to the station at about 5 a.m. when he began to exhibit strange behaviour. The PPRO noted that when he was asked to submit his rifle, he refused but instead proceeded to block…