Author: Lilian Azuh

The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions has revealed that banks have lost the sum of N5 billion across the nation, following recent attacks and destruction of bank facilities. The President of ASSBIFI, Oluwole Olusoji, disclosed this on Thursday at a news conference in Lagos. He said aside from bank buildings burnt and Automated Teller Machines destroyed, bank officials were also affected. Olusoji said 17 bank branches have been attacked so far. It will be recalled that several commercial institutions were destroyed by protesters across the country, following the scarcity of naira notes. Olusoji said, “Notwithstanding…

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The Federal Government has published the names of 8,611 Nigerians who are yet to collect their issued passports from the Nigeria Immigrations offices across Nigeria. The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Interior, revealed the names on its website with the link shared on its official Twitter handle. This was also retweeted by the minister, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday morning. Sunday PUNCH had earlier reported that the Nigeria Immigration Service said over 148,000 passports were awaiting collection nationwide since 2020. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Anthony Akuneme, also noted that the NIS could not reach the owners, some of whom…

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Raquel Welch, who paved the way as both an actress and international sex symbol has died after a brief illness on Wednesday morning at the age of 82. Welch first rose to fame for her roles in “Fantastic Voyage” and “One Million Years B.C.” both in 1966. She became an international sex symbol in the 1960s, widely remembered for playing a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C. Despite her public image, however, she long expressed discomfort with the representation of her body, once saying she “was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is…

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Simple crepe dress with print butterfly sleeves and necklines. Comfortable and easy for the weekend! It comes in two colors and sizes: Pink and Black..Which color are you?

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The Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State, Chief David Chigbu, has resigned his membership of the party. He also declared support for Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, who is running for the Abia South senatorial district election under the umbrella of the All Progressive Grand Alliance against Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. Abaribe had left the PDP in the build-up to the party’s primary election last year. Chigbu, in a statement on Thursday, stated that his former party was a fraud and one that has thrown the state under the bus. He also described the party in the state and…

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