Stephen Angbulu

4 days ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

The Presidency on Tuesday refuted criticisms by a faction of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, which claimed that the administration’s policies have resulted in economic hardship, democratic decline, and social regression.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

At least 66 persons of Nigerian origin received Antiguan passports between January and June 2024, new reports from Antigua & Barbuda’s Citizenship-by-Investment Unit show. Through the programme’s headline $100,000 National Development Fund contribution, the Nigerians and their accompanying family members paid over US$6.6m into the island nation’s treasury during the period.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

Last Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu and leaders of 12 West African states walked into Lagos’ Eko Hotel. They smiled for the cameras beneath a glittering “ECOWAS@50” banner. Among them stood 90-year-old Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), the lone surviving witness to the bloc’s birth cry in May 1975. The photographs will enter ECOWAS’ archives as proof that, half a century on, the organisation still breathes.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

President Bola Tinubu has welcomed Moody’s Investors Service’s latest upgrade of Nigeria’s long-term foreign-currency issuer rating from Caa1 to B3, with a Stable Outlook. “This upgrade signals to global investors and partners that Nigeria is back on a path of responsibility, reform, and renewed credibility,” Tinubu said in a statement on Saturday signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga.

1 week ago | punchng.com | Stephen Angbulu

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons is considering legal action against controversial Nigerian entertainer, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, after he failed to appear at its headquarters in Abuja on Friday. NAPTIP had summoned Okoye over his claim of having sex with a 15-year-old girl during a live Instagram video.