In recent years, Nigeria has witnessed an increasing trend of multinational and local companies shutting down or relocating their operations due to economic challenges, currency volatility and rising operational costs. The latest company to announce its departure from Nigeria is South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay, which confirmed on Monday that it will exit the market…
The 19 state governors in the Northern region have aired their strong displeasure on the recent Tax Reform Bill the Federal Government submitted to the National Assembly for approval. The governors particularly rejected the proposed shift to a Derivation-based Model for Value Added Tax distribution. They claim that the proposed model would be at the…
Ghana could buy petroleum products from Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery once the facility is operating at full capacity, cutting more expensive exports from Europe, the head of the country’s oil regulator said on Monday. Chairman of the National Petroleum Authority, Ghana, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, said this could end monthly fuel imports from Europe of $400m. He…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square Garden Sunday, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics. With just over a week before Election Day, speakers labeled Puerto…
Vice President Kamala Harris has regained a slight lead among likely voters nationally in the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll, albeit with the race close enough to leave the outcome of the 2024 presidential election to the uncertainties of the Electoral College. Turnout is key. Just 2 percentage points divide Harris and Donald Trump among all…
Omowunmi, widow of the late singer and rapper, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, has expressed readiness to conduct a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test to determine the paternity of their only son, Liam. PUNCH Metro reported that the deceased singer’s father, Joseph Aloba, filed a suit seeking a DNA test for his grandson. In the application filed by…
Brittany — joined by her daughter Sterling — watched her husband Patrick Mahomes make NFL history at the Oct. 27 game in Las Vegas Brittany Mahomes dressed her baby bump in Chiefs red as she supported her husband at his latest game! On Sunday, Oct. 27, the Kansas City Current co-owner, 29, stepped out in style to…
It was the best thing they never had. After rumors swirled that Beyoncé would perform at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston on Friday, fans were let down after the superstar failed to put on a show for the crowd of 30,000. Instead, the 43-year-old “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer, a native of the Lone Star State,…
For years, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s distaste for former President Donald Trump has been characterized through calculated restraint, but in a new biography on McConnell set to be released next week, McConnell criticizes the former president in no uncertain terms, at varying points calling Trump “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” a “narcissist” and a “despicable human being.” With…
Almost seven months after Vice President Kamala Harris cheered on Beyoncé’s newly released album, “Cowboy Carter,” saying she had “redefined a genre and reclaimed country music’s Black roots,” the global superstar said it was time for “America to sing a new song” and elect Harris. On Friday, Beyoncé, who was joined by singer and actress Kelly Rowland, declared her support…
