Author: Ifetayo Adeniyi

Stakeholders at the breakfast in Abuja. Credit : TTSWG … index would be built around Environment and Energy; Digital Inclusion and Affordability; Digital Integrity, Privacy and Consumer Trust; Infrastructure Resilience and Governance; and Supply Chain and Local Value Creation. Stakeholders in Nigeria’s telecommunications and technology sectors have proposed a National Telecom Sustainability Index to measure the industry’s environmental, social and governance performance and provide a common basis for assessing the sustainability of telecom operators. The proposed index was unveiled at the Telecoms and Technology Sustainability Working Group Stakeholder Strategy Breakfast in Abuja on Thursday, where industry stakeholders reviewed a draft…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the recruitment of about 1.4 million ad hoc personnel who will participate in the conduct of the 2027 general elections. The temporary election workers are expected to be deployed to more than 176,000 polling units nationwide for the two phases of the elections. The Presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled to take place on January 16, 2027, while the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections will be held on February 6, 2027. In a public notice issued by the commission on Thursday, INEC announced that its online recruitment platform, the…

Actress Toyin Abraham has debunked her inclusion in the All Progressives Congress Lagos State Campaign Council’s Entertainment and Creative Economy Directorate. In a post on her Instagram page on Thursday, the actress said she is not a member of any campaign council. “I’m not a member of any campaign council. I have said it recently; I am staying out of politics. Please disregard the supposed inclusion of my name in any campaign committee,” Abraham wrote. Her name appeared among dozens of entertainment figures in the full list of the campaign council released on Thursday by the Kadri Obafemi Hamzat Media…

FAAC The Federal Government, states and local government councils shared N2.338tn at the September meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, representing a 22.2 per cent decline from the record N3.007tn distributed in the previous month. The N2.338tn shared at the meeting held in Abuja represents revenue generated in August 2026, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. The decline amounted to N669bn compared with the N3.007tn shared at the August FAAC meeting from revenue generated in July. The PUNCH had reported that the July allocation was the highest monthly FAAC…

Deceased journalist * The proceedings have been adjourned until 6 October, according to MRA. A postmortem examination has confirmed that 20-year-old Pelumi Onifade, a journalist with Gboah TV, died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen while covering the #EndSARS protest in Lagos in October 2020. The injury caused massive internal bleeding, according to the postmortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). Media Rights Agenda (MRA), which has spearheaded the advocacy for accountability over the killing alongside the deceased’s family, disclosed the findings in a statement on Thursday by its Communications Officer, Idowu Adewale. MRA and…

Stanley Nwabali (CREDIT: NG Super Eagles X Page) Super Eagles head coach Éric Chelle has extended his invitation to goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali and retained the core of Nigeria’s senior team for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau. Chelle named a 24-man squad on Thursday for Nigeria’s opening two Group L fixtures, with captain Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi, Victor Osimhen, Ademola Lookman, Moses Simon and Semi Ajayi also participating. Nigeria will begin their qualifying campaign against Madagascar’s Barea at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, on Friday, 25 September, before travelling to face Guinea-Bissau’s Wild Dogs…

Osahon Okunbo Vetrinox describes the investment as part of a shift toward companies with commercially viable solutions to social and economic problems Nigerian businessman Osahon Okunbo has made his family office’s first American healthcare investment, backing a Seattle company that uses artificial intelligence to run cancer clinics. Vetrinox Capital announced the investment in Hurone AI on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The amount was not disclosed. Okunbo is the eldest son of Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, the Nigerian billionaire and commercial pilot who built interests across oil and gas, agriculture, real estate, power and telecoms before his death in London in August…

His Love Foundation, the Christian Social Responsibility arm of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), is set to commission the Enoch and Folu Adeboye Dialysis Centre at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State, in a major healthcare intervention aimed at expanding access to critical kidney care across Nigeria. The commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., and will be performed by His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Sheriff F.O. Oborevwori, Executive Governor of Delta State. The new state-of-the-art dialysis centre is designed to provide specialised dialysis care and strengthen the capacity of the Federal Medical…

Akinwunmi Ambode and Babajide-Sanwo Olu in 2024. Photo: Lagos govt The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has released the structure of its campaign council ahead of the 2027 general elections, listing Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, former governors Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode. The Kadri Obafemi Hamzat Media Centre published the list on Thursday. According to the list, Prince Tajudeen Olusi will serve as Chairman of the Governance Advisory Council, while Sanwo-Olu is listed as Advisory Council Chairman. Fashola and Ambode are named as Co-Chairmen. Other members of the advisory structure include the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila;…

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have agreed to strengthen collaboration on youth empowerment, cybersecurity, capacity development and responsible entrepreneurship. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Head, Corporate Affairs Unit, SMEDAN, Moshood Lawal, following a courtesy visit by the agency’s Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, Charles Odii, to the EFCC Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, in Abuja. According to the statement, the EFCC chairman noted that the commission had followed with keen interest SMEDAN’s youth-focused interventions, describing them as significant efforts towards equipping young Nigerians with…