MY PATH and Michael Awe’s crossed after I was appointed editor of The Punch newspaper in 1992. He was one of the brilliant chaps I head-hunted from other newspaper houses with the sole aim of turning around The PUNCH newspaper and positioning it as the flagship of the Nigerian media.Continue Reading
THE FEDERAL INLAND Revenue Service has granted a full waiver on accumulated penalties and interests for outstanding tax liabilities. Chairman of the service, Zacch Adedeji, disclosed this in a notice personally signed by him and made available on Sunday in the agency’s X handle @FIRSNigeria. The agency imposes penalties and
THIEVES HAVE SEVERELY damaged a monumental lead sculpture by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, who lives in France, and stolen parts of it from a warehouse near Paris. The damage was estimated by the 78-year-old Kiefer at more than €1 million ($1.09 million), according to media reports from the public
GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF Scholz has called for a tripling of global renewable energy capacities by 2030 at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. “The expansion of renewable energies is progressing, but not at the pace that is necessary,” Scholz told journalists in Dubai on Saturday. Expansion had already been
THE CENTRE FOR Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has called on the Federal Government to immediately commence the probe of alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions, FHIs. In a release issued by CACOL and signed by Tola Oresanwo, the anti-corruption
