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Food Sufficiency: Faculties of Agric should be able to feed varsity communities –Adegoke

24.11.2024

Aare Egbe-Omo Balogun of Ibadanland, Oloye Adegboyega Taofeek Adegoke, has urged Faculties of Agriculture in the Nigerian Universities to have their farms upgraded to be able to produce foods to feed their immediate communities and reduce food scarcity in the country. He gave the charge on Friday after he was conferred with a Distinguished Alumni...

Northern Group Knocks Atiku Over Criticisms of Tinubu’s Foreign Loan

24.11.2024

The Arewa Professionals for Democracy and Development (APDD) has faulted former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s criticisms on the $2.2 billion foreign loan request from President Ahmed Tinubu. One of the arguments of Atiku, who was the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, was that the loan would be embezzled by the current government. However, the...

Jibrin Lifts Kano Command With 1000 Motorcycles

24.11.2024

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, yesterday in Kano said that the need for effective community policing and tracking criminals from house to house were the reasons he donated 1000 brand new motorcycles to the Kano Command of the Nigeria Police. Jibrin said this at the short ceremony to hand over the...

Why Men Should Undergo Fertility Test Alongside Women -Experts

24.11.2024

A fertility expert, Dr Edem Hiadzi has said it was important for men to undergo fertility testing and treatment alongside women, given that infertility was a shared responsibility as infertility affects both men and women equally. Hiadzi a Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist who made the disclosure during the 11th Edition of Merck Foundation Asia Luminary held in...

Maciver Gets Aides on Political Matters and Media

24.11.2024

The Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2023 Bayelsa State Gubernatorial Elections, Great Joshua Maciver, has appointed Elder Kesiye Frank-Oputu as his Special Adviser on Political Matters, and Dr Kasarachi Innocent, as his Special Adviser on Media and Communications. Maciver, who is currently serving as the Bayelsa State Coordinator of...

BOI secures €2bn to support development projects, others

24.11.2024

The Bank of Industry has successfully raised a substantial new funding package worth €2bn through global loan syndication, to improve its financial capacity and support a wide range of development initiatives. The initiatives include infrastructure projects, small and medium-sized enterprise growth, and industrial diversification in key economic sectors. The BOI Managing Director, Olasupo Olusi, disclosed...

Winners get N77m in Zenith Bank tech fair

24.11.2024

The 10 contestants in the hackathon session at the fourth edition of the Zenith Tech Fair have received N77.5m in prize money. The winners emerged at the tech fair themed ‘Future Forward 4.0: Embedded Finance, Cybersecurity & Growth Imperatives – The Impact of AI,’ held on Thursday in Lagos. The prize money was shared among...

Border system impedes Africa’s digital growth – Interswitch

24.11.2024

The Interswitch Managing Director for Payment Processing and Switching, Akeem Lawal, has described the rigid border system in Africa as an impediment to the growth of digital technology and businesses across the continent. Lawal disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Interswitch Techconnect 4.0 in Lagos State on Thursday. He stressed that the lack of...

21 states enrol for AfDB N850bn agric scheme

24.11.2024

The African Development Bank has onboarded 21 states for the second phase of its Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones Programme. The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, revealed this to State House Correspondents after the 146th meeting of the National Economic Council at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Uzodimma said that with projects of the programme’s pilot...

Nigerians Join Koreans To Mark ‘Kimchi Day’

23.11.2024

On November 22, Nigerians joined Koreans worldwide for the first time to celebrate ‘Kimchi Day’, the annual date set aside by the Korean government to mark the history, health and communal benefits of the traditional Korean cuisine. The three-day event, from November 20 to 22, organised by the Korea Culture Center Nigeria (KCCN) saw the...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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