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Bayelsa Govt To Curb Bush Burning In Yenagoa

12.12.2024

The Bayelsa State Government has ordered its Ministry of Environment to take necessary measures to identify and arrest individuals or groups indulging in the unwholesome practice of indiscriminate bush burning in the state. It also directed its Taskforce on Livestock Management to take proactive steps to checkmate the activities of cattle rearers to prevent the...

Shettima Chairs 147th NEC Meeting

12.12.2024

Vice President Kashim Shettima is currently chairing the 147th Meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) at the Council Chamber of the State House Abuja. The meeting is being attended by governors and some deputy governors from across the 36 states as well as some ministers, heads of agencies, and presidential aides. READ ALSO New...

LP Rep Member Iliya, Defects To APC

12.12.2024

A member of the House of Representatives on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Ajang Alfred Iliya, on Thursday, announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The House Speaker, Tajudeen Abass in a letter read during plenary said Iliya, who represents the Jos South/Jos East Federal Constituency of Plateau State defected to...

Ekiti Airport Gets NCAA’s Approval To Begin Non-Scheduled Flight Operation December 15

12.12.2024

Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport (EAICA) Ado-Ekiti has received the approval of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to commence non-scheduled flight operations effective December 15th, 2024. A press release issued on Thursday by the Special adviser on media to the governor, Yinka Oyebode stated that the NCAA, in a letter dated December 11, 2024,...

FAAN Remits N218bn into federation account in 5 year

12.12.2024

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) remitted N218.335 billion as internally generated revenue (IGR) and a total sum of N352.263 million as remittance on one per cent Stamp Duty to the Consolidated Revenue Funds Account (CRF) for the period of 2020 – 2024, Mrs Olubunmi Kuku, Managing Director of the Authority, has said. She...

Eradiri, Running Mate, Others Dump Labour Party

12.12.2024

Udengs Eradiri and his running mate, Commodore Benjamin Nathus (retd) who contested under the platform of the Labour Party in the 2023 Bayelsa State Governorship Election have dumped the party. New Telegraph gathered that most of the Local Government Chairmen of the party in the state joined Eradiri and Nathus to dump the party. Eradiri,...

CRIVIFON Advocates Human Rights Awareness, Launches Children’s Club

12.12.2024

The Executive Director of Crime Victims Foundation (CRIVIFON), Mrs Gloria Egbuji, has charged the media, political leaders, and private sector stakeholders to champion the enforcement of human rights in Nigeria. Making the appeal during an event marking the International Human Rights Day at NTA 5, Tejuosho, Lagos, Mrs Egbuji, while emphasizing the critical role of...

Nigeria To Benefit $500m World Bank Facility For Hope Project

12.12.2024

The Federal Government of Nigeria is to benefit from a $500 million loan facility from the World Bank for the Human Capital Opportunities for Prosperity and Equity (HOPE) project in the country. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, made this known during a courtesy visit on him by the International Monetary...

NRC Increase Passengers Volume On Aba-Port Harcourt Rail Corridor

12.12.2024

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed the ongoing refurbishment of additional vehicles to increase the number of passengers it conveys per trip from Aba to Port Harcourt as the festive season gets closer. Mr Onyedikachi Onovo, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NRC South East Zone, confirmed the new development to our correspondent in an...

ECOWAS Ministers Meet In Abuja Over Trade, Security, Others

12.12.2024

On Thursday, the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held its 93rd ordinary session at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar chaired the session focusing on critical governance, economic policies, and regional integration issues. ECOWAS President, Omar Touray, in his opening...

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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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