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Alleged Defamation: SERAP Seeking New Identity In Court –Security Sources

03.12.2024

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has insisted on the addition of “Registered Incorporated Trustees” to its name, according to security sources. The sources, who spoke in confidence with New Telegraph yesterday, said SERAP made the request at the resumed hearing of a case of alleged defamation brought before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...

Firm Launches Data Collection Initiative In Primary Health Care Centres

03.12.2024

Orodata Science has launched the second phase of its data collection initiative in Primary Health Care (PHC) centres in the country. The new phase will include data collection from over 1,000 additional centres across 10 new states, increasing the total number of surveyed PHCs to more than 1,500. The goal of the initiative is to...

Tax Reform Bills Won’t Destroy Any State’s Economy –Presidency

03.12.2024

The Presidency has said that the Tax Reform Bills currently undergoing consideration in the National Assembly was not designed to impoverish any state of the federation as being speculated in some quarters. Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in a release yesterday also clarified that the bills did not in any way recommend the scrapping of TETfund,...

Group Tasks Edo Govt On Creation Of Disability Commission

03.12.2024

The Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), Edo State Chapter yesterday called on the state government to as a matter of urgency consider constituting Edo State Disability Commission to cater for the welfare of persons living with disabilities. The group also urged Governor Monday Okpebholo to consider persons with disabilities in every area...

FG, Denmark, Egypt Target Nigeria’s Livestock Sector

03.12.2024

Egypt and Denmark yesterday pledged to collaborate with Nigeria to drive transformational growth and modernise Nigeria’s livestock sector. Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria Mohamed Fouad and his Danish counterpart Jens Hansen made the commitment when they visited the Minister of Livestock Development, Mukhtar Maiha. Fouad said the partnership would leverage Egypt’s expertise to advance key areas...

Yemi Alade Heralds Festive Season With New Single ‘Merry Christmas O!’

03.12.2024

Top Nigerian singer and Grammy Nominee, Yemi Alade has brightened up the festive season, setting the pace with her hot new single, titled ‘Merry Christmas O!’ The new song which was released by the ‘King of Queens’ crooner to herald the Christmas season is a cheerful anthem that celebrates the spirit of giving, joy, and...

Clarification: AGF’s Audit Report Not For The Current PAP Administration

03.12.2024

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has clarified that the Auditor General of the Federation’s audit report highlighting the alleged infractions in managing funds does not relate to the current administration. The report noted that the PAP illegally withdrawn over N6 billion and paid tuition fees for students without records. However, the agency stated yesterday that...

EFCC Makes Single Largest Asset Recovery Till Date

03.12.2024

Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie, on Monday, December 2, 2024 gave a ruling on a final forfeiture of an estate in Abuja measuring 150,500 square metres and containing 753 Units of duplexes and other apartments. This is the single largest asset recovery by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, since its inception in 2003. The Estate...

Okpebholo Swears In 3 Judges Rejected By Obaseki

03.12.2024

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo yesterday swore in three judges who were rejected by his immediate past predecessor Godwin Obaseki. At the ceremony at Government House, Okpebholo said he had promised to look into the case. The governor noted that 11 months after the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) only five of those...

Nigeria Raises $2.2bn From Fresh Eurobonds Auction

03.12.2024

Nigeria has raised $2.2 billion through its latest Eurobonds auction, according to a statement issued by the Debt Management Office (DMO) late yesterday. The statement said that Nigeria successfully priced $2.2 billion in Eurobonds(Notes) maturing in 2031 (6.5-year) and 2034 (10- year) in the international capital markets on December 2, 2024, with $700 million and...

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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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