December 2024 – Page 81

…UNIBEN Mourns Ex-Interior Minister – New Telegraph

23.12.2024

Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has commiserated with the family of the late elder statesman and former governor of Rivers, Maj-Gen. Godwin Osagie Abbe, on his passing at 75. He was also a former Minister of Interior. Abbe was also a Minister of Defence and that of Interior. Prof. Edoba Omoregie, Vice Chancellor...

Reps Assure Bauchi Of Ecological Fund Increase

23.12.2024

The House Committee on Ecological Fund Chairman Aminu Jaji has promised Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed that the state will be recommended for an increase in its ecological fund allocation. According to him, this followed the committee’s assessment of the state’s efforts in mitigating its ecological challenges. The legislator, who visited Mohammed, praised the governor’s...

Fear Grips Osun Residents As Ritualists Behead Nursing Mother, Abduct Child

23.12.2024

Residents of Isale Osun Area of Osogbo, Osun State capital and its environs have been thrown into palpable fear following the discovery of a headless body in their neighbourhood. It was gathered that the residents woke up to the gory corpse last Friday, a situation that has thrown the entire community into tension. The victim...

Yuletide: Elumelu Shares 1,800 Bags Of Rice To Over 5,000 Families In Delta

23.12.2024

Tony Elumelu Foundation has distributed 1,800 bags of rice to over 5,000 families at Onichu-Uku town in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State to celebrate the yuletide. The beneficiaries were from the seven quarters, making up the agrarian town. Each of the quarters got 140 bags of rice to be shared among their...

FG Arraigns Suspected Terrorists Linked To Bello Turji Group Today

23.12.2024

The Federal Government is scheduled to arraign five suspected terrorists linked to the notorious terrorist kingpin Bello Turji at the Federal High Court Abuja today. They will be arraigned by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation before Justice Emeka Nwite, a vacation judge. Although they were scheduled for arraignment on Friday, their...

Telcos demand plan to resolve N250bn USSD debt

23.12.2024

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria has called on industry regulators to implement clear and practical solutions to resolve the long-standing N250bn debt owed by banks to telecom operators for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data offerings. Speaking with The PUNCH, ATCON President Tony Emoekpere stressed the need for clear solutions, warning that the debt crisis...

Intersociety Decries Killings In S’East

23.12.2024

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) yesterday decried the killings in the South East. Addressing a press conference in Enugu, the Chairman of the board Emeka Umeagbalasi condemned the killing of innocent people in the region by non-state actors and law enforcement agencies. The group stressed that aside from the...

Alia Launches Benue Zeva Premium Beer To Drive Industrial Growth

23.12.2024

…Commends BIPC management over feat Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has unveiled the Zeva Premium Lager Beer, a product of the Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC). The initiative is a significant leap in the state’s efforts to industrialize and stimulate economic development. Performing the ceremony at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Square in...

Obi Criticizes IGP’s Directive Restricting Palliative Distribution

23.12.2024

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has heavily criticized the recent directive by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) placing restrictions on the distribution of palliatives to the less privileged. In a statement released on Monday via his X handle, Obi acknowledged the intent behind the directive, which aims to address...

Consumers Groan As Prices Of Food Items Soar

23.12.2024

Barely a few days to this Christmas celebration, the prices of food items have continued to soar beyond the reach of an average Abia and Imo resident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)’s market survey in Umuahia revealed that essential food items such as rice, chicken, vegetable oil, onions, tomatoes and condiments have skyrocketed 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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