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Obasa Absent As Lagos Assembly Appoints New Principal Officers

17.01.2025

The former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa and two other lawmakers were conspicuously absent during Friday’s plenary session. New Telegraph reports that the other two that were absent are Nureni Akinsanya (Mushin 2) and the former Majority Leader, Naheem Adams. Despite Obasa’s absence from the plenary, the Speaker of the...

Abiodun Mourns Onanuga, Describes Her Death As Devastating

17.01.2025

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has sympathised with the family of the late member of the House of Representatives representing Ikenne/ Sagamu/Remo North Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Adewunmi Oriyomi Onanuga, popularly known as “Ijaya,” in political circles. Onanuga, who until her passing served as the Deputy Chief Whip in the Green Chamber, reportedly died...

Influx Of Fighters From Sahel Liable For Resurgence Of Terrorist Attacks –DHQ

17.01.2025

The influx of terrorists from the Sahel region is responsible for the resurgence of terrorist attacks in the North East and North West theatres, the Defence Headquarters stated yesterday. This is even as the military maintained that its “strategic objective of breaking the terrorists will to fight remains resolute and unhindered.” The immediate past Director...

CREDICORP Enrols 20,000 Armed Forces Personnel In Credit Scheme

17.01.2025

To mark Armed Forces Remembrance Day, Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP) has kicked off a consumer credit Fund for personnel of the armed forces. The arrangement in partnership with Fewchore Finance, one of its participating financial institutions (PFI) aims to benefit 20,000 armed forces personnel in its first phase and is in line with President...

20 insurance firms record N519bn market cap

17.01.2025

The Nigerian insurance sector has achieved a collective market capitalisation of N519.04bn, with top players such as AXA Mansard Insurance, AIICO Insurance, and Cornerstone Insurance leading the way. AXA Mansard Insurance, with a market cap of N81.9bn, leads the sector despite a slight decline of 1.62 per cent in its share price. AIICO Insurance follows...

Kogi Govt Vows To Prosecute 40-Year-Old Suspect For Raping 3-Year-Old Girl

17.01.2025

The Kogi State Govern – ment has condemned the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl by a 40-yearold man, Elisha Daniel, describing the act as “barbaric” and “appalling.” Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo, at a media conference, emphasized the government’s commitment to ensuring the suspect faces justice. He said Governor Ahmed Usman...

Sokoto Inuagurates Projects Monitoring, Verification C’ttee’s

17.01.2025

Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has inaugurated the state and senatorial zones projects and contracts monitoring committees, with a call on them to be honest and sincere in the discharge of their assignment. He said the setting up of the committees is aimed at ensuring that people of the state get quality projects that would...

We Don’t Need Your Approval For Our Policies, FG Tells Sanusi

17.01.2025

The Federal Government yesterday fired back at the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, urging him “to rise above personal interests and partisan undertones and prioritise the greater good of Nigerians”. In a statement, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, flayed Sanusi’s criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s policies, saying the government does...

Opposition Should Stop Playing Politics With Govt Policies –Bwala

17.01.2025

Daniel Bwala is the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication. In this interview, he speaks on the controversies trailing the Tax Reform Bills before the National Assembly and the North’s opposition to the bills, among other issues A pro-Northern coalition group was at rexently the National Assembly to drum support for the...

Enugu On Right Path Of Investment Under Mbah — Bagudu

17.01.2025

Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Abubakar Bagudu, has commended Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, for the deliberate commitment of his administration to creating a sustainable business environment for investors, saying that the state was already on the right trajectory of investment and development. This was even as the Ambassador of Austria to...

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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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