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Edo Gov’ship Petition Tribunal To Commence Full Hearing Wednesday

14.01.2025

The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal (EPT) has adjourned to Wednesday, January 15, 2025, for the commencement of a full hearing on the petition filed by Dr Asue Ighodalo and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the declaration of Governor Monday Okpebholo as the winner of the September 21, 2024 election. This development was due...

FG Confident Of Realizing N36.35trn 2025 Revenue Target

14.01.2025

The Federal Government on Monday said it is confident of achieving its revenue target of N36.35 trillion revenue target in the 2025 fiscal year. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, expressed confidence at the National Assembly Joint Committees on Finance hearing on the 2025 Appropriation Bill in Abuja. His confidence is hinged...

Police Commission Dismisses 2 ASPs, Punishes 27 Others

14.01.2025

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal and subsequent prosecution of two Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) over alleged dishonesty, corruption, sabotage and other sundry acts of misconduct. The Commission also approved the reduction in the ranks of two Superintendents of Police to Deputy Superintendents, one Deputy Superintendent to Assistant Superintendent, and three...

2024 Budget: We Completed Eight New Offices Nationwide

14.01.2025

…Appeals for more funding in 2025 The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Anthony Ojukwu, on Monday, disclosed that the Commission completed eight new offices nationwide in the 2024 fiscal year. Ojukwu, who made this disclosure in Abuja during the 2025 budget defence with the National Assembly joint Committee on Judiciary,...

Come For Approval, Lagos Govt Urges Unregistered School Owners

14.01.2025

…LASG restates commitment to qualitative education for all The Lagos State Government has issued a directive to all unapproved and unregistered private schools operating within the state to register immediately with the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA). As explained in a public statement from the Ministry of Information and Strategy, having all schools on...

Tinubu Celebrates Ex-Leadway Assurance CEO, Odukale At 60

14.01.2025

President Bola Tinubu congratulated Mr Tunde Hassan-Odukale, the former CEO of Leadway Assurance and ex-Chairman of First Bank, on his 60th birthday. According to a press release issued by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, the President lauded Odukale’s contributions to the growth and stability of key industries, including insurance, asset management, IT and banking. “With over...

Senate Decries MDA’s Poor Remittances To Federation Account In 2024

14.01.2025

The Senate, on Monday, expressed serious concern about low remittances of revenues generated in 2024 by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and some government-owned enterprises (GOEs) to the Federation Account. The Chairman of the Joint Finance Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, Senator Sani Musa, expressed the displeasure of the Senate in Abuja,...

FX crisis, weak naira threatening SMEs’ survival –Economists

14.01.2025

Economic experts have raised the alarm that Nigeria’s forex policies and the weak naira are endangering the survival of Small and Medium Enterprises, posing a severe threat to the nation’s economic stability. According to them, Nigeria’s foreign exchange policies and the fluctuating value of the naira are placing immense pressure on SMEs, particularly those dependent...

Real estate overtakes oil as third-largest sector – Report

14.01.2025

Preliminary figures from the ongoing GDP and CPI rebasing have revealed that real estate has surpassed oil and gas to become Nigeria’s third-largest sector. Real estate now ranks behind crop production and trade in first and second positions, respectively. Previously, agriculture was Nigeria’s dominant sector, contributing over 20 per cent to the GDP. It comprises...

Bandits Kill Benue Biz’man, Collect N5.5 Ransom

14.01.2025

Suspected Fulani bandits have reportedly killed a businessman, Mr. Terungwa Shaku in Benue State after he was abducted and held hostage for weeks and a whooping N5.5 million paid as ransom. The deceased is a farmer who hails from Akor village in the Nzorov council ward of Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of the state...

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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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