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Oborevwori Not Leaving PDP – Spokesman

07.01.2025

Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Sir Festus Ahon has described rumours of defection plans of the Governor to other parties as untrue and concocted by some opposition elements in the State. In a press statement issued in Asaba on Monday, Ahon said some elements in the opposition party in the...

Human Metapneumovirus Not Declared Public Health Emergency Of Intl Concern –NCD

07.01.2025

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has described as false, news making the rounds that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) said to have originated from China, as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). NCDC in a public health advisory issued yesterday.noted that although they...

Bode George Kicks Against Move To Hand Over King’s College To Old Students

07.01.2025

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, on Monday rejected the move by some notable elders from Lagos State to hand over King’s College to old students. George in a statement said the elders should have used the opportunity of meeting President Bola Tinubu to advocate for the...

Senate Sets January 31 For Passage Of 2025 Appropriation Bill

07.01.2025

The Upper Chamber of the 10th National Assembly, on Monday, provisionally set January 31, 2025, as the date for passing the 2025 Appropriation Bill. The Nigerian Senate made this known in a statement by Senator Solomon Adeola, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, during a meeting with the heads of all Senate standing committees. New...

Edo Pledges To Probe Cultism Attack On Businesswoman

07.01.2025

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo yesterday promised to fight cultism and inhuman treatment. The Administrator, Office of the First Lady, Mrs Edesili Anani, said this when she visited Tina Uyi, who is receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital on account of being set ablaze by her ex-husband. Anani said the state government would not leave...

How Family Planning Prevents Stunted Growth – AAFP

07.01.2025

The Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) in Nigeria Chairman Ejike Oji says family planning can prevent stunted growth in children. Oji made the comment yesterday in an interview with journalists in Abuja. He said children’s brain development occurr in the first 1,000 days of their birth, adding that a child’s inability to...

Zamfara: ACReSAL To Battle Desertification, Other Disasters For Sustainable Farming

07.01.2025

GUSAU T he Zamfara State World bank-funded Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) in conjunction with the focal NGO, Health Standard Concern Organization (HESCO), has expressed commitments towards addressing erosions and climatic problems in the state. Speaking during an advocacy visit to the Emir of Anka and State Chairman, Council of Chiefs, Attahiru Muhammad Ahmad,...

Iyalode Musulumi Of Egbaland Mourns Cash Madam

07.01.2025

The Iyalode Musulumi of Egbaland, Dr. Lateefat Oyeyemi Kolapo, has described the passing of business icon and socialite, Princess Khadijat Adebisi Edionsere (Cash Madam) as a huge loss to Ogun State and Nigeria as a whole. In a statement issued yesterday, she said the late Edionsere (nee Elegbede), who was the Iya Suna of Egbaland...

Kebbi ALGON Calls For Caution Amid Implementation

07.01.2025

Amid the call for the implementation of Local Government autonomy, the Chairman of the Kebbi State Chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Muhammad Ambursa has said the Local Councils across the country would struggle to pay workers’ salaries without state government support. Ambursa who spoke at a press conference on Monday in...

Group Tackles Okpebholo Over LG Bosses’ Suspension

07.01.2025

The Concerned Civil Society Organisations in Edo State have decried the suspension of the 18 local government area chairmen by the House of Assembly. It asked Governor Monday Okpebholo to allow them to complete their tenure. Emmanuel Ogbidi and Kola Edokpayi made the call at a news conference in Benin. They said the governor must...

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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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