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AGF Urges FPOs To Monitor MDAs On Contravention

13.02.2025

The Accountant General of the Federation ( AGF) Mrs. Oluwatoyin Madein has tasked Federal Pay Officers ( FPOs) to keep close monitoring on the Ministries, Departments and Agencies in their states, to ensure no MDA operate any account with the commercial banks or circumvents any provision of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy. In addition,...

Geopolitical Devt: Conduct Needs Assessment Of North West, Abbas Tasks NWDC

13.02.2025

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has tasked the newly established North West Development Commission (NWDC) with conducting a needs assessment of the geopolitical zone as the commission takes off. Abbas also called on the NWDC to consider multiple funding sources to be able to fulfil its mandate. The speaker made the...

Sokoto Govt Urges New Security Chiefs To Work In Synergy

13.02.2025

The Sokoto State Government has urged the newly posted Commissioner of Police and Director of State Security Service (DSS), to work in synergy with other security agencies and stakeholders to tackle criminal activities across the state. Governor Ahmed Aliyu made this call when he hosted the security chiefs at the Government House Chambers in Sokoto....

Elumelu Partners UAE Foundation To Empower Additional 1000 Entrepreneurs

13.02.2025

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs, from all 54 African countries, yesterday, signed a $6 million strategic partnership agreement with the UAE Office of Development Affairs and Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation (an affiliate of Erth Zayed) to provide business training, mentorship, access to networks, and non-refundable $5,000...

Aviation: ‘Multiple Charges Impacting Badly On Local Operations’

13.02.2025

Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Professor Obiora Okonkwo on Wednesday said multiple charges by government agencies in the country’s aviation sector remains domestic operators’ nightmare and called on the federal government to urgently address the challenge. He however said the forex policy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been of tremendous advantage to the airline...

Concerned Lawyers Condemn Adeyanju’s Visa Ban Request Against Police PRO

13.02.2025

…Call It Unconstitutional A group of concerned legal practitioners has strongly condemned the recent petition by human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, seeking a visa ban against Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and his family. The petition, dated February 4, 2025, was reportedly sent...

FG Suspends New Polys, Monotechs Registration For One Year

13.02.2025

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa has announced the approval of a one-year moratorium on new applications for polytechnics and monotechnics. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Bugaje in Kaduna. New Telegraph reports that the Education Minister...

Gov Idris Eulogies Broadcast Media On World Radio Day

13.02.2025

As Nigeria joins the International Community in celebrating World Radio Day, Comrade Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State has commended the broadcast media organisations for enhancing public awareness of participatory and the need for peaceful coexistence in Nigeria. In a statement issued by Abdullahi Idris Zuru, the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to Kebbi...

Speakership: Lagos Assembly Must Be Allowed To Exercise Freedom

13.02.2025

The Centre for Human and Socio-economic Rights (CHSR) has said that the Lagos State House of Assembly must be allowed to exercise its freedom in conducting its legislative business. President of the Group, Comrade Alex Omotehinse stated this while addressing the press at its office in Ijaiye, Lagos on Thursday on the speakership crisis rocking...

PANDEF Committee Moves To Reconcile Fubara, Wike

13.02.2025

The Peace and Reconciliation Committee of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has emphasized the need for mutual respect and political stability in Rivers State. Calling on all stakeholders to prioritize the interests of the people, the Forum in a closed-door meeting held in Port Harcourt on Wednesday calls for unity between the two political...

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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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