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FG Eyes Non-Oil Sector For Economic Bailout

18.02.2025

The Federal Government is banking on the non- oil sector revenue generating agencies to meet its budgetary obligations. To this end, it has tasked the drivers of non-oil revenue agencies to deploy information technology tools in blocking leakage and waste in the system. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun,...

‘Ned Nwoko Not Father Of My Child’, Chika Ike Addresses Paternity Rumuor

18.02.2025

Nollywood actress Chika Ike has reacted to social media rumours that billionaire and politician, Senator Ned Nwoko was responsible for her pregnancy. LEADERSHIP recalls that the Senator who is married to actress Regina Daniels had earlier dismissed the claims as false and baseless via a statement on his social media handle on Monday.Chika Ike also...

Grid Collapse: Senate Partners S’Korean Firm For Mini-Grid Solution

18.02.2025

Disturbed by problems of incessant national grid collapse and epileptic power supply, the Senate Committee on Power yesterday, had an interactive session with a South Korean energy firm to proffer lasting solutions. The Committee, led by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), told the BK Energy firm from South Korean, that what Nigeria and Nigerians want,...

Ubah’s Political Structure Yet to Endorse Any Aspirant

18.02.2025

The political family of the late Senator, Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah has said it has not endorsed any aspirant for the 2025 Anambra governorship election. The announcement was made on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, during a press conference at La Luna Hotel and Suites, Awka, organized by the leadership of the political groups aligned with...

2025: MAN Predicts Bleak Performance For Manufacturing Sector

18.02.2025

Against the backlash of the harsh macroeconomic environment in 2024 and beginning of 2025, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has predicted a bleak outlook for manucturers during the year. Specifically, MAN noted that the country’s manufacturing sector was in a precarious state, stressing that the country would continue to hang in the balance unless...

IGP Orders Deployment Of Additional Tactical Squads

18.02.2025

Amid the ongoing Local Government crisis in Osun State, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the deployment of additional tactical squads to restore peace and security in the state. The newly deployed units will reinforce security efforts already in place, following violent clashes on Tuesday that resulted in the deaths of four...

NAICOM tasks insurance firms on continental expansion – Punch Newspapers

18.02.2025

The Commissioner for Information/Chief Executive Officer of the National Insurance Commission, Olusegun Omosehin, has challenged players in the sector to start thinking about expanding beyond the Nigerian borders. This was disclosed in a recorded video message to the stakeholders, which was posted on Monday. Omosehin said this against the background of the African Continental Free...

Smuggling: NCS To Deploy Modern Tech – Comptroller-General

18.02.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has stated that it would deploy the use of modern technology towards reducing the activities of smugglers across the country to the barest minimum. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, stated this yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, during a familiarization tour of the Kwara Area Command. According to...

NGF Mourns Statesmen Adebanjo, Edwin Clark

18.02.2025

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday joined President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other political stakeholders in the country to mourn the passing of two revered elder statesmen, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Edwin Clark. In a statement made available to newsmen, NGF Chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, described their deaths as a...

Nasarawa Assembly Rejects Commissioner-Nominee, Screen 7 Others

18.02.2025

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly yesterday stepped down the screening of Yakubu Kwanta, a commissioner nominee and close ally of Governor Abdullahi Sule. The immediate past Commissioner for Environment had refused to honour the Assembly’s invitation to defend his ministry’s 2024 budget. The legislators described his action as an act of insubordination to an...

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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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