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Natasha – Akpabio Saga: Senate Passes Vote Of Confidence In Akpabio

14.03.2025

The Senate, yesterday, passed a vote of confidence in the Godswill Akpabio-led administration, expressing satisfaction with his performance and general conduct so far. The apex legislative Assembly passed the vote of confidence in their leader, following a motion moved by the Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele. Bamidele, who cited Orders 40 and 51 to move...

Debts: Reps Battle To Recover $545m Owed To FG By Oil Companies

14.03.2025

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been at daggers drawn with oil companies owing the Federal Government, PHILIP NYAM reports on the development The House of Representatives has been engrossed in an intense investigation into activities of oil companies operating in the country, especially as regards their obligations to the Federal Government....

Stop Floodgate Of New Varsities, Education Minister Tells NASS

14.03.2025

The Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, has asked members of the National Assembly to put an end to the approval of new universities in the country, and focus on how existing universities would be better equipped to offer quality learning with the view of producing competent graduates. This was as the minister said...

Why It’ll Be Easy For Me To Defeat Soludo, By Ozigbo

14.03.2025

Valentine Ozigbo is a former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State and an aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2025 governorship election in the state. In this interview, he speaks on why he defected from the Labour Party (LP) to the ruling APC and...

Poor Sleep Could Be Bad For Brain Health –Study

14.03.2025

A new study from the Australian National University (ANU) has found that poor sleep could have an impact on brain health. Findings of the study are published in the journal ‘Sleep Medicine’. The research, a review of over 100 existing studies, found that sleep characteristics like poor quality or lack of sleep, as well as...

Africa Should Free Self From U.S. Influence To Prosper –Agazuma

14.03.2025

In recent times, a growing sentiment among African leaders and intellectuals has emerged, calling for the continent to reevaluate its economic, political and social relationship with the United States. A strong advocate for this movement is Ross Agazuma, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview, he calls on African nations to...

Reps Okay Tax Reform Bills, Keep VAT At 7.5%

14.03.2025

The Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Finance, James Faleke (APC, Lagos), yesterday assured that Nigerians will be appreciative of the laws that will come out of the Tax Reform Bills. Faleke disclosed this at briefing of the committee shortly after the house considered and adopted the report on the four tax reform bills...

Presidency Knocks Obasanjo For Downplaying Tinubu’s Achievements In New Memoir

14.03.2025

The Presidency has come down hard on former President Olusegun Obasanjo for trying to downplay the impact of infrastructural projects embarked upon by President Bola Tinubu’s administration, particularly the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, in his newly launched memoir: ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’. Dada Olusegun, Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, accused Obasanjo of attempting...

CD Asks Tinubu To Intervene In Rivers, Senate Crises

14.03.2025

The Campaign for Democracy (CD) yesterday asked President Bola Tinubu to resolve the protracted crises in the Rivers State House of Assembly and the Senate. In a statement, National President, Ifeanyi Odili, said the intervention was necessary to restore calm in Rivers and allow good governance to thrive. Odili said the dispute over the suspension...

Sen Kalu Rejects NYLF’s Call To Run For President, Reinstates Commitment To Tinubu’s Mandate

14.03.2025

Senate Committee Chairman on South East Development Commission (SEDC)/ Senator representing Abia North, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has rejected the call by Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) to run for president in 2027, with either Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal or Governor of Adamawa State, Umar Fintiri as running mate. The prominent coalition comprising...

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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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