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Customs Intercepts 445 Bags Of Rice At Ogun Border

12.03.2025

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, has intercepted 445 bags of parboiled rice in an operation lasting less than an hour in Ogun State. The Controller of the unit, Kola Oladeji, explained in Lagos on Tuesday that the interception occurred at the Ijohun axis along the Ogun border. He credited the successful...

Conduct By-Elections To Fill Ubah, Okpebholo’s Seats, Senate Tells INEC

12.03.2025

The Senate yesterday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct bye-elections for the vacant Senate seats in Edo Central and Anambra South. Senate President Godswill Akpabio said thiswhile officially declaring both seats vacant and emphasising the need for prompt electoral action. Akpabio said: “Those seats are declared vacant. I urge INEC to conduct...

Adebayo Speaks On Possibility Of Peter Obi Joining SDP

12.03.2025

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has said the party will not be inviting former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi to join its ranks. Speaking in an interview on News Central TV on Tuesday, Adebayo noted that Obi was already familiar with the SDP and had engaged with the...

Senate Orders INEC To Conduct By-Elections To Fill Ubah, Okpebholo’s Seats

12.03.2025

The Senate, yesterday, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to conduct by-elections to fill the vacant seats in Anambra South and Edo Central Senatorial Districts, respectively. The order was given by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, during the day’s plenary session, when he officially declared the seats vacant. INEC had in...

Natasha Drags Nigerian Senate To UN

12.03.2025

The embattled Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natsaha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Monday, escalated her dispute with Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, by presenting her case at a United Nations (UN) forum. New Telegraph gathered that Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended on March 6 after a heated confrontation with Akpabio over a new Senate seating arrangement, which...

Halt Increase In Atm Transaction Charges, Reps Tell CBN

12.03.2025

The House of Representatives yesterday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately suspend implementation of this policy increasing ATM transaction charges and stoppage of free ATM withdrawals for customers from other banks in Nigeria, pending proper engagement with the relevant committees on Banking, Finance, and Financial Institutions. The resolution followed the adoption from...

Abdulrazaq Inspects Govt’s Multistorey Prototype School

12.03.2025

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has inspected the multi-storey prototype primary school in Adeta, Ilorin, calling it another step to upgrade public school infrastructure along with the huge investments in the quality of teaching in the schools. The governor said his administration is committed to investing more in the education sector this fiscal year to...

Ex-Sokoto Gov, Bafarawa, Debunks Joining SDP

12.03.2025

A former Sokoto Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has denied rumors of his joining the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on March 11, 2025. This denial comes after a viral post on social media claimed he had joined the SDP. Bafarawa, a Nigerian politician who served as the executive governor of Sokoto State from 1999 to 2007,...

Rivers Crisis: Political Actors To Respect Court Rulings

12.03.2025

Amid the ongoing leadership tussle in Rivers State, President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday urged all the political stakeholders in the state to respect court rulings and uphold the rule of law to restore peace in the crisis-hit state. President Bola Tinubu made this appeal in a press statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and...

NSITF Compensates Injured NASS Staff With N25m

12.03.2025

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), yesterday, compensated an injured staff of the National Assembly with N25 million. The agency presented the compensation cheque for the injured staff to the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Barrister Kamoru Ogunlana, by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NSITF, Oluwaseun Mayomi Faleye. Faleye, who...

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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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