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Gunmen Abduct 5 Traders in Fresh Plateau Attack

13.05.2025

Gunmen yesterday abducted five residents of the Dogon Ruwa community in the Bashar District in the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State in market. According to sources, the hoodlums also burgled shops and business centres, carting away huge quantity of food items during the attack. A youth leader in Wase, Shapi Sambo, told our...

Alleged N.5M-For-Bail: Protesters Storm Delta Police HQ

13.05.2025

Hundreds of placardcarrying protesters yesterday stormed the police headquarters in Asaba to protest against the alleged extortion by police officers. Reports claimed that police unlawfully demand N500,000 for bail. The Coordinator of the protest Rev David Ugolor condemned the unlawful detention, extortion and impunity by the police. He said: “We gather here today under the...

APC Nat’l Leadership Storms Senate As Three Kebbi Senators Defect from PDP

13.05.2025

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), alongside members of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), paid a strategic visit to the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, where they witnessed the high-profile defection of three senators from Kebbi State to the ruling party. The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Jibrin Barau, who presided...

Lagos Inaugural Flight Departs With 388 Pilgrims

13.05.2025

Lagos State has officially commenced the airlifting of its intending pilgrims for the 2025 Holy Pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The inaugural flight, carrying 388 pilgrims, departed from the Pilgrims and Cargo Terminal at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on Monday, May 12, 2025. The flight, operated by FLYNAS airline aboard an Airbus...

PDP In ICU, Says Ex- Benue Gov Suswam Amid Internal Crisis

13.05.2025

Amid growing internal strife within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, has declared that the opposition party is now in a political “Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” warning that its survival hinges on urgent and decisive intervention. Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Tuesday, Suswam offered a sobering assessment...

Move To Position Africa As Global Force For Excellence – Gaye

13.05.2025

Ahead of the highly anticipated Global Excellence Summit and Awards (GESA) 2025, scheduled to take place in Lagos on May 23 and 24, 2025, the event organizers have emphasized that the summit is designed as a movement to position Africa as a global leader in excellence. Fatoumatta Gaye, the Convener of GESA 2025, made this...

Sen Abba Moro Congratulates Ortom, Others On PDP BoT Appointment

13.05.2025

Senate Minority Leader and representative of Benue South Senatorial District, Senator Abba Moro, has extended his heartfelt congratulations to the immediate past Governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom; former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku; former Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu; and others on their recent appointments to the Board of Trustees (BoT) of...

Kim Kardashian To Testify In Court 9 Years After Paris Robbery

13.05.2025

Popular celebrity Kimberly Noel Kardashian who is popularly called Kim Kardashian will testify in a Paris court on Tuesday, a decade after she was robbed at gunpoint of millions in jewellery by masked men during Paris Fashion Week. The trial, which began in late April, involves ten suspects accused of the 2016 armed robbery in...

Insecurity: Alia Debunks Raising N300bn To Launder Image Abroad Over Killings

13.05.2025

Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia yesterday debunked the allegations by a group, Network for Transparent Governance (NTG), that he had raised N300 billion to launder his image abroad bothering on the killings of innocent people of the state by armed herdsmen terrorists. The governor described the allegation as ludicrous and a desperate attempt to stir...

Complete Abandoned, Ongoing Projects, PDP Tells Ondo Govt

13.05.2025

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has urged Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to prioritise the completion of ongoing and abandoned projects before initiating new ones. The party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Leye Igbagbo, made this call in a statement issued on Tuesday, criticising the recent flag-off of a 10-kilometre road project linking Akure...

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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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