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Diddy Combs Rejects Plea Deal Ahead Of Monday Sex Trafficking Trial

02.05.2025

Embattled United States music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has formally rejected the US government’s offer to plead guilty and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged prison sentence. This is as the jury selection in the long-awaited trial is set to begin on Monday, coincidentally the same day as the Met Gala, the glittering charity...

May Day: We’ve Kept Our Pledges To Lagos Workers, Says Sanwo-Olu

02.05.2025

The commemoration of the 2025 Workers’ Day in Lagos State was marked by a colourful display of solidarity by all labour unions, defying the rains to rekindle the spirit of their struggle for better living conditions. Governor Babajide SanwoOlu joined the workers’ May Day parade held at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Onikan with the...

N’East Govs To Adopt Multidimensional Approach To Tackle Insurgency

02.05.2025

The North East Governors’ Forum yesterday has resolved to adopt multidimensional approach through kinetic and non-kinetic strategies in tackling insecurity challenges in the region. The form made the decision in a nine-point communiqué read by Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State at the end of its 11th meeting in Damaturu. The governors said addressing insecurity...

Electricity subsidy spending balloons to N762bn

02.05.2025

Electricity subsidy has increased to about N762bn in the first four months of 2025. Figures from various reports of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission showed that the subsidy on power was approximately N178bn in January. It rose to N194bn in February, N192bn in March, and N194bn in April. The Federal Government is therefore going to...

ICPC Probes Discrepancies In Disbursement Of Student Loan

02.05.2025

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Thursday announced it has commenced an investigation into discrepancies in the disbursements of the student loan, saying ₦71bn has been unaccounted for in the scheme. This is contained in a statement issued by the anti-graft agency spokesperson, Demola Bakare. According to the statement, the...

Aviation unions decry FG’s refusal to stop 50% revenue cut

02.05.2025

The President of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Ben Nnabue, has raised safety and security concerns in the aviation industry over the continued deduction of 50 per cent of the revenue generated by Federal Government agencies in the sector. Nnabue raised the concerns during his speech at the 2025 Workers’ Day celebration at...

Otti Clears Over 50% Inherited Debt Without Borrowing

02.05.2025

Of the N138 billion financial liability inherited from the previous administration in Abia State, Governor Alex Otti State has paid off N72 billion without borrowing a dime. Otti made the disclosure during the monthly media conference where he corroborated the Debt Management Of fice (DMO), report that his administration inherited a debt profile of N138...

Politicians Pushing For Coalition Should Not Cause North-south Division –George

02.05.2025

Chief Bode George is a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview, he speaks on plans by some governors elected on the platform of the party to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s move for an opposition coalition, among other issues, ANAYO...

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Agro-processing sector requires $538m investments annually – LCCI

02.05.2025

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Agricultural and Allied Group has projected that increasing nationwide agro-processing capacity would require a continuous investment of $538m yearly for at least a decade. In separate phone interviews with The PUNCH, agriculture stakeholders urged the Federal Government to scale up agro-processing investment across the 36 states and the...

FG To Probe Alleged Illegal Deductions From Students’ By Varsities

02.05.2025

The Minister of Education, Maruf Olatunji Alausa, has pledged a thorough investigation into disturbing allegations of unauthorized deductions by some Nigerian universities from funds disbursed under the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFund) scheme. Describing the allegations as “very disturbing and extremely concerning,” Alausa stressed that any unauthorized financial deductions from student loans represent a serious...

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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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