June 2025 – Page 24 – Rise Africa

Nigeria Can Make Money through Tourism than Oil, Experts Tells FG

27.06.2025

Bola Olusola Adeleke, a Professor of Sustainable Tourism Management at Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, has advised the federal government to make development of tourism potential of the country a priority, saying the sector can take the economy to higher pedestal than what the oil can do. Adeleke regretted the poor attentions the government is...

Zamfara APC Loses Ex-DG To SDP

27.06.2025

A former Director General at the Zamfara State Government House and the Zamfara State Urban and Regional Development Board, Hon. Murtala Jangebe, has announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), where he has now been appointed as the National Financial Secretary. Jangebe, a close political associate of...

Deji Confers Asiwaju Title On NDDC Executive Director

27.06.2025

The Deji of Akure, the Ondo State capital, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi has conferred the title of Asiwaju on a former Secretary to the State Government, (SSG) and Executive Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Hon Ifedayo Abegunde. Oba Aladelusi said Abegunde and his wife were conferred with the titles of Asiwaju and Yeye...

We’ll Monitor, Pre-empt Any Attempt To Subvert Electoral Activities

27.06.2025

The Federal Government said its primary objective is to safeguard the sanctity and integrity of the nation’s electoral activities. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, at quarterly meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) in Abuja on Friday, assured that ICCES will, among other things, intensify intelligence efforts to monitor...

State Chairmen Forum Backs Nat’l Chairman’s Suspension

27.06.2025

The crisis in Social Democratic Party on Friday festered as the Forum of the State chairmen backed the suspension of the National Chairman, Shehu Gabam. The party National Chairman and two other National Working Committee (NWC) members were suspended within the week by some members of the NWC over allegations of financial misappropriation. Their suspension...

Youth Training, Recipe For Great Nation- Kemepado

27.06.2025

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youths Development, Alfred Kemepado has explained that the idea of training Bayelsa Youths at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies was in line with Governor Douye Diri’s belief that the dream of a great nation could be achieved with the intentional training of its young people. Speaking in Yenagoa...

LP Suffers Setback As 2,000 Members Back APC’s Ukachukwu

27.06.2025

As the November 8, 2025 governorship election in Anambra State gathers momentum, the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate, George Moghalu, have suffered a major setback as about 2,000 party members from Anambra South Senatorial District—Moghalu’s stronghold—defected to support the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nicholas Ukachukwu. The defection took place on...

Kenyan Court Declares Detention Of Nnamdi Kanu Unlawful

27.06.2025

Justice E.C. Mwita of the High Court in Nairobi, Kenya, declared the abduction, detention, and subsequent rendition to Nigeria of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as illegal and unlawful. The judge held that the rendition carried out in June 2021 was a gross violation of the fundamental rights...

Conflict Fueling Surge In Extreme Poverty Across Africa

27.06.2025

A new report by the World Bank has issued a stark warning: conflict and insecurity are driving a dangerous rise in extreme poverty, with Africa emerging as the hardest-hit region. More than 70% of the world’s conflict-affected poor now live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the number is growing. The report, released Thursday, paints a grim...

Adeleke’s Wife, Accel Africa Project Move To Curb Menace Of Child Labour In Osun

27.06.2025

Osun State First Lady, Mrs. Titilola Adeleke, has promised to use her office to fight the menace of child labour in the state. Mrs. Adeleke made the promise in Osogbo during the 2025 World Day Against Child Labour organised by Accel Africa Project for five communities in Ife North, Ife South and Obokun Local Government...

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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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