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Zamfara Disburses N5.9b For UBEC/SUBEB 2024 Matching Grant Projects

11.07.2025

The Zamfara State Government has disbursed a total of ₦5,917,330,703.95 under the 2024 UBEC/SUBEB Matching Grant Projects, marking a major step toward overhauling the state’s basic education infrastructure. Governor Dauda Lawal officially flagged off the project during a contract notification award ceremony held at the Government House in Gusau on Friday. The event marked the...

CBAAC Mourns Late Olubadan, Oba Olakulehin

11.07.2025

…says he was a true icon, custodian of culture The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) has expressed grief over the passing of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin. The Centre described the late monarch as a true icon and custodian of the culture of his people. It would be recalled...

NMDPRA: Nigerian Lawyers Protest At US, Swiss Embassies, Demand Ahmed’s Probe

11.07.2025

The call for the probe and prosecution of the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed, took international dimension as some lawyers protested at the United States of America and Swiss embassies in Abuja. The lawyers, estimated at about 500, and members of the Concerned...

Customs, NAFDAC Inaugurate C’ttee To Curb Illicit Pharmaceutical Products

11.07.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have inaugurated an implementation committee against the influx of illicit pharmaceutical products and harmful substances into the country. Unveiled yesterday in Abuja, the committee’s inauguration is a sequel to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in 2024 by...

Rema Speaks On Motive Behind Rebranding

11.07.2025

Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, on Thursday clarified the motive for his rebranding in the build-up to the release of his sophomore album, ‘HEIS,’ last year. Speaking on the one year anniversary of his sophomore album, Rema clarified that his rebranding, including smoking, was just an expression of art and not a...

Group Commends Retired Police Officers For Backing IGP’s Efforts

11.07.2025

The Centre for Human Rights and Justice (CHRJ) has commended the National Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria (NARPON) for their display of patriotism and leadership, following their recent visit to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. The group in a statement by its Senior...

Lawmaker Pays School Fees Of Indigent Pupils

11.07.2025

The Lawmaker representing Akoko North West Constituency II in Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon Felix Afe, has paid the fees of indigent pupils in primary schools in his constituency as part of efforts to check out-of-school children. The lawmaker had seen a primary six pupil of St. John Anglican Primary School, Ogbagi-Akoko, crying because...

Poor Railway Infrastructure Responsible For Mokwa Floods –NIRSAL

11.07.2025

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, yesterday blamed poor railway infrastructure for the recent flood in Mokwa, Niger State, leading to the loss of lives and destruction of farmlands. He disclosed this before the House of Representatives Committee on Hydrological Services and the Hydroelectric...

First Lady Urges Global Resolve To Promote Youth Initiatives

11.07.2025

First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has called for global resolve to shape the future by promoting initiatives that supports the youth and their aspirations. She made this call while giving her address on the second day of the ongoing Third Annual Global First Partners Academy in New York. According to a statement by her spokesperson, Bisola...

7th National Council On AIDS Meeting To Focus On Sustainable HIV Prevention, Care Strategies

11.07.2025

As global funding for HIV continues to face significant setbacks due to reduced international aids from donor countries, stakeholders converging for the 7th National Council on AIDS (NCA) meeting holding in Lagos State in next few weeks, would focus on sustainable strategies to sustain the progress recorded in HIV prevention and care in the country....

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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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