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Rivers Women Appeal To Tinubu To Reinstate Fubara

21.07.2025

Rivers Women Unite for SIM, a pro Governor Siminalayi Fubara group, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to restore democratic governance in the state by reinstating the governor after four months of emergency rule. The women also said that the people of the state are committed to peace and stability in Rivers State, which...

UNDP, TETFund Seal Pact To Establish Innovation Hubs In Varsities

21.07.2025

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has partnered with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to establish and expand innovation hubs across Nigerian universities. Speaking during a meeting with a UNDP delegation in Abuja on Monday, TETFund Executive Secretary Sonny Echono said the partnership aligns with the Fund’s core interventions in innovation, skills development, and...

Idumonza Isidahomhen Emerges SDP Candidate For Edo Central By-Election

21.07.2025

Experienced media practitioner, Idumonza Isidahomhen has emerged the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, for the forthcoming Bye-Election into Edo Central Senatorial District of Edo State. Isidahomhen polled all the total vote casts in the election, to clinch the party’s flag. Announcing the result, the returning officer for the primaries, Mr. Iyamu Collins observed...

COSEYL Demands Arrest Of Anambra PDP Candidate’s Attackers

21.07.2025

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has condemned the recent attack on the Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Chief Jude Ezenwafor, demanding arrest and prosecution of the assailants. The apex sociopolitical youth group in the South East geopolitical zone noted that the 2025 Anambra State governorship election candidate was shot by...

IBB’s Son Debunks Reports On Rejecting BOA Appointment

21.07.2025

Muhammed Babangida, the son of the former military President Ibrabim Babangida (IBB) on Monday disclosed he officially accepted his appointment as Chairman of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), expressing deep gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the trust reposed in him This is as he dismissed reports circulating online suggesting he had rejected the...

Falana Faults Kemi Badenoch On Citizenship Claim

21.07.2025

Human rights lawyer and senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana, on Monday faulted United Kingdom (UK) Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her claim that she cannot pass Nigerian citizenship to her children because of her gender. During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Badenoch asserted that she cannot pass on her Nigerian citizenship...

NNPP Leader, Ajadi Celebrates Birthday With Agodi Inmates

21.07.2025

A South West Chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP), Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo on Sunday put smiles on the faces of staff and inmates of the Agodi Correctional Centre, Ibadan, Oyos State as he celebrated his birthday with them. Ajadi donated food, drinks and essentials like medicine, detergents, toiletries, solar lights among others...

Lagos Govt Shuts Down Lekki Nightclub

21.07.2025

The Lagos State Government has sealed Light House Club, a popular nightlife destination on Admiralty Way in Lekki, for repeatedly violating noise pollution regulations. The enforcement, carried out on Monday morning, was a joint operation between the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, and the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA)....

Adamawa Police Rescue 13 Trafficked Children, Arrest Suspects

21.07.2025

In a major breakthrough against human trafficking and kidnapping, the Adamawa State Police Command has rescued 13 underage children trafficked from the state to Anambra, alongside four other kidnap victims. The successful operation also led to the arrest of key suspects involved in the child trafficking ring. Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, disclosed this...

Kenneth Okonkwo Accuses Edo Governor Of Ethnic Bias About Comment On Peter Obi

21.07.2025

Nollywood veteran actor and former spokesman for the Labour Party, Kenneth Okonkwo has sparked debate after accusing the Governor of Edo State of making a tribalistic and ethnically biased statement directed at former presidential candidate Peter Obi. In a social media post now trending across platforms, Okonkwo claimed the governor’s message revealed underlying prejudice. He...

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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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