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IGP Orders Tight Security, Movement Restriction

15.08.2025

Ahead of the August 16, 2025 bye-elections in 13 states, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered comprehensive security measures to ensure a free, fair, and hitch-free electoral process. The affected states include Anambra, Kano, Oyo, Taraba, Enugu, Adamawa, Edo, Jigawa, Kogi, Ogun, Zamfara, and Niger. The IGP directed the deployment of...

Nigeria’s Manufacturing Sector Loses Investment Appeal

15.08.2025

The manufacturing sector is losing foreign investments, as an 87 per cent gap in 27 months betrays an unattractive industry. Stakeholders say that only stable macroeconomic conditions can cause a rebound, ARINZE NWAFOR writes The gap between foreign capital inflows into Nigeria’s manufacturing sector and the national total has widened to alarming levels, deepening concerns...

Nwifuru Task State Electoral Commission On Credible LG Polls

15.08.2025

Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has tasked the newly appointed members of the State Independent Electoral Commission (EBSIEC) to ensure that the forthcoming Chairmanship and Councillorship polls are free, fair and credible. Nwifuru gave this charge at the weekend while swearing in the Chairman and members of the Commission held at the Executive Council...

OICL Embarks On Health Walk, Donates Baby Items To Orphanage

15.08.2025

The Odu’a Investment Company Limited (OICL) on Friday embarked on a health walk and also donated baby items worth millions of naira to the Ibadan Motherless Babies Home, Yemetu, as part of activities marking the 60th anniversary of iconic Cocoa House, Dugbe. After the health walk, the staff and management of OICL visited the Motherless...

By-Election; ADC To Resist Violence, Charges AIG To Take Control

15.08.2025

Ahead of the conduct of the Anambra South Senatorial District and Onitsha North 1 State Constituency by election, the African Democratic Congress ADC has vowed to resist any act of violence during the excise; warning that it would not take kindly to any plot to compromise the process. The party further charged the Assistant Inspector...

Gender Activist Condemns Humiliating Treatment Of Ibom Air Passenger, Emmanson

15.08.2025

…Calls for Due Process, Gender-Sensitive Aviation Protocols The Executive Director of the Grassroot People and Gender Development Center (GRADE), Mrs Vivian Emesowum, has condemned the “Humiliating and violent” treatment of Ms. Comfort Emmanson, who was forcibly dragged out of an Ibom Air aircraft on Sunday, August 10, says it a violation of human dignity and...

APC Denies Canadian Court Terrorism Ruling

15.08.2025

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted viral media claims that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organization, describing the reports as “false, misleading, and mischievous.” In a statement signed on Friday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka (CON), the APC clarified that the case in question, Douglas Egharevba v. The...

Don Proffers Sustainable Solution To Farmer/Herder Conflict

15.08.2025

A Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Sidiqat Adeyemi Aderinoye-Abdulwahab, has called on the Federal Government to address the root causes of incessant conflicts between the farmers and herdsmen in the country by adopting sustainable pastoralism through grassland intensification. Grassland intensification, according to her, is the...

Group Warns Public Against Buying Disputed Owode Onirin Land

15.08.2025

The Centre for Human and Socio-Economic Rights (CHSR), acting on behalf of the Owode Onirin Motor Spare Parts Market Association, has alerted members of the public on the alleged activities of “Suspected agents attempting to sell acres of land at Weighbridge, Owode, along Ikorodu Road, Lagos State, despite the fact that the said land is...

You’re Celebrating Selective Optimism, Ignoring Real Message, ADC Tells FG

15.08.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the Federal Government is ignoring the real message in the recent comments made by the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the state of the Nigerian economy, but instead choose to celebrate selective optimism. ADC, in a statement issued on Friday, by the...

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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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