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Five Parties Sign Peace Accord Ahead Of Edo By-Election

15.08.2025

Ahead of the August 16 by-election in Edo State, five out of the nine political parties contesting have committed to a peaceful process by signing a peace agreement on Thursday. The parties include the All Progressives Congress (APC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Allied Peoples Movement (ANPP), Action Alliance (AA), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)....

Lagos Pushes For Sustainable Water Supply Through Public-Private Partnership

15.08.2025

Lagos State Government, in collaboration with WaterAid Nigeria and ARMANI, has renewed calls for sustained private sector participation in the provision of potable water in Lagos State, describing public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the only viable route to meet the water needs of its rapidly growing population. Speaking at the two-day advocacy and sensitisation workshop, “Improving...

First Test Of Your Credibility, TSG Tells Yilwatda

15.08.2025

The Tinubu Support Group (TSG) has urged the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentewa Yilwatda, to handle the ongoing crisis rocking the party in Rivers State with caution, describing it as his first real test of credibility and ability to manage internal disputes ahead of future elections. The APC is...

PINL, Security Operatives Burst Two Illegal Oil Refining Sites In Rivers

14.08.2025

…stakeholders seek greater partnership against oil theft A joint security operation between Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) and the Special Prosecution Task Force (SPT) of the Federal Government has led to the busting of two illegal refining sites in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State. At one of the sites, some persons who were...

Nigeria’s Banking Sector Attracts 55% of Q1 2025 Capital Inf

14.08.2025

Foreign investors have continued to display renewed interest in Nigeria, with the banking sector attracting 55.44 per cent of the total capital imported in the first quarter of 2025, FELIX OLOYEDE writes The banking sector was the driver of the $5.6bn capital inflows the country attracted in the first three months of this year, according...

CSO Warns Against Manipulation, Militarisation Of Process

14.08.2025

As Edo State heads to the polls on August 16, 2025, for the Edo Central Senatorial District and Ovia Federal Constituency bye-elections, the Coalition of Observer Groups in Nigeria expresses deep concern over credible reports that threaten the credibility of the process. The September 2024 governorship election in Edo State left a lingering crisis of...

Bye-Elections: INEC Distributes Election Materials

14.08.2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, said it has finalised arrangements for the forthcoming by-elections scheduled for Saturday, August 16, 2025, in 16 constituencies across 12 states. The Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Sam Olumekun, made this disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen after the commission’s...

LAUTECH VC To Prioritize Training Of Varsity Administrators

14.08.2025

The Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Professor Razaq Olatunde Rom Kalilu, has promised to do all within the resources available to the University to ensure that Core Registry Administrative Staff members in the institution are at their best. Kalilu spoke during a courtesy call on him and members of his...

N’Delta Youth Forum Throws Weight Behind Mese

14.08.2025

A Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum for Peace and Development, threw its weight behind the call for the inclusion of the Itsekiri Nation alongside other ethnic nationalities in the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). The Forum, in a statement issued on Thursday after the State and signed by its National...

CIOTA Advocates Privatisation Of Nigerian Roads

14.08.2025

The President of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIOTA), Dr. Segun Ochuko Obayendo, has called for the privatisation of road construction in Nigeria as a strategic solution to improve road maintenance and the development of new infrastructure across the country. Speaking to journalists in Jos, Plateau State, ahead of the North Central...

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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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