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Your Decisions’ll Shape Our Ability To Win 2027 Polls

14.08.2025

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged its National Convention Zoning Committee (NCZC) to come up with an appropriate zoning formula that will be acceptable to members of the party. PDP acting National Chairman Ambassador Umar Damagum, at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja on Thursday, reminded the members that the party operates “in...

Customs Seizes N3.14bn Exotic Vehicles, Rice, Furniture In S’West

14.08.2025

…Arrest 13 smugglers An enforcement arm of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) has seized luxury vehicles, rice and other contraband worth N3.14 billion in the Southwest axis of the country within three weeks. The Controller of the unit, Comptroller Mohammed Shuaibu, said that the anti-smuggling efforts led to a total of...

Court Clears Aseyan Of Cyberbullying

14.08.2025

The viral case that dominated Twitter in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown, involving two medical doctors, Dr Bolanle Aseyan (the defendant) and popular social media influencer, Dr Olufunmilayo Ogunsanya (the complainant), has finally been put to rest by a court of law. In his judgment, Justice Peter Lifu of an Abuja Federal High Court, discharged...

MRA Calls For Action To Combat Impunity, Protect Female Journalists In Nigeria

14.08.2025

The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called for Action to Combat Impunity and protect female Journalists in Nigeria. The call was made at a two-day workshop held in Abuja on the Safety of Female Journalists in Nigeria, organised by MRA with support from the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) to address the safety concerns...

Muslim Group Fumes Over Withholding Of Osun LG Allocations

14.08.2025

…Reports Oyetola, Fagbemi to League of Imams and Alfas An Islamic pressure group, Concerned Muslim Brothers (CMB), has condemned the continued withholding of Osun Local Government funds by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government in Osun State. The group accused the Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Gboyega...

Police Jubilate As FCTA Taskforce Destroys Notorious Criminals’ Hideouts

14.08.2025

Some Police officers from the Apo Division of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have expressed excitement over the demolition of one of the identified notorious criminal hideouts within the Apo Settlement Cadastral Zone district. The officers, though, couldn’t speak to newsmen owing to official restrictions, but visited the site while the taskforce’s bulldozers...

NAWOJ Demands Justice For Minors Dehumanized By Rivers’ Deliverance Pastor

14.08.2025

The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Rivers State Chapter, has called for justice against a Port Harcourt-based Pastor, who was captured on a video that has gone viral, flogging minors during a deliverance session in a church setting. NAWOJ, which expressed outrage in a statement signed by its secretary, Comrade Susan Serekara-Nwikhana, Chairperson, condemned...

Obi Leads LP Guber Campaign In Anambra

14.08.2025

…As Moghalu Inaugurates 21 LG Campaign Council Against fears that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, may have dumped his party for the African Democratic Congress (ADC), it has been made public that he is leading the gubernatorial campaign of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in Anambra State, Chief George Moghalu....

Nigeria Signs Mou To Increase Banana Seedlings Production

14.08.2025

The National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA) has signed an agreement with a grassroots group, One-Hectare One Family (1H1F), to increase banana seedling production in Nigeria. The spokesperson for the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, Mrs. Tony Omozuwa, said that the agreement was part of ongoing efforts to promote agricultural biotechnology and support rural...

Obasanjo Library Demands Apology, 3.5bn Over EFCC Invasion

14.08.2025

The management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Inspector General of Police a seven-day ultimatum to issue an apology over the invasion of its premises last Sunday. The OOPL management, which issued this warning in a statement on Thursday,...

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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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