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OYACA Secures Conviction Of Oyo Worker Over Recruitment Scam

06.08.2025

The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA) has secured the conviction of one Mr Wahab Nasiru Olabanji for fraudulently collecting various sums of money from unsuspecting victims with the promise of giving them employment. Wahab, who until his trial was a Chief Executive Officer (Accounts) on grade level 14 at the Oyo State Hospital Management Board,...

Group Tackles NIS, Interior Ministry For Poor Coordination

06.08.2025

A group known as Coalition for Ethical Standard Accountability and Good Governance(ESAGG) has tackled the Nigerian Immigration Service and the Ministry of Interior over what it called a lack of due consultations with relevant stakeholders before the commencement of the e-Visa and e-CERPAC Regime. According to the group, despite the commendable fact that these digital...

Nigeria Poised To Become Global AI Leader –Microsoft

06.08.2025

Microsoft Nigeria and Ghana General Manager Abideen Yusuf says Nigeria was poised to move beyond its current “pockets of innovation” to building a thriving Artificial Intelligence (AI) economy. He told reporters in Lagos yesterday that AI could contribute more than $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Yusuf added that Nigeria also had a...

…Commits to Fight Against Human Trafficking, Others

06.08.2025

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday pledged his administration’s commitment to protecting vulnerable populations and promoting Nigeria as a responsible, progressive voice on global migration issues. He expressed the state government’s readiness to collaborate with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) in tackling critical challenges related to migration, human trafficking,...

Kaduna To Begin Vaccination In Affected LGs

06.08.2025

The Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Board (SPHCB) on Wednesday announced plans to inaugurate an Mpox vaccination campaign in selected Local Government Areas (LGAs) affected by the outbreak. The Health Educator at the SPHCB, Isah Yusha’u, disclosed this during a stakeholders’ engagement meeting on the introduction of the monkeypox vaccine in Kaduna. According to Yusha’u, the...

Flooding: ‘Move Now’, LASG Warns Lekki, Ikorodu, Ajegunle Residents

06.08.2025

The Lagos State Government has issued a fresh warning to residents in parts of Lekki, Ikorodu and Ajegunle areas of the state to relocate from lowlands to highlands to avoid being victims of flooding. The state’s Commissioner for the Environment, Tokunbo Wahaba, said: “Those around the Ajilete axis of Lagos, that’s Ajegunle, they have to...

Alleged Forgery: Sowore In Police Headquarters

06.08.2025

Following a written summons from the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Unit, a two-term presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, appeared at the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Headquarters with a travel bag containing soap and other items. New Telegraph reports that the Nigerian police had, in a letter dated Tuesday,...

2027: Igbo Presidency In The Hands Of God

06.08.2025

…Its illusional to defeat Tinubu in the next election… I’m one of the most qualified in S’ East for President The Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi, has reiterated his position that it is not yet time for an Igbo Presidency, saying such is in the hands of God. Umahi, who gave his disposition on...

Edo Sex Workers Lament Alleged Extortion By Officers

06.08.2025

Some commercial sex-workers in Benin City, the Edo State capital, have lamented alleged extortion by the Edo State Migration Agency. The sex workers were arrested on Monday night during a raid by officials of the Agency in a bid to rid the State of drug and human trafficking. They were reportedly profiled at the agency...

ICRC Trains Borno Journalists On Family Separation In Armed Conflict

06.08.2025

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has organised a two-day training for working journalists in Borno State on missing persons and family separation in Armed conflict situations and other related issues. Speaking at the Workshop on the missing and family separation held in Mauduguri on Wednesday, the Head of ICRC sub-delegation in Maiduguri...

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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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