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Kemi Badenoch: I Don’t Identify With Nigeria Anymore

02.08.2025

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the United Kingdom’s (UK) Conservative Party, says she no longer identifies with Nigeria, her ancestral roots. In an interview on the Rosebud podcast anchored by Gyles Brandreth on Friday, Badenoch spoke candidly about her Nigerian heritage and personal identity. Badenoch said she has not renewed her Nigerian passport since the early...

FG Moves To End Recurring Fatalities On Nigerian Waterways

01.08.2025

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, said on Friday that the Federal Government would implement sweeping reforms to improve maritime safety in a bold step towards ending recurring fatalities on Nigeria’s waterways. Receiving the report of the Special Committee on the Prevention of Boat Mishaps in Nigeria, the minister’s Special Adviser, Media...

Tinubu Lectures Youths On Social Media Potential

01.08.2025

On Friday, at the opening of the two-day Progressive Digital Media Summit, themed “Unveiling the Critical Role of New Media in National Development,” held at the State House Banquet Hall in Abuja, President Bola Tinubu urged young Nigerians to leverage the power of new media to foster national unity rather than division, advocating for a...

Lagos Assembly Holds Public Hearing On Correctional Service Bill

01.08.2025

Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday held a public hearing on the Lagos State Correctional Service Bill 2025. New Telegraph reports that the meeting was aimed at transforming the justice system from a punitive approach to one centred on reform, rehabilitation, and reintegration. The bill seeks to establish a legal framework for both custodial...

Court Bars Ondo Govt Over Monarch’s Appointment

01.08.2025

An Akure High Court has restrained the Ondo State government from appointing anyone as Oba in Alagbon Community in the oil-rich Ugbo community in Ilaje Local Government area of the state. In an interim order granted, Justice Temitope Adedipe restrained all the defendants in the suit from taking any action that would jeopardise the outcome...

Ikeja Electric Commission Kwaru 15 MVA Injection Substation

01.08.2025

Ikeja Electric Plc, Nigeria’s leading electricity distribution company, on Friday commissioned the new, cutting-edge Kwaru 15MVA Injection Substation in Abaranje, Ikotun area of Lagos State, Nigeria. This significant infrastructure is set to drastically improve power supply quality and reliability for thousands of residents and businesses within the rapidly developing Ikotun corridor. These were contained in...

Adeleke Not Aligning With Anyone In ADC

01.08.2025

Governor Ademola Adeleke is not defecting to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) nor aligning with anybody within the ADC ahead of the 2026 state gubernatorial elections, his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, has said. Responding to media publications and enquiries, the Spokesperson affirmed that Governor Adeleke remains in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and is going...

Stakeholders Set Pathway For Local Investment To Sustain Digital Health Outcomes

01.08.2025

As Nigeria struggles with the challenges in the healthcare system and growing inequities, experts have called for local investment and digital innovation to improve healthcare outcomes in the country. Speaking at the third edition of the Insights Learning Forum (ILF) organised by eHealth Africa and its partners, the experts said digital health is no longer...

Address Hardship, Int’l Evangelist, Ugwu Urge Tinubu, Govs, Wike

01.08.2025

An international evangelist, Dr Ephias Jengeta and Sectional Leader, Igbogbo 1, Ikorodu District, Assemblies of God Church, Rev Godwin Chukwuemeka Ugwu, have urged President Bola Tinubu, the 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to address hardship in Nigeria. They noted that while the federal, state and local governments...

Zulum Visits Gwoza, Assures Residents Of Swift Security Measures

01.08.2025

The Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has. embarked on a resilience and peace visit to Gwoza Local Government Area and assured them that no community will be allowed to fall into the hands of Boko Haram insurgents. Governor Zulum also announced that Bita, which was recently displaced, would be resettled on Friday back to...

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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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