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Troops Rescue 21 Victims In Joint Operations

18.10.2025

Troops have rescued no fewer than 21 kidnapped victims in coordinated operations carried out by the 12 and 22 Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Kogi and Kwara States. The victims, who included 14 males, five females, one infant, and four Chinese nationals, were rescued during the operations carried out on Friday, October 17....

Wike Endorses Tinubu’s Reelection Bid, Dismisses Rumours

18.10.2025

Contrary to political insinuation, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed rumours about leaders in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) urging him to contest the forthcoming 2027 presidential election. Wike, who spoke on Saturday in a press statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere...

Progressive Govs Laud Gov Idris’s Political Sagacity, Leadership

18.10.2025

The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has endorsed Kebbi State Governor, Comrade Nasir Idris, for his purposeful and impactful leadership. According to a statement issued by Abdullahi Idris Sadaukin Zuru, Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to the Governor, the forum’s Chairman, Senator Hope Uzodima, praised Governor Idris’s leadership qualities at a stakeholders’ meeting of the...

Kwara CP Blames Kidnapping Surge On Informants, Youth Recruitment

18.10.2025

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, CP Adekimi Ojo, has revealed the real reasons kidnappings and banditry have been booming in the state. According to CP Ojo, the surge of kidnapping and banditry in the state is the involvement of informants and the recruitment of youths with mouthwatering inducements by the criminals to source for...

APGA Dismisses Obi’s Claims On State Of Anambra Schools

18.10.2025

The criticism of the state of Anambra public schools by former Governor, Mr Peter Obi, has drawn the anger of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the area, dismissing it as sheer envy of the successes of schools in the state. Obi was quoted as describing Anambra public schools as lacking chairs and other...

Experts Call For Stand-alone Suicide Prevention Law

18.10.2025

Experts and stakeholders have called for urgent reforms and actionable strategies to address Nigeria’s worsening mental health crisis and rising suicide rates. They made the call at the Third Vanguard Mental Health Summit held on Friday with the theme “Taming the Rising Tide of Suicide” and sub-themed “Substance and Silence: Unmasking the Dual Crises of...

I’ve No Confidence In INEC, Defend Your Votes, Aisha Yesufu Tells Nigerians

18.10.2025

Nigerian human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said she has no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to deliver a credible election in 2027. This is as she advised Nigerians to take their destinies into their hands and ensure their votes are counted and entered for their candidates. Speaking to journalists on the...

Nigeria, China Strengthen Partnership To Empower Women In Gas Sector

18.10.2025

The Nigerian government has partnered with China to empower women in the gas sector, promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, who co-hosted the first-ever Nigeria–China Women’s Infrastructure Investment Forum in Beijing, stressed that the platform is to strengthen bilateral cooperation on gender-responsive infrastructure, women’s economic empowerment, and...

Obong Of Calabar Inducts 81 Diasporas Into Efik Kingdom

18.10.2025

No fewer than 81 Africans in the Diaspora were inducted into the Efik Ebrutu Kingdom and into the royal palace of the Obong of Calabar on Friday. The new Efik Royal House members were from Barbados, United Kingdom, United States of America (USA), Canada, France, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St Martins (Dutch and...

UNA-Nigeria To Spread Tentacles To 36 States – Olutimo

18.10.2025

Challenged by its objective of taking its services to the grassroots with the youth as the major target, the United Nations Association of Nigeria (UNA–Nigeria) has disclosed plans to expand its presence in the country. Presently, UNA-Nigeria’s presence is felt in Lagos and very few states in the country. Its President, Professor Oluremi Olutimo, disclosed...

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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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