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Nigeria trade surplus hits N6.69tn amid FX reforms

12.12.2025

Nigeria recorded a trade surplus of N6.69tn in the third quarter of 2025, at a 27.29 per cent growth rate, continuing a trend of trade surpluses. Stakeholders attribute the consistent positive performance to the economic reforms in the foreign exchange market. Latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics on foreign trade in goods showed...

Rising Kidnap Cases: Oyo Must Rebuild Its Security Architecture, Ibadan NBA Tells Makinde

12.12.2025

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan Branch, Chairman Ibrahim Lawal, yesterday raised concerns over the rising cases of kidnappings in Oyo State. He urged Governor Seyi Makinde and security agencies to urgently overhaul the state’s security architecture. Lawal made the call during a press conference in Ibadan, ahead of the week-long 2025 NBA Ibadan Law...

Blame Game’ll Not Solve Nigeria’s Security Challenges –Abaribe

12.12.2025

‘We must confront things as they are’ Enyinnaya Abaribe is the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District at the National Assembly. In this interview, he speaks on his recent reactions on the floor of the Senate over rising insecurity, among other issues, ANAYO EZUGWU reports You spoke on the floor of the Senate on the...

UN & WIFT Push Skills to Grow Fashion Exports in Nigeria

12.12.2025

The United Nations and Women in Fashion Tech have called for increased investment to bridge the fashion sector’s knowledge gap and support local fashion businesses to enter foreign markets, following the graduation of 30 women from the Scaling Nigerian Fashion Products for Export Across Global Markets programme. The event, held on Monday at the Garment...

Ambassadorial Appointments: Oshiomhole, Ndume Clash As Senate Clears Fani-Kayode, Omokri, Ikpeazu, Ex-INEC Chair, Others

12.12.2025

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, yesterday, approved the nomination of former Minister of Aviation, Femi FaniKayode, for appointment as ambassador. The committee also cleared former Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, ex-special adviser on new media to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, former presidential aide, Senator Ita Enang, and Senator Grace Bent. Also approved...

Reserved Seats For Women: Reps, CSO Parley Media

12.12.2025

PHILIP NYAM reports on the recent training session for National Assembly Press Corps on strengthening reporting for reserved seats for women organized by a civil society group, TSO Foundation and the National Secretariat for the Reserved Seats for Women Bill Campaign Coalition in conjunction with the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs...

Why We Started A Library In Our Community

12.12.2025

My father was a security man at the now-defunct Jos Breweries. He often returned home with newspapers from work. These were papers supplied to the office by various companies. After a decade of working there, he had gathered newspapers that filled a corner of our room. These were newspapers from the 1980s up to the...

Ex-Minister Of Power, Saleh Mamman, Loses Bid To Stop Trial In Alleged N33.8bn Fraud

12.12.2025

The Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday dismissed a no-case submission made by Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Trial Judge, Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling on the no-case submission, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had been able to establish a prima facie...

Fubara Receives APC Membership Card

12.12.2025

The Governor of River State, Siminalayi Fubara, on Friday, officially received the All Progressives Congress (APC) membership card, which marks a paradigm shift and new political alignment for the governor. The Rivers APC Chairman, Tony Okocha, made this presentation at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital. READ ALSO: The handover ceremony shows...

Obi Cubana Hosts “Dem Mama” Crooner Ahead Of Abuja Timaya Day

12.12.2025

Business philanthropist and CEO of the Cubana Group, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has hosted veteran hip-hop musician Timaya ahead of Timaya Day in Abuja. Bayelsa-born international music sensation Timaya is expected to attract notable musicians and others in the entertainment industry from across the country to his Timaya Day Concert in Abuja....

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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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