December 2025 – Page 93

Finally, NAF’s C-130 Crew Departs B’Faso For Portugal

19.12.2025

The Nigerian Air Force C-130 crew, earlier detained in Burkina Faso and released yesterday, has continued its mission from the country to Portugal with the same aircraft. The crew, comprising 11 Nigerian personnel, was on a mission to Portugal for scheduled aircraft maintenance when it made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso. The emergency landing,...

Fintiri Pledges Justice For Slain Lamurde Women, To Set Up Probe Panel

19.12.2025

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintri Tuesday announced plans by the state government to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the December 8 shooting incident in the Lamurde Local Government Area, which resulted in the death of 12 women, 11-year-old girl and three boys from Tsobo. He made the announcement during a visit...

Northern CAN To Tinubu: Nigerians Are Now Living In Fear Of Insecurity

19.12.2025

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in northern Nigeria has appealed to the Federal Government and governors to strengthen the country’s security architecture throughout the yuletide period. Chairman of Northern CAN, Yakubu Pam, said the rising insecurity in the country is casting a shadow on the celebration of Christmas in many Nigerian...

Kano Gov Pays N8.234bn Gratuity To 1,371 Ex-Councillors

19.12.2025

Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has settled the final tranches of N8.234 billion payments of severance gratuity, accommodation and leave allowances to 1,371 former local government councillors who served between 2021 and 2024. The payments, according to Governor Yusuf, Wednesday, at Government House, Kano, has brought to the end, all outstanding...

Police Commission Approves Promotion Of DIG,7 AIGs, CPs, Others

19.12.2025

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Mohammed Gumel to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police. Also promoted to the next ranks were Commissioners of Police, Deputy Commissioners, as well as other senior officers. The disclosure was made in a statement signed yesterday by...

Tinubu Appoints Oseni as New NERC Chairman

19.12.2025

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Mulisiu Oseni as Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, following the confirmation of the commission’s board members by the Senate. Oseni’s appointment indicates that Tinubu has dropped Abdullahi Ramat, whose name he had initially sent to the Senate for confirmation in August. The PUNCH reports that Ramat, a...

Sokoto Airstrike: NAF, Govt Donate Cash To Victim, 12 Families Of Deceased

19.12.2025

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has donated to the victims of the unfortunate airstrike incident that occurred in Gidan Bisa and Rumtuwa villages of Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State on December 25, 2024. The incident resulted in the loss of 12 lives and left one person injured. A delegation led by the Chief...

Court Restrains Ex-Commissioner From Making Comments Against Otti

19.12.2025

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining a former Abia State Commissioner for Information, Barr. Eze Chikamnayo, from making or publishing allegedly defamatory comments against Governor Alex Otti, pending the determination of a ₦100bn defamation suit filed by the governor. Justice J.E. Obanor, in a ruling delivered...

Coalition To FG: Declare Rimingado National Anti-Corruption Hero

19.12.2025

A coalition of civil society groups has called on the Federal Government to declare former chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission, Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, a national anti-corruption hero. The coalition under the aegis of Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) described Rimingado as one of Nigeria’s most outstanding anti-corruption fighter who risked...

I Have Not Joined APC

19.12.2025

The former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has denied joining the All Progressives Congress (APC). News reports have been making the rounds that Bafarawa, who, in January this year, resigned from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has formally joined the APC. But in a statement made available to newsmen, Bafarawa denied joining the...

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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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