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11,000 Delegates Expected As Lagos Hosts 2026 Africa Gaming Expo

27.02.2026

No fewer than 11,000 delegates are expected to converge on Lagos for the 2026 edition of the Africa Gaming Expo (AGE), a cross-border industry platform designed to accelerate job creation and deepen collaboration across African economies. The Expo, which seeks to further push Africa’s gaming market to global prominence while expanding employment opportunities, will be...

Oyo Police Smash Transnational Ammunition Trafficking Syndicate

27.02.2026

…Recover 2,625 cartridges The Oyo State Police Command has achieved a major operational breakthrough in its sustained crackdown on the proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition with the arrest of two transnational gun runners in the Oke Ogun zone of the state. According to Ayanlade Olayinka (DSP), Oyo state Police Public Relations Officer, in a...

Bala Mohammed Meets Tinubu, Rules Out APC Defection

27.02.2026

President Bola Tinubu on Friday met with the executive Governor of Bauchi State, Sen. Bala Mohammed, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Governor Mohammed, who spoke after meeting with the President, ruled out any plans to defect from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2027 elections. According to the two-term Governor, the closed-door...

Fertility Centre Debunks Social Media Allegations, Says Matter Before Court

27.02.2026

Joje Abebe Fertility Centre has dismissed as false and defamatory a series of allegations circulating on social media against its Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr John Abebe, and the hospital. In a press statement issued by its management, the Abuja-based fertility centre said the publications were “Deliberately orchestrated and defamatory,” alleging that they were sponsored...

Transcorp reports 44% PAT growth to N136bn in FY2025

27.02.2026

Indigenous conglomerate Transnational Corporation Plc has reported a 44 per cent rise in its Profit After Tax to N135.9bn compared to N94.1bn in the corresponding period of the previous year. This was indicated in its audited full-year 2025 results filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Thursday. The PUNCH reports that Transcorp has investments in...

AFC, Ecobank Renew Partnership for +234 Art Fair 2026

27.02.2026

The Africa Finance Corporation has announced its partnership with Ecobank Nigeria and Soto Gallery for the third consecutive year to host the +234 Art Fair, a four-day international exhibition spotlighting Nigeria’s fast-growing creative economy and the dynamism of contemporary African art. In a statement on Thursday, it was revealed that the 2026 edition, themed ‘Inclusivity’,...

Oyo Court Judgement Not Binding On INEC

27.02.2026

A faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said the Oyo State High Court judgment on the leadership crisis in the party is not binding on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The faction, in a press statement issued by its National...

Ogun Awards ₦6.1bn Contract For Appeal Court Complex

27.02.2026

The Ogun State Government has approved the award of a contract for the construction of a complex to house the Abeokuta Division of the Court of Appeal. The approval was granted at the State Executive Council meeting held on Friday, February 27, in Abeokuta. The contract, valued at ₦6,118,098,154.70, provides for the development of the...

I’m Not Sure Those Who Attacked ADC Secretariat, My Residence Will Be Arrested

27.02.2026

National Leader of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Friday said he was not sure that the Nigerian Police would arrest those who attacked the party secretariat and his house in Benin City on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. Odigie-Oyegun stated this while fielding questions from journalists after the party’s South South Zonal...

CSO Accuses Osun Govt Of Wasting ₦79m On Unused Payroll System

27.02.2026

The Osun Masterminds on Friday accused the Osun State Government of wasting ₦79 million on an Automated Payroll Administration System (APAS) that has not been deployed, while also demanding the public release of a controversial staff audit report. The group made the allegation during its February 2026 State of the State Address, raising concerns over...

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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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