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PAP Not For Itsekiri People Alone

14.08.2025

The Izon Cultural Heritage Centre (ICHC) has told all and sundry that the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) belongs to the entire Niger Delta people and not only to the people ofItsekiri. This was coming on the heels of a report purportedly credited to one Dr. Mese, who was accused of trying to create division in...

Africa Oil, Gas Service Providers Get New Forum, ALCO

14.08.2025

Oil and Gas service providers across Africa have formed a continental forum known as the African Local Content Organisation (ALCO). This they did with the goal of collaborating among themselves to deliver complex projects, create and retain value in the multibillion-dollar African energy sector and grow the economy. Unveiling the body on Thursday in Namibia,...

Otti, S’East Leaders Hail Tinubu Over Peter Eze’s FCC Appointment

14.08.2025

South East Leaders, Civil Society Organisations and other stakeholders across the region have hailed President Bola Tinubu for appointing Mr Peter Eze as Commissioner representing Enugu State in the Federal Character Commission (FCC). According to a statement released in Abuja on Thursday, the inclusion of Eze, a dynamic young economist and public administrator, is viewed...

Retraction, Apology To Mike Ozekhome, Others

14.08.2025

On our online site, on August 7, 2025, we carried a story with the headline: “IPOB Leader’s Detention: Analyst blames legal team for blunders”. Having received complaints and reviewed the story, we found out that facts on ground do not support the headline and content of the said story. We therefore retract the publication, having...

FG Partners Jumia To Accelerate Nigeria’s E-Commerce Growth, Digital Inclusion

14.08.2025

In a decisive move to advance Nigeria’s e-commerce sector and deepen digital inclusion, the Minister of Industry, Trade & Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, has met with the leadership of Jumia Nigeria to align private sector innovation with national digital economy reforms under the proposed National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill, 2024. The meeting in Abuja...

Kwara Gov Tasks Media On Professionalism

14.08.2025

Media practitioners in Nigeria have been admonished to always prioritise national interest in their daily reportage of events in order not to plunge the country into an unwarranted turmoil. Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq gave this advice in Ilorin, the state capital, on Wednesday evening at the grand finale of the Press Week of the...

Ajaokuta Indebted To N2bn In Electricity Yet Not Producing Steel –C’tte Chair

14.08.2025

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Steel Development, Patrick Ndubueze, disclosed that the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company was at times indebted to the tune of N2 billion in electricity payments, despite not producing. Ndubueze stated this at the maiden edition of the National Steel Summit with the theme “Rebuilding and Consolidating Nigeria’s Steel Industry:...

Remo By-Election: Abiodun Appeals For Calm, Warns Against Violence

14.08.2025

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has warned that his administration would deal decisively with any individual or group who disrupts the forthcoming by-election into the Remo Federal Constituency scheduled for Saturday this week. Abiodun sounded this warning at the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign for the by-election held at Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of...

EFCC Quizzes Passenger Over Undeclared $49,000 At Lagos Airport

14.08.2025

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is quizzing Duru Damian arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over alleged failure to declare $49,000 at Lagos Airport. In a statement yesterday, the EFCC said Damian was intercepted by during a routine check at the AML/ CFT Currency Declaration Desk on Monday at Murtala Muhammed International...

Nigeria, Philippines Deepen Bilateral Relations

14.08.2025

The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Republic of the Philippines, have set in motion a chain of interactions designed to deepen bilateral relations between both countries. The development took place when the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, received in audience, the Secretary (Minister) of Migrant Workers of the Republic of the Philippines, Hans...

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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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