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Osun Govt Sensitises Nursing Mothers On Importance Of Exclusive Breastfeeding

06.08.2025

As part of the global celebration of World Breastfeeding Week 2025, Osun State has launched an intensive campaign to promote exclusive breastfeeding in the state. The initiative aims to raise awareness on the importance of breastfeeding for the health and development of infants and to encourage mothers to adopt exclusive breastfeeding practices for the first...

Arsenal Ready To End Trophy Drought – Arteta

06.08.2025

The manager of one of the foremost clubs, Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, has said the team is confident that this season will mark a turning point, as the team looks to move past recent disappointments and finally clinch a trophy. New Telegraph recalls that Arteta has not lifted a trophy since securing the FA cup in his debut...

Customs Intercept 250 Bags Of Rice Concealed In Fuel Tanker

06.08.2025

The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘B’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kaduna State, has said its operatives intercepted 250 bags of foreign parboiled rice cunningly concealed in a fuel tanker. The Unit’s Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Customs, Saidu Nuruddeen, made this known in a press statement issued on Wednesday. According to the...

Kingmaker Drags Monarch To Court Over Family Land

06.08.2025

A Kingmaker and Elemo of Igoba, Chief Peter Akomolafe, has dragged the monarch of the town, Oba Adinlewa Adeniyi, before the Court over the claim that the Court of Appeal has declared him as the owner of the Elemo Igoba Family land at Aleo and Imolumo in Igoba, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo...

Customs Moves To Decommission FTS By December 2025

06.08.2025

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said its Fast Track Scheme (FTS) would be officially decommissioned on December 31, 2025, to enable it to migrate to the globally recognised Authorised Economic Operators (AEO) Programme next year. Ahead of the January 2026 full migration, the service began sensitisation of importers, clearing agents and members of the organised...

Navy Opposes War Risk Insurance Premiums In Nigeria

06.08.2025

The Nigerian Navy has said that Nigeria no longer has any justification to remain on the list of countries subjected to War Risk Insurance Premiums by international shipping and insurance companies. The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral Michael Gregory Oamen, said on Wednesday that the continued classification...

OYACA Secures Conviction Of Oyo Worker Over Recruitment Scam

06.08.2025

The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA) has secured the conviction of one Mr Wahab Nasiru Olabanji for fraudulently collecting various sums of money from unsuspecting victims with the promise of giving them employment. Wahab, who until his trial was a Chief Executive Officer (Accounts) on grade level 14 at the Oyo State Hospital Management Board,...

Group Tackles NIS, Interior Ministry For Poor Coordination

06.08.2025

A group known as Coalition for Ethical Standard Accountability and Good Governance(ESAGG) has tackled the Nigerian Immigration Service and the Ministry of Interior over what it called a lack of due consultations with relevant stakeholders before the commencement of the e-Visa and e-CERPAC Regime. According to the group, despite the commendable fact that these digital...

Nigeria Poised To Become Global AI Leader –Microsoft

06.08.2025

Microsoft Nigeria and Ghana General Manager Abideen Yusuf says Nigeria was poised to move beyond its current “pockets of innovation” to building a thriving Artificial Intelligence (AI) economy. He told reporters in Lagos yesterday that AI could contribute more than $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Yusuf added that Nigeria also had a...

…Commits to Fight Against Human Trafficking, Others

06.08.2025

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday pledged his administration’s commitment to protecting vulnerable populations and promoting Nigeria as a responsible, progressive voice on global migration issues. He expressed the state government’s readiness to collaborate with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) in tackling critical challenges related to migration, human trafficking,...

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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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