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Julius Berger, FRSC Resolve To Strengthen Partnership

04.08.2025

Construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have resolved to strengthen their collaboration in ensuring safety on our roads. This emerged as the Corps hailed the exceptional quality of work and unwavering standards of the company over the years. In his speech during a courtesy visit to the construction...

2027: Otuaro Urges N’Delta Ex-Agitators To Shun Desperate Politicians Planning Mischief

04.08.2025

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty P r o g r a m m e (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has appealed to ex-agitators in the Niger Delta to remain vigilant and resist the efforts of some politicians who are bent on destabilising the region for selfish ends. He noted with concern the recent rise in...

NDLEA Arrests Despatch Riders Distributing Illicit Drugs In Abuja

04.08.2025

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested three dispatch riders for distributing illicit substances around Abuja. In a statement yesterday, the body said its officers conducted intelligence-led stop-and-search operations in the Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT on Wednesday. It named the arrested suspects as Sabo Sule, 24; Samuel Nnamdi, 28;...

Ultra-Processed Baby Foods Might Cause Childhood Obesity –Study

04.08.2025

A new study led by researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) has warned that ultraprocessed baby foods are ‘setting children up for a life of obesity’. Around one in three (31 per cent) ready-made products aimed at babies or toddlers were classified as ultra-processed (UPFs), according to the University of Leeds researchers. UPFs are mass-produced...

UN Lauds Nigerian Air Force For Civilian Harm Mitigation Efforts

03.08.2025

The United Nations (UN) has commended the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for developing and implementing its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response-Action Plan (CHMR-AP), which aims to enhance civilian protection during military operations. The NAF was also praised for its expanding role in promoting civilian protection across the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN). The commendation was...

FG Plans Ν712bn Lagos Airport Overhaul, Keyamo Advocates

03.08.2025

Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, has defended the Federal Government’s N712 billion investment in the overhaul of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, saying it is essential to address deteriorating infrastructure, boost capacity, and align the country’s busiest airport with current global benchmarks. Keyamo’s clarification is on the premise of the Federal Executive...

Food Prices Plummet In North, Persist In S’East, S’West

03.08.2025

The hike in food prices across Nigeria has been a prevalent topic of discussion for decades with numerous Nigerians complaining about the recent hike in food prices, which has proved itself more critical as a high number of Nigerians live in starvation and hunger. Despite the revealed statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)...

Niger Proposes One-Month Paternity Leave

03.08.2025

The Niger State Government has disclosed ongoing efforts to formalize a one-month paternity leave policy to enable fathers to support their breastfeeding wives. Commissioner for Primary Health Care, Dr. Ibrahim Dangana, made this known during a press briefing in Minna as part of activities to mark 2025 World Breastfeeding Day. He also revealed that plans...

Afenifere Applauds UN’s Declaration Of July 7 As ‘World Amotekun Day’

03.08.2025

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has commended the United Nations for declaring July 7 of every year as World Amotekun Day, describing the recognition as a “major morale booster” for the South-West regional security outfit. In a statement made available to New Telegraph by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere hailed the global...

Compensate Agbowo Shopping Complex Victims, Oyo APC Tells Makinde

03.08.2025

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has called on Governor Seyi Makinde to provide adequate monetary compensation to business owners who were forcefully ejected from the Agbowo Shopping Complex in Ibadan in 2019, following a failed renovation project. The party noted that thousands of legal occupants of the facility were evicted shortly after...

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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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