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NIM To Hold Conference On Leadership, Growth, Balance For Women

18.07.2025

Leadership, growth and balance for women will be in focus at 2025 four-fay Women in Management and Leadership (WIMLEAD) conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) billed to open in Akwa Ibom State on Monday. According to a statement issued by the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Institute, Mrs. Taiwo Olusesi, the theme of the...

Lagos, UN Urge More Investment In Youth Empowerment

18.07.2025

The Lagos State Government, in partnership with some development agencies, has renewed its call for greater investment in youth empowerment as part of activities marking the 2025 World Population Day (WPD), celebrated annually on July 11. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Olayinka Ojo made the call ata commemoration event hosted by the Ministry of...

DHQ Dismisses Turkey’s Claim Of New Terror Group In Nigeria

18.07.2025

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday dismissed claims by the Turkish Ambassador-designate to Nigeria Mehmet Poroy of an existing ‘PETO Terrorist Group’ in the country. Poroy during Turkey’s Democracy and National Unity Day on Wednesday alleged that members of the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation are operating in Nigeria under the guise of educational and healthcare institutions. The...

NCS Spokesperson Wins GLGC, Guardian’s 2025 PR Power List Award

18.07.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)‘s National Public Relations Officer, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Abdullahi Maiwada has been named among Nigeria’s top 50 Public Relations Officers and communications professionals in the prestigious 2025 PR Power List. GLG Communications (GLGC), in partnership with the Guardian Newspaper, published the recognition on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. The PR Power...

NUJ Urges Constitutional Protection, Media Bailout For Journalists

18.07.2025

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for the constitutional protection of media professionals and the establishment of a media bailout fund to support struggling independent media organizations across the country. The appeal was made on Friday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during the South West Zonal Public Hearing on the review of...

$9.4bn US Foreign Aid Cancellation’ll Disrupt Nigeria’s Key Sectors –OPS

18.07.2025

With the US Senate having approved W h i t e House’s request to cancel $9.4 billion in federal spending on foreign aid, members of Nigeria’s Organised Private Sector (OPS), have pinpointed that the move would result in Africa countries, including Nigeria, struggling for funding interventions in certain areas of their key sectors, mostly healthcare....

Special FEC: Tinubu Renames University Of Maiduguri After Buhari

18.07.2025

President Bola Tinubu has renamed the University of Maiduguri after former President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu announced this yesterday during an expanded FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja in honour of the departed Nigerian leader. “Before we take the prayers — in honour of his [Buhari’s] memory, with this special session of the Federal...

2027: Ighodalo’s Campaign DG Dumps PDP

18.07.2025

The Director General of the Asue/Ogie Campaign Council for the Edo State 2024 governorship election, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a letter addressed to the Chairman, Ward 5 Ikpoba-Okha local government area of the party dated July 17, the former lawmaker and Commissioner in the Niger Delta...

A’Ibom CJ Tours Correctional Centres, Frees 123 Inmates

18.07.2025

The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom, Justice Ekaette Obot, yesterday rounded up a three-day facility tour of correctional centres in the state and set free, 123 inmates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 62 out of the 123 inmates were released on health grounds. NAN reports that four inmates regained freedom in Ikot...

Alleged Fraud: How $12m Was Swapped In 10 Days In Suntrust Bank – EFCC Witness

18.07.2025

Mr Suleiman Ciroma, the E c o n o m i c and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s witness, yesterday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja how the sum of $12 million was swapped in SunTrust Bank within 10 days. Ciroma stated this while being led in evidence by EFCC’s lawyer, Ekele Iheanacho, (SAN), before...

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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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