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Varsity Workers To Begin Nationwide Protest August 6

14.07.2025

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has threatened to commence nationwide protests from 6th August 2025, over the three and half months withheld salaries, non- implementation of the consequential adjustment for the minimum wage among others. NAAT President, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma in a statement issued after the union’s 59th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting...

Emergency Rule: Tinubu Acted According To Constitution –APC Leader

14.07.2025

A leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and former lawmaker representing Ekiti North Senatorial District, Senator Ayo Arise, has declared that President Bola Tinubu acted constitutionally in his decision to suspend Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State over a political crisis in the state. Arise explained that Tinubu followed due process before proclaiming state...

2027: We’ll Defend Adc In Court –Nat’l Legal Support Group

14.07.2025

A coalition of 310 lawyers under the aegis of National Legal Support Group, has volunteered to defend the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in all pending and anticipated legal matters in court nationwide. Leader of the group, Abdullahi Abdurrahman, at a courtesy visit to the ADC interim National Chairman, Senator David Mark, said the support group...

ADC’ll Rescue Nigeria From Imminent Collapse -Kwara Stakeholders

14.07.2025

Some political stakeholders in Kwara state have said that the new African Democratic Congress (ADC) is a strategic move by the opposition group to salvage the country from imminent collapse. In his welcome address at his second annual colloquium, a former governorship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state, Associate Professor...

Alleged Multiple Taxation: Over 36 Table Water Factories Shut-Down In Kogi

14.07.2025

The Association of Table Water Producers in Kogi State has said over 36 Table Water factories in Lokoja, have run out of business due to alleged multiple taxation from the state and federal revenue agencies. The Association, in a statement signed by its state Chairman and Secretary, Mr Moses Momoh and Sadiq Uteno, lamented that...

NGF Mourns Ex-President, Buhari

13.07.2025

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Sunday expressed deep sorrow over the passing of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in London on Sunday, July 13, 2025. In a statement issued by the Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the NGF described the death of the former leader as a monumental...

Nigerians Urged To Reclaim Country’s Democracy From Political Elite

13.07.2025

Nigerians have been urged to reclaim the country’s democratic institutions from the grip of political and economic elites who continue to weaken state structures for personal gain. The charge was made on Sunday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, by Associate Professor AbdulMumin Yinka Ajia, during the 2025 Annual Colloquium, where prominent scholars, civil society...

Gov Aliyu, Beacon Of Hope, Support For Students

13.07.2025

The Federated Organization of Sokoto State Students’ Association (FOSOSSA) has described Governor Ahmed Aliyu as a beacon of hope and unwavering support for students in the state. The President of the Association, Comrade Yusuf Sabiu, also known as “No Revenge,” made the statement during a press conference marking the second anniversary of Governor Aliyu’s administration,...

Allegations Against Sukubo Malicious, Unfounded

13.07.2025

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has described the allegations against its President, Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, as malicious and unfounded. The Council also denied claims of Sukubo’s expulsion, dismissing such reports as the handiwork of mischief-makers. In a communiqué issued at the end of its annual national congress held in Port Harcourt, Rivers...

Abure Pays Courtesy Visit To Wike In Abuja

13.07.2025

Factional Chairman of the Labour Party, (LP) Julius Abure, on Sunday met with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike. New Telegraph reports that the meeting took place at Wike’s private residence in Abuja on Sunday, July 13 amid renewed internal crisis in the LP. READ ALSO Although the agenda of the meeting...

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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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