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Osun Muslims Celebrate Hijrah 1447 New Islamic Year

25.06.2025

As Muslims across the world mark the beginning of the new Islamic year, 1447 After Hijrah, Muslims in Osun State organized series of activities for the events. The main event centered around a theme highlighting the place of Shari’a law within Nigeria’s secular legal framework, exploring whether both systems can conflict or coexist, particularly in...

Coalition Against Tinubu Not Genuine Public Interest -Shehu Sani

25.06.2025

Former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, on Wednesday, disclosed that recent opposition coalition and criticisms of the President Bola Tinubu-led government were not grounded in genuine public interest. The ex-lawmaker who remarked in an interview on Channels Television criticised ongoing efforts by opposition leaders, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Rotimi Amaechi, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,...

Essienette Leads NIMN Uyo, Vows Ethical Marketing Leadership

25.06.2025

Mrs. Aniekan Essienette, FNIMN, Group Manager, Marketing and Communications at Ibom Air, has been elected first Chairman of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Uyo Chapter. She will lead the chapter for a two-year term. The election was a key highlight of the 2025 Annual Marketing Conference & General Meeting (AMC/AGM) of the...

Dangote Cement Earnings Cross N1trn Mark As Shareholders Get N30 Dividend

25.06.2025

For the first time since its inception, Dangote Cement Group’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization reached an all-time milestone of N1,382.0 billion, crossing the N1 trillion mark, an increase of 56 per cent. In the same vein, Earnings per share also increased by 12.3 per cent to N29.74 as against 2023’s record of...

Nigeria Customs, India Strengthen Ties At WCO Policy Commission

25.06.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reaffirmed its commitment to deepening strategic cooperation with the Indian Customs Administration, as both sides advanced discussions on key customs issues on the margins of the 92nd Session of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Policy Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, the Nigerian...

PMS: Price Hike Blamed On Deregulation

25.06.2025

Mr Chinedu Ukadike, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has attributed the recent increase in the price of petroleum products to market deregulation. Ukadike said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja, while reacting to the hike in pump prices reported...

Community Leaders Laud OMT For Water Project In Rivers

25.06.2025

Community leaders in Ogu, Rivers State have commended Onne Multipurpose Terminal (OMT), Onne Port for the commissioning of a new solar-powered water supply project for its people. The project, comprising four solar-powered water systems each with a 4,000-litre capacity, marks a continuation of OMT’s ongoing efforts to improve access to clean water under its Safe...

$4.5bn, N2.8bn Fraud: Court Rules On Emefiele’s Request For Review Of EFCC’s Evidence

25.06.2025

Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has fixed September 15, as the date to rule on a motion filed by a former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, seeking a forensic review of WhatsApp messages tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as evidence...

Yelwata Killing: 26 arrested as IGP insists Nigeria won’t bow to terror

25.06.2025

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has announced the arrest of 26 prime suspects linked to the Friday, June 13 violent attack on Yelwata community of Benue State, leading to the killing of many villagers, with accompanying destruction of property and displacements. The development came about a week after President Bola Tinubu queried...

Senate Passes Bill To Increase Duration Of Police Trust Fund

25.06.2025

The Senate, yesterday, passed a bill seeking to amend the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Act, to increase the duration of the Trust Fund, to provide for continued training, provision of equipment and related facilities as well as enhance the skills of personnel of the Nigeria Police. The bill was sponsored by the Senate Leader, Senator...

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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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