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NSITF Boss Bags Safety Ambassador Award

22.06.2025

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Barr. Oluwaseun Faleye, has pledged to intensify efforts in promoting a robust safety culture across workplaces in Nigeria. Faleye made the pledge after receiving the Safety Ambassador Award from the Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON) in Abuja. Speaking at the event, Faleye...

Davido Raises Alarm Over Alleged Assassination Attempt At Ibiza Club

22.06.2025

Nigerian Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has raised alarm over an alleged attempt on his life at a nightclub, Ibiza. The music star made this known via his official X handle, where he accused the club’s security personnel of trying to kill him and his team. The allegation has, however, sparked widespread...

NDLEA Intercepts Cocaine Hidden In Clothes Hangers

22.06.2025

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday disclosed that its operatives intercepted a consignment of cocaine concealed in clothes hangers and sewn into dresses packed in a traveller’s luggage. This was contained in a press statement issued by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, via its verifed X handle. According to him, the illicit...

One Killed In Lagos Auto Accident

22.06.2025

A road traffic accident along the Old Ipaja Road by Agbotikuyo, en route to Iyana Ipaja, resulted in the death of a commercial minibus driver. Sunday Telegraph reports that the incident, which occured in the early hours of Sunday, involved a fully-laden 40-foot Mack containerised truck that was reportedly caused by brake failure. Confirming the...

Iran Accused Of Hostage Tactic Against Journalist’s Family

22.06.2025

The Persian-language news outlet Iran International has publicly accused the Iranian government of abducting the family of one of its journalists in an apparent attempt to intimidate and silence its reporting on the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. In a strongly worded statement released over the weekend, the London-based broadcaster condemned what it described...

86 Injured In Iranian Missile Strikes

22.06.2025

On Sunday, the Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that at least 86 individuals have been treated after a wave of Iranian ballistic missile strikes struck multiple locations across central Israel, including Tel Aviv. Sunday Telegraph gathered that the attack marks a sharp escalation in the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, now further complicated by...

Delta On Accelerated Path, Sustainable Growth Under Oborevwori – Akpovie

22.06.2025

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta Special Economic Zone (DSEZ), Pastor Godwin Akpovie, has lauded Governor Sheriff Oborevwori for placing the state on the path of accelerated growth and sustainable economic development in two years. He paid tribute to the Governor’s virtues of the common good in infrastructural development and...

You’ve No Reason Not To Visit Yelwata, Obi Tells Tinubu

22.06.2025

Mr. Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party in 2023, said President Bola Tinubu has no reason not to visit Yelwata, Benue State, where over 200 persons were massacred in their sleep by suspected killer Fulani herdsmen. Tinubu was in Makurdi, the state capital, last Wednesday but could not visit the scene of the...

Court Adjourns Trail Of Mercy Chinwo’s Ex-Manager

22.06.2025

The presiding judge of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, has adjourned further proceedings in the case involving music promoter and former manager of gospel artist ,Mercy Chinwo, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu ThankGod, popularly known as Eezee Tee, to September 26, 2025. Sunday Telegraph reports that Eezee Tee and his company, Eezee Global...

N’East States Receive N124.22b VAT Proceeds

22.06.2025

The six states in the North East geopolitical zone collectively generated N36.04 billion in Value Added Tax (VAT) and received N124.22 billion in VAT allocations in the first quarter of 2025, according to the latest figures released by Statisense. The data, which referenced the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), was published over the weekend on...

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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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