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C’River Begins Inquiry Into NDDC’s Project Disruption

17.06.2025

The Cross River Government has constituted a judicial commission of inquiry to probe the alleged disruption of the inauguration of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) sponsored project in Calabar. The five-member commission, which has Justice Emilia Ibok as Chairman, was mandated to ascertain the truth from the divergent narratives in the public domain regarding the...

Benue Killings: Akume Condemns, Calls For United Front Against Insecurity

17.06.2025

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, has condemned the recent killings in Benue State. In a statement yesterday by Terrence Kuanum, his special adviser on public affairs, Akume described the killings as a “mindless barbarism”. Akume expressed optimism that President Bola Tinubu’s directive to service chiefs to restore peace in...

CDS Vows To End Banditry In Nigeria

17.06.2025

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has vowed to end banditry in Nigeria. Musa made the vow yesterday at Yelwata town, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, where scores were killed in coordinated attacks on Friday night. The CDS said the Nigerian Armed Forces would leave no stone unturned to ensure...

…Project Got 85% Funding From Chinese Financial Institution – Wike

17.06.2025

Speaking also, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, disclosed that the water project, with 85 per cent funding from a Chinese financial institution, was completed to enhance water supply in Abuja. Wike also stated that procurement process was almost completed to extend the water project to some satellite towns and other rural communities within FCT. He said:...

Visit Niger Too, Obi Tells Tinubu

17.06.2025

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Tuesday appreciated President Bola Tinubu for deciding to visit the scene of the brutal killings in Benue State. In a statement issued on his official X handle, the former Anambra state governor, however, said the president’s intended visit to Benue State on Wednesday...

Edo To Return Missionary Schools To Founders

17.06.2025

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo yesterday approved the return of the schools founded by missionary organisations to the original owners. He made the announcement after a meeting with the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Auchi Gabriel Dunia. The governor pledged his commitment to establishing a committee to identify the schools to be returned. According...

Tinubu Pledges Sustainable Infrastructure, Inaugurates Abuja Water Network

17.06.2025

…mourns victims of Benue attack President Bola Tinubu has pledged his administration’s commitment to sustainable infrastructure that directly affects the people. The President, who mourned the victims of the latest attacks in Benue State where about 200 persons were killed, made this commitment yesterday at the commissioning of the Airport Road. He also inaugurated the...

Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Dropped To 22.97% In May

17.06.2025

Nigeria’s inflation rate dropped to 22.97 per cent in May 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The figure represents a decline of 0.74 percentage points when compared to the 23.71 per cent recorded in April 2025. On a year-on-year basis, headline inflation fell by 10.98 percentage points from 33.95 per cent recorded in...

Elumelu: Young Africans Digitally Native, Entrepreneurial, Hungry To Build

17.06.2025

The Chairman, United Bank for Africa, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has demanded a stronger partnership to fully exploit the potential in African youths, whom he described as digitally savvy and yearning to be at the top. Elumelu stated these in his X handle while reflecting on his dinner session with French President, Emmanuel Macron, at the...

Delta: Protests Rock INEC’s Delineation Exercise, Blackout Decades Of Blackout In Ndokwa Nation

17.06.2025

A group, the Isoko Political Youth Leaders of Thought, has called for an immediate suspension of the ongoing ward delineation exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Delta South Senatorial District of Delta State. This was as Ndokwa people trooped to the streets of Kwale to reject decades of power outage in their...

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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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