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Food Security: FG Vows To Improve Rice, Cassava, Cowpea Varieties

06.06.2025

The Federal Government said it has renewed commitment to projects designed for the improvement of both the yields and nutritional values of major staple crops, including rice, cassava and cowpea in the country, as a measure to scale up food security. This was even as it said that plans were underway to review the processes...

Minister Of Women Affairs Celebrates Nigerian Women, Families, Vulnerable Groups

06.06.2025

As Muslims across Nigeria and the world celebrate the sacred festival of Eid al-Adha, the Minister of Women Affairs, Hon. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has extended warm felicitations to the Muslim faithful, with a special message of hope, solidarity, and compassion for women, children, families, and the vulnerable. In a statement issued by her Special Adviser on...

Eid-El-kabir: Mbah Preaches Selflessness, Empathy

06.06.2025

Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah has enjoined Muslim faithful and Nigerians to uphold the virtues of faith, obedience, selflessness, and empathy, which he described as the essences of Eid-el-Kabir. He stressed the need for every Nigerian to be the brother’s keeper, assuring that his administration would continue to build a state that avails equal opportunity...

Wike Charges Muslims To Celebrate With Less Privileged In Mind

06.06.2025

The Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike has charged the Muslim community to celebrate this year’s Eid-El-Kabir with the less privileged in mind. Wike in his Sallah message noted that charity and positively impacting lives were part of service to God. He stated that his administration through the support of President Bola Tinubu...

Eid-el-Kabir: Alia Felicitates With Muslims

06.06.2025

Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has felicitated with the Muslim faithful as they commemorate 2025 Eid-el-Kabir a significant spiritual event in the Muslim calendar. In a message through his Chief Press Secretary, Tersoo Kula, the governor charged Muslims on tolerance, love, sacrifice and unity, as they are the binding principles of their faith and...

Lekki Deep-Sea Port: Infrastructure Devt Key To Nigeria’s Prosperity – Deputy Speaker

06.06.2025

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said infrastructural development is key in driving Nigeria’s economic growth and unity. Speaking at the commissioning of Lekki Deep – Sea Port Access Road, Section 1 and other key projects in Lagos by President Bola Tinubu yesterday, Kalu highlighted the significance of the projects in...

Tinubu Inaugurates $300m Afreximbank AMCE Hospital In Abuja

06.06.2025

President Bola Tinubu has commissioned the $300 million world class health facility, the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) built by the African Import-Export Bank (Afreximbank) in partnership with King’s College Hospital, London. The hospital would specialise in comprehensive care across oncology, cardiology, and haematology, including general medical and surgical services as well as advanced...

Keep Hope Alive, Presidential Aide Celebrates Muslim Students

06.06.2025

The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Students’ Engagement, Comrade Sunday Asefon, has rejoiced with Muslim students across the nation and those in the diaspora, on the festive occasion of Eid-al-Adha. Asefon, in his congratulatory message made available to New Telegraph on Friday in Ado-Ekiti urged Nigerian students to keep hope alive...

Zulum Greets Muslims On Eid-Al-Adha

06.06.2025

Thousands of Muslim faithful gathered at Ramat Square in Maiduguri on Friday to observe the Eid al-Adha prayers, marking one of the holiest festivals in the Islamic calendar. The congregation included top government officials, traditional leaders, and political figures. Leading the prayers was the Imam Eidain of Borno, Shettima Mamman Saleh, who called on the...

Gov Mutfwang Urges Prayers For Peace, Unity

06.06.2025

Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, has extended warm felicitations to the Muslim Ummah in Plateau State and across the world on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, urging them to offer prayers for enduring peace in the state and Nigeria at large. In his Sallah message, Governor Mutfwang called on Muslims to continue embodying...

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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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