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Clark: Staunch Advocate Of Local Content

14.05.2025

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Felix Omatsola Ogbe, has described the late Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark as a committed advocate of local content, a renowned educationist, a generous philanthropist, and a distinguished statesman. Ogbe made the remarks on Tuesday during a condolence visit to Kiagbodo in Ughelli South...

APC Maintains Simple Majority Status in Senate

14.05.2025

The numerical strength of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate has diminished further yesterday as the senators from Kebbi State defected to the ruling All Progressives (APC). Former Governor Adamu Aliero representing Kebbi Central dumped the PDP for the APC alongside Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, representing Kebbi North, and Garba Maidoki, representing Kebbi South....

Govt Read’s Riot Act, As Okada Tricycle Hits Masquerade

14.05.2025

With just two weeks to the commencement of the annual Imo Awka festival in Awka, the Anambra State Government has issued a stern warning against the flogging of innocent individuals and obstruction of vehicular traffic during the cultural celebration. The caution comes in the wake of a recent tragic incident involving a masquerade and a...

Trump Touts $142BN Arms Deal On Saudi Visit, Lifts Sanctions on Syria

14.05.2025

US President Donald Trump has said the US has “no stronger partner” than Saudi Arabia during his first major foreign trip – a whirlwind visit of Gulf countries mainly focused on shoring up investment. Day one of the trip saw the two sides announce a $142bn (£107bn) arms deal, as well as a raft of...

Navy Destroys Illegal Refining Sites In Rivers

14.05.2025

Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship, Pathfinder, on Tuesday destroyed nine illegal refining sites housing 175,000 litres of stolen products in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Commander, NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Cajethan Aniaku, in Port Harcourt, the state capital. According to the Navy, the sites...

Corps Members’ll Drive Positive Change In Host Communities – NYSC

14.05.2025

The National Youth Service Cor ps (NYSC) has assured that the corps members deployed to their various places of primary assignment would impact maximally on their host communities. Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, the Director General of NYSC, made the assurance in Bauchi yesterday during the closing ceremony of the 2025 Batch ‘A’ stream 1 orientation...

CBN Targets $1bn Monthly Inflows On New BVN Platform For Diasporans

14.05.2025

As part of measures to increase foreign exchange inflows into the economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in collaboration with Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) have unveiled a Bank Verification Number platform for Nigerians in the diaspora. Yesterday in Abuja, the Non-Resident Bank Verification Number (NRBVN) platform, an innovative digital gateway, which allows Nigerians...

Otu Signs Infrastructure, Social Welfare Edicts Into Laws

14.05.2025

Cross River Governor Bassey Edet Otu has signed three laws aimed at improving infrastructure, regulating the gaming industry, and enhancing social welfare across Cross River State. The newly assented laws include the Cross River State Road Maintenance Agency (Amendment) Law, 2025, the Cross River State Lotteries and Gaming Agency Law, 2025, and the Cross River...

CTG: 100,000 Youths Still Jobless After FG’s Training Programmes

14.05.2025

Following the National Economic Council’s (NEC) approval of the establishment of a Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) Development Board to drive the revitalisation of the country’s textile, investigations have revealed that about 100,000 youths trained on CTG via the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) window in December last year by Adhama Textile Garment Industry based in...

Osun APC Greets Adeleke At 65, Seeks Better Approach To Governance

14.05.2025

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke on his 65th birthday anniversary, cautioning him to sit up for the “delivery of qualitative governance for the visibly deprived people of the state”. The party in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Information, Mogaji...

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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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