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Lagos Assembly Seeks Increased Surveillance To Address Road Safety

07.05.2025

The Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, and the state’s Neighborhood Watch to step up surveillance efforts on the roads in response to the growing threat of miscreants harassing road users. The call came during yesterday’s plenary session when Mr. Sanni Okanlawon, representing Kosofe I, raised the issue...

Efficiency: Zulum Inaugurates 5 New Perm Secs

07.05.2025

Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum yesterday inaugurated five new Permanent Secretaries into the State Civil Service as part of ongoing efforts to reform and strengthen public administration. The new permanent secretaries included Alhaji Adamu Isa-Abadam, Alhaji Aja Gana-Bukar, Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, Alhaji Abdulkadir Mustapha and Alhaji Hassan Abdullahi-Hassan. T he Deputy Governor, Dr Umar Kadafur,...

Plateau Kilings: Mutfwang Insists On Enforcing Anti-Land Grabbing Law

07.05.2025

Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang insists on enforcing the existing anti-land grabbing law. Receiving the reports of the committees on Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Land Administration yesterday in Jos. The governor, who decried a spate of land-grabbing in Plateau, said that the enforcement would bring sanity to the land administrative system in...

CSR: LASAA Extends Educational Support To Ikorodu Public Schools

07.05.2025

The Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) has broadened its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts with the second phase of its “Back to School Storm” initiative, reaching four public primary schools in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The Agency visited Methodist Primary School, Igbogbo; Anglican Primary School, Igbogbo; Etunrenren Primary School; and Muslim...

How Oborevwori’s Defection Exposed PDP’s Intractable Crisis –Aniagwu

07.05.2025

Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has expressed regret that the Peoples Democratic Party PDP) that provided viable platform for the Big Heart State to thrive for 26 years had now become a crisisridden opposition party. Aniagwu, who doubles as the Commissioner for Works (Rural Roads) said the festering political imbalance in the...

Expert Lauds FG’s Procurement Policy

07.05.2025

Abdullahi Hashim, a prominent figure in Nigeria’s engineering sector, has hailed the recently approved Nigeria-First Procurement Policy as a transformative step toward strengthening the country’s industrial base. The policy, endorsed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and confirmed by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, mandates all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to...

NPFL: Who Claims Continental Tickets?

07.05.2025

Starting from today, in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), the battle for the final continental slot this season would be intense with three teams currently in the race to secure the third position on the table. The Contenders Remo Stars won the league with three games to spare and with Rivers United almost assured...

NSCDC Deploys 1,531 Officers Ahead Of Tinubu’s Visit

07.05.2025

The Anambra command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Wednesday announced the deployment of 1,531 officers to provide security for President Bola Tinubu’s visit to the state on Thursday, May 8. The officers will guard important national, state, and local government properties and infrastructure. The NSCDC Commandant in Anambra, Olatunde Maku,...

Zamfara Partners Oracle To Boost Youth Dev’t, Digital Economy

07.05.2025

The Zamfara State Government has signed a landmark agreement with Oracle to advance youth development, workforce capacity building, and the digital economy through Oracle University’s Skills Development Initiative (SDI). The signing took place on April 29, 2025, at Oracle’s offices in London, United Kingdom, marking a significant step toward transforming Zamfara into a hub of...

Oborevwori Pays Courtesy Visit To Tinubu In Abuja

07.05.2025

Following the defection of Delta State governor Sheriff Oborevwori to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with the governor at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. New Telegraph gathered that the governor arrived at the State House at approximately 3:45 p.m. and thereafter had his first official...

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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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