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FG Approves New NIN Verification Service

06.05.2025

The Federal Government on Tuesday approved a new service by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to make it easier and safer to verify people’s identities using their National Identification Number (NIN). According to a statement issued by NIMC’s Head of Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke, the Presidency has also instructed all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies...

Kaduna To Begin Air Lifting Pilgrims May 14

06.05.2025

The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency on Tuesday announced that it will begin airlifting pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for Hajj on May 14. The Executive Chairman of the Agency, Malam Salihu Abubakar, made the announcement in a statement by Malam Yunusa Abdullahi, its Public Relations Officer, in Kaduna. According to Abubakar, a total of 4,060...

EFCC Confirms Investigation of VDM Over Alleged Financial Crimes

06.05.2025

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that it is investigating social media personality Martins Innocent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, in connection with multiple allegations of financial misconduct. In a statement issued on Tuesday and made available to Journalists, the Commission stated that the invitation extended to VDM was in line with...

Bassa IDPs Pledge Support For Peace Initiative

06.05.2025

Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), predominantly of Bassa ethnic extraction in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, have pledged their support for Governor Abdullahi Sule’s peace initiative aimed at ensuring their peaceful resettlement back to their ancestral communities. The IDPs, drawn from over 100 Bassa communities, were displaced following the 2018/2019 communal crisis...

Guber Poll: Anambra Not For Sale, Says APGA National Chair

06.05.2025

In response to the boasting of the Anambra State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that it has the needed logistics to remove Governor Charles Soludo through the November 8 gubernatorial election, the state Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, has described the boasting as too pedestrian, contending that...

World Press Freedom: Ajadi Urges Govts To Uphold Freedom Of Expression

06.05.2025

A stalwart of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the South West, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi, has used the occasion of this year’s World Press Freedom Day to praise Nigerian journalists for their doggedness, courage and perseverance in performing the watchdog role in the society despite many hindrances and inconveniences. Latching on the theme for...

N54.99trn Budget Projections Threatened As Oil Price Sustains Decline

06.05.2025

The continued oil prices fall at the global market is gradually worsening Federal Government’s projections with regard to the the N54.99 trillion 2025 budget. Oil prices again crashed yesterday by more than $1 per barrel following the decision by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to increase its output hikes for...

NiMet Predicts Three-Day Haziness, Thunderstorms Nationwide

06.05.2025

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) predicted haziness and thunderstorms across the country from Tuesday, May 5, to Thursday, May 8. According to NiMet’s weather outlook released on Monday in Abuja, a slight dust haze is expected over parts of Katsina and Kano states during the forecast period on Tuesday. It anticipated thunderstorms over parts of...

Court Rejects Trump’s Bid To Revoke Thousands Of Migrants’ Status

06.05.2025

A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request from president Donald Trump administration to proceed with revoking temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Nicaragua, Venezuela, Haiti, and Cuba, dealing a legal setback to the administration’s immigration agenda. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, rejected the administration’s...

Group Dismisses Allegations Of Corruption Against LASUSTECH VC, Odusanya

06.05.2025

The Campaign for Democracy and Justice (CDJ) has dismissed the allegations of corruption against the Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University of Science and Technology LASUSTECH, Professor Olumuyiwa Odusanya. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, Chairman of CDJ, Ishola Adeshina, said the Vice Chancellor is not only a man of honour and of high...

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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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