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Firm Partners FRSC On ‘Don’t Drink & Drive’ Campaign To Promote Safe Roads

19.04.2025

Pernod Ricard Nigeria, a leading wines and spirits producing company, has partnered with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to raise awareness about the dangers of drink-driving in the country in a bid to reduce motor accidents and mortality on the highway. Precisely, this campaign brings to life the responsible hosting pillar of Pernod Ricard’s...

CBN: Credit To Private Sector Rose To N76.27trn In March

19.04.2025

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN in its latest data it released said credit to the private sector rose by 6.78 per cent, or N4.84 trillion, to N76.27 trillion in March this year. According to the apex bank, the figure seems higher when compared with N71.43 trillion in the corresponding period of 2024. According...

LCCI Hints At Fresh Global Epidemic Over Budget Cuts To Donor Agencies

19.04.2025

President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr. Gabriel Idahosa, has hinted that the world faces the risk of fresh global health risk over the decision of President Donald Trump of the United States of America (USA) to order a global freeze on most US foreign aid as part of his...

Osun Monarch Advocates Unity Among Traditional Rulers

18.04.2025

The Lowa Adimula of Ile-Ife, His Royal Highness Adekola Abraham Adeyeye, has called for greater unity among Yoruba traditional rulers and citizens, emphasizing that no monarch should be compared to another. Speaking at a press briefing on Friday to mark his 70th birthday celebrations in Ile-Ife, the revered monarch stated that each ruler holds a...

655 Persons Get N260m From Eno

18.04.2025

A total of 655 entrepreneurs, including farmers and small-scale business owners in Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency, have received business support grants worth N260 million, along with equipment, from Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno. The beneficiaries, drawn from the three Local Government Areas of Ikot Ekpene, Essien Udim, and Obot Akara which make up Ikot...

Presidential Food Systems Coordinators Parley Journalists

18.04.2025

The Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU) has initiated a parley with media practitioners to address communication challenges hindering the growth of agriculture and food security in Nigeria. Marion Moon, Technical Assistant to the President (Office of the Vice President) on Agriculture and Coordinator of the PFSCU, said the engagement was a strategic move to...

Nnewi Hausa Community Seeks Govt Recognition

18.04.2025

The Hausa community in Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, has called on the State government to grant them proper recognition and protection to enable peaceful co-existence with members of the host community. The appeal was made recently by the leader of the Hausa community in Nnewi, Salihu Suleiman, during his inauguration...

Benue AG Denies Corruption, Incompetence Allegations

18.04.2025

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and Public Order in Benue State, Fidelis Bemsen Mnyim has refuted allegations of corruption and incompetence leveled against him in some sections of the media. Mnyim was accused of allegedly causing the State government to lose hundreds of millions of naira through secret deals with individuals seeking Garnishee...

Kogi Youths Demand Probe Into Attack On Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Home

18.04.2025

Kogi Youths Demand Probe Into Attack On Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Home

Anambra Hosts Soludo In UK As APGA Chairman Dismisses Opposition

18.04.2025

The citizens of Anambra State based in the United Kingdom have made final preparations to host Governor Charles Soludo for a Town Hall Meeting. This comes as the Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the United Kingdom, Richard Ugochukwu Ilorah, dismissed the candidates from the All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party (LP),...

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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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