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NCoS Debunks Poor Feeding Allegation

15.04.2025

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on Tuesday debunked the purported reports alleging that inmates were being poorly fed and dying of hunger in custodial centers across the country. Dismissing the allegation, the Service Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Umar, who spoke in an interview, said the reports were misleading, sensational, and grossly inaccurate. According to the...

UBA Boss: Double-digit GDP Growth Necessary To Achieve $1trn Goal

15.04.2025

Group Managing Director, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr Oliver Alawuba, says Nigeria requires a double-digit Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to achieve the projected one-trillion dollar economy target by 2030. Alawuba made this remark yesterday in Abuja, at the ongoing 36th Edition of the Finance Correspondents and Business Editors Association of Nigeria Seminar, organised...

Kaigama: Political Leaders Don’t Deserve Praise, Clerics’ Are Corrupt, Dishonest

15.04.2025

Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama, has called on political and religious leaders in Nigeria to show mercy for the citizens and be good examples. He told political leaders that if they are not ready to sacrifice their time and life for the people, they do not deserve election, let alone praise....

Rivers Chief Magistrate Resigns Over ‘Quasi-Military’ Leadership

15.04.2025

A Chief Magistrate in the Rivers judiciary, Ejike King George, has voluntarily resigned from service, citing unease with the recent appointment of what he described as a “quasi-military administration” to oversee the state’s affairs. In a letter dated April 11, 2025, and addressed to the Honourable Chief Judge of Rivers State through the Secretary of...

Elders Condemn Gov Lawal’s Public Criticism Of Matawalle

15.04.2025

The Zamfara Elders Support for Peace and Development group has strongly condemned Governor Dauda Lawal’s recent public criticism of his predecessor, the Minister of State for Defence, Mohammed Bello Matawalle. In a statement signed by the group’s chairman, Aliyu Adamu Kaura, the elders described the governor’s allegations against Matawalle as baseless, diversionary, and a clear...

NGE Fixes National Convention For Enugu In June

15.04.2025

The Nigerian Guild of Editors’ Biennial National Convention has been scheduled for Enugu in the last week of June. In a statement yesterday, the body said the notice of meeting was in line with Article 8, Section 2 of its Constitution, which empowers the General Secretary to give a 60-day notice before the conduct of...

16 APC LG Chairmen Ask Kawu To Return To Party

15.04.2025

The Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their Secretaries from Kano South Senatorial District have called on Senator Sulaiman Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila to return to APC. Speaking on behalf of the 16 APC Chairmen, their secretaries and ward leaders, the APC Chairman of Albasu Local Government, Alhaji Iliya Jibrin Hungu, said the call...

FG Uncovers Fraud In Student Loan Fund Disbursement

15.04.2025

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has uncovered unethical practices in the disbursement of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). This followed an investigation conducted by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) into the administration of the loan scheme. The report of the NOA Community Orientation and Mobilisation Officers (COMO) found some tertiary institutions colluding with banks...

Community Faults Police Claim On Communal Clash

15.04.2025

The People of Edjekota Community in Ogor Kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday debunked the news making the round that the community is having communal clash with the people of Ewu-Urhobo community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, calling on the Nigerian Police to put the record straight instead of misinforming the...

Labour Leaders Report FG To ILO, UN Over Alleged Workers’ Exploitation

15.04.2025

The Federal Workers Forum (FWF) yesterday asked the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and United Nations (UN) to sanction the Federal Government and organised labour for allegedly exploiting and ill-treating workers. In a petition to the both bodies, FWF National Coordinator Andrew Emelieze and Vice Chairman Itoro Obong also notified them of the union’s planned protests...

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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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