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Plateau Govt Condemns Killings Of 52 Persons In Fresh Attacks

14.04.2025

The Plateau State Government has strongly condemned the recent unprovoked attacks that led to the killing of over 52 persons, including women and children, by suspected gunmen in Zike and Kimakpa communities in Kwall District of Bassa Local Government Area. This latest assault comes barely a week after over 60 people were killed in Bokkos...

Court Dismisses Suit Against Oyo Monarch, Olushola Alao

14.04.2025

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, the state capital, has dismissed a suit contesting the nomination and installation of the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Olushola Alao. Four members of the Akinbola family who instituted the suit contested the selection, appointment, and approval of Oba Alao as the Olugbon. New Telegraph reports...

Oyo Court Strikes Out Suit Seeking Olugbon’s Removal

14.04.2025

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has struck out a suit seeking the removal of the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Olushola Alao. Justice K.A. Adedokun struck out the case on Monday, citing lack of jurisdiction. Four members of the Akingbola family had approached the Court to challenge the selection, appointment, and...

Anambra Service Commanders Order Raid Of Flashpoints

14.04.2025

The eight major service commanders in Anambra State have ordered coordinated raids on all identified crime flashpoints, targeting suspected kidnapping, armed robbery, and other violent criminal activities. As part of the initiative, all vehicles and public spaces will be subject to thorough security checks, as part of a massive statewide operation to enforce zero tolerance...

Stakeholders Dialogue On Advancing Mandate

14.04.2025

Women in Philanthropy and Impact Africa (WIPIA), under the leadership of Anino Emuwa, hosted a high-level strategic brunch in honour of the Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim. The gathering convened private sector leaders, philanthropists, and development actors for a purpose-driven conversation on advancing the Ministry’s 10-million-women empowerment mandate and exploring the critical role of...

FCC Bayelsa Gets New Leadership

14.04.2025

Tife Owolabi, the newly re-elected Chairman of the Federated Correspondents’ Chapel (FCC) of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council, has expressed gratitude to members for the confidence reposed in him and pledged to run an all-inclusive administration. Speaking on Monday in Yenagoa during the chapel’s election, Owolabi, who just concluded his first...

Kenya Approves Sale Of NBK To Access Bank

14.04.2025

Kenya’s National Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS), John Mbadi, has approved the full acquisition of the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) by Access Bank Plc. According to media reports in the East African country, the approval was announced in a gazette notice dated April 11, 2025. In the notice, Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor, Dr....

How Insecurity Can Be Tamed In Nigeria, By Lawyers

14.04.2025

FRANCIS IWUCHUKWU writes that as a way of curbing the raging insecurity in the country, lawyers are pushing for the establishment of localised security structure where communities are equipped to defend themselves Some senior lawyers are pushing for the establishment of community policing across the country to stem the rising tide of insecurity. The lawyers...

Court Orders Adamawa Govt To Pay Retiree’s N1.7m Gratuity, Awards Damages

14.04.2025

The Yola Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has ordered the Adamawa State Government and its Attorney-General to immediately pay one, Rahab Danufi, a retired worker, the sum of N1,748,087.07. Additionally, the court awarded Rahab N500,000 as nominal general damages for the distress, trauma and breach of obligations caused by the Adamawa State Government....

Adebayo To Speak At GWU Conference

14.04.2025

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general elections, Adewole Adebayo, will join other global leaders as a speaker at a major conference organized by the School of Business, George Washington University (GWU) in the United States. The invitation to participate in the conference as a speaker was extended to...

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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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