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Glo Festival Of Joy: Warri Turns Into Carnival As First Prado Winner Receives Prize

22.11.2024

Mr. Daniel Mayuku, the Chairman of the Delta State Security Trust Fund, has taken home the first Toyota Prado prize in the ongoing Globacom’s Festival of Joy promotion. He becomes the first winner to receive the grand prize in the promotion. The Delta State House of Assembly Speaker Emomotimi Guwor and Chief Anthony Ofoni, Chairman...

Tinubu To IMF MD: We’ll Continue To Prioritise Poor, Vulnerable’s Welfare

22.11.2024

President Bola Tinubu has assured that his administration will continue prioritising the welfare of the poor and most vulnerable even as the economic reforms bear fruit. Tinubu gave this assurance on Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, paid him a courtesy call...

Ex-Rep Member Questions FG Borrowing

22.11.2024

Former House of Representatives member, Dachung Bagos has raised concerns over Nigeria’s rising debt profile following the Senate’s approval of President Bola Tinubu’s ₦1.77 trillion ($2.2 billion) loan request. Reacting to the approval in an interview on Thursday, Bagos criticized the lack of clear repayment strategies as he pointed out Nigeria’s low production, industrialization, and export...

ASR Africa Begins Construction Of Abdul Samad Rabiu Research Center At FUPRE

22.11.2024

The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) has commenced the construction of the Abdul Samad Rabiu Center for Corrosion Research at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State. This center is being constructed with a N250 million grant to the university as part of ASR Africa’s Tertiary Education Grants Scheme (TEGS)...

No Altercation Between Akpabio, Myself –Senate Leader

22.11.2024

Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, has refuted an online report on alleged physical combat between him and the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday. Bamidele in a statement issued by his Directorate of Media yesterday, described the strory as laughable and unfounded. The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to fake news currently...

Sokoto Approves N950m To Complete 35mw IPP

22.11.2024

The Sokoto State Executive Council has approved the payment of N950 million to Cartel Construction Limited to complete the 35 megawatt Independent Power Project (IPP), the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, has said. This decision to approve the funds, according to the Commissioner, Alhaji Bello Sambo Danchadi, was taken during the Council’s 9th meeting,...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News November 22

22.11.2024

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Friday, November 22, 2024. Simon Ekpa’ll Be Extradited To Nigeria To Face Charges – Defence Hqtrs The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja, has stated that Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will...

Constitution: Reps Receive Proposals To Amend 161 Areas

22.11.2024

The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Amendment has received the backing of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). At a meeting with the committee headed by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu in Abuja on Wednesday, the governors said they would “actively engage in shaping amendments that strengthened...

DHQ: Troops Dismantling Lakurawa, Other Terrorists’ Military Capabilities

22.11.2024

The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, yesterday said that the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) “have made serious efforts at dismantling the military capabilities as well as destroy the terror networks of the new terror group, the Lakurawa.” General Buba made the disclosure yesterday at the regular briefing on troops’ ongoing kinetic actions,...

We’ll Continue To Invest In Nigerian Youth –Abbas

22.11.2024

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has given the assurance that the House would do everything humanly possible to continue to invest in the Nigerian youth, especially in the area of education. The speaker noted that the Nigerian youth have a lot of potential, which is why they must be empowered 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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