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NACCIMA, Others Ask FG To Utilize $10.34trn Global Non-Oil Export Proceeds For Devt

21.11.2024

Stakeholders within the non-oil export ecosystem recently converged in Abuja at the 3rd National Conference on Non-oil Export to proffer and realign strategies to enhance Nigeria’s economy and drive sustainable economic development. The event brought together key private and public stakeholders including Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke...

Wike: We May Not Solve All Problems, But We’ll Touch Many

21.11.2024

Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, yesterday said the present administration may not be able to solve all problems, but will substantially touch many areas. Wike disclosed this when he inspected some ongoing road projects in different communities at Bwari and Kwali Area Councils. The Minister, who expressed delight that many interior communities...

Gov Zulum Urges FG, Northern States Told To Adopt Policies Meant To Prosper North

21.11.2024

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has urged the Federal Government and northern states to adopt policies that will promote the development, peace and prosperity of the region. The governor who made this plea on Wednesday also admonished the Federal Government to create platforms for skills acquisition and employment generation amongst youths in the region....

US Returnee Found Dead In Ogun Hotel Room

21.11.2024

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 51-year-old man, Sunday Abidoye whose lifeless body was discovered in Room 109 of Creestar Hotel, GRA, Sagamu, on Wednesday. The command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola confirmed the development in a statement issued to journalists on Thursday. According to Odutola, the Chief Security Officer of the...

Ondo Guber: Ebiseeni Slams INEC Over Disqualification

21.11.2024

The disqualified candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the November 16 Ondo State governorship poll Olusola Ebiseeni yesterday slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for his disqualification. Ebiseeni was sacked by the Court of Appeal and replaced by Ayo Olorunfemi. In a statement, he said it took INEC one month to open its...

Allegations Against Wike Targeted At Stalling FCT Progress’

21.11.2024

The Coalition for Truth and Justice in Nigeria (CTJN) has said the allegations against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike are aimed at stalling the ongoing projects in the capital. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, Convener Agabi Emmanuel said under Wike’s leadership, the issues of infrastructural development,...

Education Your Right, Not Privilege, Senate Tells Children

21.11.2024

The Senate yesterday told children to see education as their right, not a privilege. It made the declaration in commemoration of the 2024 Universal Children’s Day organized by its Committee on Women Affairs. In their separate speeches, the legislators who spoke focused on the need for Nigerian children to make education their right and not...

Osun Shooting: CSOs Ask IGP To Fire Anti-kidnapping Unit Chief

21.11.2024

Concerned Civil Society Groups yesterday asked the InspectorGeneral of Police IGP) Kayode Egbetokun to remove the head of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Osun State SP Moses Lohor within seven days or face mass protests. The group also demanded an investigation into the shooting of the Osun State Transport Management System (OSTMS) Chairman Nurudeen Iyanda...

LG Funds: Ogun Dismisses Adebutu’s Allegation Against Abiodun

21.11.2024

Ogun State government yesterday described the allegation levelled against Governor Dapo Abiodun by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 polls in the state, Ladi Adebutu, as the ranting of a drowning man, claiming that the governor could not account for local government funds in the last five years. In a statement...

Business Forum: Group Calls For Better Funding In Agribusiness

21.11.2024

The Executive Director at Cormat Nigeria Limited, a TGI Group company, Dr Johannes Flosbach, has emphasised the need for sustainable funding in agribusiness during the recently held 11th German-Nigerian Business Forum (GNBF) in Lagos. Speaking on the panel; “Strengthening the Nigerian Agribusiness Industry for Food Security and Export,” Flosbach highlighted agriculture’s pivotal role in Nigeria’s...

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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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