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Flavour Reacts As Man Asks Nigerians To Hide Chidimma Adetshina From Him

17.11.2024

Nigerian musician, Chinedu Okoli, better known as Flavour has reacted as a man called on Nigerians to take quick measures to hide Chidimma Adetshina from the singer after she secured second place at the 2024 Miss Universe. Sunday Telegraph recalls that Chidimma Adetshina emerged as the first runner-up at the just concluded Miss Universe. This...

Abia, Five Other States To Share $107m Education Grant

17.11.2024

The Global Partnership for Education System Transformation Grant has approved a grant of $107 million for Abia and five other States to develop the basic education sub-sector. The global partners/donor agency also appointed UNICEF and World Bank as grant agents to supervise and ensure proper implementation of the grant. Speaking at a two-day training workshop...

C’River Basin Staff Stage Protest Over Illegal Deductions, Non-Payment Of Promotion Arrears

17.11.2024

The staff of the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA), have embarked on a peaceful protest to demand the payment of three years’ salary arrears and an end to illegal deductions from their salaries as union dues. The staff held an emergency congress at the premises of the Basin Authority at 8 Miles in Calàbar...

Sokoto Launches Technical Group To Enhance Early Grade Reading In 100 Pilot Schools

17.11.2024

…Preparing for Enrollment Drive Campaign Barely four months after the inauguration of the Technical Working Group for the Early Grade Reading (EGR) program, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) technical assistant on EGR Result-Based Financing (RBF) visited Sokoto to meet with head teachers of 100 pilot schools across 10 selected Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs)....

Unilag DLI Alumni Association New Exco Seeks Better Welfare For Lecturers

17.11.2024

The University of Lagos (Unilag) DLI 05010 Alumni Association has inaugurated its executive council, seeking an improved work environment and welfare for lecturers. The forum, under Unilag Alumni Association Worldwide, unveiled its new executive council at its Annual General Meeting, Inauguration and Reunion, programme, held at Lagoon Front, Unilag in Lagos today. The event, which...

Nigeria Unlocks $1bn In Investments – Presidency

17.11.2024

The Special Adviser on Energy to the President, Mrs Olu Arowolo Verheijen, has said Nigeria has unlocked over $1 billion in investments across the value chain in the energy sector. She stated that by the middle of 2025, the federal government expects to see the Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) on two more projects,...

Int’l Students’ Day: Tinubu’s Administration Places High Premium On Education

17.11.2024

The Senior Special Assistant on Students Engagement to the President, Comrade Sunday Asefon has said the Federal Government under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu has placed a premium on various programs that bother about academic development for the benefit of the younger generation. Asefon who stated this to commemorate the 2024 International Students’ Day...

Nigeria, India Reinforce Strategic Partnership

17.11.2024

President Bola Tinubu and Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Sunday showed their commitment to deepening Nigeria-India strategic relations. The two world leaders have emphasized collaboration in key sectors such as economic growth, defence, healthcare, and food security. This was articulated in a joint statement released in Abuja following Prime Minister Modi’s state visit to...

S’East Loses Billions Yearly To Lack Of Sea Port

17.11.2024

The Senatorial aspirant for Anambra South District under the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA Chief Ebuka Onunkwo has lamented that South East business community loses billions yearly due to the absence of Sea Port in the area. To this end, Onunkwo has described the abandonment of the good old Oseakwa Sea Port forgotten...

Abbas Hails Tribune At 75, Hails Awolowo’s Foresight

17.11.2024

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has congratulated the African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, publishers of the Tribune titles, on its 75th anniversary. A Pan-Africanist and former Premier of Nigeria’s defunct Western Region, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, established the newspaper outfit in November 1949. The speaker, who described Tribune as a...

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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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