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Food Security: BIPC Moves To Establish Grain Hubs In Benue

14.11.2024

The Benue State Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC) has commenced moves to establish grain hubs across the state to address food insecurity and improve the economic conditions for farmers in the state. Managing Director of BIPC, Dr. Raymond Asemakaha, disclosed this during a meeting with key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, including the Benue...

Ondo Guber: PDP Nat’l Woman Leader Mobilises Support For Ajayi

14.11.2024

The National Woman Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs. Falilat Darasimi, has mobilised different women groups in Ondo State for the candidate of the party, Agboola Ajayi, ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. Darasimi and the Ondo State Woman Leader of the party, Kemi Adesanya, also distributed food items to the women groups, saying...

Niger Seeks Revocation Of Suleja-Minna Road Contract

14.11.2024

Fourteen years later, Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, revoke the contract awarded to Salini Nigeria Limited handling the Minna-Suleja road project, saying that; “the company lacks capacity.” While making the call during a town hall/ stakeholders’ engagement on the constrution of the...

Anti-Matawale Protests Politically Motivated –APC Chief

14.11.2024

A leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC)Musa Illiyasu Kwankwaso yesterday claimed that the protests against the Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle have political undertones. Various groups have staged protests demanding Matawalle’s investigation over his alleged links with the bandits wreaking havoc in Zamfara State. Kwankwaso said: “The protests, which are staged and...

Tinubu Signs 6 IMO Instruments Of Accession

14.11.2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the instruments of accession for six conventions of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). It was learnt that the action paves the way for Nigeria to officially deposit the instruments of accession at the IMO headquarters, which serves as the repository for such conventions. Also, the Head of Public Relations,...

LG Electronics Celebrates 100 Global Brands At Korean National Day

14.11.2024

LG Electronics, a technology player in South Korea, participated actively in the Korean National Day held by the Embassy of South Korea in Nigeria as one of the most reputed top-of-mind national brands representing the country worldwide. Four of the most prominent Korean companies in Nigeria participated in the National Day reception hosted at the...

Makinde Presents N678bn 2025 Budget To Oyo Assembly

14.11.2024

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, yesterday presented the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the House of Assembly with infrastructure development and education sectors getting the lion’s share of the estimates. The governor, while presenting the budget estimate of N678, 086,767,332.18 to the lawmakers, said the government plans to spend 51 per cent of the proposed budget...

Falana Condemns FCT Demolition, Wike House, Car Gift To Judges

14.11.2024

A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has condemned the gifting of houses to judges and demolition of houses by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Nyesom Wike. New Telegraph recalls that the minister had in October flagged off the Design and Construction of 40 Judges’ Quarters in the Katampe District in the nation’s...

Forex: Direct Remittances To Nigeria Drop By 16.7% To $1.5bn

14.11.2024

Total direct remittances to the country fell by $309.52 million or 16.69 per cent to $1.55 billion in the first nine months of this year compared to $1.86 billion in the corresponding period of 2023, latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. New Telegraph’s analysis of data on international payments for...

Ondo Guber: A’Court Sacks LP Candidate, Olusola Ebiseni, 3 Days To Poll

14.11.2024

The Court of Appeal Abuja yesterday sacked the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for Saturday’s Ondo State governorship poll, Olusola Ebiseeni. The court in a unanimous judgment prepared by Justice Hamma Barka but read by Justice Adebukola Banjoko held that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja had ordered the Independent National...

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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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