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16 Appointed CBN Directors Go Through PwC Screening

09.03.2025

The newly appointed 16 Directors of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) whose appointments were ratified recently went through rigorous screening exercise conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to ensure a bias-free exercise. A source who confided in the Saturday Telegraph said this approach was a total departure from the past exercise. Although the Bank has yet to...

Abductors Of Edo Catholic Priest Demand N200m Ransom

08.03.2025

The abductors of a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Philip Ekweli and a seminarian, Peter Andrew, have demanded the sum of N200 million as ransom before they will be released. Saturday Telegraph gathered that aside from the whopping N200 million, they also requested that two members of their gang and a gun be released to them...

Aliyu Supports 91 Communities With Irrigation Inputs

08.03.2025

The Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has distributed pumping machines, grinding machines, and fertilizer to 91 communities across the 23 Local Government Areas to boost food production across the state. This gesture, according to him, is part of the state government’s effort to boost irrigation activities, reduce unemployment, and create wealth among people. Governor Aliyu...

NAFDAC Destroys N100bn Counterfeit Drugs In Ibadan

08.03.2025

In its continued efforts to stop reintroduction of fake, expired, substandard and falsified drugs into circulation, the National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Saturday destroyed confiscated, unregistered and banned medicines with estimated street value of One Hundred Billion Naira (100,000,000,000) at Moniya Dumpsite in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo state...

Wike Seeks Women’s Support For Tinubu’s Govt

08.03.2025

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has used the occasion of this year’s celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) to seek the support of women in Abuja, noting that they are reliable pillars. In an official statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, the Minister said...

Kwara Lauds Women’s Resilience, Creativity

08.03.2025

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has felicitated women in Kwara State and across the world for their resilience, creativity, and the joy they bring to every space they occupy. In a statement issued on the occasion of the 2025 International Women’s Day (IWD), the Governor said: “Women are critical stakeholders in our society and in...

Fifteen Rooms Gutted By Fire In Kwara

08.03.2025

An early morning inferno has ravaged a story building containing 109 rooms in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, destroying 15 rooms and property worth millions of Naira. A statement issued by the spokesman of the Kwara State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, said the prompt intervention of the fire crew saved the entire building from being...

Traditional Rulers Must Focus On Culture, Not Religion

08.03.2025

Olowu of Kuta, Oba Hammeed Adekunle Oyelude Makama, Tegbosun 111, has urged traditional rulers to stay on the course of their mandate as the custodians of culture and tradition. Speaking at the Ramadan Lecture held in his palace on Saturday, Makama maintained that traditional rulers are the symbol of culture and tradition within their area...

Police Arrest Bandits On Mission To Purchase AK-47 In Kano

08.03.2025

The Kano State Police Command has intercepted heavily Armed individuals on a mission in the State to purchase AK-47 and other dangerous weapons in the State. The recording of the significant breakthrough, according to SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the Public Relations Officer of the Command, is an effort to curb the infiltration of banditry and related crimes...

Make Adult Education Free For Women, Oluga Charges Govs

08.03.2025

A member of the National Assembly Commission, Taiwo Oluga has called for improved enforcement of free and compulsory education for the girl child, with an appeal to state governments to embark on free and compulsory adult education for women. Celebrating the Nigerian women on the International Women’s Day, Oluga argued that education is pivotal 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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