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100 Nasarawa Indigents ToAquire Lithium Refining Skill

24.02.2025

No fewer than 100 Nasarawa State indigenes with technical backgrounds are to be trained on lithium refining processes by a Chinese Lithium plant in Shagamu, Ogun State. The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule made this known during a visit to the Gangeng Lithium industry refining plant in Shagamu, Ogun state on Saturday. A statement by...

Major Shake Up Hits Anambra RRS As Police Deploy Operatives Against Sit At Home

24.02.2025

One week after two suspected killers of Justice Azuka, House of Assembly Member from Onitsha North Constituency 1 escaped from the Police net, the Anambra Police Command commenced a major shake-up within the ranks of the Rapid Response Squad in the area. Similarly, the Command has deployed more officers to major flash points in the...

Nine killed, Three Injured On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

24.02.2025

No fewer than nine persons have lost their lives and three were injured in a fatal automobile crash that occured around Ayetoro on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday. New Telegraph gathered that, the accident which reportedly occurred at about 5:30 am involve a Toyota bus with number plate UYY165ZY and a truck with registration number...

Five PDP Govs Calls On Atiku To Support El-Rufai/Obi Ticket

24.02.2025

Five governors of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have reportedly firmed up plans with the party’s presidential candidate in the last elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to sink the party in favour a Nasir El-Rufai/Peter Obi ticket in the 2027 Presidential Election. El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State recently called for alliance and...

Pa Adebanjo’s Family Announces Burial Date

24.02.2025

The family of the late Samuel Ayodele Adebanjo has announced May 3, 2025, as burial date for the late Afenifere leader. It would be recalled that the respected nationalist died on Friday, February 14, 2025, at the age of 96. Before the body is laid to rest, a Day of Tributes and Service of Songs...

Court Halts Zamfara Assembly’s Move To Sack APC Member

24.02.2025

A Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, has halted the purported movement by the state House of Assembly to sack the All Progressive’s Congress (APC) lawmaker representing Talata Mafara South Constituency in the Assembly. This followed a suit No FHC/GSCS/10/2025 filed by the aggrieved member, Aliyu Ango Kagara against the Zamfara State House...

Suspected Killers Of Kwara Student Remanded

24.02.2025

Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court has ordered the remand of the seven suspects linked to the murder of Mojisola Awesu, a student of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, at the correctional facility in Ilorin. This followed the absence of the counsel to the 5th, 6th and 7th defendants...

Nigeria Needs Visa On Arrival To Boost Tourism, Foreign Investment

24.02.2025

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council ( PEBEC) has said the country needs an improved Visa on Arrival ( VoA) policy to boost tourism and foreign investment drive. This disclosure was made on Monday in a release signed by the Director General of PEBEC, Zahrah Audu. Audu noted that the Council would collaborate with the...

3m Nigerians Suffer Drug Addiction In Northwest

24.02.2025

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday revealed that approximately three million people in the North-West geopolitical zone are struggling with drug addiction. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, made this disclosure during the flag-off ceremony of the North-West geopolitical zone campaign against the use of...

5,928 applicants Shortlisted For Interview

24.02.2025

Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has invited 5,928 applicants for interview in the ongoing senior school teachers’ recruitment exercise. TESCOM Chairman, Mallam Bello Taoheed, said in a statement on Monday that the cutoff for Kwara State indigenes who applied to teach non-STEM subjects is 60 per cent, except for candidates from Baruten, Isin, Oke...

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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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