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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...

Fund Diversion: Allegations Of Against Okowa Politically-Orchestrated – Aniagwu

21.11.2024

Delta State Commissioner for Works (Rural and Riverine Roads), Mr Charles Aniagwu, has weighed-in on allegations of funds diversion against a former governor of the state, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, describing it as politicallyorchestrated to smear his reputation. Aniagwu, who was chief press secretary and commissioner for information under Okowa’s administration, challenged the accusers to show...

We’ve Three Existential Threats To Lagos – Hamzat

21.11.2024

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, has identified three things that he said are existential threats to the state. This was even as he said that the state government wants parents and guardians to be involved in the life of their wards who attend public schools; hence the state insists on an operation show...

Ondo Poll: Court Reserves Judgment On Disqualification Of APC’s Candidates

21.11.2024

A Federal High Court in Akure, Ondo State, has reserved judgment in a suit challenging the eligibility of the deputy governor and running mate to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in the November 16 governorship election, Dr Olaiyide Adelami. Adelami, the deputy governor, was the running mate to Governor Aiyedatiwa in the November 16 governorship election. The...

Insecurity: North Under Siege, People May Not Be Alive To Reap Reforms Benefits –AC

21.11.2024

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has raised the alarm that the northern part of the country is currently under siege from the activities of insurgents, bandits and other criminal elements. In his remarks yesterday at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Forum, ACF Chairman, Mamman Osuman, however, added that even though some of...

WAEC Bans 13 Kogi Schools For Exam Malpractice

21.11.2024

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has banned 13 schools in Kogi State for various degrees of examination malpractice in the 2023/2024 examinations. The Commissioner for Education Wemi Jones said this at a meeting with principals and supervisors who were indicted by WAEC for examination malpractice. Jones also said the council had blacklisted 14 supervisors...

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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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