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Climate Change: Nigeria, Others Get Less From $200bn Requirement

29.01.2025

Country Manager, VITOL, Chibuzor Ifeanyi, has said that Nigeria and other African countries only get $35 billion annually out of the $200 billion requirement to aid the continent’s energy and climate-related goals. He decried that this was grossly inadequate. He spoke yesterday during a webinar with the theme: “Interrogating Just & Inclusive Energy Transition for...

Industrial Engineering Catalyst For Sustainable Infrastructure, Inclusive Growth

29.01.2025

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission Gbenga Komolafe, has described industrial engineering as a catalyst for sustainable infrastructure, inclusive growth and development. He made this known during a lecture he delivered at the Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Lagos State University, on Tuesday, 28th January 2025....

Tinubu Has Won War Against Terrorism Via CDS – Group

29.01.2025

The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL) yesterday praised President Bola Tinubu for appointing Gen. Christopher Musa as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). According to the group, Musa’s appointment is yielding results in the war against terrorism. In a statement by President-General Goodluck Ibem, the group several key changes had been implemented in the...

95% Of NIMR’s Research Grant Are From Foreign Donors, Sponsors, Says DG

29.01.2025

The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) Director-General John Obafunwa has said more than 95 per cent of the institute’s research grants are from foreign donors and sponsors. He listed them as World Health Organisation (WHO), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Longrich, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other institutions and organisations....

…Backs FG’s Tax Reform Bills, Demands Increased Oil Derivation

29.01.2025

Rising from its meeting yesterday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, the South South Governors’s Forum in a communique, expressed support for the ongoing tax reforms of the President Bola Tinubu administration. The communique, read by the Governor Duoye Diri urged the president to extend the proposed VAT sharing to other areas of derivation like...

One Of Chikakore Abducted Victims Found Dead

29.01.2025

One of the five abducted residents of the Chikakore community in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been found dead. Mrs Esther Adesiyan’s body was reportedly recovered in a bush near the Itagbajii community in Niger State on Monday night. The deceased, her husband, Akinropo Adesiyan, their son, Ifeoluwa, and family...

Diri Emerges South-South Governors’ Forum Chairman

29.01.2025

Governors of the South-South geopolitical have unanimously picked Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, as chairman of the South South Governors Forum. Diri was elected yesterday during the forum’s meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, the state capital. Cross River Governor, Bassey Otu, emerged as vice chairman of the forum. Governor of Delta State, Sheriff...

Osun NAWOJ To Induct Adeleke’s Elder Sister As Grand Matron

29.01.2025

…Flags off SouthWest Summit With Empowerment Nigeria Association of Women Journalists NAWOJ, Osun State Chapter is set to Induct Chief Mrs Modupeola Adeleke-Sanni as its Grand Matron, while it will also award Senator Olubiyi Fadeyi Ajagunla representing Osun Central, at its Zonal Summit on Thursday. This is as the female journalists association flags off its...

IFA Tasks NITDA On Digital Literacy For Women, Girls With Disabilities

29.01.2025

The Inclusive Friends Association (IFA) has urged the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to prioritize digital literacy programs for women and girls with disabilities. The executive director of IFA, Grace Jerry, made the call during the Media Roundtable held in Abuja with the support of Rise Up andthe Public Health Institute while emphasizing the...

Court Adjourns To April 3 As First Witness Testifies

29.01.2025

The Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Wednesday, adjourned the trial in the alleged money laundering case against the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to 3rd, 24th April, and 6th May 2024. Justice Maryann Anenih adjourned the case for continuation of hearing after the first witness, Fabian Nworah, a property developer, was...

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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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