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NADF, Niger To Improve Food Production With N5bn

29.01.2025

The National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF) and the Niger State Government have initiated steps to improve food production and other agricultural activities by injecting about N5 billion. The finances was said to have been earmarked for improved mixed cropping and production of rice and maize across 4,000 hectares of land, targeting 4000 smallholder farmers across...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News January 29

29.01.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Wednesday, January 29, 2025 $360m Ogoni Clean Up: Senate Threatens To Arrest HYPREP Coordinator The Senate on Tuesday threatened to arrest Professor Nenibarini Zabbey, the Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), if he fails to appear...

Femi Pedro At 70: Between Fate And Diligence

29.01.2025

According to Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist, and short story writer, “failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle”. The concept of...

Afenifere To FG: Deploy Modern Tech To Stop Insecurity, Allow Amotekum Carry Lethal Weapons

29.01.2025

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere yesterday asked the Federal Government to overhaul the security architecture and “include modern technology more comprehensively in the efforts at combating banditry and terrorism”. The group, who met at the Akure home of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, also asked the government to license the South-West Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps...

…Appoints Right Activist, Farotimi, As Organising Secretary

29.01.2025

The pan-Yoruba political organisation, Afenifere, has appointed popular lawyer and socio-critic, Mr. Dele Farotimi, as its new national organising secretary. This is coming just as Afenifere at its meeting in IjebuIgbo, Ogun State called for the immediate release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. These form...

NSCDC Deploys Rescue Team To Building Collapse Scene In Lagos

29.01.2025

…rescue 2 alive The Lagos State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed their rescued team to the site of the collapsed two-storey building at Ikota, Ajah area of the State. The Spokesperson of the Corps, Oluwaseun Abolurin in a statement on Tuesday said the State Commander, Mr Adedotun Keshinro deployed...

Two Bodies Recovered, Five Rescued In Lekki Building Collapse

29.01.2025

…More people may still be under rubbles – NEMA Two male bodies have so far been retrieved, with five victims rescued with serious injuries after a two-storey building collapsed at Mega Mall, Mobil road, Inikpa villa, Ikota, Ajah area of Lagos. Confirming the tragedy, Ibrahim Farinloye, Lagos Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency...

Embrace Two Sources Of Income For Stability, Sustainability, Don Urges Nigerians

29.01.2025

The Deputy Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Veritas University Abuja, Prof. Success Jibrin Musa has advised Nigerians to ensure they have at least two sources of income to enable them to seamlessly navigate the harsh living conditions in the country. Jibrin who delivered the 7th inaugural lecture with the topic, ‘Accounting Economics, Taxation and Governance:...

Niger Gov Urges Sub-National Support For NAPTIP, Backs New Command

29.01.2025

…Backs New Command The Executive Governor of Niger State, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has called on governors across Nigeria to rally behind the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in combatting human trafficking and violence against persons nationwide. Governor Bago made this plea during a strategic meeting with the management of NAPTIP,...

FG Charges Youths To Harness Vast Potential Of Creative Economy

29.01.2025

…As Adeleke reaffirms commitment to nurturing creative economy The Federal Government of Nigeria has charged youths with the need to harness the vast potential of the creative economy to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs). The Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire gave this charge on Tuesday at the SDG creative conference,...

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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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