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Anambra 2025: Soludo’s Social Contract Broken, Abandoned

12.11.2024

An aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) in next year’s Anambra State governorship election, Valentine Ozigbo, has taken a swipe at the administration of the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, and said the infrastructure deficit in the state cast serious doubts on the integrity and competence of the governor. Ozigbo, at a...

Why We Always Put People First In Oyo

12.11.2024

…Calls for youth participation in politics Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has explained that his administration continues to put the people of the state first in all its decisions because it believes in ethical leadership, which espouses responsibility towards the broader community, as the main import of leadership. According to Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Special Adviser (Media),...

Correspondent Chapel Applauds Appointment Of Itua As CPS To Okpebholo

11.11.2024

The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in Edo State Council on Monday congratulated Mr. Fred Itua on his appointment as the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor-Elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo. The Chapel also commended the Governor-elect for finding Itua worthy of the appointment and declared that it has always admired...

Tax Reform Bills Not Against North – Hon Jibrin

11.11.2024

…Calls for understanding of Nigerians Former Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, has declared that the proposed tax reform bills, were not in any way against the North or any part of the country, urging those against the bills to hold their pesce. Jibrin who made the declaration while fielding questions on...

Shehu Sani, Ndume Disagree On Tinubu’s Proposed Tax Reforms

11.11.2024

The controversy trailing President Bola Tinubu’s proposed tax reforms in the country is yet to settle, even as the former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, is of the opinion that the reforms will serve the interest of the Northern region better than what is being insinuated. There have been intense arguments among...

Tinubu Reflects On Bakare’s Patriotic Efforts In Advocating For Better Nigeria At 70

11.11.2024

President Bola Tinubu has reflected on Pastor Tunde Bakare’s bold and patriotic efforts in advocating for a better Nigeria as he clocks 70. In a press release issued by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, the President celebrated the clergyman who is also a distinguished lawyer, pastor, leader, author, advocate for good governance, and politician for contributing...

Makinde, Folarin, Iziguzo, Speaker, ors, bid Babalola Oyo NUJ Chair’s Mother Farewell

11.11.2024

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde; former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Teslim Folarin; the Acting Chairman of the Oyo APC, Alhaji Olayide Abas; Oyo State House of Assembly Speaker Rt. Hon. Debo Ogundoyin; as well as, many other prominent politicians from various divides, on Sunday, set aside their differences to bade...

Buhari Describes Tunde Bakare National Asset At 70

11.11.2024

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has described Pastor Tunde Bakare as a national asset as he clocks 70. In a terse statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari joined family, friends, and the nation to celebrate his Vice Presidential running mate in the unsuccessful presidential election in 2011, In a congratulatory message on the...

Tax Reductions Can Cripple Higher Education Funding

11.11.2024

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has warned that tax reductions may seem beneficial to industries, but they risk crippling higher education funding. Osodeke gave the warning on Monday during TETFund’s one-day strategic interaction with heads of beneficiary institutions in Abuja, said university leaders must fight for themselves and...

APC Transition Committee Hands Over Report To Okpebholo

11.11.2024

…Urges him to Probe Obaseki’s Administration Edo APC Transition Committee on Monday recommended the probe of Mr Godwin Obaseki’s administration and to ensure that all contracts, MoUs and financial transactions within the last eight years be properly investigated. The Committee said that the Obaseki administration didn’t provide audited financial statements published or unpublished. The 25-member...

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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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