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US Court Upholds Law Banning TikTok

18.01.2025

On Friday, the United States (US) Supreme Court upheld a law banning the popular social media platform, TikTok in America. The development potentially denied the video-sharing app access to over 170 million American users in two days. In a major defeat for TikTok, the court ruled that the law does not violate free speech rights...

N’Assembly Queries Fire Service Over Discrepancies In Purchase Of Firefighting Trucks

17.01.2025

The Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Interior has queried the Federal Fire Service (FFS) over various discrepancies in its budget. The committee, which made this known at its budget defence with the FFS, specifically picked holes in the Services purchase of 10 fire trucks. According to the committee, it was...

Oyo Govt Adds Four Roads In Ongoing Rehabilitation Exercise

17.01.2025

The Oyo State Government has commenced a major road rehabilitation project in key areas of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state, to improve transportation infrastructure and enhance mobility. The projects cover roads in Bashorun Oluwo-Nla, Agbowo Road, Eleyele-Water Road, and Zion Plaza-Olusoji Road. They are expected to be completed in less than 8 weeks according...

How Masked Gunmen Kidnapped Retired AIG, Odumosu’s Wife In Ogun – Police

17.01.2025

The Ogun State Police Command has narrated how the wife of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Hakeem Odumosu was abducted from her home in Arepo, Ogun State, on Tuesday evening. According to the Police, the incident occurred around 9:55 PM when four masked assailants attacked Mrs Odumosu as she was entering her residence...

Awori Indigenes Greet New Lagos Assembly Speaker, Meranda

17.01.2025

…Urges Honesty, Probity The President of Awori Welfare Association of Nigeria (AWAN), Chief Mohammed Ajibola Olagbaye has felicitated with the new Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs. Mojisola Meranda on her election. Reacting to the development in a statement, Olagbaye who described the election of the new Speaker as divine also urged...

Tinubu Congratulates Okonjo-Iweala, Adeola, others on UNILAG awards

17.01.2025

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, DirectorGeneral of the World Trade Organisation; Mr Fola Adeola, co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, and Mr Kola Adesina, Managing Director of Sahara Power Group, on the well-deserved conferment of honorary doctorate degrees by the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The University recognised Dr Okonjo-Iweala for her trailblazing...

Group Commends Tinubu’s Economic Reforms

17.01.2025

The Coalition of Niger Delta Youth stakeholders has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his transformative reforms which are aimed at fostering sustainable development and economic growth in Nigeria. The coalition recognized the President’s commitment to addressing the challenges facing the nation, particularly in the Niger Delta region and pledged unwavering support for his initiatives....

Youths Back Primate Ayodele’s Prophecy On Seyi Tinubu

17.01.2025

…Blasts CONYL, Ndigbo Group Lagos Youths For Fairness and Equality (LYFE) has commended Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele for his prophecy on the purported governorship ambition of Seyi Tinubu in Lagos state. Primate Ayodele few days ago said that it is not yet time for Seyi Tinubu to become governor, advising him not to waste...

Court Denies El-Rufai’s Ex-CoS Bail Over Money Laundering Allegation

17.01.2025

Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, the former Chief of Staff to Ex – Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, was yesterday denied bail by the State High Court in the money laundering case brought against him. At the last sitting, the court had adjourned the ruling on the bail application for the former Chief of Staff...

Abia Govt To Deal With Property Owners Over Unhygienic Activities

17.01.2025

The Environmental Health Authority in Aba South Local Government (LGA ) and the Greater Aba Development Authority (GADA) have unanimously vowed to stop property owners from indulging in acts capable of leading to an outbreak of epidemic. The authorities, in a separate reaction on Friday, vowed to drop the full weight of the law on...

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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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