Latest news

Latest News

CAPPA Tasks FG On Mining Tragedies

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on Federal and state governments to enforce strict monitoring and regulatory measures against illegal mining activities to prevent further avoidable tragedies across the country. In a statement released over the weekend, CAPPA urged the Federal Government to reform mining policy so as to make licensing processes...
Read more

ACHPR Advocates End To Inhuman Detention In Nigeria

…calls for investigation, accountability for inhumane treatment The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has called for an end to the inhuman condition of detention in Nigeria. In a statement issued by the Country Rapporteur on Human Rights in Nigeria, Commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso, PhD, has urged the Federal Government to conduct an...
Read more

ABUAD Wins International Award For Educational Excellence

The Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) has won the 2024 Chinese Plus Digital & Intelligent Education Gold Medal Cooperative Institution, organised by ChinaAfrica Investment FZC. A press statement issued yesterday by the Director, Corporate Affairs of the institution, Tunde Olofintila, stated that; “The cheering news was contained in a letter dated November 7, 2024, titled...
Read more

Arewa Group Drums Up Support For Tinubu’s Tax Bill

The Coalition of Arewa Groups, comprising 300 organizations in the 19 northern states is backing President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills before the National Assembly. In a statement by Usman Abubakar and Obadiah Amos on Sunday, the group commended Tinubu’s vision to reshape Nigeria’s fiscal framework, promoting economic growth and sustainability. It also applauded the...
Read more

George Akume Foundation Boosts 300 Students

Three hundred students from selected schools in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State at the weekend benefitted from scholarships and other educational materials facilitated by the George Akume Foundation (GAF). Addressing the beneficiaries in Adikpo, Convener Cosmos Nyagba explained that the gesture was to assist the vulnerable. He said the Foundation’s aim is...
Read more

NILEST Moves To Stop Kpomo Consumption

The Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST) Zaria says it will establish mini-tanneries in the 36 states to process hides and skin into leather. Director-General Mohammed Yakubu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja the move would help revive the industry Chairman of the Implementation Committee of the National Leather...
Read more

Ultra-Processed Foods Linked To Rapid Ageing –Study

Researchers from Italy and Germany have found that the high consumption of ultraprocessed foods is associated with the acceleration of biological ageing, regardless of the nutritional quality of the diet. The study conducted by the Research Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention at the I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed in Pozzilli, Italy in collaboration with the LUM University of...
Read more
1 1,792 1,793 1,794 1,795 1,796 1,836

Must Read

Popular Posts

I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

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

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

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...