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People Entering, Exiting Nigeria Are Now Pre-Profiled, Monitored – Tunji-Ojo

20.11.2024

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has disclosed that all people coming into the country or travelling out of the country are now pre-profiled and monitored in real time. The Minister made this known on Tuesday at the closing ceremony of the second leg of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Knowledge Transfer Training on border management,...

Okpebholo Suspends Market Unions Over Hike In Food Prices

20.11.2024

The Governor of Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has suspended all market unions and associations in the state with immediate effect, as part of measures to address the high cost of foodstuffs. Governor Okpebholo in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua said his decision was made by the disturbing...

Acting COAS Orders Probe Into Alleged Brutality By Nigerian Army

20.11.2024

The Nigerian Army under the leadership of the Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Olufemoi Oluyede has initiated an investigation into an audio-visual recording circulating on social media. The viral recording allegedly showed a senior officer and two soldiers involved in an altercation with a man and woman in Abuja. Reacting in a...

Oborevwori Warns Oil Firms Against Confrontation, Divide And Rule

20.11.2024

Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has charged multi-national oil companies to always approach their host communities with dialogue instead of open confrontation and divide and rule knavery. When the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), led by its Senior Corporate Affairs Advisor, Chevron International, Exploration and Production for Africa Region, Engr Esimaje Brikins, visited him...

Rapper NBA Youngboy Pleads Guilty In Fraud Case

20.11.2024

United States (US) rapper, NBA YoungBoy has pleaded guilty to charges of drug fraud brought against him. New Telegraph gathered that on Monday during his appearance in a courtroom in Logan, Utah, NBA YoungBoy admitted to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of third-degree felony forgery, and six counts of misdemeanour unlawful...

Tinubu Asks Senate To Confirm INEC Commissioners

20.11.2024

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, requested the Senate to confirm his appointment of Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. President Tinubu made the request in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, which he read during plenary, after the Red Chamber resumed from a three weeks recess. The President...

FRSC Goes After Fake Diplomatic, Unauthorized Number Plates

20.11.2024

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Marshal Shehu Mohammed yesterday directed the immediate clampdown on the proliferation of fake diplomatic and other unauthorised number plates. He said the directive had become necessary in line with his administration’s proactive approach towards enhancing national security. According to him, suspected criminals fraudulently produced these identified number plates, as...

Insecurity: Borno No Longer Epicentre Of Crisis, Says Zulum

20.11.2024

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has reaffirmed that the state has attained a substantial level of peace and was no longer the epicentre of crisis. This also emerged on a day Zulum received two awards for his exemplary leadership in providing security and public service to the people of Borno State. The award, tagged...

Alleged N2.7bn Fraud: Ex-BPP Director Testifies Against Sirika

20.11.2024

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness yesterday told an Abuja High Court that Al-Duraq Investment Limited which was registered in 2021 got the contract for the construction of the Apron Extension at Katsina Airport in 2022. Musa Odiniya, who was a former director, of procurement at the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) made...

NASRE Foundation Holds 3rd Edition Of Media Outreach Programme Thursday

20.11.2024

The Nigerian Association of Social and Resourceful Editors (NASRE) has announced the third edition of its Media Outreach Programme, scheduled for Thursday, November 21, 2024, at LTV 8, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, from 12:00 pm. In a statement issued by NASRE’s Media Director, Lateef Owodunni, explained that the last outreach for the year will not only...

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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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