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Daddy Showkey, 9nice, Others To Perform At T. Pumpy Estate Concert

20.12.2024

Nigeria’s top music stars, including 9ice, Daddy Showkey, and African China, are to perform at a mega music concert organised by T.Pumpy Estates, a leading name in Nigeria’s real estate industry. The concert, slated to hold on 26th December 2024 at Airport Road, Abuja, will also feature Segun Johnson, Femi Solar, Ado Gwanja, and Klever...

NBA President Seeks Reforms In Education System

20.12.2024

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President Afam Osigwe (SAN) has urged Nigerian universities and other educational institutions to embrace information and communication technology (ICT) or go into extinction. Osigwe made the call at the 53rd convocation ceremony of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) yesterday. He lamented that the Nigerian educational system has yet to...

Anambra Earmarks N9bn For Federal Road Construction, Rehabilitation

20.12.2024

The sum of over N 9 billion have been set aside by the Anambra State Government for the construction and rehabilitation of some Federal roads. The government had also awarded contracts for the provision of facilities for the Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe in Anambra East local Government Area, as well as the College...

CBN: Consumer Credit Falls By 10.15% To N4.25trn

20.12.2024

Consumer credit outstanding declined by 10.15 per cent to N4.25 trillion in the third quarter of this year compared with N4.73 trillion in the previous quarter, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. The apex bank, which disclosed this in its third quarter 2024 economic report released yesterday, stated that while personal loans fell...

Autonomy: You Can’t Suspend LG Chairmen, Fagbemi Faults Okpebholo

20.12.2024

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), yesterday, faulted the suspension of the local government chairmen in Edo State by Governor Monday Okpebholo. The 18 local government chairmen and vice chairmen were placed on suspension on December 17 by the Edo State House of Assembly at the instance of...

A’Ibom To Establish Of Oil Mineral Exploration Company

20.12.2024

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has directed the State Investment Corporation, AKICORP, to ensure immediate revitalisation of the moribund state-owned paint company, Ibom Paints, formerly known as Peacock Paints. The governor also disclosed plans to establish Ibom Oil Mineral Exploration Company to identify marginal fields and enhance active participation of the State in...

60,000 Farmers Receive FG’s Subsidised Agricultural Inputs

20.12.2024

The Federal Government has commenced the distribution of farming implements of fertilizer and seeds to 6000 wheat farmers in Kano. Flagging off the programme at Alkamawa Village in Bunkure Local Government Area of Kano State yesterday, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, said it was part of the food security efforts of President...

Leprosy Mission Empowers Persons With Disabilities In Niger

20.12.2024

The Leprosy Mission, Nigeria (TLM) has empowered some persons living with disability in Niger state with sewing machines, computers and washing machines. While presenting the items to the beneficiaries yesterday, the state Programme Officer, Habiba Diko said the Mission extended the gesture to help make them self reliant and productive in the society. According to...

KWASU Debunks Affiliation With Lamido School Of Hygiene & Health Science

20.12.2024

The Management of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Kwara State, has described as fraudulent, an advertisement of purported admission into Lamido School of Hygiene and Health Sciences, Gombe, an institution said to have been affiliated to KWASU. In a statement, KWASU Registrar, Dr. Kikelomo W. Sallee, emphatically said: “KWASU has no affiliation with Lamido...

Group Advocates Citizens Greater Access To Justice

20.12.2024

As the concern for citizens greater access to justice keeps growing, a rights group, Center for Transparency Advocacy, in collaboration with the Abia State Ministry of Justice and Rule of Law and AntiCorruption, ROLAC, has organised a training for security personnel and the judiciary officers on Abia State’s Administration of Criminal Justice Law, ACJL. The...

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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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