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Fubara Warns Opponents To Stop De-Marketing Rivers

19.12.2024

Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara yesterday warned his political opponents to stop de-marketing the state. Fubara said in Kala-Ibiama, where he inaugurated the 3.05km long Kala-Ibiama section of the Kala-Ibiama-Epellema Road and bridge in the Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area. The governor said: “I want to assure everyone, more especially our leaders, Rivers State belongs to...

Ogoni Cleanup: Who To Provide Data On Health Patterns In 2025

19.12.2024

The Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), Prof Nenibarini Zabbey, has disclosed that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will commence Public Health Study of Ogoni next year. Zabbey disclosed this at the flag-off of the free medical outreach conducted by HYPREP in conjunction with the Association of Ogoni Doctors (AODs) at the...

Tinubu Approves Executive Mgt For River Basin Devt Authorities

19.12.2024

President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Executive Management of 12 River Basin Development Authorities under the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, made the announcement yesterday in a statement. The Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority, based in Abeokuta, now has Mr...

Study Links Microplastics In The Air To Lung, Colon Cancers

19.12.2024

Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suspect may be causing respiratory and other illnesses. A review of some 3,000 studies implicates these particles in a variety of serious health problems including male and...

FG Has Approved Our Acquisition Of SPDC, Says Renaissance Africa

19.12.2024

A local oil and gas consortium, Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, said it has received ministerial consent to acquire Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The company announced the development in a statement yesterday. In January, Shell said it agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore oil assets to Renaissance Africa for over $1.3 billion — subject...

Adekunle Gold, Wande Coal, Young Jonn Set To Thrill Fans At Lagos Shopping Festival

19.12.2024

Lagosians are in for the most exciting music extravaganza this Christmas season as the organisers of the upcoming Lagos Shopping Festival have just confirmed the trio of Adekunle Gold, Wande Coal, and Young Jonn as some of the A-list artistes that would perform during the three-day festival billed to take place December 23-25 at the...

APC Scribe, Bashiru, Adegboruwa, Sowunmi Trade Tackles Over Tinubu’s Economic Policies

19.12.2024

Human Rights lawyer, Ebun Olu- Adegboruwa (SAN); a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Segun Sowunmi; and the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bashiru Ajibola, traded tackles in Ibadan yesterday over benefits and otherwise of the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. While Adegboruwa and Sowunmi...

CUPP: 2025 Budget Rhetoric Of Debt Servicing, Fiscal Woes

19.12.2024

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), yesterday, asked Nigerians to expect more economic stagnation from the 2025 Budget as the deficit component and debt servicing would still take substantial portion of the spending proposal. National Secretary of CUPP, Chief Peter Ameh, who made the remarks, while reacting to the 2025 budget proposal presented by...

Ohanaeze: Ozichukwu Urges Ndigbo To Vote Nigerians With Pedigree

19.12.2024

The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, has urged the Igbo to ensure that only quality men and women with outstanding pedigree are elected to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, come January 10, 2025. He explained that the Igbo are one of the leading lights of Africa and...

Okpebholo Defends LG Bosses ’Suspension

19.12.2024

The Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Samson Osagie yesterday said the House of Assembly was right to suspend the 18 local government chairmen and the deputies. According to him, the Assembly acted in order and that the outcome of the findings of the panel of inquiries set up to investigate the activities...

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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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