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African Govts Should Ban Kemi Badenoch From Coming To Africa – Seun Kuti

14.12.2024

Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, has called on the governments of African countries to ban the leader of the United Kingdom (UK) Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, from coming to the continent following her remarks about Nigeria. Saturday Telegraph had earlier reported that Badenoch has stood by her position on Nigeria, despite accusations from Vice President...

Zulum Approves Early Payment Of December Salaries

14.12.2024

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, approved the early payment of December salaries and pensions for all civil servants on the payroll of the state government. The development was announced on Saturday in a press statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Dauda Illiya, saying the approval made on Friday, December 13, 2024, establishes his...

Osun, Ondo Amotekun Join Forces To Secure Boundaries

14.12.2024

…As Osun Amotekun deploys 300 personnel As the festive season draws near with Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Osun Amotekun Corps has deployed 300 personnel to strategic locations across the state. Among the deployed operatives are members of the tactical squad, tasked with maintaining vigilance on the movement of people entering and leaving the...

EFCC Arrests Otukpa For Defrauding 139 Australians

14.12.2024

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arrested a suspected fraudster, Osang Usie Otukpa for allegedly defrauding 139 Australians with the sum of 8 million Australian dollars. Announcing his arrest on its official X handle, the anti-graft agency revealed that Otukpa was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on December 6,...

Thank You For Being Transparent, Ex-Agitators Tell Otuaro

14.12.2024

Leaders and beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), have described the accountability standard and transparency introduced by the PAP Administrator, Dr. Dennis Otuaro, in the deployment of delegates described as unprecedented. The Phase 2 National Chairman, Ibena Rufus Salvation, who disclosed on behalf of others in Yenagoa at the weekend, noted that this is...

Find Home Where You Are Posted, NYSC DG Tells Corps Members

14.12.2024

The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmad has urged corps members to stop thinking of relocating back to their communities or state of residence, stressing that life does not end there. Gen. Ahmad made this plea while addressing corps members of the 2024 batch ‘C stream ‘I’ currently on the...

Falana Hails A’Court For Overturning CBN Fund Blockade On Rivers

14.12.2024

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, on Friday, said the judgement of the Court of Appeal setting aside orders restraining the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) from releasing funds to the Rivers State government is in line with the tenets of federalism outlined in Nigeria’s Constitution. Falana...

NSCDC Nabs 22-Year-Old Suspected Cable Vandal In Kwara

14.12.2024

The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 22-year-old man, Idris Ibrahim Kayode, a private security guard attached to the University of Ilorin, for vandalising armoured cables used to power streetlights within the university community. A statement issued by the Command’s spokesman, ASC 1 Ayoola Michael Shola,...

Troops Neutralize Lakurawa Bandits, Destroy 22 Camps in Sokoto, Kebbi

14.12.2024

A recent military operation has resulted in the neutralization of Lakurawa bandits and the destruction of 22 terrorist camps in Sokoto and Kebbi States. The operation, carried out by the Army Special Operations Brigade under Operation Fansar Yamma, aimed to eliminate the Lakurawas Sect in both states. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa,...

Atiku, David Mark, Ayu’s actions cause of PDP crisis –Bode George

14.12.2024

…says for resurgence, party must return to founding principlesChief Olabode George is a retired Naval Officer and a former military governor of Ondo State.He is also a politician and a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where he rose to become the party’s Deputy National Chairman (South). He recently held an interactive session...

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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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