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Tinubu Attends Jibril, Bichi Children’s Wedding In Abuja

13.12.2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday, graced the Jumah Prayer and Wedding Fatiha of the children of Senator Barau Jibril (CFR), Deputy President of the 10th Senate, and His Highness Nasiru Ado Bayero (OFR), the Emir of Bichi. The solemn ceremonies which took place at the National Mosque in Abuja drew dignitaries from across the...

Aliyu Commissions Islamiyya School, Mosque, Urges Community To Protect Facilities

13.12.2024

Governor Ahmed Aliyu has commissioned the reconstructed Tahsinul Quran Islamiyya and a mosque, with a call to the surrounding communities to safeguard the project from vandalization He said the project was in fulfilment of his earlier pledge made to the Runjin Sambo communities to rebuild the school. The governor added that his administration has awarded...

New Telegraph Cartoonist Wins Wole Soyinka Award

13.12.2024

Assistant Chief Cartoonist of New Telegraph Newspapers, Chukwuemeka Emenike, has been honoured as the Cartoonist of the Year at the 19th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Emenike was declared winner in the Editorial Cartoon Category on Monday, December 9, 2024 at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. According to Emenike, who sent in two entries...

Arewa Youths Knock Tinubu For Appointing Ogunjimi As Acting AGoF

13.12.2024

…accuse President of nepotism The Arewa Youths Integrity Network (AYIN), a Northern social-political group, has criticised the appointment of Mr. Shamseldeen Babatunde Ogunjimi as the Acting Accountant General of the Federation, AGoF. The group, while criticizing President Tinubu for appointing his Lagos kinsman into such a sensitive position of the nation’s treasury, at a time...

Reps Order NUPRC, PTAD, NBET To Provide Details Of Operations

13.12.2024

The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning have directed the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) to provide details of oil production, crude sales and other activities in the Upstream Petroleum Industry in the country. The committee, which gave the order at the ongoing interactive session with key agencies on the...

Again, Kwara Wins Best PHC Award In North Central

13.12.2024

The Kwara State Government has again emerged as the ‘Best Performing State in North Central for the 2023/2024 Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge’. Kwara had last year won the same award, underscoring the efforts of the administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to strengthen basic healthcare delivery to the people in the State. The award again...

Soludo Named, Nigeria’s Best Governor In Primary Health Care

13.12.2024

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has been named the best-performing governor in primary healthcare delivery in both Southeast and Nigeria. The prestigious awards were presented to the Governor by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Aliko Dangote Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Health, and UNICEF at the 2nd...

Tinubu To Inaugurate APC Think Tank Conference On Skills Acquisition

13.12.2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to open a three-day National Conference to address poverty, unemployment and the skills gap in Nigeria. The conference designed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Think Tank and intellectual resource centre, The Progressive Institute (TPI) with the theme: Vocational Skills Acquisition, Entrepreneurship and Challenges of Development in Nigeria...

NACCIMA Boss Makes Case For Nigerian Businesses, MSMEs

13.12.2024

The President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Dele Kelvin Oye Esq., has charged governments and other stakeholders on the need to support Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), guaranteeing a conducive environment to ensure that businesses and MSMEs thrive and are able to compete on a global...

Assets Verification Committee Uncovers Road Project Inflated By 8bn

13.12.2024

The Edo State Assets Verification Committee, set up by the State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has uncovered how the contract sum for a road project in the state was inflated from N8 billion to N16 billion by the immediate past government of Godwin Obaseki. It was discovered that the contract sum for the 17.5-kilometre road project...

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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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