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Lagos Signs Bill To Law To Tackle Organ Harvesting

13.12.2024

The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal Pedro, SAN has disclosed that the Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill has been signed into law to prohibit illegal organ harvesting. Speaking to newsmen at the Ministry of Justice in Alausa, Ikeja, the state capital, Pedro stressed the significance of the new law and...

NEC Demands States’ Participation In PFSCU To Combat Food Security Challenges

13.12.2024

The National Economic Council (NEC) has urged state governments to key into the programmes of the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU) in the bid to address the challenges against food security and their underlying causes. This came as Vice President Kashim Shettima has said the economic seeds sown by the federal government by way...

FG Worried Over Airlines’ Short Lifespan, Seeks Solution

13.12.2024

The Federal Government has expressed worry over the alarming rate of airline collapse in the country and has declared that it was ready to formulate policies that would lead to survival of carriers. It noted that it would put in place policies and processes that will ensure survival and growth of domestic airlines. The rate...

Ministry Seeks Strong Policy Framework To Drive Maritime Dev

13.12.2024

Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy has said that the establishment of a strong policy framework would drive maritime development. The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola described the National Policy on Marine and Blue Economy framework as a well-rounded and inclusive policy framework that would enhance maritime governance and ultimately establish...

TETFund Denies Funding Political Party With N325m

13.12.2024

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has denied funding activities of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, clarifying that General Murtala Mohammed College (GMMC), Yola where TETFund contracts were alleged to have been sold, was not a Beneficiary Institution of TETFund. This was contained in a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs,...

Gov Aliyu Receives 2024 Hajj Report, Vows To Improve Exercise

13.12.2024

Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has reiterated his administration’s determination to continue to improve on the subsequent Hajj exercises in the state. He gave this assurance on Friday while receiving the 2024 Hajj report from the leader of the state’s Hajj delegation, Rt. Hon. Tukur Bala Bodinga, Speaker, State House of Assembly. According to...

Host Community Day: Ogun Commends Ibese Plant Of Dangote Cement

13.12.2024

The Ogun State Government hss lauded the Ibese cement plant of Dangote for partnering the state government on the development of the host communities in the state through provision of infrastructure and empowerment programmes. Speaking during the 3rd edition of the Ibese Host Community Day, Ibese Plant Director, Mr. Roy Uttam, disclosed that 160 indigent...

Sowore Makes Fresh Claims On Dele Farotimi

13.12.2024

Amid the ongoing saga of human rights activist and Lagos-based lawyer, Dele Farotimi, a two-term presidential candidate and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore has alleged conspiracy among powerful elites to abandon the embattled lawyer in prison over his defamation case with Afe Babalola. Taking to his verified X handle on Friday, Sowore made this...

Power: Don Advises States To Establish Own Grids

13.12.2024

A professor of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Abubakar Sambo, yesterday advised states in Nigeria on establishing their electricity markets so as to reduce the effect of frequent national grid collapses. Sambo, while speaking at Malete while delivering the 12th Convocation Lecture at the Kwara State University (KWASU), said this would be in line with the provisions...

EU Urges FG To Advance Rights, Protection Of Children

13.12.2024

The European Union (EU) has called on the Federal Government to prioritise the rights and protection of Nigerian children from all forms of discrimination and intimidation. Speaking at the International Human Rights Day Event themed, “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now-Advancing Rights and Protection for Children in Nigeria”, organised by the EU Rule of Law...

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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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