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Oladipupo Commend Maiden Dedication, Professionalism In Service

12.12.2024

Otunba Denny Ibrahim Oladipupo, Chairman Iperu Remo Mini Stadium Committee, has expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Dr (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein, the Accountant General of the Federation who is proceeding on a pre-retirement leave, as she formally bows out of the federal civil service on 7th March 2025, upon attaining the civil service statutory retirement...

Power Minister Adelabu Speaks On 150mw Upgrade To National Grid

12.12.2024

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu on Thursday said Nigeria is on track to add 150mw to the national grid before the end of 2024. Adelabu made this known while speaking to the State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja....

Ooni Of Ife Visits Former President, Buhari In Daura

12.12.2024

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ọjájá II), on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to the immediate past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina State. Ahmad Bashir, a former media aide to the former president, shared photos of the visit on X, revealing the significance of the...

Why Nigeria Needs Judicial Reform, By Tabiu

12.12.2024

Prof. Muhammed Tabiu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). In this interview he speaks on the task of reforming the country’s judiciary, new challenge of harmonising laws, guidelines and protocols in the administration of Criminal justice system, among other issues, ANAYO EZUGWU writes After three days of the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC)...

…To Host 18th Town Hall Meeting On Security

12.12.2024

All is set for the 18th yearly Lagos State Town Hall meeting on security – a major summit for stakeholders in the sector. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the Chief host of the meeting, which will hold at Lagos House Ikeja on December 18. The theme of the meeting is: “Data & Technology Driven Security: The...

Lagos Hospital Patients Stranded As Health Workers Begin Warning Strike

12.12.2024

Patients were left stranded at the Gbagada General Hospital Lagos yesterday as health workers began a three-day warning strike over nonpayment of the revised Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS). At the general out-patient department (GOPD), laboratory unit and others, those on first appointments were turned back as there were no officials to attend to them....

Oborevwori’s Legacy Projects Manifesting In Large Scale –Izeze

12.12.2024

The Delta State Commissioner for Works (Highways and Urban Roads), Mr Reuben Izeze, has said the numerous peopleoriented projects of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has started manifesting within his one year in office. He said the legacy projects are scattered across the three senatorial districts of the state. Izeze who inspected the Edo Road, off Ughelli-Asaba...

Buni Disburses N2.9bn On Agric Empowerment To Stimulate Growth

12.12.2024

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has disbursed N2.93 billion as part of his agricultural empowerment program to stimulate economic growth, recovery and repositions the state for postinsurgency recovery. Buni, who disclosed this made this clarification in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, after commissioning a 500-unit housing estate named after by Borno State government. At the...

Nairametrics To Launch Top 100 Nigerian Most Impactful Firms

12.12.2024

Nairametrics, Nigeria’s leading financial media platform, is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its Nairametrics Top 100 Companies Index— a definitive ranking of Nigeria’s largest and most impactful companies. Inspired by global benchmarks such as the Fortune 500, the Index will spotlight organizations that exemplify excellence across key metrics, including revenue, market share, profitability,...

Borno Inmate Wins N1m In Maiden Chess Competition

12.12.2024

One of the inmates at the Maiduguri Maximum Custodial Centre in Borno State has won N1million prize in the maiden edition of Chess in Prison Championship organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) The chess competition, which held at the premises of the correctional facility on Tuesday in Maiduguri, brought together...

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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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