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IGP Instructs CPs To Engage Stakeholders On Schools’ Safety

10.12.2024

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has instructed all Commissioners of Police within Zone 4 to engage their various stakeholders in meetings to ensure the safety of schools within their jurisdiction is guaranteed. Speaking at a stakeholders forum on the Security of Schools in Plateau State and Training of Schools Protection (SPS) in...

Sustained Investment, Innovative Strategies Critical To Achieving 2025 TB Targets

10.12.2024

The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has said with sustained investment, innovative strategies and renewed focus, Nigeria would be able to achieve the global tuberculosis targets by 2035. Speaking at the 2024 National TB Conference themed “Public-Private Partnership and Integrated Service Delivery: Panacea to End TB in Nigeria,” on Tuesday in Abuja organised by the...

Tinubu Appoints Ogunjimi As Acting AGF

10.12.2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Shamseldeen Babatunde Ogunjimi as the Acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), effective immediately. This decision follows the commencement of pre-retirement leave by the current AGF, Dr Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein, who will officially retire on March 7, 2025, after reaching the statutory age for civil service retirement. The appointment...

US-Based Doctor Offers Free Healthcare, Palliatives To Ibeju Lekki Community

10.12.2024

Renowned US-based Doctor, Joe Tarkon, has extended a helping hand to the Ibeju Lekki community, providing medical services, including surgical interventions, optometry and dental care, plus food aid to hundreds of residents in need. Dr Tarkon is the presiding pastor of the City of David Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in...

Lack Of Accurate Data, Major Hurdle Against FG’ Transparent Report

10.12.2024

The World Bank has identified inaccurate data at the Federal Government level as a major hurdle in preventing the timely and automatic generation of fiscal data. World Bank County Director, Dr Ndiamé Diop made an observation of this effect on Tuesday, describing it as a constraint to achieving transparency report. The occasion was the launch...

Kwara Gov Launches 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Emblem

10.12.2024

…Rallies Support For Fallen Heroes …donates N10m to Nigerian Legion Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on Tuesday launched the Armed Forces Remembrance Day emblem for 2025, urging Nigerians to prioritise support for families of fallen soldiers and those incapacitated during wars. The government also donated N10m to support the Nigerian Legion, the umbrella body that...

Fubara Urges Politicians To Advance Rivers Interest With Politics

10.12.2024

Fubara Urges Politicians To Advance Rivers Interest With Politics Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has called on politicians to stop restricting politics to only satisfy private or sectional interests but to advance the general welfare and development of Rivers people. Fubara gave this advice at the inauguration of Okocha Road and Spurs in Rumuolumeni...

Accessible Education Will Develop Nigeria, Reduce Insecurity

10.12.2024

A former Kwara State governorship aspirant, Engineer Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has identified quality and accessible education as a veritable strategy that will develop Nigeria through the advancement of its human capital. This was as he said the rate of development of any nation is directly related to the level and quality of its human capital...

NCDMB Charges Journalists To Interrogate Claims Of Productivity

10.12.2024

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has challenged practising journalists and other media stakeholders in the country to deploy their skills in interrogating reports on Nigerian Content performance in the oil and gas industry. This is said to make sure that the facts behind the resounding success of in-country value addition known to...

Budget: Aiyedatiwa Should Hire Competent Team For Implementation

10.12.2024

The immediate Minister of State for Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye has advised Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State to hire competent hands in the implementation of the 2025 appropriation budget. Aiyedatiwa has submitted a budget proposal of #655 billion for the approval of the State House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. Out of...

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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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