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Edmund Ebiware Seeks PAP Rehabilitation

03.12.2024

Edmund Ebiware, a Niger Delta activist has pleaded with the relevant stakeholders especially the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to rehabilitate him back into society as he said since he came out from prison, he has not got anything tangible thing doing. Recall that Ebiware was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 for the offence of...

IGP Orders Probe Of Amnesty’s #EndBadGovernance Allegations

03.12.2024

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun yesterday ordered an investigation into the allegations of police culpability during the August #EndBadGovernance protests. Force spokesman, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement. He said the move was in response to a report by Amnesty International accusing the police of culpability in the death, arrest, and...

Ogoni Youths Seek Permanent Solution To Conflict, Stakeholders Demand 20% Royalties

03.12.2024

Ogoni Youth President, Theophilus Mbagha, has urged the Federal Government to dialogue with Ogoni to resolve the problems resulting from oil exploration in their land. He made the call during the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) National Congress in Bori in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State at the...

Why Some Workers Have Not Got Nov Salary, Bonus –Kwara Govt

03.12.2024

The Kwara State Ministry of Finance has said many state workers have received their November salary, with others still being credited, except for those who are yet to complete their registration with the Kwara State Resident Registration Agency (KWSRRA) as earlier instructed. The government on November 11 said the salary and bonus for the month...

Enugu, Austrian Firm Sign $100m FDI To Boost Water Infrastructure

03.12.2024

The Enugu State Government and WANDE NEXUS, an Austrian firm, have formalised an agreement to implement the Sustainable Last Mile Connectivity and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project in Enugu. With the signing, which took place yesterday at Government House, Enugu, in the presence of the Austrian Ambassador to Nigeria, Thomas Schlesinger, WANDE Nexus is to...

Nigeria Needs Funding, Investment On Infrastructure To Develop Film Industry – Minister

03.12.2024

The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mariya Mahmoud has said Nigeria needs funding and strategic investment in Infrastructure to fully develop the potential in the film industry. She urged all levels of government and private sector investors to widen their investments’ scope in the area of filmmaking, as a measure to...

FG To ICC: Stop Unfair Probe Of Nigeria’s Military Over Anti-Terrorism War

03.12.2024

The Federal Government yesterday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to stop what it described as an unfair probe of the Nigerian military over alleged rights violations in the war against insurgency in the country. Speaking through the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) the FG noted...

FCT Primary School Teachers Down Tools Again

03.12.2024

…turns back pupils taking exams Primary school teachers in the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday embarked on another round of strike. This development sparked uproar as some reports said the pupils who were already sitting their first term examination were turned back home by the striking teachers. The Minister of...

NASS Will Pass Tax Reform Bills Despite Opposition –Dickson

03.12.2024

Notwithstanding mounting opposition from different quarters, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change, Seriake Dickson, has declared that the National Assembly would pass the tax reforms bills. Dickson, who represents Bayelsa West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, stated this yesterday during an interview with journalists in Abuja. The former Governor of Bayelsa...

Nigeria Practising Electorialism Not Democracy –Fayemi

03.12.2024

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has described the current political and governance system operational in Nigeria as “electorialism” and not democracy. Fayemi, who made this assertion at the public presentation of a book: ‘Bold Leap, an autobiography of ace broadcaster, media entrepreneur and politician’, said that apart from the periodic elections held...

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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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