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Edo Govt To Introduce Mobile Court For Traffic Offenders

29.11.2024

The Coordinator of the Edo State Public Response Safety Team, Kelly Okungbowa, on Thursday, announced that a mobile court will soon be established to try traffic offenders in the state. He stated that offenders found guilty would initially face community service, as Governor Monday Okpehbolo has directed that no one should be sent to prison...

Civil Society Leaders Decry Deplorable Condition Of Ilesa Correctional Centre

29.11.2024

…Laud Adeleke’s developmental strides Team of Civil Society Leaders have decried the deplorable condition of the Ilesa Correctional Centre. Leaders of Civil Society from all over the country, however, called for Governor Ademola Adeleke’s intervention, saying there was an urgent need to come to the aid of inmates input in the facility. Reports indicate that...

Why Polytechnic Lecturers Are Embarking On Warning Strike

28.11.2024

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has officially announced plans to embark on a two-week warning strike, commencing on December 2nd, 2024, over the Federal Government’s failure to implement a number of demands tabled before them. President of ASUP, Comrade Kpanja Shammah who announced the planned industrial action at the end of the union’s...

Census Delay Hinders Nigeria’s Undermines Progress

28.11.2024

The National Population Commission (NPC) has decried the delay in the conduct of the national population and housing census and said it posed a challenge to the government’s interventions in specific demographic groups. NPC was on the verge of conducting the exercise in 2023 before it was cancelled by the immediate past administration. Nigeria had...

We’re Deepening Civil/Military Relations To Enhance National Security

28.11.2024

…says new defence models underway …receives excellence award The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) are deepening the existing civil/military collaboration, in a bid to enhance national security, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS’), General Christopher Musa said on Thursday. This is as the Defence Chief assured of the development of new operational models, with a...

Allegations Against FUOYE VC Politically Motivated Coalition Insists

28.11.2024

…asks security agencies to investigate allegations The Civil Society Coalition has said the four-point allegations levelled against the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Sunday Abayomi Fasina, were politically motivated and a calculated effort to destabilize the university’s management. This came as the Coalition passed a vote of confidence on Fasina for...

Allocation: Our Determination Destroyed Enemies’ Black Xmas Plot

28.11.2024

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has said that the enemies of the state who plotted a black Christmas for the people of the state failed in their bid due to the determination to put first the interest of Rivers. He also said that his administration has resolved to meet its obligations as a government,...

KWSG Procures Medical Equipment For SSH Eye Clinic

28.11.2024

In a bid to enhance healthcare delivery, the Kwara State Government has procured advanced medical equipment for the Eye Clinic section of Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Ahmed El-Imam, disclosed this during an on-the-spot assessment visit to the hospital. While assessing the quality of work done at the newly...

Oyo Anti-Corruption Agency Partners ICAN To Fight Corruption

28.11.2024

The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA), has declared that the agency would partner with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), to stamp out corruption in the State. The declaration was made on Thursday in Ibadan by the Chairman of the Agency, Justice Eni Esan (rtd) while receiving the Pioneer Chairman of Lagelu and...

Abiodun, Uzodinma, Ganduje, To Attend Iperu Akesan Day

28.11.2024

…Group facilitates Alaperu The Iperu Mini Stadium Committee has felicitated the Alaperu of Iperu, His Royal Highness, Oba Adeleke Adelekan Idowu Basibo (Odoru V), on the 2024 Akesan Day Celebration, held on November 30, 2024. The committee in a message of felicitations, signed by its chairman, Otunba Ibrahim Oladipupo, rejoiced with the monarch on this...

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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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