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Tinubu Approves Land For Ambassadors Designate In Abuja

30.04.2026

President Bola Tinubu has approved the allocation of plots of land to ambassadors and high commissioners-designate in Abuja. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike confirmed this yesterday when receiving the envoys on a courtesy visit at his official residence in Abuja. The delegation was led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

Senate Asks FG To Take Action On Onitsha Market Fire

30.04.2026

The Senate yesterday asked the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the damage by a devastating fire at the Head Bridge Building Materials Market in Onitsha and provide relief materials for the affected traders. It also asked the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, in collaboration with relevant agencies,...

Aviation Taxes In Africa Are 15% Higher Than The Global Average

30.04.2026

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has intensified its advocacy for African governments to integrate aviation as a pillar of their national economic strategies. Meanwhile, the clearing house for more than 300 global airlines has lamented the cost of doing business in aviation in Africa is high. Removing roadblocks to ease doing business, it noted,...

Effurun Extrajudicial Killing Barbaric, Violation Of Rule Of Law –Obi

30.04.2026

Leader of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr Peter Obi, said the extrajudicial killing of a young Nigerian in Effurun, Delta State, by a police officer, Mr. Mene Ogidi, is not only barbaric but a grave violation of the rule of law. Obi in a statement on X, reminded police authority that human society has...

Chelle To Select Teenage Star Yohanna, For Unity Cup

30.04.2026

Bearing the last-minute change, teenage Nigerian winger Zadok Yohanna may play in future friendlies against Portugal and Poland after being called up for the London Unity Cup. New Telegraph reports that the 18-year-old’s quick progress in Europe is reportedly quite impressive to coach Eric Chelle. “He has been very impressed with Yohanna’s progress and believes...

Tinubu Removes Mohammed, Nominates Umar

30.04.2026

President Bola Tinubu has approved the removal of Mr Saidu Mohammed as the Authority Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), in the public interest. The President has also approved the nomination of Mr Rabiu Abdullahi Umar as the new Chief Executive of the NMDPRA. The appointment is subject to...

GreenPlinth, Allgreen Energy Sign Agreement For 24m Clean Cookstoves

30.04.2026

Barely two years after the official flag off of what is said to be the largest single clean cookstoves project in the world, the official take off of the 80 million Clean Cookstoves Project in Nigeria has commenced. According to the President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Greenplinth Africa, Dr Olawale Akinwunmi, the signing...

Low Response To Pension Verification Worries FG

30.04.2026

…PenCom deploys digital platform The Federal Government is concerned about low responses to the mandatory verification and enrollment exercise for civil servants with accrued pension rights. The National Pension Commission (PenCom) is conducting a one-time nationwide Online Verification and Enrolment Exercise for all active employees of treasury-funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who were employed...

JAMB Extends 2026 Direct Entry Registration To May 8

30.04.2026

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the sale of application forms for the 2026 Direct Entry (DE) admission exercise to May 8. The board announced the extension in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, yesterday in Abuja. Benjamin said the decision was aimed at ensuring that no eligible candidate was...

Chad Arrests, Deports Nigerians Fleeing Jihadists

30.04.2026

Chad have reportedly arrested and deported 600 Nigerians who fled to the country for safety following persistent Boko Haram attacks on their communities. The AFP learnt from two Nigerians arrested in Chad that before deporting the 600 Nigerians, were dumped in the Cameroonian town of Kousseri across the border from N’Djamena after they were picked...

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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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