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Makinde Presents N678bn 2025 Budget To Oyo Assembly

14.11.2024

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, yesterday presented the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the House of Assembly with infrastructure development and education sectors getting the lion’s share of the estimates. The governor, while presenting the budget estimate of N678, 086,767,332.18 to the lawmakers, said the government plans to spend 51 per cent of the proposed budget...

Falana Condemns FCT Demolition, Wike House, Car Gift To Judges

14.11.2024

A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has condemned the gifting of houses to judges and demolition of houses by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Nyesom Wike. New Telegraph recalls that the minister had in October flagged off the Design and Construction of 40 Judges’ Quarters in the Katampe District in the nation’s...

Forex: Direct Remittances To Nigeria Drop By 16.7% To $1.5bn

14.11.2024

Total direct remittances to the country fell by $309.52 million or 16.69 per cent to $1.55 billion in the first nine months of this year compared to $1.86 billion in the corresponding period of 2023, latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. New Telegraph’s analysis of data on international payments for...

Ondo Guber: A’Court Sacks LP Candidate, Olusola Ebiseni, 3 Days To Poll

14.11.2024

The Court of Appeal Abuja yesterday sacked the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for Saturday’s Ondo State governorship poll, Olusola Ebiseeni. The court in a unanimous judgment prepared by Justice Hamma Barka but read by Justice Adebukola Banjoko held that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja had ordered the Independent National...

Why Abia Flourished Under Orji Kalu, By Businessman

14.11.2024

A prominent community leader and businessman, Chief Nnanna Ukaegbu, said Abia State flourished from 1999 to 2007, because Governor Orji Uzor Kalu was loyal to those who elected him. He praised Senator Kalu for consistently working for the people, both as a governor and senator. Ukaegbu noted that Orji Uzor Kalu enjoyed unprecedented popularity among...

FG’ll Use Science, Technology To Improve Food Production –Minister

14.11.2024

The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Uche Nnaji says the government is working with stakeholders to use science and technology to improve food production. He said this at the justconcluded 8th Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) Media Award Ceremony in Abuja. According to him, science and technology have become an integral part of...

Sitting On Toilet For Over 10 Minutes, Harmful –Doctors

14.11.2024

Researchers in the United States have cautioned against prolonged sitting on the toilet, saying it can harm human health. It’s even been connected to an increased risk of haemorrhoids and weakened pelvic muscles, said Dr. Lai Xue, a colorectal surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “When patients present to me...

Corruption: Jega Wants Public Servants Restricted From Taking Traditional Titles

14.11.2024

Former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, says public servants should be restricted from taking traditional titles while in service, to curb the high rate of corrupt practices. Jega made the call yesterday at the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) interactive session with the Chief Executive Officers of...

NNPP Candidate Seeks Aiyedatiwa’s Disqualification

14.11.2024

The candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for Saturday’s Ondo State governorship poll Olugbenga Edema yesterday asked the Federal High Court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the election. In his suit, he asked the court to interpret the...

FG Launches 5-Year Strategic Plan On Occupational Health Safety

14.11.2024

The Federal Government yesterday launched the National Occupational Health and Safety Strategic Plan (2024-2028) to protect workers. It said all levels of government, partners, donors, non- governmental organisations, civil society organisations, philanthropists must collaborate to mobilise N1.34 billion to address its workers’ occupational health and safety in the next five years. The Coordinating Minister for...

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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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