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Utsev Secures Federal Employment For Seven Additional Young Benue Engineers

19.01.2026

The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Engr. Prof. Joseph Terlumun Utsev has once again secured employment for seven additional Benue young engineers in the Federal Civil Service. This brings to 80 the number of Benue youths Prof. Utsev has facilitated their employment into the Federal Civil Service within his two and a half years...

Doctor Remanded Over Fake Medical Report

19.01.2026

The Ogun State Government on Monday confirmed that a medical doctor has been remanded for allegedly issuing a fake medical report to help a popular blogger, Adetoun Onajobi, also known as @justadetoun, evade police arrest. The state government also disclosed that the State Police Command has filed a six-count charge against the blogger, who is...

Chief Imam Of Ilorin Muhammad Saliu Dies At 75

19.01.2026

…As Saraki mourns The Chief Imam of Ilorin, Sheikh Muhammad Bashir Saliu, is dead, New Telegraph reports. The revered Islamic cleric passed away on Monday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the age of 75. The respected Islamic scholar died after decades of service to Islam and the Ilorin Emirate. Born in 1950 in...

Tiwa Savage Says She’s Had Only One Truly Good Relationship

19.01.2026

Award-winning Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage has opened up about her personal life, revealing that she has only experienced one genuinely fulfilling romantic relationship, which ended due to the death of her partner. In a recent interview with Korty EO, the 45-year-old singer reflected on her past relationships, describing most of them as disappointing or unremarkable....

Phyna Dismisses Claims Of Unpaid N100m BBNaija Winnings

19.01.2026

Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) season 7 winner Josephina Otabor, popularly known as Phyna, has denied reports suggesting she claimed not to have received her N100 million grand prize from the reality TV show. Addressing the issue during a livestream on Twitch, Phyna clarified that a video currently circulating online was misleading and edited to distort...

Seun Kuti Says Fela Laid The Foundation for Rap Music

19.01.2026

Nigerian afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, has claimed that his late father, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, pioneered elements of rap music long before the genre became globally recognised. Seun made this assertion during an appearance on the Hits Don’t Lie podcast, where he argued that Fela’s style of delivering lyrics placed him ahead of his time. According to...

Displaced Benue Pregnant Women Faces Life-Threatening Challenges

19.01.2026

Pregnant women living in Benue Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps are facing significant maternal health risks, including high rates of stillbirths, complications, and deaths during childbirth due to lack of standard care. This is just as there is a reported high rate of births amid dire conditions, with some camps reporting up to 200 births...

Diplomat Played Prominent Role In Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Sector –Envoy

19.01.2026

A retired career diplomat, Ambassador Ozo Nwobu, has said that the Co-Founder and Pioneer Managing Director, Prof Joseph Chukwurah Ezigbo, played a prominent role in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. He stated that Ezigbo, who recently retired after 31 years of distinguished service, was instrumental in Falcon Corporation Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading indigenous gas...

Bayelsa Monarch Hails New Year Reunion Party

19.01.2026

His Royal Highness, Israel Sunny-Goli, has described the weekend’s New Year reunion party of indigenes of Brass Island in Bayelsa State as a revival of traditional communal ties. The former lawmaker, who sponsored the gettogether, said the event brought together former political adversaries, offering a fresh push for reconciliation after years of divisions driven by...

Public Outcry Trails EFCC Over Arrest Of Bauchi Finance Commissioner

19.01.2026

Amid public criticism trailing the arrest and arraignment of the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has come under intense scrutiny over what many Nigerians describe as selective prosecution and political bias. The controversy followed the EFCC’s initial allegations that the commissioner was involved in the misappropriation...

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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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