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SIFAX Chair Hails Customs CG At Birthday For Economic Growth

19.01.2026

The Chairman of SIFAX Group, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, has commended the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi for his exemplary leadership and farreaching contributions to Nigeria’s economic growth and global trade standing. In a goodwill message issued on behalf of the board, management and staff of group to celebrate his birthday,...

Fire Outbreak Razes 50 Shops In Sokoto’s Old Market

19.01.2026

A fire outbreak gutted 50 shops and destroyed properties worth millions of naira in Sokoto’s Old Market yesterday. Fortunately, no lives were lost in the incident, although the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, has commiserated with the victims of the fire outbreak, pledging the state...

Federal Workers Protest Delay In Payment Of Wage Award Arrears

19.01.2026

Federal workers yesterday protested against the continuous delay in payment of arrears of the N35,000 wage award, saying that it is unacceptable. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Ibrahim Abbas, said there could be no reason that can be acceptable for the long delay in clearing the three months arrears of...

Business Owners Decry High Energy Costs, Insecurity, Multiple Taxes

19.01.2026

Small business owners have urged the Federal Government to implement more effective and accessible interventions to ease rising operating costs, inflation and policy inconsistencies nationwide. Speaking in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday, they decried the worsening insecurity, multiple taxation and irregular power supply had weakened revenue generation across key sectors...

FUOYE Transits To Digitally Driven, Entrepreneurially Oriented- Institution

19.01.2026

The Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), and the institution’s Governing Council at a retreat in Lagos unanimously brainstormed on the transition of the university into a “digitally driven, entrepreneurially oriented and globally connected university over the next twenty-five years.” Besides, it was agreed that FUOYE, which had competed globally, would no doubt strengthen financial sustainability...

Parallex Bank Accuses FHT Mega Express Of Abusing Court Process

19.01.2026

Parallex Bank Limited has urged a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja, to dismiss a suit filed against it by a logistics firm, FHT Mega Express Limited, describing the action as incompetent, an abuse of court process, and outside the court’s jurisdiction. The bank, one of Nigeria’s new-generation lenders, is challenging...

Akande An Enduring Democratic Pillar, Says Adewole

19.01.2026

A former Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has described the 87-year-old, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande, as “one of the enduring pillars of Nigeria’s democratic journey.” Professor Adewole, in a statement he signed and made available to New Telegraph, said the former Osun State Governor is “an...

Jigawa Gov Urges Citizens To Validate, Obtain PVCs

19.01.2026

Jigawa State Governor Umar Namadi has called on all eligible citizens and other residents of state to actively participate in the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise. Namadi made the call while speaking yesterday in Birnin Kudu at the inauguration of a mosque built by an APC chieftain, Faruk Adamu-Aliyu. Represented his deputy, Aminu Usman,...

Court Orders LAUTECH Lecturer To Repay N34m Scholarship Bond

19.01.2026

Justice Yakubu Hassan of the Ibadan Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has ordered a university lecturer, Ola, and his surety to refund a total sum of N34.1 million to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology for breaching a scholarship bond agreement. The court held that Ola’s refusal to resume duty after completing his PhD...

EFCC Operative Narrates How Over 600 Youths Were Trained In Cyber Fraud

19.01.2026

A operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rasheeda Chindaya, has narrated how over 600 Nigerian youths were trained in cyber fraud without legitimate employment. Chindaya made the narration before Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja while testifying in the trial of one, Friday Audu, accused of coordinating...

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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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