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Tier-1 Banks Suffer N545bn Capital Erosion In 10-Day Market Crisis

11.11.2025

Investor sentiment on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) turned sharply negative over the past 10 trading days, leading to a massive N545.13 billion loss in market value across four Tier-1 banks GTCO Plc, Access Holdings Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc. The sell-off, which analysts have attributed to heightened investor...

Flavanols In Cocoa May Improve Blood Flow –Study

11.11.2025

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, have found that flavanols may help counteract the effects of prolonged sitting. Findings of their study are published in ‘The Journal of Physiology’. The researchers found that young men who drank a high-flavanol cocoa drink before sitting for two hours maintained better blood flow in...

Benue Begins Biometric Review, Issuance Of New ID Cards To IDPs

11.11.2025

The Benue State government yesterday announced the commencement of the biometric review and issuance of new identity cards to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Dr James Aondoakaa Iorpuu, disclosed this during the distribution of food and nonfood items to the displaced population at...

Dufil Prima Foods Reaffirms Commitment To Empower Educators

11.11.2025

Dufil Prima Foods, makers of the Indomie noodle brand, reaffirmed its commitment to education by hosting the 16th Annual Teachers’ Seminar at the University of Lagos. The event, themed “Innovative Education: Integrating 21st-Century Skills as Learning Experiences into the Curriculum,” brought together thousands of educators for a day of immersive training focused on modern teaching...

FCC Holds Workshop On Online Submission Of Nominal Roll Data For MDAs

11.11.2025

To deepen federal character at the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government, the Federal Character Commission is holding a two-day sensitisation workshop for desk officers of MDAs on online submission of Nominal Roll Format and Processes. The event is holding at the ICT centre of the Nassarawa State University Keffi, Nassarawa State. The...

Flooding: Rivers Gives Relief Materials, N3m To Affected Families

11.11.2025

The Rivers State Flood Prevention and Management Committee has handed out relief materials and N3 million cash to families affected by recent flooding in Ahoada East Local Government Area, after it flagged off the exercise in the Orashi region. The Deputy Governor and Chairman, Flood Prevention and Management Committee, Prof Ngozi Nma Odu, who presented...

Multiple Taxation: Anambra Targets N60bn Revenue Profile For 2026

11.11.2025

Anambra State Government has announced that its internal revenue profile would hit N60 billion by next year ahead of the tax laws of consolidation and harmonisation of all windows. To this end, the challenges of multiple taxation and revenue loss would be put to and end through its one-stop payment to local government, state and...

Fake News: No Teacher Beaten To Death –Oyo Govt, NUT Clarify

11.11.2025

The Oyo State Ministry of Education and the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Oyo State chapter, have cleared the air on the alleged beating of a teacher to death in Ogbomoso by students, describing the viral news story as fake and a complete misrepresentation of facts. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon Olusegun Olayiwola;...

PDP Convention: Stakeholders Petition NJC Over Justice Akintola’s Ruling

11.11.2025

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction headed by Abdulrahaman Mohammed yesterday asked the National Judicial Council (CJN) to act on their petition demanding the investigation of Justice A.L. Akintola of an Oyo State High Court for an alleged abuse of judicial process. In a petition dated November 5 to the office Chief Justice of Nigeria...

Grief As Shagari’s Widow, Sutura, Dies At 89

11.11.2025

Grief As Shagari’s Widow, Sutura, Dies At 89

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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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