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Adamawa Govt Collaborates With UNICEF To Establish 60 Learning Centres

19.09.2025

As the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) sponsored programmes implemented by the Adamawa State Government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) wind down, no fewer than 60 learning centres have been established, strategically spread across different communities in the Lamede Local Government Area of the State. These centres are currently serving over...

Asuquo Archibong Speaks On Fubara Reinstatement

19.09.2025

Asuquo Archibong, the Presidential candidate of the defunct Nigeria for Democracy in the 2019 general election, has said that the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State was not about Governor Siminalayi Fubara. New Telegraph recalls that a state of emergency was declared in Rivers State on the 18th of March, due to conflict between Governor...

Otuaro Cautions PAP Foreign Scholarship Beneficiaries Against Abuse

19.09.2025

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has strongly advised post-graduate foreign scholarship beneficiaries of the programme not to abuse the opportunity to further their studies. He gave this admonition at the orientation programme for the third batch of the foreign scholarship beneficiaries, who make up over 140, deployed for post-graduate...

Edo Govt Demolishes Four Houses, Arrests 20 Suspects

19.09.2025

The Edo State Government has intensified its ongoing war against cultism and kidnapping with the demolition of four houses belonging to suspected cultists and the arrest of twenty suspects in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The high-level security operation, codenamed “Operation Flush Out Cultists and Kidnappers”, was spearheaded by the Chief Security...

Benin Monarch Offers Royal Blessing To UBTH CMD, Ize-Iyamu

19.09.2025

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, has bestowed his royal blessings upon the newly appointed Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Professor Idia Enibokun Ize-Iyamu. The historic occasion took place on Thursday at the Oba’s Palace in Benin City, as Prof. Ize-Iyamu led the...

New Data Mapping Report Reveals Opportunities In Creative Sector

19.09.2025

The Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy has published the Creative Economy Data Mapping Report, a landmark study that provides a comprehensive overview of opportunities across Nigeria’s creative economy value chain. The report was unveiled at the Creative Industries Economic Coordination and Investment Summit organised by the British Council in Lagos...

RCCG Youth Gift Over 2,000 Children Back-To-School Items

19.09.2025

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Youth Province 1, Festac, has launched a large-scale Back To School Drive that equipped more than 2,000 children with learning essentials ahead of the new academic term. According to a statement issued on Thursday, the outreach cut across all parishes under the province, where pupils were handed schoolbags,...

Ubi Franklin Explains Why Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy May Never Collaborate

19.09.2025

Nigerian music executive, Ubi Franklin, has revealed why fans may never see a collaboration between Afrobeats’ globally celebrated ‘Big 3’, Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy. Speaking on a recent episode of the Afropolitan Podcast, Franklin stated that the industry dynamics and the superstars’ positions as the leading faces of Afrobeats make them more rivals than...

Reserved Seats Bill, Pursuit For Inclusive Governance Not Tokenism

19.09.2025

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has said that the bill seeking to create reserved seats for women in the National and State Houses of Assembly is not an act of tokenism but a pursuit to increase women’s political representation for a more inclusive governance and equitable society. Kalu, who...

Amotekun Bursts Kidnap Syndicate, Arrests Armourer In Ondo

19.09.2025

The Ondo State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, has arrested one of the armourers of kidnappers and suspected kidnappers who have been terrorising different parts of the state. The Commander of the security outfit, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, who disclosed this on Friday, said the men of the command arrested 51 suspected criminals in the state forests...

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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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