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Nigeria’s GDP Grows By 4.23% In Q2 2025

22.09.2025

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed in its Q2 2025 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report that Nigeria’s real GDP grew by 4.23 per cent (year-on-year) in the second quarter of 2025. In a statement released on its website on Monday, the figure shows a significant improvement compared to 3.48 per cent recorded in...

CSOs Urge DAPPMAN To Drop Threats Against Dangote Refinery

22.09.2025

…Stop Exploiting Nigerians The Civil Society Forum of Nigeria on Monday warned the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) to stop threatening Dangote Refinery. The CSOs in a statement issued by the Country Representative, Food Not Bombs Movement, Olayinka Dada; Coordinator, Patriotic Youth Movement of Nigeria, Olamide Odumosu; and Director of Youth...

Oborevwori Congratulates Ogbe-Ijoh Monarch On 10th Anniversary

22.09.2025

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has congratulated His Royal Majesty, Couple Mackson Oromoni, Monbene III, Pere of Ogbe-Ijoh Kingdom, on the celebration of his 10th coronation anniversary. Governor Oborevwori in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, described the monarch’s decade-long reign as a period of unity, peace, and...

Spyro Pens Beautiful Note For Fiancée, Says She’s ‘Wife Material’

22.09.2025

Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Oludipe Oluwasanmi David, better known as Spyro has showered praises on his fiancée, Janet, describing her as “Truly a wife material.” Sypro gave her accolades for the positive influence she made in his life, especially in making smarter financial decisions for him. Spyro revealed that he had initially planned to buy a...

FCTA Mulls Use Of Drones For Monitoring, Surveillance

22.09.2025

The Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) has said it is considering deploying drone technology for monitoring and surveillance of remote ungoverned spaces around the rural communities. Thus disclosure was made by the Director, Security Services Department of the FCTA, Adamu Gwari, on Monday, when the Ministerial taskforce demolished one of the forests suspected to...

FCTA Impounds 40 Vehicles, 52 Motorcycles Over Traffic Violations

22.09.2025

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Monday said it has impounded 40 vehicles and 52 motorcycles in its renewed operations to curb traffic violations in Abuja. The Mandate Secretary, FCTA’s Transport Secretariat, Chinedu Elechi, said that the administration has constituted a multi-agency task force comprising the police, civil defence and other security outfits, to...

C’River: Hosting Best Investigative Journalist’s Award Was Exciting

22.09.2025

The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River State Council, Comrade Arçhibong Bassey, has taken a retrospective look at last week’s hosting of personalities from across the country during the Beatrice Bassey Ita Best Investigative Journalist Award Speaking at the event, which was sponsored by former Senator for the Southern senatorial district in the...

Rivers Police Arrest Notorious Kidnapping Syndicate, Recover Weapons

22.09.2025

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested three members of a notorious kidnapping syndicate that operated in different parts of the state, collecting Ransom money and still killing the victims. The spokesperson of the state police command, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement, said that suspected kidnappers, including Hassan Mohammed, 20, from Wandigah Town in Mandagali,...

Ekiti Federal Varsity To Kick Off With Four Faculties

22.09.2025

Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences (FUTES), Iyin Ekiti, Prof. Gbenga Aribisala, has said the institution will commence its maiden academic programmes in four faculties. The VC who spoke on Sunday revealed that the maiden admission of students will begin in October with the new faculties, which include Engineering, Computer...

Stop The Poor From Sliding Into Deeper Poverty, Christian Group Begs Tinubu

22.09.2025

The Synod of All Nations Evangelism Ministry (ANEM) yesterday bemoaned the widespread poverty and hunger in the country, appealing to President Bola Tinubu to revisit his economic policy to stop the poor from “sliding into deeper poverty”. In a communiqué at the end of its third quarter Synod in Makurdi, the group decried the deteriorating...

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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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