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BIPC Integrates IDPs/Refugees Into Business Model, Graduates Six Interns

09.09.2025

…Graduates Six Interns The Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC) on Tuesday graduated the first batch of six Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees under its newly launched business model initiative, aimed at equipping displaced persons with skills and economic support. The graduation ceremony, held at the company’s corporate headquarters in Makurdi, marked what...

AHF, CSOs Call For Local Financing For HIV, TB, Malaria

09.09.2025

…As NEPWHAN, harps on domestication of anti-stigma, discrimination law The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and other relevant Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Tuesday called for local financing for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria diseases respectively. This is just as the Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS In Nigeria, (NEPWHAN), has harped on the need for domestication...

N’Central Backs Sukubo For Re-Election

09.09.2025

The North Central chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has pledged support for Ambassador Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo for a second term in office. At a meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday, stakeholders from the zone, in a motion by NYCN Voluntary Youth Organisations, Yakubu Ibrahim and seconded by Hussain Mukhtar, pledged their...

CITM Counters ICAN, Calls For Collaboration Among Professional Bodies

09.09.2025

The Chartered Institute of Treasury Management (CITM) has responded to recent comments made by the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Mallam Haruna Nma Yahaya, on the proliferation of professional bodies, describing the remarks as divisive and undermining the authority of the Nigerian Parliament. In a press statement issued by its...

Osun Muslims Fault Religious, Pressure Groups Over LG Allocations

09.09.2025

A coalition of Muslim stakeholders in Osun State, under the aegis of the Concerned Muslim Stakeholders and League of Alfas, has faulted the involvement of some religious leaders, traditional rulers, and pressure groups in the ongoing controversy surrounding local government allocations in the state. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, in...

Commuters In C’River Groan As Filling Stations Close Shops

09.09.2025

Both transporters and computers in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, are groaning over the lack of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, as a result of the strike embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum (NUP). Citizens in the ancient city woke up this morning only to discover that filling stations...

NSCDC Urges Joint Effort To Safeguard National Infrastructure

09.09.2025

The Edo State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Agun Gbenga, has called on stakeholders across various sectors to unite in the protection of Nigeria’s critical national assets and infrastructure. Speaking on Tuesday during a Stakeholders Meeting on the Collaborative Protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure (CNAI) held in...

2Face’s Wife, Natasha Wins Best Legislator Award

09.09.2025

Hon. Natasha Osawaru, wife of Nigerian music legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face or 2Baba, has been honoured with the Best Legislator Award at the 2025 National Leadership Awards in Abuja. Natasha, a legislator representing Egor Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly, received the award at the Nigerian Merit House, Maitama, on Monday,...

Delta Moves To Crash Dialysis Cost, Boosts Health Facilities

09.09.2025

The Delta State Government has announced plans to reduce the cost of dialysis treatment in state-owned hospitals from over ₦70,000 to ₦45,000, in a bid to ease the financial burden on patients battling kidney-related ailments. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme, disclosed this on a Delta Television live programme, “Politics in Perspective”. He explained...

5000 Itsekiri Graduates Of Novena Varsity Not Part Of Scholarship Beneficiaries

09.09.2025

…We’re Not Owning Fees In Any Institution The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has said that it does not owe school fees of 5000 students of Itsekiri extraction in Novena University, Ogume, Delta State. The PAP, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said the agency does not owe fees in Novena or any institution within or...

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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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