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HEFAMAA Seals 30 Health Facilities, Urges Lagosians To Shun Quacks

22.08.2025

The Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) has shut 30 health facilities across Lagos in the last one year for operating illegally or failing to meet government standards. The agency disclosed this at a sensitisation town hall meeting held on Friday at the Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Secretariat to educate residents on its role...

Youths In Edo Rally Behind Okpebholo, Denounce Insecurity, False Allegations

22.08.2025

The Ukhun Youths Diaspora Association has urged all Esan sons and daughters, both at home and abroad, to unite with the Edo State Government in its fight to eliminate kidnapping and other forms of insecurity plaguing Esan land. The group made this appeal through a statement issued in Benin City and signed by its leader,...

APC Chieftain Pledges N10m To Tackle Insecurity In Kwara South

22.08.2025

Community developer and a stalwart of the All Progressive Congress (APC) from Kwara South, Engineer Nurudeen Adeyemi Balogun, has pledged the sum of ₦10 million to support local security operatives in the fight against insecurity across the Kwara South Senatorial. Engineer Adeyemi, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of TETFUND, said the...

ASUP Threatens To Embark On Strike If FG Fails To Meet Demand

22.08.2025

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has threatened to embark on strike if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands at the expiration of a 21-day ultimatum. Speaking during a press briefing in Bauchi on Friday, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUP Zone B, Innocent Simji, stated that the union’s position aligned with the...

NAFDAC Raises Alarm Over Fake Cowbell Milk In Circulation

22.08.2025

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday raised an alarm over counterfeit Cowbell “Our Milk” 12g sachet milk circulating in Nigeria. According to a statement issued on the agency’s website, Promasidor Nigeria Ltd, which is the marketing authorisation holder and manufacturer of Cowbell “Our Milk”, informed the agency about...

Badagry Sets To Celebrate Int’l Day For Remembrance Of Slave Trade

22.08.2025

The Confederation of Badagry Tourism Practitioners (CBTP) in collaboration with Badagry Local Government, will on August.23, mark the International Day for Remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition. Dr Tunde Ajose, the spokesman for CBTO, in a statement on Friday, said the event would hold on Saturday at the Badagry Heritage Museum, by 12noon....

Nat’l Land Transport Policy’ll Improve Safety In Transport Sector – Alkali

22.08.2025

The Minister of the Federal Ministry of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali, has expressed confidence that the newly approved National Land Transport Policy by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) would improve regulations of the road sector and ensure the safety of citizens. Senator Alkali also revealed plans by the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to build...

Tourism Minister To Hold Sectoral Meeting With FTAN, Others

22.08.2025

…NIHOTOUR, NTDA Acts on agenda The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, has concluded plans to host a sectoral meeting and has extended an invitation to the Federation of Tourism Associations for the development and promotion of domestic tourism. Scheduled to hold on Friday, August 29, in Abuja, the meeting...

Kwara South Youths Seek Military Operations To Flush Out Bandits

22.08.2025

..Decry spate of banditry in the Senatorial District A coalition of Kwara South Youth Groups, under the aegis of Igbomina Youth Assembly (IYAss), Kwara South Youth Development Organisation (KWAYORG), Kwara South Consultative Youth Forum (KSCYE), as well as all Kwara South community-based youth associations, have decried the surge in banditry and kidnappings in the Senatorial...

Non-State Actors Shaping Africa’s Security Landscape

22.08.2025

…seeks monitoring, scrutiny of activities The Commandant, National Institute for Security Studies (NISS), Mr. Joseph Odama, has highlighted the role of Non-State Actors in Africa’s security landscape, and the accompanying complexity it brings to bear on management. To navigate the security dynamics, the Commandant emphasised the urgent need for intelligence and security managers to scrutinise...

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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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