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LPDC Suspends Lawyer For 5 Years Over N30m Fraud, Ethics Violations

30.06.2025

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) has suspended a lawyer, Marcel Chukwuma Udebuani, popularly known as “Agams,” for five years following his conviction for professional misconduct, corruption, and gross ethical violations. The decision, delivered under Suit No. BB/LPDC/530/2021 and led by Justice Ishaq Bello, found Udebuani guilty of betraying client trust, misappropriating funds and unauthorized...

OFID Initiative: TGI Strengthens Financial Inclusion In Cocoa Communities

30.06.2025

Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group has reaffirmed its commitment to fostering inclusive rural economies through the successful launch of the Osun Financial Inclusion Drive (OFID). Implemented under its sustainable cocoa program and executed via WACOT Limited, a member of TGI Group, OFID empowers underserved farming communities with access to formal banking services, financial literacy tools,...

Court Reserves Judgement In CHURAC’s Suit Over PIA’s Penalty For Oil Facility Vandalism

30.06.2025

A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has reserved judgement in a constitutional case that could reshape the legal framework governing Nigeria’s oil-producing communities. The case filed by the Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURAC) targets two controversial provisions, Sections 257(2) and (3) of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) of 2021. These...

Everyday Packaging Sheds Plastics Into Food – Study

30.06.2025

A new study led by researchers in Switzerland has suggested that opening a bottle or unwrapping a piece of deli meat could be adding tiny plastic particles to your food. Results of the study are published in ‘NPJ Science of Food’. Microplastics and nanoplastics can enter food during packaging, processing and even normal use, like...

Minister To Step Down Proposed $50 Baggage Handling Fee

30.06.2025

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), has shot down a proposal by some syndicates to introduce a new $50 baggage infrastructure tax for passengers travelling out of the country through the nation’s international airports. Keyamo, who spoke to New Telegraph briefly on the phone over the weekend, said the government...

Kwankwaso’s Free To Join APC, He Betrayed Our Trust –NNPP

30.06.2025

Amid speculation that its 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, may be joining the All Progressives Congress (APC), the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has said it will be a huge relief for its members if he does move to the ruling party. This was contained in a statement released yesterday by the National Secretary, Mr...

Contract Staff: Tier 1 Banks’ Outsourcing Costs Up 35% To N119.9bn

30.06.2025

Nigeria’s largest tier-one banks— Zenith Bank Plc, FBN Holdings Plc (FirstHoldco), Access Holdings Plc, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO)—collectively spent a staggering N119.92 billion on outsourcing in the 2024 financial year, marking a sharp 35 per cent surge from N88.84 billion recorded in 2023. Outsourcing, though widely defended by institutions as a strategy...

Security Forces Rescue 13 Abducted Benue Link Passengers

30.06.2025

The 13 kidnapped Benue Links passengers that were abducted at Eke in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State have been rescued in a joint effort led by the police with local vigilantes. The LGA chairman, Adah Inalegwu, confirmed the rescue of the abductees yesterday. Inalegwu told Channels Television that the joint operations led...

Nigeria Must Boost Industrialisation Drive To Earn Respect Globally –Okwara

29.06.2025

Industrialist and Chief Executive Officer of Rimax Group, Chief Livinus Okwara, has harped on the need for Nigeria to scale up its industrialisation drive to be respected globally. Speaking at a press conference on Friday in Lagos to herald his coronation as Nnandigbo in the Diaspora later this year, the philanthropist said Nigeria must...

Security Operatives Rescue 13 Kidnapped Passengers

29.06.2025

The 13 kidnapped Benue Links passengers abducted at Eke in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State have been rescued in a joint effort led by the police and local vigilantes in the area. Confirming the development, the Local Government Area Chairman, Adah Inalegw, said the rescue of the abductees occured on Sunday, June...

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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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