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Youth Training, Recipe For Great Nation- Kemepado

27.06.2025

Bayelsa State Commissioner for Youths Development, Alfred Kemepado has explained that the idea of training Bayelsa Youths at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies was in line with Governor Douye Diri’s belief that the dream of a great nation could be achieved with the intentional training of its young people. Speaking in Yenagoa...

Kenyan Court Declares Detention Of Nnamdi Kanu Unlawful

27.06.2025

Justice E.C. Mwita of the High Court in Nairobi, Kenya, declared the abduction, detention, and subsequent rendition to Nigeria of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as illegal and unlawful. The judge held that the rendition carried out in June 2021 was a gross violation of the fundamental rights...

Conflict Fueling Surge In Extreme Poverty Across Africa

27.06.2025

A new report by the World Bank has issued a stark warning: conflict and insecurity are driving a dangerous rise in extreme poverty, with Africa emerging as the hardest-hit region. More than 70% of the world’s conflict-affected poor now live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the number is growing. The report, released Thursday, paints a grim...

Adeleke’s Wife, Accel Africa Project Move To Curb Menace Of Child Labour In Osun

27.06.2025

Osun State First Lady, Mrs. Titilola Adeleke, has promised to use her office to fight the menace of child labour in the state. Mrs. Adeleke made the promise in Osogbo during the 2025 World Day Against Child Labour organised by Accel Africa Project for five communities in Ife North, Ife South and Obokun Local Government...

Nigerian Students, Pharmacists Lead Calls For Urgent Action Against Drug Abuse

27.06.2025

As Nigeria joins the global community to commemorate the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, 2025, the call for urgent and sustained national intervention has grown louder. The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), alongside concerned citizens, is demanding a comprehensive, prevention-driven approach to tackle the growing drug abuse...

Reps Move To Empower Youth With Vocational, Entrepreneurial Skills

27.06.2025

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Alternative Education, Ibrahim Almustapha, has said there is the urgent need to empower Nigerian youths through structured vocational and entrepreneurial training. This was as the House begun legislative action on a bill seeking to establish federal vocational and skills training centres across Nigeria’s 774 Local Government...

CSO Calls For Full Implementation of Police Duty Solicitors Scheme In Abia

27.06.2025

The Centre for Human Rights Advocacy and Wholesome Society (CEHRAWS), has called for the immediate operationalization of the Police Duty Solicitors Scheme (PDSS) across all police formations in Abia State, in accordance with the provisions of Police Force Order No. 20 and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2017 (ACJL). CEHRAWS, a civil society organization...

Residents Laud NYSC For Extending Free Medical Outreach To Osun Community

27.06.2025

Residents of Kajola, Ede North Local Government Area of Osun State, have lauded the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for extending its Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) medical outreach to them. According to the beneficiaries of NYSC’s HIRD, the outreach gave them the ample opportunity to receive free medical talks, checkups, and necessary drugs,...

100,000 Vehicles Converted In One Year – FG

27.06.2025

The Federal Government disclosed that over 100,000 petrol-powered vehicles have been converted to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the past year. The Programme Director and Chief Executive of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this at a sensitisation programme workshop in Lagos on Thursday. Oluwagbemi said that as the Federal Government ramped...

Civil Service Conference: Tinubu Orders Personnel Audit Skills Gap Analysis

27.06.2025

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the audit of personnel and the analysis of the skill gaps in the civil service. The President gave this order yesterday in his remarks while declaring open the maiden International Civil Service Conference in Abuja as part of the 2025 Civil Service Week, organised by the Office of the Head...

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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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